@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social @eckelc.bsky.social

My broader agenda explores barriers that limit women and disadvantaged populations. Other work includes experimental evidence on gender gaps in leadership and mental health interventions for conflict-affected women. Excited to connect! #EconJMP
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I use psych and lab-in-the-field measures to uncover why these patterns emerge. Mental health and perceived social status increase victimization risk, while prosociality from shared trauma offers protection.

The cycle continues: children in households where at least one parent was abducted are 17-20 percentage points more likely to be hit by their mothers. This holds whether the mother, father, or both were abducted, revealing how trauma echoes across generations.

Abducted women married to not abducted men face the highest IPV risk. When both partners share trauma, this risk is mitigated. Abducted men experience higher verbal abuse than not abducted men regardless of wife’s status.

I study couples in Northern Uganda where the Lord's Resistance Army abducted over 50,000 children during the civil conflict. Using original survey and lab-in-the-field data, I show that partners’ childhood trauma history fundamentally changes household violence patterns decades later.

My broader agenda: How do policies & tech shape opportunities for people with disabilities?

Other projects explore minimum wages, remote work in the UK, the intergenerational effects of 1980s paratransit (w/ restricted Census data), & a JPAL-funded RCT on on-demand paratransit. 5/6

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