Marianna Battaglia
mariannabattaglia.bsky.social
Marianna Battaglia
@mariannabattaglia.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics @Universidad de Alicante. Economics of Education, Economics of Development, Labor Economics
A great contribution of my and @tmolinamillan.bsky.social's amazing PhD student: Hardi Ahmed @hardiahmed.bsky.social! He's on the job market this year!
In today's JMP blog, @hardiahmed.bsky.social uses DiD to show how sharia law reform in Northern Nigeria affected child health and fertility, and how this varies with enforcement intensity. Weak enforcement of child protection laws particularly harmed non-muslims blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Enforcement Matters: How Nigeria’s Sharia Reform Created Winners and Losers: Guest Post by Hardi Ahmed
blogs.worldbank.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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⭐Excited to share the program of the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics, at @fundacionareces.bsky.social
on October 21–22 in Madrid. Co-organized with Jorge Garcia-Hombrados.

Check the amazing line-up and stellar keynotes by Sylvie Lambert (PSE) and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (U Chicago)
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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📰 In a recent interview with Diario Información, our colleague Han Bleichrodt, who ranks among the most cited economists in the world, presents his latest book ‘Behavioral Economics’ and explains why putting a price on life can lead to more transparent and efficient health spending.
October 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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🌟 Our colleague, Han Bleichrodt is once again among the world’s most cited researchers, according to the prestigious Elsevier-Stanford ranking!
A double mention — for both his career impact and publications from the past year — confirms his global influence in behavioral and health economics.
October 13, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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🙏 We’d like to express our sincere thanks to everyone who attended the Opening Ceremony of the Master in Economics with Data Science and the Master in Quantitative Economics. 🎓✨

@ua.es  #FAEDepartment #OpeningCeremony #ThankYou #Economics #DataScience #QuantitativeEconomics #NewAcademicYear
September 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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⏰ Just a reminder! The Opening Ceremony of the Master in Economics with Data Science and the Master in Quantitative Economics will take place this Wednesday. 🎓📊
September 8, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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👉 A thesis defense will take place this week:
📅 Thursday, 5th June 2025 at 11:00 am
📍 Sala Vicens Vives
👨‍🎓Ph.D. Antonio Robles Roselló
🗣️Title: Essays in Applied Microeconomics
June 4, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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👉 A new applied & econometrics seminar is scheduled for this afternoon.

📅🕒 Wednesday, 14th May 2025 at 14:30 h
📍 Seminar 3
🎙 Jeffrey Liebman, Harvard Kennedy School ( @harvardkennedy.bsky.social )
📲 Title: The Chelsea Eats Program: Experimental Impacts
May 14, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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🥗 Una comida más antes del inicio de un nuevo seminario. 
🏛️ En FAE Alicante combinamos la investigación académica con el compañerismo en un ambiente único. 👩🏻‍🎓
February 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social Iñigo Iturbe y yo escribimos sobre la persistencia de la desigualdad educativa en España, espero que os interese! Today's post in @nadaesgratis.bsky.social on the persistence of educational inequality in Spain, hope that interests you (sorry, only in Spanish!)
January 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Ten insights you might have missed from development economics research in 2024

In his recent blog post, Managing Editor
@olihanney.bsky.social outlines ten standout takeaways from the broad range of research in low- and middle-income countries we have featured on VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...
Ten key insights from development economics research in 2024
Economic research that VoxDev has featured in 2024 has yielded interesting insights on false narratives in international migration discourse, fertility and family planning, attendance vs learning in e...
voxdev.org
January 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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“Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school”. Great and important article citing my research. hechingerreport.org/california-f...
California finally ended a ban on bilingual education. Now it can’t find enough teachers for these classes - The Hechinger Report
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters.  In 1953, Bárbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington Elementary School in Madera, California, a small city in t...
hechingerreport.org
December 9, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Another good reason to invest in remedial education: https://buff.ly/3OF9Xlm
December 4, 2024 at 8:32 PM
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It's a treat to have a paper highlighted in the NBER Digest!

Couples' choices about when to relocate offer a lens into how they value each person's career success. In both Sweden and Germany, they seem to prioritize men's careers, even when the woman has similar earning potential. bit.ly/MTO-T
December 2, 2024 at 8:27 PM
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Bold move from the Spanish government, which is going to regularise about 300,000 #undocumented #immigrants per year.

They must have read the recent JOLE paper by Elias, Monras, and Vasquez Grenno on the effects of the 2005 amnesty: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

#econsky #migcitsky
November 21, 2024 at 2:57 PM