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Welcome Krista Ruffini to our network - we are looking forward to future cooperations with Georgetown University and McCourt School - check out Krista's Twitter profile Krista Ruffini and the CESifo Research Network website: cesifo.org/en/network-mem…

How does the non-profit sector respond when in-kind gov't assistance expands? We find food bank use ⬇️when school meal access ⬆️, w/ no change in the amount of services available for use.

Very excited for this workshop-- Submit your papers by 30 June!

Are you a labor(ish) economist in the great DC area? Save the date for WALES 2024, this year organized and hosted by Seth Gershenson and the American University team 🙏🙏 Paper submissions due in 2 weeks (March 15). Apply + spread the word! I look forward to seeing many of you there!

Join us on Thursday, March 14 for our research seminar featuring Krista Ruffini of the McCourt School at Georgetown University! "Does Unconditional Cash During Pregnancy Affect Infant Health?" This event is open to Penn affiliates with registration. Details ⤵️ ldi.upenn.edu/events/researc…

One week from today! Join us at noon on 3/14/24 for a talk about how cash transfers that are not conditional on contemporaneous employment affect infant health with Krista Ruffini! For more info, go to tinyurl.com/kruffini. Thank you to our co-sponsor Penn LDI!

Great presentation on "Recent Changes to the Safety Net and Implications for Child Well-Being" by Krista Ruffini of McCourt School, focusing on expanded #CTC & stimulus payments during the COVID pandemic and how it affects child outcomes, esp. infant health. #IRP24NAACFRC

This Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, Krista Ruffini, and Karen Shen paper out today is interesting in light of the various labor shortages people were concerned about earlier in the pandemic. nber.org/papers/w32412

This is a great opportunity with the fantastic Kevin Rinz and Equitable Growth! (cc: former PPOL506/7 students)

📢New WP📢 Nursing homes are often severely understaffed, most residents' stays are covered by Medicaid or Medicare. Can policymakers structure payments to ⬆️ staffing? Yes! How? Tie $ to staffing levels.

Last weeks! 👇👇👇 CALL FOR PAPERS! Together with Samuel Lado, we are organising a workshop on school-meal programmes and their impact on child development. 19-20 of September at the Univ of Girona. Our wonderful keynote speakers: B. Rabe (Birgitta Rabe @rabe-b.bsky.social) and K. Ruffini (Krista Ruffini)

⏰Registration deadline approaching ! --2 December 2024-- 📣 5th (LIS)2ER workshop - "Fighting #poverty: measurement and policy challenges" organised by LIS and LISER's Living Conditions department lisdatacenter.org/news-and-event…

P-EBT, which gave grocery vouchers worth about $300 to students who lost access to free meals during COVID, reduced food hardship and moms' mental health problems, from @laurenlbauer, Krista Ruffini, and Diane Schanzenbach nber.org/papers/w33199