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Demand for ‘safe space’: How women-only transit cars reduced harassment while reinforcing harmful gender norms in Brazil Women-only spaces offer a quick fix for those facing higher risk of harassment but reflect and may reinforce the idea that women are responsible for preventing their own victimisation.

🆕 Demand for ‘safe space’: How women-only transit cars reduced harassment while reinforcing harmful gender norms in Brazil

@fkondylis.bsky.social (World Bank), Arianna Legovini, @katevyborny.bsky.social‬, Astrid Zwager & Luiza Andrade (@devinnovationlab.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/infras...

Climate is changing much more quickly than forest ecosystems are able to respond and adapt.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How do firms adjust prices in response to tariffs? Evidence from Mexico Evidence on the impact of NAFTA in Mexico shows that Mexican consumers benefited through lower prices, while Mexican producers benefited from larger profit margins due to lower input prices and higher...

🆕 How do firms adjust prices in response to tariffs? Evidence from Mexico

Today on VoxDev, Felipe Brugués (ITAM), Ken Kikkawa (UBC), Yuan Mei (SMU) & Pablo Robles (Brattle) outline evidence on the impact of NAFTA in Mexico: voxdev.org/topic/trade/...

Want to track #grocery price trends?

Did you know you can find average price data in FRED—from the cost of chicken breasts and ground beef, to bread and soft drinks? Check those prices and more: ow.ly/VSoM50W7TTx

How will climate change shape land markets and farm sizes in the developing world? Evidence from Colombia shows that weather shocks induce a fragmentation of the farm-size distribution and exacerbate the prevalence of small farms in an economy, shedding light on how climate change m...

🆕 How will climate change shape land markets and farm sizes in the developing world?

Today on VoxDev w/ Julian Arteaga (IDB), Nicolás de Roux (Universidad de los Andes), Margarita Gáfaro (Banco de la República) & Heitor S. Pellegrina (University of Notre Dame): voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

🆕 Critical Minerals & Economic Development in Africa: Webinar w/ @theigc.bsky.social

Colin Buckley @britishintinv.bsky.social, Paul Collier @blavatnikschool.bsky.social, Kusobile Kamwambi, Marit Kitaw & Zainab Usman @carnegieendowment.org join Shah Wani.

Register ➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

From heroin to avocados: How fentanyl reshaped cartel violence in Mexico As demand for heroin decreases in the US—driven by the growing dominance of synthetic opioids—drug cartels have pivoted to an unexpected but profitable venture: avocados. This has increased violence d...

🆕 From heroin to avocados: How fentanyl reshaped cartel violence in Mexico

Today on VoxDev, Itzel De Haro outlines how drug cartels have pivoted given the growing dominance of synthetic opioids in the US: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Woke up to find an email informing me that our paper (me and @timurnatkhov.bsky.social ) on Russian Serfdom was accepted by the Review of Economic Studies! Link to paper: www.andreamatranga.net/uploads/1/5/...

From parenthood to planet care? The evolution of environmental and climate concerns during family formation - Population and Environment We examine the effect of childbirth on parents’ environmental and climate concerns, focusing on potentially dynamic changes in concerns within a time span of 2 years before and up to 10 years after bi...

Right on time for #WorldEnvironmentDay🌍:
Does having a child make parents care more about the planet?

Together with @guzoch.bsky.social, I found: not always—and not in the same way for everyone.

📄 New study in Population and Environment:
doi.org/10.1007/s111...
#ClimateChange #Parenting #Sociology

I read *a lot* of scientific abstracts that are missing key elements.

Here are the 5 things an abstract needs:

1. Introduce the topic,
2. State the unknown,
3. Outline the method used to answer the question,
4. Preview the findings, and
5. Tell us what your work teaches us.

Hurricane season has started. Here's what to know The 2025 hurricane season officially began on Sunday. Forecasters are predicting an active season.

The 2025 hurricane season officially began on Sunday. Forecasters are predicting an active season. By @shannonbond.bsky.social

How are conflict events (left) associated with the presence of multinational enterprises (right) in Africa?

Read today's article to learn more:

New study: The relative wage premium for going to college has halved for low-income Americans since 1960.

What is to blame? Rising selectivity? Tuition hikes? State disinvestment? We decompose changes in the premium since 1900 to find out.

🧵#EconTwitter nber.org/papers/w33797

timeless

10 Things to Know About Cluster Randomization
buff.ly/ZILyvD2 #EGAPMethodsGuide

Joint species distribution modelling of multiple taxonomic groups shows that water quality explains most of the variation in aquatic community composition along a lake trophic gradient - Aquatic Ecolo... A key component of conservation biology is understanding how community composition responds to environmental conditions, including stressors (e.g., eutrophication). However, this is complicated by the...

NEW PAPER: Joint species distribution modelling of multiple taxonomic groups shows that water quality explains most of the variation in aquatic community composition along a lake trophic gradient doi.org/10.1007/s104....

#AcademicSci 🧪

Next month: the 7th Migration & Organizations Research Conference, by @columbiabusiness.bsky.social and @upenn.edu Wharton

It is *the* consistently excellent forum for research at the intersection of international mobility & organizations

—> business.columbia.edu/socialenterp... #EconConf #EconSky

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics!

🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school

📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley

w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

Men who reject gender equality are more likely to commit intimate partner violence Men with more traditional, gender-inequitable beliefs were over twice as likely to report committing intimate partner violence, according to a new study.

"Approximately 1 in every 50 adult men reported committing intimate partner violence in the past year.

Among men who reported intimate partner violence, more than 60% agreed with gender-inequitable statements."

www.psypost.org/men-who-reje...

Why do policymakers choose education reforms that aren’t supported by evidence?

How can researchers work with them to implement interventions with better outcomes?

Stefan Dercon explores these thorny questions faced by education researchers & stakeholders worldwide ⤵️

Climate adaptation in Bangladesh How will climate change impact Bangladesh? How should policymakers respond to the growing threats of climate change? What are key priorities for climate change adaptation in Bangladesh?

🆕 Climate adaptation in Bangladesh

Today on VoxDev, Nusrat Jahan (BIGD, BRAC) looks at how the evidence from our VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation applies to Bangladesh, highlighting policy priorities for a country facing some of the worst impacts of climate change: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 17/04/2025 This week we featured research on global poverty, carbon offsets, corruption, patents and more...

This week we featured research on global poverty, carbon offsets, corruption, patents and more...

Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...

Important null results in development economics Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

Important null results in development economics

Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

I've highlighted some key examples we have featured on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/import...

This week in development economics at VoxDev: 11/04/2025 This week we featured research on tariffs, cash, impact, nulls, refugees and more...

This week we featured research on tariffs, cash, impact, nulls, refugees and more...

Read a summary of this work here: voxdev.org/topic/week-d...

A photo of a bunch of Nike shoes.

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?

Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

Check out our summary of our “Informational Boundaries of the State” paper!

Turning idle textbooks into learning gains in fragile states Can taking textbooks home improve student learning when resources are highly constrained? New research from fragile areas in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suggests it can.

🆕 Turning idle textbooks into learning gains in fragile states

Today on VoxDev, Jean-Benoît Falisse (University of Edinburgh), Marieke Huysentruyt (HEC Paris) & Anders Olofsgård (Stockholm School of Economics) outline research on the Democratic Republic of Congo: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Exclusive – Joseph Kabila vows to return to the DRC “without delay” - The Africa Report.com In a letter seen by Jeune Afrique, the former Congolese president – absent from the DRC since December 2023 – says he is preparing to come back “by way of the east.”

Former DRC president Joseph Kabila absent from the Congo since December 2023 – says he is preparing to come back “by way of the east.”

Peru's rapid rise as the world’s leading blueberry exporter A global trade success story.

🔵 🌎 Peru’s rapid rise as the world’s leading blueberry exporter

🆕 #blog by Valeria Piñeiro, Yostina Girgies, Fernando Martín, Juan Pablo Gianatiempo, and Joe Glauber.

🖱️ Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/3EcMvds

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🌍 Don’t miss this #CGIARScienceWeek Science Talk:

📌 Science and Innovation for Resilient Food Systems in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Settings

📅 8-10 am EAT

🗨️ IFPRI Speaker’s include @jo-swinnen.bsky.social
@kkosec.bsky.social Kibrom Abay, and Yanyan Liu.

🖱️ on.cgiar.org/422ka2D

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