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Alicia Bubb
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Researcher at @RMIT Australia | Interested in applied economics, with a focus on labour, health, and urban economics | Specialising in the design and evaluation of fiscal policies.
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Why are more babies born in spring? 🌱👶

Birth rates follow seasonal patterns—spring peaks in Victoria & Tasmania, while the north sees more births in late summer. Climate, daylight & history all play a role.

How do seasons shape birth trends? 🤔👇

🔗 Read more: www.rmit.edu.au/news/acumen/...
Seasons of Birth
This article explores how seasonal birth patterns,shaped by environmental, social, and cultural factors.
www.rmit.edu.au
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Is being single costing you more than you realize? In our @theconversation.com piece, Sarah Sinclair & I explore the “singles tax”—why living alone can cost more for rent, groceries & taxes, especially for women & single parents. Read more:
#RMITUniversity #Econ #Equity
The ‘singles tax’ means you often pay more for going it alone. Here’s how it works
It isn’t just not being able to split bills. Tax systems and social expectations can also play a role. If we want to fix this inequity, we have to understand what drives it.
theconversation.com
January 27, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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🥳 🎉 🎊 🍾 🥂
December 13, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Okay. It's time to move to Texifier.
December 3, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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Ugh Overleaf! Just when I was getting into my stride 😮‍💨
December 3, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS📢
AFÉPOP 2025 CONFERENCE - @afepop.fr Aix-Marseille School of Economics

🗓️ May 15-16, 2025
📍 Marseille
✨Keynote: Pauline Grosjean

Apply👇
afepop2025.sciencesconf.org

Topics: Population econ (gender, educ, health, labour, demographics, housing, etc.)
Deadline: Feb 1⏱️
November 6, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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📢 Call for Papers open: Nov 1 – Feb 1, 2025 for the annual ThReD Conference, hosted by @MonashUni

📍 Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy🇮🇹
📅 June 25-26, 2025
Submit your research thred.devecon.org/conferences/...

#EconSky #DevelopmentEconomics
thred.devecon.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:25 AM
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Really looking forward to the European Society of Population Economics conference in June 2025!

📢Call for Papers #ESPE2025
⏳Submission deadline: February 1, 2025
⚓️Naples, June 12-14, 2025
👉Info: www.espe2025naples.com
🙏Please share!
(H/T Sunčica Vujić)
#EconSky
November 25, 2024 at 12:46 PM
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Melbourne weather is something else. I'm so confused! 😩
November 27, 2024 at 6:40 AM
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Here's a our new paper "The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment"

We analyze a long-running field experiment of online advertising.

We find no significant differences in valuations between users who see ads vs. those who don't.

www.nber.org/papers/w32846
The Consumer Welfare Effects of Online Ads: Evidence from a 9-Year Experiment
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 19, 2024 at 6:24 AM