Mariacristina De Nardi

🇬🇧A month in London-a great time to reflect & recharge. B4 things ramp up again, a quick recap of May–June

1️⃣ @cesifo.org Area Conference Labor Economics

2️⃣ @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Applied Workshops

3️⃣ @rfberlin.bsky.social Workshop Economics of Aging

4️⃣ Workshop Economics of Risky Behavior

Call for papers

I am grateful to Ed for his mentorship and to SAET for inviting me to give this lecture.

Thank you, Christian — to both you and Jerome Adda — for a fantastic conference and the honor of being a plenary speaker alongside Joseph Hotz. The event was both productive and enjoyable, and your Berlin initiative is truly inspiring!

We are kicking off the RFBerlin Workshop on the Economics of Aging with @mdenardi.bsky.social’s keynote lecture on “Health Inequality and Economic Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Gender”.

Exploring why households work and save. Bequest motives and risks in wages, medical expenses, and marital dynamics explain 56.9 percent of aggregate wealth and 2.7 percent of aggregate earnings, from Borella, @mdenardi.bsky.social, Yang, and Torres Chain https://www.nber.org/papers/w33874

Gene x Environment Interactions: Polygenic Scores and the Impact of an Early Childhood Intervention in Colombia Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

HCEO member @gabriconti.bsky.social's paper on how the impact of an early childhood intervention differs with educational attainment polygenic score is now out in @NBER working papers. www.nber.org/papers/w33781

I learned a lot from this conference and it was fun too!

Good morning, #PAA2025! Come see us in the Expo Hall at Booth 404 where study staff will be able to help you with your #PSIDdata questions!

Hard endorse

Colonoscopy and faecal occult blood tests are equivalent in detecting colorectal cancer Researchers at IDIBAPS-Hospital Clínic and Hospital Universitario de Canarias have coordinated a study involving 57,000 people that compares the effectiveness of the two main strategies for screening ...

www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/news/colo...

What a great visit and seminar feedback! Thank you very much for inviting me!

The White House war on federal statistics Economists and scientists worry over disappearing data and advisory groups

Good to see the FT editorial draw attention to this less well known casualty of the US regime - official statistics
on.ft.com/43Tejhn

C'mon, Iowa!

THE COST OF TRADE DISRUPTIONS AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT We study trade disruptions at different stages of development in a two-country, three-sector model of Spain and United Kingdom from 1850 to 2000. The impact of trade disruptions depends on trade open...

Guys, a trade collapse today vs the 1930s. We already know the (ugly) answer:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

A national cryptocurrency reserve is a scam. It is simply an attempt by those who own cryptocurrency to trade it for US dollars or gold from the Treasury. The federal government will be left holding this bag of hazardous waste.

Integrating the environmental and genetic architectures of aging and mortality - Nature Medicine Based on a systematic analysis of environmental exposures associated with aging and mortality in the UK Biobank, the relative contributions of such exposures and genetic risk for mortality and a range...

Our lifestyle and environmental exposures are the predominant influencers of healthy aging and premature mortality, compared with polygenic risk, in the first comprehensive assessment
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
open-access

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

What Europe should do RIGHT NOW: Make it extremely easy for US scientists to get long-term visa, create as many additional research jobs in key areas as possible, create new, generous science and research funds. People are losing their jobs over there NOW. Let‘s welcome them.

Congratulations!

Indeed.

Some data on the responses to my post on my recent JPE acceptance on the platforms I frequent

X: 18 repost, 86 likes (8,117 followers)
Blue sky: 0 repost, 10 likes (3.2k followers)
LinkedIn: 1 repost, 100 likes (1177 connections)
Facebook: 0 reposts, 39 likes (636 friends)

@mcgeeconomics

As a result, bequest motives are a key determinant of aggregate retirement wealth.

We show that saving motives vary by marital status, permanent income, and age. We find that most households save more for medical expenses than for bequests but that richer households and couples, who hold most of the wealth, save more for bequests.

We estimate a model of savings for retired couples and singles who face longevity and medical expense risks and in which couples can leave bequests both when the first spouse dies and when the last spouse dies.

Finally coming out in the JPE:

Why Do Couples and Singles Save during Retirement? Household Heterogeneity and Its Aggregate Implications

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Call for papers for the Essen Health Conference 2025. The Conference will be held from 29-31 May 2025 in Essen, Germany. The conference accepts submissions on themes of Health, Education and Labour. Keynote speakers - Farzana Afridi (Indian Statistical Institute), Mariacristina De Nardi (University of Minnesota), and Uwe Sunde (University of Munich). Submit your full papers by 31 January 2025 to contact.conference@ibes.uni-due.de More information is available at udue.de/ehc25

Friendly Reminder! 🚨6 days left to apply for the Essen Health Conference 2025 ⏰
Submit your work in fields of health, labour or education by 31 January!

Find all information about the conference at: udue.de/ehc25

Checkout this great summary of Nicolò Russo, @mcgeeconomics.bsky.social , @mdenardi.bsky.social , Margherita Borella, and Ross Abram in the @nberpubs.bsky.social bulletin

Full text👉https://www.nber.org/brd

We also have lots of results for Hispanic individuals and by gender! 4/4