Laura Schechter
@LauraASchechter
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"Political brokers use social networks to identify and target reciprocal non-copartisans for vote buying. Parties recruit brokers central in networks to sway persuadable voters." From @rduartegonzalez, Finan, @HLarreguy, and @LauraASchechter: https://t.co/bgFlhCbem7
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Register here for this great event - The Chicago School of Thought: Methods and Fieldwork in Development Economics
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This is going to be a great constructive and thought-provoking conversation.
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What impacts did one-on-one face-to-face counselling have on the mental health of adolescents in Nepal? Read today's paper to learn more: https://t.co/GLHcgqf8D7
🆕 Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings Today on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (@DartmouthEcon), @p_mukherj (@UW_AAE), Nikhilesh Prakash (@handels_sse), @Prof_Nishith_P (@NU_PolicySchool @NUEcon) & @shwetlena (@WorldBank):
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Put your reading glasses for Research Wednesday. AAE faculty members Nick Parker and Sarah Johnston researched clean energy development, which could bring billion in potential income to Indigenous communities. Read more at the link below: https://t.co/0HWQEHt01b
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Still time! Apply to AAE's M.S. Professional Option program -a 12-to 21-month STEM M.S. prepares you for data intensive and quantitatively focused jobs. Deadline: Int'l: 4/14; Domestic: 6/1. Learn more: https://t.co/JzzwMpTI6G Watch video:
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Congratulations to @UW_AAE's Andrew Stevens on receiving a @USDA_NIFA grant for his project "Analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of farmland preservation policies in supporting small and medium-sized farms"! @agronoeconomist Learn more: https://t.co/2meckG3CrA
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My study on how birds are affected by different types of energy infrastructure is covered in this week's edition of The Economist!
Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling, contrary to what opponents of wind farms fear. Learn why: https://t.co/aXrWxndi0R 👇
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Bori-bori (vori-vori) 🇵🇾is the best soup in the world in 2023. View complete TasteAtlas Awards 23/24 lists: https://t.co/OA8VeDecZt Bori-bori (vori-vori) is a hearty Paraguayan soup filled with meat (usually beef or chicken), fluffy dumplings consisting of cornmeal and cheese,
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This paper on unintended spillovers in incentivized experiments run in multiple villages is super important and fascinating. Highly recommended.
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La investigación sobre raza y etnicidad llega a LACEA 2023 @voxlacea e Brasil representado com a @ana_p_melo
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La Reunión Anual de la Asociación de Economía de América Latina y el Caribe (LACEA) 2023 tendrá una sesión sobre raza y etnicidad ¡y el BID estará presente!
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Submit to the Midwest international economic development conference. It will be April 5-6 2024 at the University of Chicago. Submission deadline is December 17. https://t.co/cUiSXfxEaG Acronyms #mwiedc or more painfully/controversially #miedc
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Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @EleanorWiseman, currently a postdoc at Stanford + headed for @UW_AAE next fall. https://t.co/8e2dZGZoQq
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Kudos to @MonicaEcon JMC @UW_AAE. Focusing on development economics & economics of education, currently researching affirmative action policies in childhood and their impact on children’s educational outcomes. Learn more: https://t.co/da1LXdifrF
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation" by Joshua W. Deutschmann, Molly Lipscomb, Laura Schechter, and Jessica Zhu.
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(July 2024) - We run a randomized controlled trial coupled with lab-in-the-field social network experiments in urban Dakar. Decision spillovers and health externalities play a large role in determi...
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@JoshDeutschmann @DILatUChicago One recent paper in JDE finds privatization of sewage treatment centers in Senegal leads to ⬆️ productivity, ⬇️ prices + ⬇️ diarrhea rates @MollyMLipscomb @LauraASchechter
https://t.co/viRKeC7FFo
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@JoshDeutschmann @DILatUChicago @MollyMLipscomb @LauraASchechter Another closely related working paper accepted at AEJ-Applied finds evidence of substantial social spillovers in uptake of sanitation technology in Dakar, driven by benefits ⬆️ w/ others' uptake https://t.co/6y8YuO0JKY
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Today's cool young researcher is @JoshDeutschmann
@DILatUChicago who works on questions related to agriculture, public services, + tech adoption in LMICs https://t.co/ppGYnnTAgM
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