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A real break next week, but we’ll go toward snow!
☺️ thank you. I’ll do my best to keep not keeping my mouth shut ever! 😉
🔥Double celebrations this week🔥
Our new JDE publication and the notification of my promotion to FULL professor of economics!
Updating my CV 👇
We are not OK 😢
Our findings 20 years post conflict: Childhood trauma from conflict has lasting psychological and social effects that may be missed by standard economic measures.
📣 Child abductions are still tragically commonplace in conflicts around the worldtoday.
cgdev.org/publication/ch…
📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up.
Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...
@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky
As my sabbatical visit to BU ends, I say goodbye to all the wonderful Boston-based people who have welcome me.
Ending the semester with a classic:
#selfiewithsue
@dynarski.bsky.social
Community college enrollment has been declining since 2009/10. The optimal policy response to this depends on the root of this decline.
I'm thrilled @nber.org today released my working paper with Harvard PhD Joe Winkelmann titled:
"Labor Market Strength and Declining Community College Enrollment"
Tight labor markets in the last decade reduced US community college enrollment.
Super interesting pic here showing just how countercyclical community college enrollment is (as compared to basically non-cyclical 4 year college enrollment)
From @joshua-goodman.com & Winkelman new NBER WP
Y’all, this CSWEP newsletter is a banger. Five women economists generously share their stories about navigating family and career. 🔥 @jialanw.bsky.social @kmpjones.bsky.social Sarah Hamersma, Kosali Simon, and Sarah Baird. It was an honor to "edit" (which mostly involved sitting back for good reads)
Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of:
1) cash only
2) cash+group life-skill training
3) cash+group mental health counseling
W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social
Thanks @daveevansphd.bsky.social !
The most challenging fieldwork, but such important (and sad) findings.
Plugging @mirandainez.bsky.social who has done more work on men & women who were abducted as children. She studies how this childhood trauma impacts IPV later in life #econjobmarket
What's the long-term impact of being abducted during an armed conflict? editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... In Uganda, 20 years after the conflict: "Formerly abducted women still exhibit significantly higher rates of depression and perceived stress, heightened stress responses..."
Mechanisms?
@mirandainez collected original data & conducted lab-in-the-field experiments:
‼️Poor mental health of abducted women ⬆️ victimization
‼️Low social status associated w/ abduction ⬆️
‼️Shared history of trauma ⬆️ empathy & ⬇️ violence
Interested?
Interview her!
(Fin)
🚨Some of @mirandainez’s most striking findings are:
1) Women who were abducted as children are between 50 and 100% more likely to be victims of severe violence
2) Having a spouse who shares the abduction trauma mitigates the risk of severe violence
Why? [3/n]
As many boys & girls were abducted in Uganda in the 80s and 90s but later returned, @mirandainez is able to look at how own & partner’s trauma interact in determining IPV.
Through fieldwork in a very difficult setting she studies married abducted/not-abducted men & women.[2/n]