Laura Schechter retweeted
Excited to share that my JMP was featured on the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog!
The post shows how digital receipts can increase transparency, improve quality, and shift behavior in markets with information frictions.
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impac…
#EconJobMarket #EconTwitter
Laura Schechter retweeted
"Political brokers use social networks to identify and target reciprocal non-copartisans for vote buying. Parties recruit brokers central in networks to sway persuadable voters."
From @rduartegonzalez, Finan, @HLarreguy, and @LauraASchechter:
restud.com/brokering-votes-w…
#REStud
Register here for this great event - The Chicago School of Thought: Methods and Fieldwork in Development Economics uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/reg…
Laura Schechter retweeted
What impacts did one-on-one face-to-face counselling have on the mental health of adolescents in Nepal?
Read today's paper to learn more: nitter.cf/vox_dev/status/1930185…
ALT Impact of therapy on mental health
🆕 Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings
Today on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (@DartmouthEcon), @p_mukherj (@UW_AAE), Nikhilesh Prakash (@handels_sse), @Prof_Nishith_P (@NU_PolicySchool @NUEcon) & @shwetlena (@WorldBank): voxdev.org/topic/health/deli…
Laura Schechter retweeted
Put your reading glasses for Research Wednesday. AAE faculty members Nick Parker and Sarah Johnston researched clean energy development, which could bring billion in potential income to Indigenous communities.
Read more at the link below:
grow.cals.wisc.edu/priority-…
Laura Schechter retweeted
Still time! Apply to AAE's M.S. Professional Option program -a 12-to 21-month STEM M.S. prepares you for data intensive and quantitatively focused jobs. Deadline: Int'l: 4/14; Domestic: 6/1.
Learn more: aae.wisc.edu/grad/mspo/
Watch video: youtu.be/7PXJCQ1YfZ4?si=gKs4…
Laura Schechter retweeted
Congratulations to @UW_AAE's Andrew Stevens on receiving a @USDA_NIFA grant for his project "Analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of farmland preservation policies in supporting small and medium-sized farms"! @agronoeconomist
Learn more: ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2023/12/…
Laura Schechter retweeted
My study on how birds are affected by different types of energy infrastructure is covered in this week's edition of The Economist!
Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling, contrary to what opponents of wind farms fear. Learn why: econ.st/3ShC50A 👇
Laura Schechter retweeted
Bori-bori (vori-vori) 🇵🇾is the best soup in the world in 2023. View complete TasteAtlas Awards 23/24 lists: tasteatlas.com/best/foods-by…
Bori-bori (vori-vori) is a hearty Paraguayan soup filled with meat (usually beef or chicken), fluffy dumplings consisting of cornmeal and cheese, and vegetables such as carrots, celery, and onions. The soup is traditionally flavored with bay leaves, cloves, and parsley, while saffron gives it a rich golden color.
Photo: @Karuseando
This paper on unintended spillovers in incentivized experiments run in multiple villages is super important and fascinating. Highly recommended.
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Laura Schechter retweeted
La investigación sobre raza y etnicidad llega a LACEA 2023 @voxlacea e Brasil representado com a @ana_p_melo blogs.iadb.org/igualdad/es/l…
Submit to the Midwest international economic development conference. It will be April 5-6 2024 at the University of Chicago. Submission deadline is December 17. bfi.uchicago.edu/21st-midwes… Acronyms #mwiedc or more painfully/controversially #miedc
Laura Schechter retweeted
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @EleanorWiseman, currently a postdoc at Stanford + headed for @UW_AAE next fall.
linkedin.com/in/eleanor-wise…
profiles.stanford.edu/eleano…
Laura Schechter retweeted
Kudos to @MonicaEcon JMC @UW_AAE. Focusing on development economics & economics of education, currently researching affirmative action policies in childhood and their impact on children’s educational outcomes. Learn more: monica-agarwal.github.io/
Laura Schechter retweeted
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation" by Joshua W. Deutschmann, Molly Lipscomb, Laura Schechter, and Jessica Zhu. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
Laura Schechter retweeted
One recent paper in JDE finds privatization of sewage treatment centers in Senegal leads to ⬆️ productivity, ⬇️ prices + ⬇️ diarrhea rates @MollyMLipscomb @LauraASchechter
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Laura Schechter retweeted
Another closely related working paper accepted at AEJ-Applied finds evidence of substantial social spillovers in uptake of sanitation technology in Dakar, driven by benefits ⬆️ w/ others' uptake
jwdeutschmann.com/Papers/Dec…