Francisco Pardo
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PhD in Economics at UT Austin | Applied Micro | 🇵🇪 https://t.co/m17p7ifvTE
Joined April 2011
🆕 One Laptop per Child: Lessons from a long-term follow up Today on VoxDev, Santiago Cueto (@GRADEPeru), Diether Beuermann (@the_IDB), Julian Cristia (@the_IDB), Ofer Malamud (@sesp_nu) & @franciscopardop (@UTAustinEcon) outline research on Peru:
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Long-term research on the One Laptop per Child programme reveals that providing laptops to students did not have a positive impact on educational outcomes, likely driven by lack of effects on...
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Good schools are much more than test score value added. Academic & nonacademic value added not always aligned: “correlation btw impacts on high-stakes exams & non-dropout is 0.12, & that btw impacts on high-stakes tests & being formally employed is 0.15.” https://t.co/cKzPg7Ryeh
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Great day in Houston for the 2nd TEAMS Workshop. Happy to see such great work by many PhD students in Texas! Great discussions and even time for office hours with faculty. Thanks to @UH_Econ for hosting this. Until next year!
We warmly welcome all students coming to our dept today to present/attend the 2nd edition of TEAMS (Texas Applied Microeconomics Students) Workshop. This new initiative brings together Applied Microeconomics students working in Texas. Wish everyone an enriching day at Houston!
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And with that we end the 1st TEAMS Workshop! It was a great experience to organize this event and have so many fantastic people come to Austin for a day. This will become a yearly thing, with the next host to be announced!
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For our last presentation of the day, @MargaritaPetru9 looks at remote imagery data to study how adoption of solar minigrids in India have short- and medium-term consequences on energy access and accumulation of human capital
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We now continue with @yumin_hong and her work on in-utero variations in temperature and humidity.exposure on children's health at birth in Mexico.
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Our last panel is on environment and energy and we start with @yoojinchacha and his work on how changes in water quality affect local housing prices.
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To finish the panel, we have @econnanZ presenting here JMP on how hospital consolidation affects data breaches and looks at the signaling effect on hackers and the incompatibility of systems as possible mechanisms. Find more about her on https://t.co/nGH4hA1BbA
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We now have @shwlin_econ with his research on how superstition affects medical decisions people make by looking at how they differ when the year of bad luck (taisui) is coming.
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We continue with @HsinWeiChang1, who explores why vaccination rates are lower among immigrants compared to native-born populations and whether the gap is due to condition or cultural differences.
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We start the health panel with @NathanMFranz and his work on the effect of rural public health facilities on early-life mortality compared to private facilities using variation in government ambulance program as an instrument.
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We come back with the labor panel, @MelissaDGentry explores how availability of accesible transportation services affects disabled residents' employment opportunities.
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We follow with @evadavinia, who studies the externalities of legalization in one state to other states by looking at how marijuana consumption changes in states where it is illegal but that are more or less socially connected to states that legalized recreational use.
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We now start with the friendship formation and social connections panel. @weonhyeok presents his JMP on friendship formation of adolescents and how this interacts with race and ability. You can see more of his work in https://t.co/SDA69hS368
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We continue with @Maxwell_Bullard, who studies how adoptive parent's profile placement in the list affects their probability of being selected.
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We now start the fertility and adoption decisions panel. @prankur432 discusses how ideal fertility, reported through retrospective questions, might be influenced by realized fertility, which he instruments by using first birth as twins or female.
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To finish with the first panel, we have @JordanCHolbrook, who looks at the returns to elite sports and how the ‘quality’ of the athlete’s collegiate team matter in determining selection to become a professional athlete.
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We continue with Jeonghyeok Kim dicussing about the effect that school closure has on student outcomes. He looks at effects on short and long run outcomes that the disruption may have on these students.
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