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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

📣If you are hiring in applied micro (crime, education, gender), you should look at Kennedy Johnston’s very important and novel JMP and research agenda. 📣 I’m lucky to be her advisor. People hiring this year: Feel free to email me.

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As sexual assaults on college campuses are in the news, we should look into research on this. ⭐️Kennedy Johnston⭐️ A brilliant Econ job market candidate at Texas A&M researching barriers to reporting sexual assaults. (I’m her advisor) 🔥Incredibly important work sites.google.com/view/kennedy...

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🔥Double celebrations this week🔥 Our new JDE publication and the notification of my promotion to FULL professor of economics! Updating my CV 👇

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures. 📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday. cgdev.org/publication/ch…

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣 ➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social

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Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up. Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

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CeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

As my sabbatical visit to BU ends, I say goodbye to all the wonderful Boston-based people who have welcome me. Ending the semester with a classic: #selfiewithsue @dynarski.bsky.social

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 01/12/2025

Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline. I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled: "Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"

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Anna Stansbury @annastansbury.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Tight labor markets in the last decade reduced US community college enrollment. Super interesting pic here showing just how countercyclical community college enrollment is (as compared to basically non-cyclical 4 year college enrollment) From @joshua-goodman.com & Winkelman new NBER WP

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Caitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of: 1) cash only 2) cash+group life-skill training 3) cash+group mental health counseling W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Thanks @daveevansphd.bsky.social ! The most challenging fieldwork, but such important (and sad) findings. Plugging @mirandainez.bsky.social who has done more work on men & women who were abducted as children. She studies how this childhood trauma impacts IPV later in life #econjobmarket

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📣Job Candidate Alert🚨 I am @mirandainez.bsky.social’s co-chair at TAMU Econ w/ @eckelc.bsky.social Her JMP is a super interesting analysis of the impacts of childhood victimization on domestic violence in adulthood, leveraging the quasi-randomness of child abductions in Uganda in 80s & 90s [1/n]

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Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry.

The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.

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chloe gibbs @chloergibbs.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

📣 BUT IS IT ECONOMICS? *New at EJ* “Research Similarity and Women in Academia,” Piera Bello, Alessandra Casarico & @deboranozza.bsky.social, on role of research similarity btw applicants & selection committees for academic promotions, and the implications for gender diversity: tinyurl.com/mrd8cpkf

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We investigate the extent to which research similarity between senior and junior researchers is related to promotion in academia and study implications for gender diversity among academic staff. Using data on the universe of job applications for tenure track assistant professor positions in economics in Italy, and applying NLP techniques (i.e., document embeddings) to the abstract of each publication of the scholars in our dataset, we propose a novel measure of research similarity that can capture the closeness in research topics, methodologies or policy relevance between candidates and members of selection committees. We show that the degree of similarity is strongly associated with the probability of winning. Moreover, while there are no gender differences in mean similarity, the maximum similarity with selection committee members is lower for female candidates. This gender gap disappears when similarity is calculated focusing only on female committee members. The results suggest that similarity bias in male-dominated environments may have implications for gender and research diversity.

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Congratulations to my former student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez! Very proud advisor over here🎉🎉🎉 #econsky

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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Do you want to learn more about @NovaSBE #PhD in #Economics and how you can pursue your doctoral studies in #DevelopmentEconomics? Do you have questions to ask? Join us online Wednesday Oct 29 | 4pm: lnkd.in/dh_XMcKX Apply here: lnkd.in/dCkjAdGc

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

This was a fantastic conference that I was lucky to participate in. Thanks to @alexeble.bsky.social @ashleyywong.bsky.social and the other organizers. I learned a lot!

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

It’s always great when you go to a conference and find one of your “no club” members and @aeacswep.bsky.social peer mentors in the program! @tderyugina.bsky.social

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

Looking forward to participating in the BIG Forum event at @biglabnd.bsky.social next month!

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Seeing co-authors (@amandayagan.bsky.social‬ Bo Cowgill Jonathan Meer) IN PERSON, seeing my @aeacswep.bsky.social Mid-Career mentoring buddy (@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social) and CeMent mentee (Amanda Chuan), and all sorts of other shenanigans that won't be posted here

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Another great @nber.org summer institute has come and gone. Highlights were a great dinner with the crowd from Children/Families

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Thank you to all who replied. I got the data I needed!

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

#EconSky Does anybody have DHS data for Bangladesh? Or is there a webpage where somebody managed to save previously available DHS data? Thank you for your help!

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 11/06/2025

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Great overview by @um-psc.bsky.social of our new review in @science.org about brain gain! #EconSky #Migration

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

I gave a keynote address today at the AEA CTREE conference and I used my hands A LOT! (My husband was in the audience for the first time ever, and took photographic evidence of my insane use of Italian hands!🤷‍♀️)

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

In Palo Alto for a talk and so glad I was able to see Kalena last night (despite flight cancellations and rescheduling)

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 02/05/2025

Thrilled to share the cover of my upcoming book, Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. @flatironbooks.bsky.social, Sept 23! Containing 15 years of research & my personal story. Preorder links, book talks, & newsletter here! corinnelow.com/book

Orange, pink, and yellow book cover with white text, showing various objects representing women's lives, from a house to a kid's bike to an airplane, with some objects representing the stress of it all: dinner on fire, a broken high heel, a crying baby, a spilled coffee cup, and overflowing inbox. Having It All: What Data Tells Us About Women's Lives and Getting the Most Out of Yours. Corinne Low, PhD. On Sale 9.23.25.

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This is a great paper on a timely topic! Congrats @danielfiroozi.bsky.social!

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

The one good news of the week is that @econcath.bsky.social & I were together in Lancaster as our paper “Gender Differences in the Choice of Major: The Importance of Female Role Models” (AEJ: Applied, 2020) reached 600 citations while we work on the follow-up study🎊 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Very happy to be in London for the @GLMLIC research conference at @LSEnews, learning about ongoing projects on gender and labor markets in low income countries. @g2lmlic.bsky.social @iza.org

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Todd Jones @toddrjones.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

This is terrible, terrible news. My heart goes out to the staff at @wilsoncenter.org and my head is spinning at how this destroys a load-bearing element of the US foreign policy ecosystem.

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Charles Kenny @charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

A new blog with Justin Sadefur on the USAID cuts. Based on a leaked list of cancelled contracts and data from foreignassistancedotgov we try to calculate how deep the cuts by country and sector. www.cgdev.org/blog/usaid-c...

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The USAID Cuts: Little Sign of Mercy for “Life-Saving” Health Programs

The bottom line: we estimate the cancelled awards represent somewhere over 34 percent of USAID programming. And notably, “life-saving” program areas like maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS, malaria, ...

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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I will be in Lancaster visiting my friend and coauthor @econcath.bsky.social on April 1-11, with a short stay in London for the @iza.org @g2lmlic.bsky.social research conference on April 7-8. I really need a break from this country.

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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

“The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are.” In a new op-ed, Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo call for governments, multilaterals, and philanthropists to double down on investing in evidence-backed programs that improve people’s lives. www.ft.com/content/43e9...

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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US

In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins

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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday

He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today is a special day. My student Daniel Gomez-Vasquez defended his dissertation, and what a beautiful job he did today & in the past 4 years. He will join Holy Cross as an AP in a few months! @asheassa.bsky.social @aeacsmgep.bsky.social We will miss him @TAMUECON I’m so very proud.

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Danila Serra @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

How are the European and UK Econ job markets for a semi-senior economist (plus excellent semi-senior historian of Eastern Europe) these days? Just curious… Reading the news and witnessing what’s happening here in the US is becoming unbearable….😓

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 20/02/2025

“ ‘Rule of law’ can only mean that everyone, government included, obeys it”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tj

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

👋 Hi! J-PAL is now on Bluesky! 📊 We’re looking forward to bringing conversations on evidence-informed policy to this new space. Follow us for updates on the latest research, policy insights, and how rigorous evidence is helping shape a better world.

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

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