Elisabetta Aurino

go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ thanks @jfledderjohann.bsky.social to compile this starting pack on #FoodSecurity amd #Nutrition! Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in joining the conversation! 👇🏾

What an issue!!! So proud of my @ubeconomics.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social colleagues @matteogamalerio.bsky.social and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela that stroke not one, but TWO articles in this month issue of AEJ:Policy!! 😻

I had the chance to join the wonderful “Teachers’ voices” @boldinsights.bsky.social, my very first podcast!!

Grateful for the chance to talk about parental education engagement and add my “researcher voice” to the ones of teachers from around the 🌍

Listen here 👇🏾

Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓

Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1...
@poverty-action.bsky.social

After the US, basic science is in danger also in the EU! Let’s raise our voices to protect the autonomy and independence of the @erc.europa.eu! Read our statement below 👇🏾

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Thanks Kari! I did not know gps and shapefiles were available too - what an awesome website!!! 🙏🏽

A line graph showing the number of countries where smallpox was endemic from 1920 to 1980. There are five colored lines representing different regions: Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania. The y-axis indicates the number of countries, ranging from 0 to 50, while the x-axis marks the years from 1920 to 1980. Each region's line trends downward, reflecting a decline in endemic countries over the years. Significant events are marked with dashed vertical lines: in 1959, the WHO resolved to aim for eradication; in 1967, an intensified eradication campaign began; 1977 marks the last recorded case; and in 1980, smallpox was declared eradicated. A note at the bottom specifies that the precise year of elimination in Oceania is only known for Australia (1917) and New Zealand (1914). Additionally, data sources are cited as Fenner, Henderson, Arita, Jezek, and Ladnyi (1988) and the graph is attributed to Saloni Dattani, licensed under CC-BY. The source of the data is Our World in Data, which focuses on research and measures against global issues.

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵

This post estimates that proposed USAID cuts will cost almost a million lives
www.cgdev.org/blog/millio...

Has anyone archived all the materials that were previously in the DHS website?

Right! That would be great, actually. We should do it if no-one has done it!!

Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social comentamos nuestro estudio con @juditvall.bsky.social y Caoimhe T Rice sobre cómo el acceso a la sanidad pública influye en las denuncias por violencia de género:

You mean Ipums? They have a lot of dhs data there, but i think not full datasets

What happens when countries do NOT invest in #EarlyChildhood 🐣?

New paper modeling COSTS OF INACTION:
-NOT preventing #malnutrition in countries with high stunting costs 2.8% GDP
-NOT running universal #pre-school across Sub-Saharan Africa costs 1.6%GDP

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

Call for applications to Spande workshop

Apply to this year’s #SPANDE #development economics workshop by June 15! Great, fun and supportive community - this year we are partnering with @fundacionareces.bsky.social which is kindly hosting us in Madrid!! #econsky

Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Great resource to get a quick overview of new paper/stuff going on in #econsky!!!
Thanks @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social to put together this fantastic newsletter!!

I am excited to have joined this unique community of European scientists!

Together we can make our voice of researchers heard - which now is more important than ever!!

If you have @erc.europa.eu funding, consider joining us, and EVERYONE - stay tuned @ercgrantees.bsky.social
for activities 👇🏾

And check out our keynote speakers: Bishnupriya Gupta (Warwick), @climent.bsky.social (Exeter) and Christine Valente (Bristol).

3rd Workshop on Gender Issues and Development
📅 3-4 November 2025
📍University of Reading

Submit your paper by July, 2 here: shorturl.at/mUhPs

📣 Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES.

Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (Université de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB)

📅 15-17 September 2025
📍 Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy

Apply by 31 May 2025
Link: shorturl.at/unDqU

💬 Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow @bettaaurino.bsky.social shares how school meals and parenting programs are helping children thrive in Ghana and Mali.

Read the full interview on @boldinsights.bsky.social 🔗 boldscience.org/the-economis...

#Education #BOLD #Ghana #Mali

Molta il-lusio per aquest grup i per la candidatura de @juditvall.bsky.social com a degana de la nostra facultat!!

Massive, Unarchivable Datasets of Cancer, Covid, and Alzheimer's Research Could Be Lost Forever Days before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that 10,000 HHS staffers would lose their jobs, a message appeared on NIH research repository sites saying they were "under review."

Another @404media.co article on #DataRescue. This one concerns the challenges around restricted access data (often human subjects data). We at DRP are seriously concerned about these datasets and the loss that will impact research and more for a long time.

www.404media.co/nih-archives...

Interesting workshop @idos-research.bsky.social for
those working on social protection and climate change!

www.idos-research.de/en/events/de...

Thanks for the opportunity @boldinsights.bsky.social for this interview, it was so much fun. Hope readers will enjoy it too! ☺️

And for a school-meal nerd like me, I could not have imagined a better drawing to go with the article! 😍🙏🏽

Congrats Abhinav!!! 🎉🎉🎉

🎉 New paper out! 🎉

Economists are increasingly using measures of child social-emotional skills validated in high-income settings for research in LMICs.
But do these really capture what we expect in these settings?

We find that the widely used SDQ in Ghana measures different, unexpected skills👇🏾

We are still looking for a #postdoc!

Our ideal candidate should have training or experience in structural models and/or modeling skills - knowledge of the relevant lit is a plus. Please do send me a motivation letter, writing sample, and CV.

Please help us sharing widely #econJM #econsky 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Looking forward to tomorrow’s panel with @leecrawfurd.bsky.social on the role of #EdTech in supporting child learning during crises (including funding cuts!).

Thanks #EdTechHub for inviting - here’s registration link: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This is a paper that improved so much thanks to the peer review process. A big shout out to the reviewer and the editor Nishith Prakash for the amazing feedback!