Frank Schilbach

“We commend her fearlessness, leadership, and commitment to understanding what is lost and what is gained for everyone when opportunities for women contract or expand.”
#econsky #academicsky #history #economichistory
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In an Indian college, 56% screen for depression/anxiety yet only 3% use free therapy. In an RCT, incentives boost take-up and screening improves targeting. A combination does both, from Breza, Carney, Raghavan, Rajah, Rangaswamy, Rao, Schilbach, Shadbar, and Stratton www.nber.org/papers/w34819

New research on postpartum depression as a mechanism of the motherhood penalty (i.e., mothers' reduced lifetime earnings) in Denmark

"The penalties are concentrated among less educated mothers and those in less family-friendly jobs."

(Application to the US is left as an exercise for the reader)

Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!

#econsky et al. I am happy to announce the #call_for_papers for the 2026 Economics of Mental Health Workshop!
The workshop is hosted by @peibich.bsky.social at Paris Dauphine and takes place from June 22-23. They keynotes are @jcmecon.bsky.social & Marco Bertoni. 1/n

Excellent full time research assistant position in India with @jainr.bsky.social from @econ.uzh.ch.

This is a field-based, travel-intensive role rather than desk-based research. Application details: lnkd.in/e_YzfZEt

What would it cost to end extreme poverty?

"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."

"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

Terrific job market paper by our student Kailash Rajah on how husbands‘ jealousy restricts women’s work opportunities in India

🔥Very cool paper showing that women in India are way more likely to take up a job (↑29%) in a female-only workplace, and that this can be explained by husbands' jealousy/desire for control. These are massive effects, equivalent to 2.5x increases in wage

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📆 2 December @ 16:00 CET
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD series comes to a close with @fschilbach.bsky.social presenting "Not Learning from Others and Learning in the Household"
Moderator: Suanna Oh @pse.bsky.social
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#EconSky

Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?* Abstract. Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase produc

As this govt shutdown continues and many federal workers are forced to work without pay, I’m thinking about this paper by Kaur et al (2024)

When workers feel financial pressure at home, their decisions in the workplace take a hit

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What are the best practices for ensuring subject comprehension in lab or field experiments? Can you recommend any research papers or guides? #econsky

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...

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.

There's still time to sign! And please share.

#EconSky

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A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash

Great NYT write up of our new results on child mortality and cash transfers in Kenya:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...

Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing.

Read today's article to learn more:

Excited that Tufts is hosting NEUDC this fall!

Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.

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Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare*

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare,” by Finkelstein, Notowidigdo (@profnoto.bsky.social), Schilbach, and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Do recessions reduce mortality?

Very excited about this @econimate.bsky.social video on our paper!

Do recessions impact mortality?

Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:

youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g

I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu

In "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation," we study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation, applied to a case study about automakers and diesel vehicle emissions. With Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert.
@reveconstudies.bsky.social

🚨 Attention for those who had USAID funding terminated....

Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."

Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:

Thank you to @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, @justsand.bsky.social and others @cgdev.org whose careful data work underpins this important and devastating article by @nickkristof.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. A great eg of combining data with the human face of that data.

This is very important. If you’re still out there saying that they’re coming after X, Y or Z “because of woke”, then you’re part of the problem.

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Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!