Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 18/08/2026On the 106th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are *51% of the population *29% of the House *27% of the Senate *21% of Full Professors in PhD granting econ departments 043
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Reminder that today is PA primary Election Day. Vote. 020
Reposted by Adrienne LucasAlmudena Sevilla @almudenasevilla.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Great research deserves great feedback. Excited to share a new AI tool delivers publication-relevant feedback with no coding, prompting, or setup required. Eligible: Econ PhD students + faculty up to 5 years post-PhD. Access here: lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @profalucas.bsky.sociallse.eu.qualtrics.comQualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience ManagementThe most powerful, simple and trusted way to gather experience data. Start your journey to experience management and try a free account today. 024
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department, today is #IHeartUDDay. Please consider donating to support our UD economics students. givingday.udel.edu/giving-day/1... Our current and future students appreciate you!givingday.udel.eduI Heart UD Giving Day | April 29, 2026Blue Hens are the Heart of UD! 000
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Folks are writing about malaria again! Some bonus reading on previous eradication campaigns (by me): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...aeaweb.orgMalaria Eradication and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Paraguay and Sri Lanka(April 2010) - Mid-twentieth century malaria eradication campaigns largely eliminated malaria from Paraguay and Sri Lanka. Using these interventions as quasi-experiments, I estimate malaria's effect o... 020
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for featuring our work! 010
Reposted by Adrienne LucasErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference. 17606109
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Thrilled that "When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System" with @willafriedman.bsky.social and #KehindeAjayi is in the January 2026 #EconomicJournal. It's an "Editor's Choice," FREE to download, and easy to cite. :) academic.oup.com/ej/article/1... 072
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Congratulations to @udelaware.bsky.social Economics PhD alum #MuhammadUsmanTaj (now at #MidlandsTechnicalCollege) for winning the 2025 #AmericanEconomicAssociation Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty! 010
Reposted by Adrienne LucasCaitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Applications 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 #EconSkyaeaweb.orgCeMENT: Mentoring for Junior Faculty 02420
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Job posting: Assistant Professor in @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. "a social scientist whose research addresses the policy, legal, and/or economic dimensions of contemporary ocean resource use." Apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....aeaweb.orgAmerican Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026 020
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 01/12/2025New @nber.org working paper by my @udelaware.bsky.social colleague #MariaRosalesRueda and other nifty folks. 051
Reposted by Adrienne LucasPaul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 13/11/2025For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appsplendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.appEpstein Document Search 17974633196
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025#IVoted If you have not voted, not too late to join the democracy/cool sticker club! Vote! 061
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Election Day! Vote. Vote. Vote. All elections are consequential! 040
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025UDelaware Economics PhD student @anxhelabeluli.com spent the summer as an intern at Amazon. lerner.udel.edu/seeing-oppor...lerner.udel.eduMy Summer Internship: Anxhela BeluliAnxhela Beluli, economics Ph.D. student, spent her summer as an Economist Ph.D. Intern at Amazon. 030
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 04/10/2025Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone! 040
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 30/09/2025New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38! (Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department) (* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar) 170
Reposted by Adrienne LucasPaolo Falco @paolofalco.bsky.social · 30/09/2025🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨 Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow. Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀! #EconSky 089
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT! 040
Reposted by Adrienne LucasTatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comOpen letterClick here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr... 14524
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography. Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me). careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...careers.udel.eduUniversity of Delaware - Details - Chair, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware 041
Reposted by Adrienne LucasMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 28/08/2025I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank. 09636
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 15/08/2025On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are * 51% of population * 29% of House of Representatives * 26% of Senate * 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments 0179
Reposted by Adrienne LucasCaitlin Myers @caitlinmyers.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person! 136
Reposted by Adrienne LucasAnne Fitzpatrick @annefitz13.bsky.social · 28/07/2025If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2 I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan 061
Reposted by Adrienne LucasJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 20/06/2025Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 419872
Reposted by Adrienne LucasDavid Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile 093
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 23/05/2025Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!! 030
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 22/05/2025Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate. 0250
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote! 011
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 20/05/2025New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra. Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798 0113
Reposted by Adrienne LucasNBER @nber.org · 20/05/2025Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra www.nber.org/papers/w33798 072
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 17/05/2025On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year! 090
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Honored to be part of the Advisory Board Meeting of the Tanzania Institute of Education EdLab in February. Thank you @wwhglobaled.bsky.social for featuring the meeting in today's email blast! 020
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Good morning DC! Great day yesterday presenting at the World Bank (thank you for the invitation #LelysDinarteDiaz !) Today, Georgetown to collaborate with @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social & #JamesHabyarimana 081
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 14/05/2025Hello friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department: today is I heart UD giving day. Please consider a donation to your favorite economics department (us, of course) givingday.udel.edu/amb/economicsgivingday.udel.eduI Heart UD Giving Day - May 14I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14 000
Reposted by Adrienne LucasDavid Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 09/04/2025A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com 12412
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 06/04/2025Welcome to #EconSky Alumudena Sevilla @almudenasevilla.bsky.social!! Give her a follow for labor, gender, and general economist awesomeness! 081
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 10/03/2025.@udelaware.bsky.social #LernerCollege is hiring an Assistant Dean, Student Services, Global Programs & Partnerships. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... Located in Newark, DE, convenient to I-95, Amtrak, & SEPTA. Bonus: be in the same college as a really nifty economics department, chaired by me!careers.udel.eduUniversity of Delaware - Details - Assistant Dean, Student Services 022
Reposted by Adrienne LucasVoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Been a while since we shared this! Here is a selection of our favourite sources of research, newsletters, articles, blogs, podcasts, and videos related to development economics, including researchers who have written for VoxDev. go.bsky.app/4rsxm7G 1166
Reposted by Adrienne LucasCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025$500 million worth of food intended for relief efforts is at risk of spoiling, given Trump’s freeze on shipping food assistance “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” WH official said.washingtonpost.comAs federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said. 1111138346
Reposted by Adrienne LucasJennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 11/02/2025DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.socialpropublica.orgElon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School PerformanceThe Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou... 491134476
Reposted by Adrienne LucasJustin Sandefur @justsand.bsky.social · 04/02/2025Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities. He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous. @rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p... 601358425
Reposted by Adrienne LucasDavid Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025BIG long-term impacts of education grants targeted to indigenous students in Chile. drive.google.com/file/d/1huHk... Evidence from @profalucas.bsky.social, McEwan, and Torres Irribarra 082
Reposted by Adrienne LucasOyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · 15/01/2025GAIN is an amazing resource for African students interested in graduate school (masters and phd): information, advice, mentoring, funding for test and applications fees etc. Please share this opportunity with your network. 01413
Reposted by Adrienne LucasSandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵) 725588
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Delaware increases its minimum wage to $15/hour Jan 1, 2025, up from $9.25 in 2021. Ready, set, natural experiment! 2132
Adrienne Lucas @profalucas.bsky.social · 17/12/2024New @nberpubs.bsky.social working paper: "When Given Discretion Teachers Did Not Shirk: Evidence from Remedial Education in Secondary Schools" with #SabrinBeg @annefitz13.bsky.social @jkerwin.bsky.social @kwrahman.com Title summarizes it. We elaborate in the paper: www.nber.org/papers/w33242 1267