Johannes Haushofer

We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)

We are adding a Chief Investment Officer to the team of @malengo.org. Please share widely!

1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown.

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Gordon Brown!

🎉 Our paper “Asylum Seekers and Host Country Mental Health” is accepted at JDE!

Using data from Germany & Switzerland (2010–2016), we find no evidence that asylum inflows harmed host population mental health.

With Bharadwaj, Khoury & Schmid
#Migration #MentalHealth #Economics

Y’all, I wrote a book!

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🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook!
You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients.

📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille.

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hahaha! Yes the descent was really quite something!

Tomaselli! A favorite

Dolomites, no contest

In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.

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Agree! “O RLY^?”

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?

The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)

Why?

Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brain drain or brain gain? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries How does emigration of highly educated citizens of low-income countries to high-income countries affect the economies of the origin countries? The direct effect is “brain drain”—a decrease in the coun...

Great new @science.org article by the rockstars of development economics looks at the evidence on the impact of skilled emigration on origin countries. TL;DR, it can be positive, but we need a *lot* more work in this area!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions.

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Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions.

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Lisa Haushofer’s @haushoferl.bsky.social Wonder Foods: The Science & Commerce of Nutrition ( @ucpress.bsky.social , 2022) was a surprise hit. I kept ignoring it because it seemed too historical. But then I actually read it. And it is so good! It was a great companion read to From Label to Table.

Alles Gute Dir und Deiner Familie!

#Wilmasreview

Wilma 🐶 enjoys a walk with her basset hound friend from abroad. This made her think about movement across boarders-international labor migration. Researchers reviewed evidence whether skilled people leaving their home countries creates "brain drain" or "brain gain". The results:
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Thread on a speech I gave at the Oxford Martin School last week: The Crisis of Climate and Development Finance.

The public sector is cutting aid, the private sector isn't going to deliver, and mitigation finance is eating adaptation and development finance. What to do?

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📢 New Publication in @science.org!

"Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Effects of High-Skilled International Emigration on Origin Countries"

Read our summary thread below!

🔗 Read the full article here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? A new review highlights what we’ve learned and what we still don’t know

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Question for the experts: "consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor ... visa appointment capacity" reads like a restriction on *additional* capacity *beyond existing* capacity? So there is still a certain number of slots each day, that number just won't increase?

Therapy, Mental Health, and Human Capital Accumulation among Adolescents in Uganda Using a cluster-randomized trial, this paper evaluates the impact of group-based interpersonal therapy on mental health and human capital accumulation among adolescent .

Link to the paper: documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Can group therapy improve mental health among adolescent girls in Uganda? A group therapy programme only reduced depression rates among adolescent girls in Uganda in the short-term. Adding a cash transfer to the programme backfired, likely due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a...

🆕 Can group therapy improve mental health among adolescent girls in Uganda?

Today on VoxDev w/ Luca Parisotto (Università Bocconi), Sarah Baird (GWU), Berk Özler (World Bank), Chiara Dell’Aira (World Bank) & Danish Us-Salam (Central Bank of Ireland): voxdev.org/topic/health...

In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste Scientific Reports - In-store food promotions increase sales as well as household food waste

Our publication on how multi-buy offers increase unplanned overbuying and how this can increase food waste at home is out and open-access! This was probably one of the most complicated field experiments I ever ran, but also one I am very proud of: rdcu.be/enmFi

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

Thank you!!

Fantastic coauthors: @catiabatista.bsky.social @danielhan.bsky.social @econgaurav.bsky.social @dmckenzie.bsky.social @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social #CarolineTheoharides @deanyang.bsky.social