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Caroline Krafft
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Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Development/Labor/Education/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · Mar 10
📣 New paper "Do employers discriminate against married women? Evidence from a field experiment in Egypt" published in the Journal of Development Economics! #EconSky #menasky

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ABSTRACT This research submitted fictitious resumes to online job postings in Egypt, randomizing gender and marital status. More job postings explicitly required men (14 per cent) than women (4 per cent). Despite the gender discrimination in postings, women were only slightly less likely to receive callbacks than men, with only a small difference between single and married women. Differences in callbacks by sex and marital status were not statistically significant. Women and especially married women were, however, particularly likely to be asked for more information rather than scheduled for an interview.
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donmoyn.bsky.social
*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings
*Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap
*Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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ishmamunoz.bsky.social
New paper out in Population and Development Review:

We explore how the influence of grandparental co-residence on grandchildren’s nutrition varies across Africa’s diverse demographic and health contexts 👇

📄 doi.org/10.1111/padr...
<em>Population and Development Review</em> | Population Council Journal | Wiley Online Library
In many modern populations, grandparents are increasingly becoming the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. This phenomenon has renewed interest in the role that grandparents play in within-fam...
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November 9, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
the Iranian drought story is insanely undercovered.

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November 9, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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trevondlogan.bsky.social
The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper!

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Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026
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November 8, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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incher.bsky.social
Female researchers in economics experience longer delays in the acceptance of their work for publication!

Read: Bruns, S. B.; Doucouliagos, A.; Doucouliagos, H.; König, J.; Stanley, T.D.; Zigova, K (2025): The Delayed Acceptance of Female Research in Economics. Bonn: IZA

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February 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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cgdev.org
Gender parity in hiring hasn't translated into parity in promotion at IFIs.

To help close this gap, Kelsey Harris & @eeshani.bsky.social launch a new phase of work to analyze data, spotlight solutions, & help IFIs strengthen women’s leadership pipelines:
https://bit.ly/3KxW4qa
https://bit.ly/3KxW4qa
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November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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lavidagata.bsky.social
Fascinating indeed. And not reassuring for those of us for whom excellent writing has been a differentiator.
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have significantly lowered the cost of producing written content. This paper studies how LLMs, through lowering writing costs, disrupt markets that traditionally relied on writing as a costly signal of quality (e.g., job applications, college essays). Using data from Freelancer.com, a major digital labor platform, we explore the effects of LLMs’ disruption of labor market signaling on equilibrium market outcomes. We develop a novel LLM-based measure to quantify the extent to which an application is tailored to a given job posting. Taking the measure to the data, we find that employers had a high willingness to pay for workers with more customized applications in the period before LLMs were introduced, but not after. To isolate and quantify the effect of LLMs’ disruption of signaling on equilibrium outcomes, we develop and estimate a structural model of labor market signaling, in which workers invest costly effort to produce noisy signals that predict their ability in equilibrium. We use the estimated model to simulate a counterfactual equilibrium in which LLMs render written applications useless in signaling workers’ ability. Without costly signaling, employers are less able to identify high-ability workers, causing the market to become significantly less meritocratic: compared to the pre-LLM equilibrium, workers in the top quintile of the ability distribution are hired 19% less often, workers in the bottom quintile are hired 14% more often.
November 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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yonahfreemark.com
New working paper studying project permitting in Seattle estimates that design review as part of the development process increased review time by 4 to 5 months. Author's model estimates that design review was associated with a 3% decline in the number of units permitted.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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johncawley.bsky.social
New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky
November 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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snackeru.bsky.social
The University of Minnesota just announced the "Meal-A-Day Program" which will provide one meal a day for SNAP benefit recipients while the SNAP program is limited or unavailable. This makes me very happy. A lot of students, faculty, and staff at the U need this, unfortunately.
University Services Meal-A-Day Program Dear students, faculty, and staff, The University of Minnesota is committed to supporting our students, faculty, and staff facing food insecurity. One way we are supporting our community during the disruption of SNAP benefits is through our temporary Meal-A-Day Program. University of Minnesota students, faculty, and staff on all campuses who are current SNAP benefit recipients will be able to access one free, in-person meal in a residential dining hall each day that SNAP benefits are limited or unavailable. Students, faculty, and staff may follow the process outlined below to verify eligibility. We expect the program to continue until SNAP benefits resume. Accessing the Meal-A-Day Program This program is only for students, faculty, and staff who are current SNAP benefit recipients, and who do not have existing meal plans. One-time verification of SNAP benefits will be required in order to access the Meal-A-Day Program.
November 3, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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cobrienudry.bsky.social
putting together my grad IPE syllabus for next semester! what exciting new IPE work should I include? self-promotion encouraged!!
November 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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clancyny.bsky.social
This matches my life experiences with white people. 🤷🏼

It's pretty obvious if you look into it. ⤵️
itsafronomics.bsky.social Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 8d
"Why don't people support welfare programs?"

Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness.

White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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nickkapur.bsky.social
Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back!

Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest!

#MundaneHalloween
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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paulgp.com
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
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November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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lorennacleary.bsky.social
God I bloody love economists. This one zeroes in on Rand Paul’s tweet complaining about the number of people on food stamps. And while he doesn’t touch on income inequity vs cost of living, he does explain the cost for SNAP now vs pre-pandemic.
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 AM
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plosglobalpublichealth.org
New research in PLOS Global Public Health from Anita Alaze, John Grosser, Oliver Razum and Céline Miani at Bielefeld University

How does a recent gender norms scale perform? Exploratory factor analyses among adolescents in Ethiopia and Bangladesh

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How does a recent gender norms scale perform? Exploratory factor analyses among adolescents in Ethiopia and Bangladesh
Inequitable gender norms shape adolescents’ perceptions and behaviours, increasing the risk for adverse health outcomes as adults. However, there is a lack of reliable scales to measure these norms. T...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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packlesshepherd.bsky.social
Hi Bluesky!

I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)!

It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D).

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April 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
It's that time of year again...
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 15
Econ job market candidate intros.

Candidates, communicate:
1) your name, program, & fields,
2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text,
3) #EconJMP, &
4) a link to your website.

Employers, browse & interact respectfully.

Everyone else, shhhh.
📉📈
October 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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oxfordcsae.bsky.social
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.

Article by the CSAE's @gamblingondev.bsky.social, @roccozizzamia.bsky.social & Ashley Pople @odid-qeh.bsky.social (@ebeam.bsky.social @christopher-udry.bsky.social)
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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toddpugatch.bsky.social
Wow -- allocation of World Bank project managers in Africa is literally a matter of life and death: "I find that better project management reduces violent conflict...Poorly managed projects increase conflict while well-managed projects do the opposite." #econsky www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Management of Aid and Conflict in Africa
(November 2025) - This study investigates the relationship between the management of development aid and violent conflict in Africa. I exploit variation in World Bank project management quality driven...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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benglasner.bsky.social
Even the smartest AI in the world can’t see why the internet loves a chunky bear:
October 28, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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lizbettini.bsky.social
I am recruiting a doc student! I am so excited :-D The student would have opportunities to work on IES & Spencer funded projects focused on strengthening the special ed workforce, including Project RESPECT, Project SUSTAIN, Project ONBOARD, & the SPARC Center. Please share widely! Thanks all!
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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femquant.bsky.social
We have a fantastic line-up of panel speakers - Christina Dragon, Fernanda Fortes de Lena, Onikepe Owolabi, and Kristopher Velasco - for our November FemQuant online event: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Sign up to join us on 5 Nov femquant.wordpress.com/seminar-seri...
Seminar listing on pink background and in the top rigt corner two speech bubbles in matching pink on a background of grey swirls. Panel discussion: Feminist Research and Data Activism in Political Turmoil. Speakers: Onikepe Owolabi, Kristopher Velasco, Christina Dragon & Fernanda Fortes de Lena. Wednesday 5 November 2025 11:30am EST/ 4:30pm GMT/ 5:30pm CET
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM