Marina Della Giusta
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Marina Della Giusta
@mardelgiu.bsky.social

Econ Prof University of Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto Affiliate, Fellow LSE and IZA. Behavioural and labor economist.

Economics 20%
Sociology 20%
Pinned
📢 NEW PAPER!
Do teachers recognize stereotypes in the classroom? We introduce the Stereotype Identification Test (SIT) to measure this ability and explore whether it can be improved.

🧵 A short thread on our findings: ⬇

🌟 First post on Bluesky! 🌟

I’m on the 2024/2025 #EconJobMarket! 🚨

My job market paper explores how the Army’s 1972 gender desegregation catalyzed women’s entry into male-dominated civilian occupations.

A thread on the findings and contributions 👇(1/11)

Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org

The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!
Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata - Historical Census of Manufactures Microdata
CMFdata.org
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.

On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.

This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.

Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
👇#EJME 25/26 Mock Interviews: Recruiters needed!
ℹ️on how to sign up: www.eeassoc.org/news/call-re...
@david-schindler.de @eayeconomists.bsky.social @ecqe.bsky.social @resmedia.bsky.social

📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy
📖 New Working Paper

"Measuring systematic gaps in teacher judgement: A new approach"

😷 We use the Covid-19 induced cancellation of exams, where teachers assigned student grades & rankings within grade

econpapers.repec.org/paper/uclcep...

@opmc1.bsky.social @gillwyness.bsky.social Rich Murphy

Saturday at the European Researchers' Night #MSCA @vivipatti.bsky.social proudly presenting #Harmonia (www.harmonia.di.unito.it) and #Fairly (inclusive writing with AI) @dinunito.bsky.social
A new study by @ucl.ac.uk Equalise member @baowenxue.bsky.social, in collaboration with King's College London and @citystgeorges.bsky.social, reveals gender disparities following a major reform designed to make flexible working more accessible.
Access the paper here 👉 jech.bmj.com/content/earl...

6/6 Illicit trade in cultural goods affects not just markets, but identity & heritage. Our paper shows how trade data can reveal these hidden flows—and why better cooperation is essential. Looking forward to your comments!
📄 Read here 👉https://doi.org/10.1007/s10824-025-09555-z

5/6 Policy takeaways:
♦️ Legal frameworks alone are insufficient!
♦️UNIDROIT 1995 is more effective than UNESCO 1970—but major markets (US, UK) haven’t ratified.
Enforcement capacity + international cooperation are crucial.

4/6 Findings:
☑️Gaps grow with interest in Italian culture 📈
☑️Stronger corruption control reduces gaps in regulated markets (sculptures, antiques)
☑️Archaeological property: post-2010 spike → linked to Arab Spring looting

3/6 🔎 Our contributions:
1️⃣ A new Cultural Salience Index (Google Trends data) to capture demand for Italian culture.
2️⃣ Gravity model of trade gaps, linking them to GDP, distance, corruption, and salience.
3️⃣ Assessment of UNESCO 1970 & UNIDROIT 1995 conventions.

2/6 We study trade gaps: the difference between Italy’s reported exports and partner countries’ reported imports in:
🎨 Paintings
🗿 Sculptures
🕰️ Antiques
🏺 Archaeological property

🚨 New publication in Journal of Cultural Economics!
“Illicit shadows: the cultural goods trade gap for Italy”
with @EliaAcciai, Michele Belloni & Giovanna Segre
🇮🇹 vast cultural heritage
⚠️ high exposure to art theft & smuggling
👮 a specialized police unit (Carabinieri TPC)
A short🧵...

8/ Low-cost information interventions work, BUT messaging must be context-sensitive: Private narratives foster personal responsibility, public narratives risk backfiring when trust in institutions is low or public provision is seen as sufficient. docs.iza.org/dp18054.pdf
docs.iza.org

7/ Geographic differences: 🌍 In post-communist countries, public & neutral framings lower donations—likely reflecting lower institutional trust & weaker private giving norms.
docs.iza.org

6/ Heterogeneity matters: 🔹 Stronger effects among those with lived experience or high concern. 🔹 But when people perceive public provision as adequate, collective framings reduce private contributions → a substitution effect.
docs.iza.org

5/ Stigma reduction emerges as a key mechanism: 🧠 All framings significantly reduce mental health stigma. This partly explains higher donations, especially under public framing.
docs.iza.org

4/ Main findings: ✅ All three mental health framings significantly increase cooperation & donations vs. control. ✅ People act even without expecting others to do the same → intrinsic motivation matters!
docs.iza.org

3/ After exposure, participants made real-money decisions:
A Public Goods Game → cooperation measured via contributions.
A Charity Dictator Game → donations to mental health & other causes.
docs.iza.org

2/ Participants were randomly exposed to one of three framings:
🔹 Private → individual benefits of investing in mental health
🔹 Public → collective benefits for society
🔹 Neutral → prevalence facts only
docs.iza.org

1/ Mental health is key for well-being & productivity, yet investment remains chronically low. We ran a pre-registered online experiment (N = 8,312) in 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 🇸🇪 🇱🇻 🇸🇰 to test how different framings affect citizens’ willingness to act.
docs.iza.org

📢🧵 New paper! How do information framing affect cooperation & donations for mental health investments across Europe? 🌍🧠 w/ Pierluigi Conzo,
@florentdubois.bsky.social, Giovanni Razzu & Giacomo Rosso
docs.iza.org
This #WorldBreastfeedingWeek2025 make your workplace part of the #WarmChain of Support.

In this blog @profsarahjewell.bsky.social introduces a new toolkit designed to help employers create breastfeeding-friendly workplaces.

#PrioritiseBreastfeeding #WBW2025 #CreateSustainableSupportSystems
#WABA
Creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace: Why employers hold the key - Connecting Research
rdg.ac

docs.iza.org

🚫 The link with drug use is positive but less robust.
✅ Strongest risky behaviour links: alcohol and early sexual activity. Policy implication:
Social media is not just a passive activity—it may be a risky behaviour in itself for adolescents.

6/
Early puberty matters: it’s associated with higher risk-taking in adolescence.
Our mediation analysis shows:
Earlier menarche partially explains increases in smoking, drinking, and early sexual initiation among heavy users.

5/
We find both direct and indirect effects:
➡️Direct: intensive social media use accelerates menarche.
⏩Indirect: poorer mental health mediates part of the effect.

4/
Why? Our evidence points to stress and mental health deterioration as a likely mechanism.
Heavy social media use → more stress/anxiety → earlier puberty onset.
This aligns with medical literature linking stress to earlier menarche.