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Paris proves bold leadership transforms cities. 🌍 From suffocating smog (2007) to clean, green & livable streets (2023): 🚴‍♀️ 100s of km of bike lanes 🌳 Tens of thousands of trees 🚗 Car-free zones & 30 km/h limits Millions now breathe clean air. When will we dare to follow? 💪

What are you afraid of? Sharks🦈, lions🦁,bears🐻? Terrifying. Car traffic kills way more people than animals ever could. Even when excluding indirect harm. Watch out for the real predators🚗!

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money and pollution. Via UITP

Join King's College London for a seminar with R (ODID) and Julia Ruiz Pozuelo (Harvard Medical School): Depression, violence and socioeconomic outcomes among refugees in East Africa: evidence from a multicountry survey 🗓️ 28 January 2025, 16:00-17:30, online kcl.ac.uk/events/depress…

The Just Stop Oil Stop activists who threw soup over the Van Gogh painting case to demand climate change action, are currently in prison. Right now, the Getty Villa, museum of precious Greek and Roman artefacts, in LA, appears to be on fire. #PacificPalisades

#AcademicX #AcademicChatter #PeerReview

In a new paper, J-PAL affiliated researchers Jason Kerwin and Olivier Sterck, and J-PAL MENA alumna Nada Rostom show how standard balance tests used in #RCTs indicate imbalance too often. Read more on what they recommend researchers do instead #EconTwitter povertyactionlab.org/blog/10-4-24/w…

Economists: people don't understand marginal tax. If your tax rate increases above £100,000, you don't suddenly lose money when you earn £100,001 UK tax system: hold my beer

More honest.

Slippery slope. What's next? Reading the paper before writing a referee report?

I urgently call for a standardisation of takeaway boxes and lids. The current situation creates a lock-in effect: either ordering always from the same curry house or spending hours finding the right lid when reusing the box for leftovers

In the UK, almost everyone understands Brexit was a mistake, yet the political figure whose career was built on supporting it is consistently ahead in the polls. One more point for the theory that politics is all about who sends good vibes on TV.

New PhD scholarship to work with me on inequality and poverty! Share and apply!!! Economics Jobs | Econ-Jobs.com Econ Job News uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vacanc…

A few months ago, a friend asked me what I could chose if I had to choose btn making 1m and die at 55 or not make it and die at 95. I chose the latter. Olivier Sterck is looking for a phd student to study this over 8 countries. Definitely exciting!

Is the closest national capital to you your nation’s capital?

🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Vittorio Bruni (Oxford Anthropology ODID) & Olivier Sterck (IOB - Institute of Development Policy RefugeeStudiesCentre) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid cuts have had dramatic impacts on food consumption and security. Read the full article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

🆕What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? A 20% cut in a large refugee camp didn’t just reduce what and how much refugees eat; it also triggered a cascade of effects across households and markets. voxdev.org/topic/institut….

New research by Vittorio Bruni & Olivier Sterck shows that aid cuts in refugee camps severely affect food intake and overall welfare, while also straining local food and credit markets. voxdev.org/topic/institut…

What happens when aid is cut to a large refugee camp? Kenyan study paints a bleak picture theconversation.com/what-happens-w… via The Conversation Africa