Ha Luong

11/ A fun fact: I first met Sudhir at NEUDC 2023. After the first day of the conference, we went for drinks with other participants, and his phone ran out of battery — I lent him my charger. And just like that, our coauthorship began! We’re really glad it happened.

10/ That’s all for today — thanks for stopping by! Our draft will be ready soon. All feedback is more than welcome!

9/Our main message: Investments in higher education infrastructure can yield returns that extend well beyond
labor market outcomes.

8/Regarding social norms, the effects of college access even go beyond the household level. Women in treated districts have greater freedom 🕊️

7/The second mechanism has two parts: social norms and empowerment. We first show that women were ⬆️ likely to report that domestic violence is unjustified, they have improvements in ownership and more participation in household decision-making.

6/ Women in treated districts ⬆️ 14.7 minutes more on paid employment work, ⬆️12 minutes on own-used production and ⬇️ 13 minutes on domestic tasks

5/The next question is "Why that is the case?" We provide two sets of mechanisms:
- Changes in Women's Time Allocation
- Changes in Social norms and Empowerment

4/Using RDD, we report that the college expansion program reduced the likelihood of domestic violence by about 4 percentage points (all type of violence). Interestingly, the effect is driven by the younger cohort, who are more likely to exposed to the program.

3/We show that the program indeed increased the number of colleges in treated districts and educational attainment of women rose as a result👩‍🎓👩‍🎓👩‍🎓

2/We examine the effect of a college expansion program India since 2008. The program provided college construction grants to build new colleges in districts with lower gross enrollment ration than the national average (12.4).

1/Education fights domestic violence—but how? We know some effects of compulsory schooling, yet the impact of higher education policies remains an open question.

I am very excited to share our new working paper "College Access and Domestic Violence". This is a joint work with Sudhir Singh from University of Rochester.

To borrow another example, taken from the `dbreg` README: github.com/grantmcdermo...

Here I am running a fixed-effects regression on 180 million(!) row parquet dataset... and it completes **< 2 seconds**... on my laptop 🤯

This is powered by @duckdb.org under the hood.

#rstats #econsky

An amazing workshop by my colleague Dan Rees at UC3M and Mark Anderson at Montana State. You will learn about how to write an applied paper, publication process, etc. If you are from low income countries, you only need to pay 1$. DM me for more info & to get the discounted fee!

Salary History and Employer Demand: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit (July 2025) - We study how salary disclosures affect employer demand using a field experiment featuring hundreds of recruiters evaluating over 2,000 job applications. We randomize the presence of sala...

Some states ban employers from asking job candidates their salary history, but candidates may voluntarily disclose them. In a randomized audit study @amandayagan.bsky.social @laurakgee.bsky.social, & Bo Cowgill explored how salary disclosures affect salary offers. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

This week's cool young researcher [late, post-conference edition!] #econtwitter #econsky is @luongthuha, currently post-doc @EconomicsUc3m who works on topics related to gender, development +health

Using data on 2.5 million great-grandchildren linked to great-grandfathers (1850–1940) to find strong economic persistence across 4 generations, from Zachary Ward, @kaseybuckles.bsky.social, and Joseph Price https://www.nber.org/papers/w33923

To help researchers navigate social desirability bias, this study assesses commonly-used approaches and offers practical guidance on selecting the most suitable tools for different contexts, from Bursztyn, Haaland, Röver, and Roth https://www.nber.org/papers/w33920

I have loved math since I was a child, but it was not until I started teaching that I realized how challenging—and rewarding—it can be. I'm glad that some students have found it helpful along the way.

🚨New @nber.org WP🚨
We use data on 42,000 households in #India to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As #farmers move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

@luongthuha presents a fascinating pattern that the Juntos cash transfer program in Peru is associated with shifts in gender attitudes toward traditional gender norms, seemingly driven by maternal time allocation

Carlitos is making us believe that we should never ever give up. Vamos Carlitos 🇪🇸

An exciting lecture of @pedrosantanna.bsky.social in Madrid this morning, and we indeed are living in a fascinating time of DiD!

The #MeToo movement led to a 10% jump in sex crime reports and the effect lasted over 2 years.

✅ More reporting
✅ More arrests
❌ Not just more crimes
✅ Impact across race & income

Social movements can change high-stakes behavior.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Why do dictators target the socially isolated?

📢 New theory by @ksonin.bsky.social:
Propaganda works best when people are either totally atomized or tightly unified rather than in between.

🎯 Optimal strategy? Don’t focus on influencers. Target the fringes of the network.

In a new WP @pietrobiroli.bsky.social and coauthors combine an 🍕 time use survey with questions on

1. who is responsible for the organisation of household tasks

Answer: women

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#EconSky

📚 #PhD Thesis "Essays on Gender Economics" defended by our #alumni Ha Luong on June 17, 2024, is available: https://f.mtr.cool/jqigknrnoq

(Advisors: @juditvall.bsky.social| Lídia Farré).

#EconSky #Economics #Research

Having a great day @uc3meconomics.bsky.social with @danielasola.bsky.social @luongthuha gorgeous day to talk economics with these smart people in Madrid

It was a great pleasure to meet you and learn about your interesting research. We wish to see you very soon!!