Selim Gulesci
selimgulesci.bsky.social
Selim Gulesci
@selimgulesci.bsky.social

Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin
https://sites.google.com/view/selimgulesci/

Economics 46%
Business 16%

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🆕 Understanding the global construction sector 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Martina Kirchberger (@tcdeconomics.bsky.social) discusses the economics of infrastructure and the construction sector: voxdev.org/topic/infras...

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🆕 Empowerment or protection? A potential trade-off in cash transfer design

Today on VoxDev w/ Giulia Greco (@lshtm.bsky.social @lshtm-gheco.bsky.social), @selimgulesci.bsky.social (Trinity College Dublin), Pallavi Prabhakar (BIGD) & Munshi Sulaiman (BIGD): voxdev.org/topic/social...
Empowerment or protection? A potential trade-off in cash transfer design
In Uganda, digital cash transfers had contrasting effects on women’s empowerment: mobile money boosted women’s personal income and decision-making power, while jointly disclosed cash transfers reduced...
voxdev.org
🆕 A stepping stone approach to mitigating harmful social norms

Today on VoxDev w/ Selim Gulesci (Trinity College Dublin), Sam Jindani (NUS), Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard), David Smerdon (University of Queensland), Munshi Sulaiman (BIGD) & Peyton Young (JHU): voxdev.org/topic/instit...
A stepping stone approach to mitigating harmful social norms
Can an intermediate, less severe action serve as a stepping stone to eliminating a harmful norm? Research on female genital cutting in Somalia suggests that the intermediate action risks becoming the ...
voxdev.org

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💡New Research 💡

Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social has published a new paper in @aeajournals.bsky.social

📎Read it here: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

@trinityresearch.bsky.social

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Congratulations to Prof @selimgulesci.bsky.social on his appointment as Associate Editor of the Journal of Economics Behavior & Organization (JEBO)! ✨

Read more about the journal here:
tinyurl.com/386hsdmy

#econsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social

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Our final Research Insights for the year focuses on Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social article published in @aeajournals.bsky.social 👏

💡Prof Gulesci talks about why he co-wrote this paper and what impact he sees it having on the world.
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tinyurl.com/a8ch7y4u

#econsky @tcdssp.bsky.social

Here is a great summary of our paper on addressing gender-based violence in schools in Mozambique, thanks to Lelys Dinarte-Diaz : blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
What Works to Reduce Violence Against Girls in Schools? Lessons from Mozambique
blogs.worldbank.org

Happy place 🐶

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🚨 New Research 🚨

Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social has published a new paper with his co-authors in the American Economic Review ✨

🔗 Read the article here: tinyurl.com/52u4t9a2

#econsky @tcdssp.bsky.social @trinityresearch.bsky.social @trisstcd.bsky.social

Perry’s beach day ☀️

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Early investments in children’s health matter. A @g2lmlic.bsky.social project in Uganda found subsidized preschools & cash transfers led to better long-term child health. Stronger health today means a more productive workforce tomorrow.🌎
👉 bit.ly/3Ea8PV7
#WorldHealthDay
Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children
Subsidised access to full-day preschools in Uganda had long-term positive effects on children’s anthropometrics but not their learning outcomes. Cash transfers of a similar value as the preschool subs...
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Forthcoming in the AER: "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions" by Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and Peyton Young. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions
(Forthcoming Article) - We propose a model to study when an intermediate action can serve as a stepping stone that enables the elimination of a harmful norm. While the intermediate action may facilita...
www.aeaweb.org
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease.

That is, until January."

-- Nick Kristof
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
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
www.ft.com
🌟My *first published article* is out! 🌟
With Lovise Aalen, @kotsadam.bsky.social, and Espen Villanger, we studied female factory workers in Ethiopia’s industrial parks and endogenous identity.

So proud to share this! doi.org/10.1080/0022...
#econsky
Effects of Jobs on Ethnic Switching – Evidence from a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Ethnicity is a dynamic construct, with individual-level ethnic switching having been reported in numerous contexts. Ethnic switching, typically attributed to instrumental or social identity motivat...
doi.org
📣 I have been asked to host an AMA for JPAL on Feb 11 📣

On International Day of Women and Girls in Science.

Spread the word, if of interest. Details: sites.google.com/povertyactio...

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🆕 Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children

Today on VoxDev, Arne Nasgowitz, Denise Ferris, Kjetil Bjorvatn, Lore Vandewalle, Selim Gulesci & Vincent Somville outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health...
Preschool subsidies and cash transfers have long-term health benefits for children
Subsidised access to full-day preschools in Uganda had long-term positive effects on children’s anthropometrics but not their learning outcomes. Cash transfers of a similar value as the preschool subs...
voxdev.org

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NBER @nber.org · Dec 1
An intervention within schools in Mozambique aimed at reducing gender-based violence mitigated violence by deterring potential perpetrators and fostering a proactive stance among victims, from Amaral, Garcia-Ramos, Gulesci, Ramos, Ore-Quispe, and Sviatschi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33203

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📈 New Trinity Economic Paper 📈

Can targeted interventions reduce school-based GBV? Professors @selimgulesci.bsky.social and Alejandra Ramos have co-written a new Trinity Economic Paper that explores GBV in Mozambique.

🔗 Read the paper here: ideas.repec.org/p/tcd/tcduee...

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📢I'm on the #EconJobMarket!

My #EconJMP studies how inequality in foreign economies shapes the effects of Fed's tightening on their GDP.

Spoiler: higher ineq = larger (smaller) GDP drop in AEs (EMEs). Mainly via financial channel.

👉 tinyurl.com/4e2y9598
🌐 simone-arrigoni.com

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