Happy deportation day

Please consider donating to help my former tennis coach who lost his home in big fire in Kibera, Nairobi. www.gofundme.com/f/petty-anda...

It was a seminar-type course with a research component. I alternated weeks between broad political economy themes and more specific environmental topics. You can see the syllabus here: mlarreboure.com/larreboure_peenv_syllabus.pdf

Today I taught the last class of the semester of my course “Political Economy of the Environment”. I really enjoyed teaching this wonderful group of undergrads!

Will this be a complement or a substitute for my swearing at cars in chilean spanish?

We find no persistent economic effects of the program. However, we find some evidence of reduced psychological well-being among adults and children in spillover households.

We do not find consistent evidence that children from treatment and spillover groups become more or less prosocial than children from the control group, after an exogenous variation of wealth.

The tokens each child earned across one round of all games were exchangeable for prizes that were assigned different token values.

4,000+ children aged 6 to 17, played 5 behavioral games and answered survey questions. We programmed these games to be played in a low-income, rural setting. Enumerators explained the games with examples and props, and children dragged tokens between baskets on the screens.

We have a new NBER WP with @jhaushofer.bsky.social, Sara Lowes, and Leon Mait.
In the context of an UCT RCT in rural Kenya, we ask whether the social preferences and well-being of children in households that received (or did not receive) a transfer, were impacted a few years after the program.

6 years ago I was doing an exchange in Montreal and came to Boston for the first time, as a tourist.
At the time, it didn’t occur to me that I could ever study at Harvard (or that I would continue studying, fwiw😅)