I’m one of many international students at
@harvard.edu affected by the Trump administration’s directive. The majority of us are grad students— we're doing research, and teaching undergrads. We're not the enemy.

Happy deportation day

So relieved! And proud to have stood up. Thanks for your speech on Saturday.

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

Promisingly, the little evidence of negative effects suggests that cash transfers do not substantially damage the social fabric of recipient villages on average. However, these null findings mask some heterogeneity...
🎣 Read the paper for some additional analyses!
nber.org/papers/w31720

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.

We also administered a short survey with consumption, assets, and psychological well-being modules for parents.

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.

I also want a welcome, I got all my twitter followers through you 😂