#SocialSafetyNet interventions fight #poverty. But they also 💫 empower #women. A new study with participation of HfP Professor @jisteinert.bsky.social, based on data from over 200,000 women, finds that: Especially, unconditional 💵 cash transfers can advance #GenderEquality. 🌈 @tum.de @nature.com
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👉I was surprised to learn that birth order is a more important determinant for early-life development in Central Asia. If you work on health economics, I recommend to check this work by @jisteinert.bsky.social, Cara Ebert and Manzura Jumaniyazova:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
How can policy address #intimatepartnerviolence and why do we need better data? 💡
Join us 16 Oct, 18:00 at @hertieschool.bsky.social for a discussion with @jisteinert.bsky.social, Miriam Schroer-Hippel, Christina Boll and more! Details & registration ⬇️
🔗 www.hertie-school.org/en/events/ev...
📣Join us for this year's Early Career Workshop and Fall Meeting on Health Economics and Development Cooperation at @tum.de, hosted by @nsud.bsky.social and myself!
Please submit your paper abstracts by July 14 - more information below ⬇️
New 📝
"Empowerment Paradox? The Long-Run Impact of a Cycling Program for Girls in Zambia"👀
✍️ @garciahdezana.bsky.social Nishith Prakash, Janina Isabel Steinert
How a program empowered women & reduced violence, but paradoxically coincided with early marriage & pregnancy:
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Map of Germany with the Clusters of Excellence
The #ClustersOfExcellence have been selected: today, the Excellence Commission approved 70 projects for funding. 45 clusters will continue and 25 will be newly established. Funding starts on 1 Jan 2026 for 7 years, with €539 million per year. The full list: www.dfg.de/resource/blo... 1/3
22.05.2025 18:10 — 👍 117 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 7I am looking forward to tomorrow's 3D seminar that promises an engaging dialogue on how to protect women from violence in challenging conditions.
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Continued routine childhood vaccination at high coverage is needed to prevent resurgence of vaccine-preventable infectious diseases and their infection-related complications in the US.
ja.ma/3YeEcVv #MedSky
@jisteinert.bsky.social, Andreas Landmann, and I are organizing a Bavarian PhD Workshop in Development Economics in July! Goal is to strengthen the regional network among PhD students in Bavaria who work on DevEcon. Please spread the word and apply/drop by! :) Deadline May 4.
tinyurl.com/zzem65nx
What is needed:
➡️Increased awareness of economic abuse
➡️Gender-egalitarian legislation
➡️Culturally sensitive interventions
➡️More longitudinal research on economic abuse
Key findings:
✔️Economic abuse includes refusal to contribute financially, restricting access to shared housing, bride price and dowry-related tactics & exploitation of women’s labor
✔️Marriage practices & patrilocality are key risks
✔️Economic abuse leads to poor health & financial hardship
New paper out with the brilliant @sangeet.bsky.social: "Economic Abuse in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Scoping Review"
👉https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15248380251325194
The NIH is cancelling dozens of grants involving vaccines, including a project that studied whether the COVID vax is safe for breastfeeding mothers. mRNA vaccine research is next on the chopping block. Story @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...
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Internationaler Weltfrauentag in München ♀️💙💪
08.03.2025 13:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Some history and philosophy of science about into why this matters- traditionally medical and biological research has studied male animals much more than females. To this day there is still a skew 1
www.thetransmitter.org/policy/exclu...
❌We do not observe greater violence in states with higher mobility reductions, lower day care capacity for childcare or higher COVID-19 infection numbers
✔️But our cross-sectional household-level data suggests that home quarantine & financial distress may have been triggers of violence
@tum.de
What we find:
➡️Requests at helplines increased significantly by 34% with the first lockdown
➡️Requests at shelters increased by 14% only after the lockdown
👉This means: Women substituted ambulatory care with helpline calls during the lockdown
New paper co-authored with Dr. Cara Ebert @rwi.bsky.social: What was the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on violence against women in Germany?
We analyse longitudinal data on help requests to helplines & shelters + survey data from the first pandemic wave
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Folgen der Suspendierung von USAID: "Wir sprechen darüber, eine zweite Welle einer globalen HIV-Epidemie auszulösen, die weitgehend unter Kontrolle gebracht wurde."
www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...
Very important work on #ethics in #fieldresearch. We have to establish adequate structures and standards to ensure #equity and #safety in international research, and, importantly, we need funders to allow for, even demand these structures.
#EconSky #GlobalHealth
We propose solutions at structural, project, and individual levels to ensure staff wellbeing, improve ethical integrity, and enhance data rigour
18.02.2025 20:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Based on 57 semi-structured interviews with research staff across hierarchies (data collectors, PhD students, PIs...) and world regions, we identify structural, country, and individual-level challenges leading to ethical failures like insecurity, distress, and exploitation
18.02.2025 20:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Out today in World Development Perspectives: Our paper on #ethics & #equity failures faced by research staff collecting data in LMIC contexts
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
@tum.de @garciahdezana.bsky.social
Thrilled that our report "CONTENT WARNING: Public Attitudes on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression", launched today, has received a very warm reception by the media!
📖 Read the coverage: www.zeit.de/news/2025-02...
More info below on some of the questions we tackle 🧵👇
An estimated 300,000 people standing up for democracy in Munich today ❤️❤️❤️
08.02.2025 16:50 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
28.01.2025 15:18 — 👍 27 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 1Digitale Gewalt treibt demokratische Stimmen aus den Parlamenten. @yvonnemagwas.bsky.social ist kein Einzelfall. Wir müssen verhindern, dass nicht nur die übrig bleiben, die Hetze verbreiten. Denn Hass darf nicht regieren. Das sind unsere Forderungen: hateaid.org/hass-hetze-p...
22.01.2025 10:12 — 👍 63 🔁 24 💬 1 📌 0I knew Shakespeare would have a line for today.
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