Thrilled to have my research feature at @unu-wider.bsky.social’s amazing WIDERAngle blog!

Brazil's Bolsa Familia - the world's largest cash transfer programme - does not discourage work. Instead, it increases women's employment by helping them overcome barriers to enter the labour force 👇

💼 Can cash transfers empower women without disadvantaging men?

Gabriel Leite Mariante analyses how Brazil’s largest unconditional cash transfer program boosts women's employment while supporting men too. A must-read before #WIDERDevConf2025!

Read more: go.unu.edu/72HTH

Excited to share that, following this year's academic job market, I will be joining CUNEF @cunef.bsky.social, in Madrid, as an Assistant Professor in Economics starting next Fall!

Very thankful to all my friends, colleagues and supervisors at
the LSE, and looking forward to the next stage

O Ministério do Desenv. Social publica todo mês o Boletim Avalia, importante iniciativa divulgando estudos sobre políticas públicas brasileiras.

Este mês, tive o prazer de contribuir com minha pesquisa de PhD sobre o efeito do Bolsa Família no emprego formal:

aplicacoes.mds.gov.br/sagi/pesquis...

Excelente matéria da @tcarran.bsky.social da @bbcbrazil.bsky.social para a qual tive o prazer de contribuir através da minha pesquisa de doutorado

Em suma: não, o BF não desincentiva o trabalho de beneficiários, mas sim ajuda mães com crianças pequenas a superarem obstáculos para entrada no mercado

Studying Brazil's Bolsa Família program, @leitemariante.bsky.social finds that unconditional cash transfers boost formal employment among women by 7% over two years, while men's employment remains unaffected.
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/02/can-...

Thanks to the @econthatmatters.bsky.social team for featuring my job market paper!

The study finds that, instead of discouraging work, Brazil's national cash transfer actually allows mothers to join the labour force, and that this effect can be complemented by local public good provision 👇

Thrilled to see the Child Penalty Atlas featured in @voxdev.bsky.social! Check out the main findings from our Atlas below 👇

Thankful for everyone involved in this fascinating project, and super excited for the next on this important agenda!

voxdev.org/topic/labour...

The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with economic development.

In LICs, child penalties tend to represent a small fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop, child penalties become the key driver of gender inequality:

There's a strange development happening in the #EconJobMarket this year: av. interview invites per job is *way* down on previous years. Anyone know what could explain this?

🙌 Extremely honoured to be one of the recipients of this year's EEA/UniCredit Foundation Best JM Paper Award!

I'm thankful to the scientific committee, and to my advisors and colleagues at the LSE.

My paper is available at: gleitemariante.com/research

Great summary of key recent learnings from empirical work in DevEcon 👇

🚨 Excited to share my job market paper!

“Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE...)

It has been awarded the EEA/Unicredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award.

A thread summarising my findings 👇: (1/13)

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women is a major public health and inequality concern. It's not clear what causes it or how to reduce it. Gaby Deschamps' JMP considers that IPV is positively correlated with motherhood, and asks if we can understand why. www.gabrieladeschamps.com/research

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research