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This took an enormous amount of work (for real), and I am super excited to see this out in the NBER and forthcoming in REStud!! Very surprised by some of the results: borrowers quickly learn from past experience, which eliminates over-optimism (but not present focus).

Eight years in the making, now finally here. Congrats to the J-PAL team for tying all this (pretty mixed) evidence together into a coherent picture!

Normally I would not be posting personal developments on this website, but in this case I have a pressing concern. My dad, Spanish economist Andreu Mas-Colell, is dealing with an incredibly difficult and unjust situation. 1/

What's the psychosocial value of employment? New study compares #cashtransfers vs #jobs in a Rohingya refugee camp. Results? Cash didn't improve mental wellbeing, & 66% of ppl in the work arm were willing to work for free to keep the job. Hussam et al hbs.edu/ris/Publicatio…

New work in progress! Expected completion in September. No revisions accepted.

Great initiative & overdue! 5 days left to submit!

Super interesting thread, thanks Johannes!

Bitcoin is a real problem for climate change

Please help spread this, in the hope the Russian people may get to see it in spite of the filter bubble they are sure to be kept in. If you are Russian or have friends in Russia, please send to them personally if you can.

The June issue of JEEA is now shaping up., incl. great work on IO-devo, behavioral-health, sovereign debt, climate change, globalization/trade, & economics of Germany's nuclear phase out. TM=teaching materials available (eeassoc.org/teaching-mater…) academic.oup.com/jeea

Thanks so much IPA Blog team and especially Jeff Mosenkis Jeff Mosenkis for helping me spread the message!

HT Raicho Bojilov: It's rare that a commercial is the best obituary of a person. But, here we go. youtu.be/fgm14D1jHUw

Too tempting. 😂

Important new work on IV! As with all brilliant ideas, they seem obvious once you think about it (but didn't before).

I'm honoured to have been appointed as an IZA Research Fellow! Thank you to IZA , Arne Uhlendorff and @SteffenAltmann Looking forward to a productive collaboration! iza.org/people/fellows…

🆕 Teaching women in #Kenya to visualise alternative future scenarios based on current behaviour ⬆️ chlorination of drinking water, ⬇️ children’s diarrhoea & ⬆️ savings after almost 3 years. Anett John Bham Economics & Kate Orkin Blavatnik School of Government CSAE: voxdev.org/topic/health-e…