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Davide Dragone

@davidedragone.bsky.social
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Professor of Economics, Univ. Bologna Research on risky health behaviors, addiction, obesity, sex work sites.google.com/site/davidedragone

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Sebastian Tello Trillo @sebastiantt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Check out the latest IHEA online seminar! Anyone can come!
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Next VERB seminar. Do GLP-1 Medications Pay for Themselves? by Kosali Simon. Save the Date!! May 4, 2026. 15:30-16:30 UTC Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/8625617099... @healtheconomics #econsky #healtheconomics @sebastiantt.bsky.social @unibo.it @johncawley.bsky.social @mariomacis.bsky.social
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Happy Liberation Day! m.youtube.com/watch?v=fue_...
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David Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Before the credibility revolution, everything was incredible.
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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Featured on INOMICS: HEMAP – Two-year Master programme in Health Economics, Management and Policy #Econsky
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HEMAP – Two-year Master programme in Health Economics, Management and Policy
Health Economics, Management and Policy (HEMAP) is a curriculum of the Laurea Magistralis in Economics and Public Policy that uniquely combines economics, management and law to form professionals who will work in private and public organizations operating in the health care sector. The Department of Economics will award 4 merit-based grants (€ 4608 gross of taxes each) for newly enrolled students in the academic year 2026/2027.
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INOMICS @inomics.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Featured on INOMICS: PAE – Two-year Master's program in Policy Analysis and Evaluation – Alma Mater Sturdiorum - Università di Bologna #Econsky
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PAE – Two-year Master's program in Policy Analysis and Evaluation – Alma Mater Sturdiorum - Università di Bologna
Looking for an opportunity to build skills in the economic analysis and the quantitative evaluation of public policy? Apply for admission to the University of Bologna’s 2-year Master’s program in Economics and Public Policy (LMEPP), curriculum Policy Analysis and Evaluation (PAE). The program is offered by the Department of Economics, a top economics department in Italy. This program aims at training people who are able to understand the economic rationale, the design, and the quantitative evaluation of micro-level public policies that target social and economic issues like poverty and inequality, the environment, social security and taxation, competition and market regulation, and unemployment.
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
It's so nice being cited by The Economist for our paper on sex work with Elias Carroni and Marina Della Giusta. The closing sentence of the article is awesome!
More sex, please, we’re economists
In a paper published last year, Elias Carroni, Davide Dragone and
Marina Della Giusta, three Italian economists, predicted that
“digital sex”, such as online porn and virtual companionship, reduces the social and psychological cost of selling sex, as abundance erodes stigma. Replacing physical intimacy with the digital
sort, they argued, may cause a slew of economic consequences,
starting with a faster decline in fertility rates. Greater supply of
sexual services may also cause prices to fall, further spurring demand. Only a very dismal scientist wouldn’t be interested in
whether they are right.
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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Thrilled to give the keynote @ 3rd Workshop on the Economics of #Health & #HumanCapital (Madrid, 18/06/2026) 🤩 Boutique format: 10 papers, plenty of discussion time — ECR submissions especially encouraged 👌🏼 ⏰ 15 April Madrid in June doesn’t hurt either ☀️😏 #HealthEconomics
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Examples of problem sets or exams where using AI tools is encouraged. Could you share them with me and #econsky? @causalinf.bsky.social #healtheconomics
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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
📢🧬 Call for Papers — 5th ESSGN Conference 📍 Bologna, May 21–22, 2026 I’ll be co-organising the 5th ESSGN conference in Bologna together with Nicola Barban, Stephanie von Hinke, Paul Hufe, and Niels Rietveld @essgn.bsky.social 📄 Submit here: forms.gle/fmVDUrQqQYju... 🗓 Deadline: 1 March 2026
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Today we have the first 𝚅̲𝙴̲𝚁̲𝙱̲ 𝚜̲𝚎̲𝚖̲𝚒̲𝚗̲𝚊̲𝚛̲ of 2026! Please share! 𝐀𝐧𝐠é𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐌𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐫 𝐓𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞: State recreational cannabis laws and racial disparities in the criminal legal system 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞: 3:30 - 4:30pm UTC Join via 𝐙𝐨𝐨𝐦: us02web.zoom.us/j/8675295172...
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healtheconall @healtheconall.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Last Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - deadline tomorrow, 31 January #healtheconomics
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Last Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - deadline tomorrow, 31 January
From: Essen Health Conference Subject: Last Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 Dear colleague, Last chance to submit your paper to the Essen Health Conference 2026 (3 - 5 June)! Submit your work in fields of health, labour or education by 31 January (tomorrow) here! Kind regards, The Organising Committee Organising Committee Essen Health Conference Chair of Health Economics Prof. Martin Karlsson, Ph.D. University of Duisburg-Essen Weststadttürme Berliner Platz 6-8 45127 Essen [...]
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Un'altra esecuzione di un cittadino americano da parte dell'ICE. In questo video si vede un nugolo di uomini che circondano un uomo ormai a terra, lo pestano, e lo uccidono con dei colpi di arma da fuoco, in un contesto in cui non vi è alcuna evidenza di una minaccia alla vita degli agenti. 1/6
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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
And it's a wrap. Workshop is done, bellies and minds are full, smiles and hugs have been exchanged, we look forward to next year. Come and join us for the #herb2027 on Jan 21-22. Same place, same time, some of the same people.
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Happy to share that the Journal of Health Economics has accepted our paper "Obesity, Sedentary Behavior and Lifestyle: A Lifecycle Model of Eating and Physical Activity"! Nice way to start 2026. @healtheconall.bsky.social #healtheconomics @econsky
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
🧵 For the past two days, we’ve been watching something obscene unfold. The Trump administration is portraying the victim of ICE violence as a terrorist and the killer as a hero shielded by absolute immunity. On one point, however, they tell the truth. 1/7 civiceconomist.substack.com/p/ice-trumps...
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ICE, Trump’s private army
How a federal agency became a paramilitary force, built a parallel prison system, and now answers to the president alone—while Washington lectures Europe on democracy
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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
#HERB2026 workshop is coming up soon, and I can't wait to be there. 📆Jan 22-23 📍University of Bologna, DSE Auditorium Come and join us for a few talks on risky health behaviors, gender-based violence, C-sections, and more! Here something from the previous sessions bsky.app/profile/piet...
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Erdal Tekin @erdaltekin.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Let's submit to @au-spa.bsky.social's 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, to be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy 🇮🇹 Deadline: March 6, 2026. 🎤 Keynote: Paolo Pinotti 👥 Organizers: Erdal Tekin, Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, & Marco Nieddu. Link: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The program for the Health Economics and Risky Behaviors (HERB 2026) workshop is out! See you in Bologna! eventi.unibo.it/workshop-her...
HERB 2026 program: 📅 22 January 2026
– From Courtroom to Court of Public Opinion: Secondary Victimization and Intimate Partner Violence — Caterina Muratori (Autonomous University of Barcelona)
 – From Awareness to Action: Help-Seeking and Femicides after Gender-Based Violence Campaigns in Italy — Margherita Agnoletto (University of Turin & Collegio Carlo Alberto)
 – Rising Temperatures and Domestic Violence in Peru: Evidence and Mechanisms — Fiorella Parra-Mujica (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
 – After the Draft: The Lasting Effects of Male Conscription on Well-Being — Chiara Notarangelo (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
 – Leader Identity and Cesarean Childbirths: Evidence from Random Allocations of Female Leaders in Indian Villages — Mujaheed Shaikh (Hertie School)
 – Qualitative Insights on the Income–Health Behavior Gradient — Manuela Puente-Beccar (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods)

📅 23 January 2026 — 📍 Department of Economics, University of Bologna
Session 3 (Chair: Ana Armendariz)
 – Health After Birth: The Persistent Health Penalty of Becoming a Parent — Jonathan Rossi (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
 – Precisely Zero: Migration’s Null Effect on Sex Crimes — Riccardo Ciacci (Universidad Pontificia Comillas)
 – Do Drug Consumption Rooms Reduce Drug-Related Hospitalisations? Evidence from Switzerland — Ana Armendariz (University of St Gallen)
Session 4 (Chair: Flavia Cavallini)
 – Empowering Parents in the Digital Age — Margaux Suteau (London School of Economics and Political Science)
 – Children by Choice, Not Chance: Family Planning Associations and Fertility in Britain — Sara Tozzi (University of Bologna)
 – Expectation Shocks and Fertility: The Case of Brexit — Flavia Cavallini (Università della Svizzera italiana)
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
As of this writing, the retraction stands with its factually inaccurate notice. I continue to seek its withdrawal and replacement with a corrective notice that accurately reflects both the scientific committee’s conclusions and the actual content of the March 2025 publications.
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
🧵L’Europa non sta censurando nessuno. Sta provando a impedire che la manipolazione digitale inquini il dibattito democratico. Da quando la Commissione Europea ha multato X, gli oligarchi russi e americani gridano alla censura. Ma la realtà è completamente diversa. 👇 1/18
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
🧵 Se non riuscite a orientarvi nella telenovela in cui si è trasformata la politica estera mondiale, qui c'è tutto ciò che bisogna sapere sulle telefonate del "falso mediatore" americano in preparazione del falso "piano di pace" di Putin e Trump: 👇 1/12
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Deadline expires soon! Apply and share! @healtheconall.bsky.social @eshconference.bsky.social #healtheconomics #econsky
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Save the date! Fantastic VERB-IHEA seminar, Dec. 1, Sebastian Tello @sebastiantt.bsky.social @healtheconall.bsky.social #healtheconoics #econsky
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Next VERB seminar. Add it to your calendar! healtheconomics.org/event/do-vap... #healtheconomics #econsky
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Next VERB seminar. Add it to your calendar! healtheconomics.org/event/do-vap... #healtheconomics #econsky
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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 30/10/2025
I'd love to help make BlueSky one of the places where young scholars introduce themselves and their work to the world. If you're a PhD student whose work at least partially focuses on economics of education or education policy, reply to this thread and I'll highlight your work.
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John Cawley @johncawley.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Registration is open for the Fifth Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics, which will be held March 18-20, 2026 in Galway at @uniofgalway.bsky.social. To register, email Ciaran O'Neill at Ciaran.ONeill@qub.ac.uk More info here: www.maxwell.syr.edu/research/cen...
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Ireland Masterclass in Health Economics
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Pietro Biroli @pietrobiroli.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
📢🚨 #HERB2026 is on 🚨📢 Interested in health and risky behaviors? Submit your paper to this conference Davide, Paolo, and I have been organizing this conference for 4 years now, and every time I love it. Good people, good food, nice discussions. The papers are not too bad either 😜
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 – 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐑𝐢𝐬𝐤𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐬 (HERB 2026) 📍 𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐚, January 22–23, 2026 🗓 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: November 30, 2025 🔗 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲 here: eventi.unibo.it/workshop-herb #healtheconomics @healtheconomics.bsky.social #econsky
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Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)
Health Economics of Risky Health Behavior (HERB)
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Davide Dragone @davidedragone.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Hedgehog of the day. Mints removed. Next, please!
Hedgehog
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16/08/2025
"Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist govt at the beginning, & most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude... thought Italy could later return to freedom" www.historians.org/resource/the...
When the king called on Mussolini to form a government in October 1922, very few people in the world had any idea of what was meant by a totalitarian form of government. Mussolini himself probably did not know what he was going to do—except stay in power. A parliamentary majority backed the fascist government at the beginning, and most of the people thought fascism was a temporary interlude. They thought Italy could later return to freedom, and in the meantime fascism could take care of the crisis.

When Mussolini stepped into power, fascism had none of the superior-race, blood-and-soil trappings that came to Germany with Hitlerism. All the other elements of fascism were there, however: belief in violence, disbelief in legal processes, rabid nationalism, and so on. But the regime was not totalitarian in its first three years. Opposition parties were still legal, a strong opposition press operated under difficulties, and Mussolini kept talking about a return to normalcy
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
🧵 It sounds like Mao’s China, but it’s the United States of America. From now on, research funding will be screened by government-appointed political commissioners, tasked with assessing whether projects advance the “president’s policy priorities” and align with “American values.” #EconSky 1/9
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Science under Big Brother’s thumb
Trump aims to turn public science into a tool of ideological propaganda. Stripping away scientific autonomy is a way to rewrite reality and entrench authoritarian rule
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Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
📢🧵 New paper! #EconTwitter How does intensive social media use affect puberty timing and risky behaviours in adolescence? 📄 Riskonnected: Social Media, Puberty and Risky Behaviours in Adolescence with Margherita Agnoletto and Silvia Mendolia #ChildDevelopment #DigitalWellbeing
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Today, I encountered yet another instance where a scholar, influenced by a targeted harassment campaign on social media, formed a misrepresented view of my research after reading certain posts and working papers. How much longer will I have to endure this? 1/2
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Fabio Sabatini @fabiosabatini.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
La proposta di Meloni di istituire un fondo europeo per sussidiare le imprese esposte ai dazi è sbagliata e dannosa. Ho provato a spiegarlo nel nuovo post sul mio blog - nonché nuovo episodio del mio podcast. 👇 fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/lautolesio...
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L’autolesionismo di Trump e Meloni
Diversamente dalla narrazione dominante, l’UE non è stata umiliata e Trump ha solo danneggiato l'economia americana. Ma la proposta miope e autolesionista di Meloni rischia di ribaltare la situazione
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Me gustaría escribir en castellano un breve hilo sobre una vivencia negativa de los últimos meses. En marzo del 2024 publiqué un artículo que encontraba que la prohibición de la compra de la prostitución en Suecia aumentaba las violaciones de entre el 40 y el 60% 1/N
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
The academic community must stand against misinformation and protect researchers from being unjustly targeted. N/N #AcademicIntegrity #AcademicSky #EconSky
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
A short thread on the main findings might be found here: bsky.app/profile/ricc...
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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
JOB AD: @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in #Trento (Italy) is looking for a #Researcher in Quantitative Public #Policy Evaluation to conduct (quasi)experimental evaluation research across different policy areas. 2Y+ contract - apply by 18/08 - Please, REPOST #EconSky LINK: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Offe...
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The thread below further illustrates the original decision made by the scientific committee — a decision that was only overturned following a social media harassment campaign, setting a troubling precedent that such campaigns can pressure 1/2
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I hope someone at @springernature.com still values #ScientificIntegrity enough to uphold the original decision of the impartial scientific committee—rather than capitulating to the biased outcome driven by a 16-month social media harassment campaign. #EconSky
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This is the core issue highlighted by this event: If you are a senior professor and dislike an article's findings or a scientific committee's decision, you can overrule them—even forcing a retraction—through a harassment campaign on social media.This seems possible with @springernature.com journals
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It’s been almost a month since the unjust retraction was forced through—a decision not made by the scientific committee, but pushed by those who waged a 16-month online harassment campaign against my work. 1/3
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
I feel overwhelmed and trapped in a David vs. Goliath battle, fighting simply to restore the original, unbiased outcome determined by the scientific committee. The system failed; truth and due process lost to mob tactics. Any advice on how to confront this? Solidarity and suggestions welcome. 2/3
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Ricardo Ciacci Strina @riccardociacci.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
It is deeply disheartening to witness a campaign that, from the outset, sought to retract my work simply because it disagreed with the findings. Rather than engaging in a constructive debate (advancing the literature), critics seized on issues with the replication code as a pretext to justify 1/3
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Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
We contributes to the economics of: ➡️Sexual behavior ➡️Human capital ➡️Gender ➡️Labor ➡️Fertility 📄: @https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/18002/an-economic-theory-of-sexual-exchanges-and-human-capital Feedback welcome! @scottcunningham.bsky.social @draliceevans.bsky.social
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Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🧠 We contribute a unified rational choice framework that: 🔬Encompasses paid sex and marriage 🔬Explains segregation in sex markets 🔬Models sexual activity and fertility as time allocations 🔬Endogenizes gendered outcomes via norms and human capital
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Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📉 Our model explains the decline in unpaid sex and fertility: As digital sex (porn, platforms, AI) lowers the cost of paid sex, people reallocate time away from intimacy.... 👉 Less unpaid sex 👉 Lower fertility 👉 More demand for paid sex
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Marina Della Giusta @mardelgiu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
📢📢📢 Why are sex markets gendered? Why is sexual activity declining even as norms liberalize? Finally a general economic theory that unifies paid sex and marriage. 👉 An Economic Theory of Sexual Exchanges and Human Capital #gender #humancapital #fertility @davidedragone.bsky.social and Elias Carroni
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