Legalizing recreational marijuana reduces suicides among older white Americans.

We are delighted to announce our next webinar on:
📆 December 16th at 3pm (CET time).

To attend the event, please register using this link: shorturl.at/cxy4Y

How to get honest answers to sensitive survey questions? Our WP introduces the ballot-bag, a new method that is both precise and unbiased, improving on existing approaches such as list experiments. Joint work with Bruno Crépon and Ahmed Elsayed. #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

The 15th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior, sponsored by @au-spa.bsky.social, will be held July 8–9, 2026 in Cagliari, Italy! 🇮🇹
Keynote: Paolo Pinotti
Organizers: Erdal Tekin & Claudio Deiana, Ludovica Giua, Marco Nieddu
📅 Deadline: Mar 6, 2026
📄 Submit: www.american.edu/spa/risky-be...

Caroline aura tenté du mieux qu'elle pouvait de se reconstruire. Mais la blessure était trop profonde. Elle a choisi de se donner la mort ce lundi 1er septembre, jour de la rentrée scolaire. (1/9)

🆕 How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence

Today on VoxDev, Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) & Nathan Nunn (University of British Columbia) outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

1/ 🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨
Excited to share our latest research: “Female Firstborn and Family Dynamics in Sub-Saharan Africa”! on how firstborn daughters influence family structure, marriage, and fertility @mariahdb.bsky.social #EconSky #DevelopmentEconomics #EconPhD www.nber.org/papers/w33505 ⬇️

Grateful for @kbeegle.bsky.social 's thoughtful deep dive on our new paper & a related study—we find that a couples training program in Rwanda, meant to reduce IPV, unexpectedly increased it, raising important questions on backlash & spillovers.
Paper 🔗: openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...