Magdalena Larreboure
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Magdalena Larreboure
@mlarreboure.bsky.social
Ph.D student in Public Policy at Harvard

www.mlarreboure.com
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.
June 5, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Happy deportation day
April 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So relieved! And proud to have stood up. Thanks for your speech on Saturday.
April 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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
December 3, 2024 at 8:03 PM
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
Cash Transfers and Social Preferences of Children
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
nber.org
September 30, 2023 at 4:51 PM
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.
September 30, 2023 at 4:50 PM
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.
September 30, 2023 at 4:49 PM
We also administered a short survey with consumption, assets, and psychological well-being modules for parents.
September 30, 2023 at 4:48 PM
The tokens each child earned across one round of all games were exchangeable for prizes that were assigned different token values.
September 30, 2023 at 4:48 PM
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.
September 30, 2023 at 4:47 PM
I also want a welcome, I got all my twitter followers through you 😂
September 25, 2023 at 4:37 PM