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Economics PhD student at the University of Exeter, Labour | Family | Gender | Health https://sites.google.com/view/ye-yuan/homepage

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Climent Quintana-Domeque @climent.bsky.social · Aug 26

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At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper.

We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why?

We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance.

docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf

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Climent Quintana-Domeque @climent.bsky.social · Jul 30

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New article with Alejandro Robinson-Cortes and @ye-yuan.bsky.social @uofebusiness.bsky.social:

"A Quantitative Review of Matching Papers in Economics: Evolution, Diversity, and Gender"

Forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. 🧵

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Climent Quintana-Domeque @climent.bsky.social · Jun 27

🚨 New paper with Dércio de Assis, Arpita Ghosh & Sonia Oreffice: “Strangulation Laws Save Lives.” We build a unique dataset on US state laws criminalizing non-fatal strangulation (NFS) and estimate their effect on intimate partner homicide (IPH). NFS laws reduce IPH! drive.google.com/file/d/1Dcu3...

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Climent Quintana-Domeque @climent.bsky.social · Jun 19

Many thanks to all who made the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop @uofebusiness.bsky.social possible: presenters, participants, organizers, helpers, and the administrative team!

We are especially grateful to Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes, and Imran Rasul for their keynote talks!

Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Last session of the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital workshop closes with Florent Dubois @florentdubois.bsky.social (University of Turin), presenting research on "Mine closures and domestic violence".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social (Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social) presents research on "Intergenerational mobility by same-sex and different-sex attraction".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next, Wietse Leleu (KU Leuven @leuveneconomics.bsky.social) shares work on "Directed search on the marriage market".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Session 5 on Family begins with Brendon McConnell @brendonmcconnell.bsky.social (City St George's, University of London @citystgeorges.bsky.social) presenting "It Takes a Village: The Impact of the New York City Community School Initiative on Student Behavior".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

The third keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop is delivered by Prof. Patricia Cortés (Boston University @bostonu.bsky.social), presenting “Understanding the Barriers to Paternity Leave-Taking: Evidence from Japan.”

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kartik Srivastava @kartiksrivastava.bsky.social (Harvard @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ) wraps-up the session with presentation on "Familiar strangers: Evidence from referral-based hiring experiments in India".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next, Louis Lippens @louislippens.be (Ghent) discusses the cyclicality of hiring discrimination based on meta-reanalysis of correspondence studies.

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Second presenter for session on Labour is Zunia Saif Tirmazee (Lahore School of Economics), presenting research on "Willing but unable: social norms and costs of female hiring in Pakistan".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Session 4 on Labour starts with Amen Jalal @amenjalal.bsky.social (LSE) presenting "Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kristoffer Ibsen (Aarhus @au.dk) discusses the impact of dyslexia diagnosis and support on educational outcomes and well-being.

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Next, we have Margaux Suteau (LSE) presenting research on "Empowering Parents in the Digital Age: Mitigating Social Media’s Impact on Youth
Development".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 18

Day 2 of the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop begins with session on Human Capital.

First up, we have Alessandro Toppeta (Stockholm @stockholm-uni.bsky.social‬) discussing "The effect of schooling on young adults’ non-cognitive skills".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Last one for today, Tong Liu (NUS) presents their research on "Does environmental information provision deliver? Experimental evidence on the behaviors, health and academic performance of students from China."

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Next, Sarah Smith (Bristol) presents an insightful research on "Going back to the high schools: Challenging stereotypes about economics".

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Session 2 on Human Capital kicks off with Ronak Jain @jainr.bsky.social (@econ.uzh.ch) discussing how access to 3G internet impacts human capital development.

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Prof. Imran Rasul (UCL) delivers the 2nd keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop at
@uofebusiness.bsky.social, presenting their research on firm behavior and worker outcomes during the pandemic in Uganda.
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Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social · Jun 17

Auguste Debroise (University of Namur) wraps up the session on Discrimination, presenting an interesting work on "The social image cost of motherhood. Evidence from the movie industry".
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