Fatima Najeeb

Thanks so much ‪@gabriconti.bsky.social‬! Very excited to start this new chapter 😄

📢I am v happy to share that Fatima Najeeb has joined the G-Lab @ucleconomics.bsky.social as Research Fellow from @univofmaryland.bsky.social!

🔴She will work w/ me & E. Del Bono ‪on the @nuffieldfoundation.org project "#Menopause, #HRT & Women Well-Being"

Warm Welcome @fnajeeb.bsky.social! 🥳

Improved daily PM2.5 estimates in India reveal inequalities in recent enhancement of air quality Developed PM2.5 estimates unveiled inequalities in PM2.5 exposure, emphasizing need for equitable air quality control policies.

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. www.science.org/doi/full/10....

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This is really good work.

Thank you so much for your kind words and interest!! 🙏

Best of #econtwitter - JMPs 2024 special edition, part three If your thread (or your student’s, or your colleague’s) is missing below, submissions are as always extremely welcome.

Best of #econtwitter & #econsky - JMPs 2024 special edition, part three

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Check out my blog on my #JMP, now live on @econthatmatters.bsky.social! #econsky #devecon #envecon #climatechange

Floods hit some parts of the world harder than others. 🌍

My #EconJMP uncovers how floods change resource sharing within households in one of the most flood-prone countries in the world. 🌊📊

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Foreign students in US 'worried' about Trump immigration crackdown Top colleges have issued travel advisories urging students and staff to return to the US before inauguration day.

Catch me here talking about international students concerns over upcoming changes to immigration policy

(I also talked a little about my university’s lack of response so far to reassure students but that didn’t make it in.)

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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

Thank you for the kind words and support, Cory! I'm excited to share this work #EconSky

I often show my students this visualization of how atmospheric CO₂ travels around the globe. Our attitude toward burning fossil fuels would change significantly if we could actually see CO₂.

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For more, read my paper: www.fatimanajeeb.com/research

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Policy takeaway:
🌾 Climate adaptation must address intra-household inequalities.
👩‍🌾 Supporting diverse, resilient income opportunities for women is key to reducing vulnerability in future climate shocks.

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The link between women’s declining earnings and resource shares is clear: As women’s relative earnings fall, so does their share of household resources. Addressing this is critical for reducing vulnerabilities.

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What drives this?
Post-flood, women’s relative earnings decline by 4.5 pp within 6 months, narrowing after 4 years but not always fully recovering. Limited job flexibility for women—compared to men who transition to day labor—exacerbates the inequality.

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The material impact? After 4 years, women in flooded households have an individual-level budget of $4.7/day, compared to $7.9/day for men.
For context, the extreme poverty line is $2.15/day. These shifts push women closer to this poverty threshold while men move further from it.

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Intrahousehold gender inequalities increase with the number of floods experienced.

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Floods trigger a redistribution of household resources:
🌊Women lose ~9 pp of their resource share (compared to women in unaffected households), while men gain ~11 pp within 6 months.
🌊These shifts persist: ~7 pp lower for women & ~12 pp higher for men even 4 years later.

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Here’s the setup:
🌊Data: Household surveys (2011, 2015, 2018) + satellite-based flood data.
🌊Design: Villages with similar flood risk, differing in flood timing and exposure.
🌊Focus: Immediate (6 months post-flood) & longer-term (4 years) impacts.

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Key questions:
1️⃣ Do floods shift resources away from women (and children) towards men?
2️⃣ How persistent are these effects?
To answer, I combine structural estimation of resource shares with quasi-experimental variation in flood exposure.

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I use “resource shares”—the fraction of total household spending allocated to each member—to capture individual well-being.

Since consumption is measured typically at the household level, resource shares are not directly observed and are structurally estimated.

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I investigate how exposure to floods affects the material well-being of men, women, and children living under the same roof in the rural Bangladeshi context, revealing who bears the brunt of climate shocks.

1/ How do climate shocks reshape lives inside households? 🏠🌍
My #EconJMP explores how climate shocks can change the way household members share resources, deepening intrahousehold inequalities. This has important implications for climate resilience and policy design. #EconSky

Come Together: Employment Decisions and Joint Commuting in Urban Côte d’Ivoire: Guest Post by Flo... The next in our job market series looks at whether workers are more willing to take a job if they can commute with a friend.

Today's job market post by @floriangrosset.bsky.social conducts two experiments in Cote d'Ivoire to show how job take-up and retention is much higher when workers get offered a job with a friend with whom they can commute to work together blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...