New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school

- significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls
- reduced bullying among both genders
- improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates
- largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

👉New working paper w/ Andreas Grunewald & Jonas Radbruch: nudges and other behavioral policy interventions may not only improve targeted choices, but also help people make better decisions in *other* domains of their lives.

So happy to see mental health getting center stage at the JDE.

Submit to the special issue focusing on “Mental health and Socio-economic outcomes”!

Edited by the all-star team: Nishith Prakash Gautam Rao and Frank Schilbach.

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Gentle reminder: Please consider submitting to the 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments with keynotes by John A. List and Susanna Loeb!
All infos: field-experiments.eu

P.S. Blends nicely with this year’s AFE in London, September 5-6! 😉 Come to Europe, everyone 🚀🚀🚀

We are very excited to share that Frank Schilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you Andrew Foster! #economics

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RIP Daniel Kahneman washingtonpost.com/obituaries/202…

Congratulations, Karthik Muralidharan! Can't wait for the two-hour audiobook read by the author. 😆

New research confirms that recessions are good for our health. The Great Recession provided 1 in 25 55-year-olds w/ an extra year of life, largely due to decreased pollution.

Chicago Booth's Matt Notowidigdo, Frank Schilbach, Jonathan Zhang, & Amy Finkelstein

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Time for a 6 year delayed job market paper thread!

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: 'Noise, Cognitive Function, and Worker Productivity' by Joshua T. Dean. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Fantastic paper shows long-run educational impacts of socio-emotional skills training in Switzerland

A major review of randomized trials analyzing the role that exercise can play in combating depression: bmj.com/content/384/bm…

Summary: Exercise combats depression, and more exercise combats it more. The effects can be (at least) as large as pills.

Please, look after yourself.

Happy to announce our 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-10 Sept. 2024, Technical University of Munich TU München Heilbronn. Submission deadline 1 May. Keynotes: John List John A. List and Susanna Loeb Susanna Loeb! tinyurl.com/44yvsdks

In Germany these days: large demonstrations against far right extremism. Here: 100,000 people in Munich. 🖤❤️💛

Really enjoyed this conversation about my new paper on the Great Recession and mortality rates (users.nber.org/~notom/researc…); if you want a ~20-minute summary of my paper, check out this interview!

The Great Recession reduced the US mortality rate by 2.3 percent, with reductions appearing across causes of death and concentrated among the less-educated, from Amy Finkelstein, @profnoto, Frank Schilbach, and Jonathan Zhang nber.org/papers/w32110

New working paper, 'Lives vs. Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare,' by Chicago Booth's Matt Notowidigdo, Amy Finkelstein, Frank Schilbach, & Jonathan Zhang shows that The Great Recession substantially reduced mortality.

We are thrilled to curate a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality” in the European Economic Review!

Guest editors: Philipp Lergetporer Michele Belot Henning Hermes Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold. Submissions are open!

Details: tinyurl.com/38hzxdte #EconTwitter

On the last day of 2023 #EconTwitter , highlighting my top 10 development papers (in dev journals) of the year! I love reading the fabulous research published in general interest journals, but here's your regular reminder there's much to learn outside the top 5 (or 10). . .