La revista de Harvard especializada en Latinoamérica (ReVista) tendrá una edición completa con la pregunta de si nuestro país 🇨🇷 “es diferente”, pero también enfatizando los retos a los que nos enfrentamos en la actualidad 1/n

'Innocuous Exam Features? The Impact of Answer Placement on High-Stakes Test Performance and College Admissions' - new working paper by Erika Povea (@NHHEcon, NHH Norwegian School of Economics and FAIR-CELE) and Catalina Franco:
openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/hand…

Why it matters much more what you eat than where it's from: transportation makes up a tiny share of greenhouse gas emissions for most products

CfP!
4th (virtual) discrimination & diversity workshop, 2-3 July

Great line-up of speakers, with sessions on
Inequalities in education,
LGBTQ+ individuals,
Stereotypes,
Social integration and migrant children, and
Access to healthcare
sites.google.com/view/dnd-works…

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'Fairness Beliefs Affect Perceived Economic Inequality' - new working paper by Morten N. Støstad (@NHHEcon and FAIR-The Choice Lab):
openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/hand…

Contrary to median voter and elite capture models' predictions, low-income individuals' redistributive preferences are most predictive of actual redistribution across 93 countries, from Michel Marechal, Alain Cohn, Jeffrey Yusof, and @rfisman nber.org/papers/w31974

!! PhD students in the Nordics studying the economics of education !!

NHH Department of Economics
Is organizing this year's econ of ed PhD workshop. The brilliant Laia Navarro-Sola will keynote. I've also agreed to share whatever tidbits I've learned about navigating the market.

Apply by March 1st:

'Unleveling the Playing Field? Experimental Evidence on Parents’ Willingness to Give Their Child an Advantage' - new working paper from Oda Sund:
openaccess.nhh.no/nhh-xmlui/hand…

Come join us at Aalto University Economics -- TWO 3-4 year post-doc positions in the economics of education.

EJM postin: econjobmarket.org/positions?show…

#EconTwitter Josh Goodman Prof Dynarski Ludger Woessmann C. Kirabo Jackson Martin West Matthew A. Kraft

Religión y Política: La influencia Pentecostal en Brasil nadaesgratis.es/admin/religion… Vía Nada es Gratis #Economia

🚨Excited to present my JMP! 'Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal'

drive.google.com/file/d/1EAPqRR…

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📢I am thrilled to share my #JMP in Behavioral Economics! 🔎

In my #JMP , I show that social learning often does not eliminate, and may, in fact, exacerbate errors stemming from behavioral biases.

🔗andreaamelio.com/files/jmp_amel…

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🚨My JMP is out and I'm very excited that it made it to this blog series!

👇Please have a read if you're interested in Bureaucrats, Algorithms and Tax Equity!

thanks to Florence Kondylis & David McKenzie for this great platform.

blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Excited to present my JMP: Silence to Solidarity

My job market paper studies whether communication between discriminatory people can lead to large reductions in discrimination
🔗 bit.ly/webbjmp

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I am hiring a #postdoc in applied micro funded by my chair “assessing public policy impacts” at Université Paris Dauphine - PSL ! The position starts in September 2024 for 2 years. More information and application link here (deadline is November 30): econjobmarket.org/positions/9926

Ya está abierta la inscripción para la Tercera Conferencia de Economistas CR ( #EconCR23 ) que se va a llevar a cabo el 15 de Diciembre, en el Edificio ODM-BCCR, con keynotes de Diana Van Patten y Alberto Trejos. Más info aquí: sites.google.com/view/conferenc…

Young scholars within 5 years of their PhD submit a paper to the Fairness and the Moral Mind online conference organized by Bertil Tungodden! Deadline 31.9. More information at the link below.

nhh.no/en/research-ce…

To anyone who argues that there is some positive value to EJMR, take a look at the behavior of it's posters. It's a disgrace for the profession that EJMR exists.

Fascinating paper on the mental health *benefits* of prison in Norway. Yes, Norway's prisons are much nicer than those in the US. But the counterfactual (medical care available outside prisons) is also better in Norway! Even there, many ppl don't get care until they're locked up.

This seems like an important event! I hope people are able to attend