Adrienne Lucas

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Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!

New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38!

(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)

(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨

Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.

Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!

#EconSky

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Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!

The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).

If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!

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The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography.

Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).

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I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.

Line chart titled "Figure 1. Pipeline for Departments with Doctoral Programs: Percent of Doctoral Students and Faculty Who are Women, 1994-2024" The "Full Professors (T)", green line, was about 7% in 1994 and 18% in 2024.

On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments

Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2

I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

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Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile

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Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!

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Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.

Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote!

screen shot from NBER website that contains paper title, authors, and abstract: Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra Working Paper 33798 DOI 10.3386/w33798 Issue Date May 2025 Since 1991, Chile has provided large, renewable cash grants to indigenous children in lower-income households, conditional on school enrollment. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grant exposure on indigenous adults and their children, leveraging variation in expected grant exposure across birth cohorts and never-treated adults, and using fixed effects to absorb unobserved variables shared by adults born in the same year and community. Cohorts with the greatest exposure had 0.6 more years of schooling, 10% more hours worked, and 22% higher labor earnings, reducing pre-treatment ethnic differences. Mothers’ exposure increased their children’s early-grade test scores and reduced second-generation grant receipt.

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33798

White sheet cake with pictures of Barton, Thomas, and Olga.

On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!

Honored to be part of the Advisory Board Meeting of the Tanzania Institute of Education EdLab in February. Thank you @wwhglobaled.bsky.social for featuring the meeting in today's email blast!

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Good morning DC! Great day yesterday presenting at the World Bank (thank you for the invitation #LelysDinarteDiaz !) Today, Georgetown to collaborate with @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social & #JamesHabyarimana

I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14 I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14

Hello friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department: today is I heart UD giving day. Please consider a donation to your favorite economics department (us, of course) givingday.udel.edu/amb/economics

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My dog has some thoughts.

Interesting! What term do you like better?

A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com

Welcome to #EconSky Alumudena Sevilla @almudenasevilla.bsky.social!!

Give her a follow for labor, gender, and general economist awesomeness!

.@udelaware.bsky.social #LernerCollege is hiring an Assistant Dean, Student Services, Global Programs & Partnerships. careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

Located in Newark, DE, convenient to I-95, Amtrak, & SEPTA.

Bonus: be in the same college as a really nifty economics department, chaired by me!

Been a while since we shared this!

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As federal workers and aid recipients reel, Trump’s team is unmoved “They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” a White House official said.

$500 million worth of food intended for relief efforts is at risk of spoiling, given Trump’s freeze on shipping food assistance
“They get the one starving kid in Sudan that isn’t going to have a USAID bottle, and they make everything DOGE has done about the starving kid in Sudan,” WH official said.

Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Elon says 90% of US aid never reaches communities.

He confuses USAID's 90% reliance on intermediaries -- US companies delivering HIV drugs, WFP delivering food aid -- with waste. Comical if not so dangerous.

@rachelbonnifield.bsky.social & I break down where aid goes: www.cgdev.org/blog/no-90-p...