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Pessoal, esse evento vai ser super legal. A Marina Gontijo fez mestrado em Economia na USP e doutorado em Economia na EPGE. Vale a pena conferir! FEA júnior USP Feaconsult

Come and work in beautiful Zurich with me + my amazing co-authors D. Yanagizawa-Drott, Guo Xu, and @essobecker -- we accept for a full-time pre-doc position starting this fall. Projects use AI, image analysis and text2data. Details here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/r57tclr… #EconTwitter

#NEUDC2023 session Religion and Social Identity explored how culture influences socio-economic, political, and environmental outcomes, chaired by @MarcellaAlsan. 🖇️Read the papers: bit.ly/3MqsReL

Mamá presenté mi tesis en Harvard! 🤓 #paraquemecreamimami

Next up, Marcelo Mello (sites.google.com/site/marcelame…; Marcela Mello) who studies gender, religion, & labor force participation in developing countries Her JMP shows how exposure to religious media in Brazil shifted religiosity, female LFP, and schooling for girls - very compelling!

Last weekend, 130+ development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. cgdev.org/blog/whats-lat… by Almedina Music & me

1/3 Do take a look at Brown's fascinating and talented crop of development students on the market (A-Z). Some keywords to get you started-- Conflict, refugees, community meetings, Mozambique henriquepitabarros.com Water, women, religion, Middle East giuliabuccione.com

In his Job Market Paper, "Trade and Structural Change: Evidence from Colombia and the Panama Canal", Jose Belmar (José Belmar) uses a quasi-natural experiment to study the long-run effects of international trade on structural change in developing economies #EconTwitter

Does free childcare reduce the motherhood penalty? In his JMP, Joao Garcia leverages a large expansion of supply in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to study this question. He finds that raising coverage from 0 to 100% would cut the child penalty by half. #EconTwitter

João is a brilliant young scholar doing cool work on early childhood policies (childcare and Zika - with the amazing Marcela Mello and Proença) and solar power subsidies! Follow Joao Garcia to know more about his work!

🚨New Working Paper🚨 "Fight like a Woman: Domestic Violence and Female Judges in Brazil" by Laneuville (sites.google.com/view/helenalan…) and Possebom Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2405.07240

🚨New Working Paper🚨 "Free Public Transport: More Jobs without Environmental Damage?" by Rodrigues (br.linkedin.com/in/mateus-rodr…), Daniel Da Mata and Possebom Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2410.06037

Sakina Shibuya JMP: "When Protection Fails: Effects of Military Bases on Sexual Violence in Colombia" Website: sakinashibuya.org

Thank you so much Jennifer Doleac for featuring my JMP co-authored w/ Felipe Parra Escobar, who is also on the market! ffparra303.github.io

#NEUDC2024 session on Gender-based Violence and Safety chaired by Bilge Erten; Sakina Shibuya presents evidence that military base presence significantly increases sexual violence, driven by the presence of govt soldiers in Colombia.

Thanks for the opportunity to present my JMP co-authored with Felipe Parra Escobar ! I'm grateful for such a productive and encouraging discussion.

Happy Holidays from the Human Development Lab!! 🎅🏻🎄🕎 Andrés Barrios Fernández Carolina Melo Francisco Morales Andrés García Echalar Jorge Rodríguez Juan Pedro Ronconi Marcela Mello See all what we did in our first months… 👇🏻👇🏻

Happy new year from the Human Development Lab ! Less than two months to submit your paper! Submit here: uandes.cl/workshop-on-ec…

🚨📢 Last call! Submit by March 2nd at uandes.cl/workshop-on-ec… 3rd Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado ⛷️🇨🇱 (19-22 Aug) + John Friedman (Brown) + Steve Pischke (LSE) + Seth Zimmerman (Yale) 2024 Edition: youtu.be/Qb3gw1IFjnk?si… #EconTwitter UANDES

The Human Development Lab at U los Andes is organizing a super cool conference about Economics of Education! Amazing people, like Andrés Barrios Fernández and Marcela Mello, are involved in this conference. Moreover, the conference's location is awesome! Apply today!