Jessica Leight

Güneş A. Aşık Link to my CV

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And another brand-new paper w/ a large team incl my coauthor Bilge Erten and @Erdal_Tekin_
shows that violence prevention centers opening in Turkey ⬇️ female homicides and women's exposure to physical IPV
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NBER WP joint w/Mocan shows that entry into (and exit from) the Istanbul convention around VAW by Turkey leads to corresponding effects (⬇️, then ⬆️) in female homicides
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Another paper joint w/@efsannas finds *large* (80% + ) reductions in the probability of femicides in Turkey during the period of social distancing, seemingly driven by curfews
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Evidence shows that retirement benefits available for super-early retirement (in '40s) ⬇️ LFP, with accompanying transitions into informality
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One published paper joint w/@AtaySalim @SemihTumen uses comprehensive data from Turkey + a regression discontinuity design to examine the effects of graduating with honors on the wages of economic graduates: finds significant positive effects for men, but no effects for women
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Gunes Asik @METU_ODTU who works on topics including gender and labor, particularly in Turkey

There are certainly various mechanisms of free access + if you really want a NBER WP, you can certainly get it! But the casual browser [me] probably won't bother and thus will just not read the paper if it's not accessibly posted

Your regular reminder: NBER WPs are also not open access (any more than a published journal article is).
Still very useful to put a non-paywalled version on your website

Using claude code to clean up outdated project directories + replace all project files: 10/10, definitely recommend.

Makes one of the most miserable coding/project management tasks easy + palatable

Only thing better than 2.5 snow days with one parent on a business trip?
2.5 snow days, down one parent, everyone has the stomach flu!

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives - The Atlantic The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Hard to forget about this, no matter how many extra papers I can write (or not write), or what happens to my job

Amongst all the AI excitement, hype, or anxiety let's not lose sight of what's [still] happening for the poorest people in the world: the U.S. just cut all aid (even life-saving aid) for nine particularly poor countries, incl Somalia - currently at risk of tipping over into famine

Olle Hammar I am an assistant professor at the Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnaeus University and researcher at the Center for Migration and Integration Research at Stockholm School of Economics. I am also affiliated with IFFS, I4R, IZA@LISER, IFN, RFBerlin and UIL. Previously postdoctoral

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He has also made notable contributions to the replication agenda, co-authoring comments identifying severe irregularities in a number of trials conducted in Bangladesh; and a participant in a major cross-study replication that finds robustness reproducibility of about 70%
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Another paper exploring global trends in inequality 1970-2018 finds notable ⬇️, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s: global Gini drops by 15 points + earnings share of world's poorest half doubles, joint w/@daniwaldenstrom
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Another interesting paper explores the number of people who want to leave Ukraine + the impact of refugee policies at the destination on the distribution of Ukrainian refugees, joint w/@ElinderMikael
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joint w/@mkaradja @akib_kn
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One trial accepted in pre-results review evaluates an intervention partnering immigrants + native-born ind in Sweden for informal social interaction, + will use survey and administrative data to explore effects of immigrants' social relations + labor + housing market outcomes

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Olle Hammar @linneuni @handels_sse who works on topics including migration, inequality + replication
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Oh, I definitely agree it's not freeing up time. In fact I agree with everything in this article: more time spent at work, more multitasking, more "squeezing in" work in small moments during the day, more sense of cognitive stretch as I try to do more tasks I wouldn't otherwise take on.

That is definitely what's happening! Sometimes I feel like I'd rather be manually de-bugging my code though

I love to see the frontier for AI expanding but I'm disappointed to report it still does not include the task of cleaning up vomit from the 3 different beds my son landed on last night [with associated laundry + re-making]. some real room for growth there

We made a mistake of buying the toddler bed conversion for the first and then doubled down by still setting it up for the two youngest because we already had it, but not one of them ever used it for probably more than 4 hours continuously. A great example of failing to use sunk cost logic!

Yes that's also true.
Dismantling the crib this week made me feel very sad! It's still in our basement so I guess we haven't quite had the goodbye moment, but it's basically gone.

We have one! The problem is, it only works well around tables and chairs if you pick up the chairs. We do that every 2-3 days and run it fully. In between, I'm sweeping

I know. We had one that was a giant Mickey mouse. Adorable and yet totally useless.

My hot take is that toddler beds are a scam. Toddlers don't sleep in them, then you end up getting a big bed anyway hoping either
-they'll just go to sleep (1st best obvi)
-or at least you can be comfortable when you're constantly trying to put them back in bed

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Cool recent work explores roles of road, geographic + ethnic networks in diffusing shocks outside of SSA
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