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From: Essen Health Conference Subject: Visiting fellowships Dear colleague, We are pleased to invite applications for the CINCH Fellowships in Health Economics for academic years 2025/26 through 2027/28. The program offers two tracks: * CINCH Research Fellowships support short-term visits (typically a few weeks) during 2025/26, aimed at researchers from the postdoctoral level and up. Fellows pursue their own projects in health economics or related fields while engaging with CINCH faculty and partners in Essen, Germany. * CINCH Professorial Fellowships enable established scholars (associate professor or above) to spend one semester at CINCH in 2026/27 or 2027/28. Fellows contribute [...]

For decades, the state has been tightening its rules so that fewer and fewer are eligible. This is a chance for Italians to change the narrative, writes Jamie Mackay

The sudden rollback of Mexico’s landmark conditional cash transfer programme—Prospera, formerly Progresa—affected boys’ educational outcomes disproportionately, offering lessons for policy retrenchmen...