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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What countries are most represented in development research? #econtwitter #econsky updating my previous (2019-2021) analysis using 5-year sample (2020-2025) from top general-interest journals + JDE - same sample that generates a 30% estimate of RCTs. No big surprises here

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Molt content amb la posada en marxa del nou Dual Degree entre la Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu i Kings’ College @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a Londres. Tota la informació aquí: www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual 1/7 👇

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Master in Institutions and Political Economy | UB

The Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) is a Social Science research program that combines Political Science, Economics, Economic History.

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Can giving youth & their families better information about the benefits of education change their lives? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @AcostaAminaM & I review interventions in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean. Now out in International Journal of Educational Development!

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Center for Global Development @cgdev.org · 20/03/2026

Global food insecurity hasn’t improved much since 2022. But aid has dropped sharply, including in countries with large food-insecure populations. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social argues aid should be better targeted to crises across Africa, South Asia, & Central America: go.cgdev.org/3MA5iDB

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The Global Collapse in Funding for the Food Insecure

On a planet that is producing more food per person than ever before, it is a moral stain that so many still suffer malnutrition or face the risk of famine. And, if sustained, the recent collapse in gl...

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

It was so interesting to visit Prof Mar Grasa’s lab @biologiaub.bsky.social to learn how the hair samples from teens & parents in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study are processed to obtain cortisol, a key stress marker. Stay tuned to learn if the parenting program we tested in 🇬🇭 has impacted stress!

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Full house for the first BCN-Dev meeting @ubeconomics.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 Every semester, we’ll bring together economists focusing on low and middle income countries to establish a community and a supportive forum for #earlycareer researchers to present work-in-progress (1/n)

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Excited that our comment on focusing research and policies on #inequality from #children’s perspectives has been published @commspsychol.nature.com! Thanks to @kidlab.bsky.social’s Eddie Brummelmann for leading this interdisciplinary effort @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social & @CIFAR for supporting us!

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Marta Curull Sentís @mcsentis.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Exciting news: I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Thank you so much @lidiafarre.bsky.social for the guidance and support!

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DEV-Connect @devconnect.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We are delighted to announce our next webinar on: 📆 December 16th at 3pm (CET time). To attend the event, please register using this link: shorturl.at/cxy4Y

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Sevin Kaytan @kaytansevin.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣 My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓 The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮. For more: sevinkaytan.com

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Gracias Jorge Garcia y @mariahdb.bsky.social por este articulo sobre SPANDE en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social!! 🤩 Nuestros objectivos son: - Fortecer la comunidad de economistas que trabajan en paises a renta baja o mediana - Suportar NGOs o instituciones a evaluar de manera rigorosa sus programas 👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Full house for the third #SPANDE workshop start!! Thanks @mariahdb.bsky.social and Jorge Garcia Hombrados for organising and @fundacionareces.bsky.social for supporting!! See program below 👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

En Madrid este martes!!! 👇🏾👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ thanks @jfledderjohann.bsky.social to compile this starting pack on #FoodSecurity amd #Nutrition! Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in joining the conversation! 👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What an issue!!! So proud of my @ubeconomics.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social colleagues @matteogamalerio.bsky.social and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela that stroke not one, but TWO articles in this month issue of AEJ:Policy!! 😻

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I had the chance to join the wonderful “Teachers’ voices” @boldinsights.bsky.social, my very first podcast!! Grateful for the chance to talk about parental education engagement and add my “researcher voice” to the ones of teachers from around the 🌍 Listen here 👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓 Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... @poverty-action.bsky.social

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

After the US, basic science is in danger also in the EU! Let’s raise our voices to protect the autonomy and independence of the @erc.europa.eu! Read our statement below 👇🏾

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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

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Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/06/2025

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵

A line graph showing the number of countries where smallpox was endemic from 1920 to 1980. There are five colored lines representing different regions: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania.

The y-axis indicates the number of countries, ranging from 0 to 50, while the x-axis marks the years from 1920 to 1980. Each region's line trends downward, reflecting a decline in endemic countries over the years. Significant events are marked with dashed vertical lines: in 1959, the WHO resolved to aim for eradication; in 1967, an intensified eradication campaign began; 1977 marks the last recorded case; and in 1980, smallpox was declared eradicated.

A note at the bottom specifies that the precise year of elimination in Oceania is only known for Australia (1917) and New Zealand (1914). Additionally, data sources are cited as Fenner, Henderson, Arita, Jezek, and Ladnyi (1988) and the graph is attributed to Saloni Dattani, licensed under CC-BY. The source of the data is Our World in Data, which focuses on research and measures against global issues.

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This post estimates that proposed USAID cuts will cost almost a million lives www.cgdev.org/blog/millio...

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Has anyone archived all the materials that were previously in the DHS website?

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Cristina Bellés Obrero @cristina-belles.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social comentamos nuestro estudio con @juditvall.bsky.social y Caoimhe T Rice sobre cómo el acceso a la sanidad pública influye en las denuncias por violencia de género:

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

What happens when countries do NOT invest in #EarlyChildhood 🐣? New paper modeling COSTS OF INACTION: -NOT preventing #malnutrition in countries with high stunting costs 2.8% GDP -NOT running universal #pre-school across Sub-Saharan Africa costs 1.6%GDP www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Apply to this year’s #SPANDE #development economics workshop by June 15! Great, fun and supportive community - this year we are partnering with @fundacionareces.bsky.social which is kindly hosting us in Madrid!! #econsky

Call for applications to Spande workshop

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Sylvia Perry @sylviapperry.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

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Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children

Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Great resource to get a quick overview of new paper/stuff going on in #econsky!!! Thanks @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social to put together this fantastic newsletter!!

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I am excited to have joined this unique community of European scientists! Together we can make our voice of researchers heard - which now is more important than ever!! If you have @erc.europa.eu funding, consider joining us, and EVERYONE - stay tuned @ercgrantees.bsky.social for activities 👇🏾

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Stefania Lovo @stefanialovo.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

And check out our keynote speakers: Bishnupriya Gupta (Warwick), @climent.bsky.social (Exeter) and Christine Valente (Bristol). 3rd Workshop on Gender Issues and Development 📅 3-4 November 2025 📍University of Reading Submit your paper by July, 2 here: shorturl.at/mUhPs

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Italian Association of Development Economics @sitesdevecon.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

📣 Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES. Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (Université de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB) 📅 15-17 September 2025 📍 Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy Apply by 31 May 2025 Link: shorturl.at/unDqU

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Jacobs Foundation @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

💬 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow @bettaaurino.bsky.social shares how school meals and parenting programs are helping children thrive in Ghana and Mali. Read the full interview on @boldinsights.bsky.social 🔗 boldscience.org/the-economis... #Education #BOLD #Ghana #Mali

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Molta il-lusio per aquest grup i per la candidatura de @juditvall.bsky.social com a degana de la nostra facultat!!

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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 04/04/2025

Another @404media.co article on #DataRescue. This one concerns the challenges around restricted access data (often human subjects data). We at DRP are seriously concerned about these datasets and the loss that will impact research and more for a long time. www.404media.co/nih-archives...

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Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever

Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Interesting workshop @idos-research.bsky.social for those working on social protection and climate change! www.idos-research.de/en/events/de...

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(How) does social protection promote climate change mitigation and adaptation?

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Thanks for the opportunity @boldinsights.bsky.social for this interview, it was so much fun. Hope readers will enjoy it too! ☺️ And for a school-meal nerd like me, I could not have imagined a better drawing to go with the article! 😍🙏🏽

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🎉 New paper out! 🎉 Economists are increasingly using measures of child social-emotional skills validated in high-income settings for research in LMICs. But do these really capture what we expect in these settings? We find that the widely used SDQ in Ghana measures different, unexpected skills👇🏾

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

We are still looking for a #postdoc! Our ideal candidate should have training or experience in structural models and/or modeling skills - knowledge of the relevant lit is a plus. Please do send me a motivation letter, writing sample, and CV. Please help us sharing widely #econJM #econsky 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Looking forward to tomorrow’s panel with @leecrawfurd.bsky.social on the role of #EdTech in supporting child learning during crises (including funding cuts!). Thanks #EdTechHub for inviting - here’s registration link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Hot off the press!! 🎉 A new method to include both productivity and equity gains from programs that affect multiple outcomes (eg poverty, skills, etc). Given this multiplicity, it is hard to evaluate the overall welfare effects from such programs (1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/auth...

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Vaccines work. .

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Yesterday IZA, today the DHS 🥲 The DHS are such a key resource for data on health, nutrition, fertility, etc, and a global public good. Now it will be harder to document the damages of shutting down critical health programs among the world’s poorest, but likely this is why they have been terminated

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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

A new study from India 🇮🇳shows that children selling goods in markets often master mental arithmetic effortlessly—but the math skills don’t transfer to the classroom. See how the study explores how these learning environments shape different problem-solving abilities:

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Children’s arithmetic skills do not transfer between applied and academic mathematics - Nature

Children who learn maths working in markets and children who learn maths only from school were both unable to transfer their skills to new contexts, highlighting a need to reconsider how maths is…

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Francesc Amat @cescamat.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

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Facultat d'Economia i Empresa UB @economiaempresaub.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

🎉 L'11/02/25 va ser el Dia de la Dona i la Nena en la Ciència, però cada dia ho és! Volem mostrar quines són algunes de les referents de tres investigadores de la #FEE en els seus camps: @bettaaurino.bsky.social (Economia), Vesna Savic (Empresa) i Núria Vergés (Sociologia). bit.ly/4gGO3cZ

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

A new exec order has halted the distribution of vital drugs that prevent HIV among the world's poorest. Medication withheld IS lives lost. @corinnelow.bsky.social and @belindaarch.bsky.social have drafted this letter for economists to sign 👇

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Do you do #development economics in Europe? Follow @ede-group.bsky.social for the latest updates on conferences, training etc. [Account in construction thanks to the unfatigable @stefanialovo.bsky.social 🙏🏽] #econsky

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Can we make this a compulsory subject?

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Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Another two great job opportunities in Barcelona! 👇🏾👇🏾 #econsky #predocs

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