Frank Schilbach
@fschilbach.bsky.social
Behavioral and development economist at MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, mental health, and loneliness
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Frank Schilbach
@fschilbach.bsky.social
· May 14
Do recessions impact mortality?
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
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📆 2 December @ 16:00 CET
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD series comes to a close with @fschilbach.bsky.social presenting "Not Learning from Others and Learning in the Household"
Moderator: Suanna Oh @pse.bsky.social
ow.ly/aUH450X49HB
#EconSky
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD series comes to a close with @fschilbach.bsky.social presenting "Not Learning from Others and Learning in the Household"
Moderator: Suanna Oh @pse.bsky.social
ow.ly/aUH450X49HB
#EconSky
November 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
📆 2 December @ 16:00 CET
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD series comes to a close with @fschilbach.bsky.social presenting "Not Learning from Others and Learning in the Household"
Moderator: Suanna Oh @pse.bsky.social
ow.ly/aUH450X49HB
#EconSky
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD series comes to a close with @fschilbach.bsky.social presenting "Not Learning from Others and Learning in the Household"
Moderator: Suanna Oh @pse.bsky.social
ow.ly/aUH450X49HB
#EconSky
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As this govt shutdown continues and many federal workers are forced to work without pay, I’m thinking about this paper by Kaur et al (2024)
When workers feel financial pressure at home, their decisions in the workplace take a hit
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
When workers feel financial pressure at home, their decisions in the workplace take a hit
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive?*
Abstract. Workers who are worried about their personal finances may find it hard to focus at work. If so, reducing financial concerns could increase produc
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
As this govt shutdown continues and many federal workers are forced to work without pay, I’m thinking about this paper by Kaur et al (2024)
When workers feel financial pressure at home, their decisions in the workplace take a hit
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
When workers feel financial pressure at home, their decisions in the workplace take a hit
doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
What are the best practices for ensuring subject comprehension in lab or field experiments? Can you recommend any research papers or guides? #econsky
October 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
What are the best practices for ensuring subject comprehension in lab or field experiments? Can you recommend any research papers or guides? #econsky
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Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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August 27, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process.
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
There's still time to sign! And please share.
#EconSky
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Great NYT write up of our new results on child mortality and cash transfers in Kenya:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
A New Way to Reduce Children’s Deaths: Cash
www.nytimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Great NYT write up of our new results on child mortality and cash transfers in Kenya:
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/h...
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Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
🆕 Breadwinner’s burden: How financial relief improved sleep and cognition in Indonesia
Today on VoxDev, Claire Duquennois (University of Pittsburgh) & Maulik Jagnani (@tufts.edu) discuss how cash transfers helped relieve the financial pressure on breadwinners: voxdev.org/topic/social...
Today on VoxDev, Claire Duquennois (University of Pittsburgh) & Maulik Jagnani (@tufts.edu) discuss how cash transfers helped relieve the financial pressure on breadwinners: voxdev.org/topic/social...
Breadwinner’s burden: How financial relief improved sleep and cognition in Indonesia
Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing.
voxdev.org
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Cash transfers improve sleep quality for household heads but not other family members, revealing how financial pressures burden those responsible for providing.
Read today's article to learn more:
Read today's article to learn more:
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Excited that Tufts is hosting NEUDC this fall!
Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.
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Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.
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June 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Excited that Tufts is hosting NEUDC this fall!
Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.
t.co/fxMQPJRgAR
Spread the word and send us your finest work by Aug 17.
t.co/fxMQPJRgAR
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Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
May 22, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare,” by Finkelstein, Notowidigdo (@profnoto.bsky.social), Schilbach, and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare*
doi.org
May 15, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Lives Versus Livelihoods: The Impact of the Great Recession on Mortality and Welfare,” by Finkelstein, Notowidigdo (@profnoto.bsky.social), Schilbach, and Zhang: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Do recessions impact mortality?
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
May 14, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Do recessions impact mortality?
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
May 13, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Do recessions impact mortality?
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
Amy Finkelstein (MIT), @profnoto.bsky.social (Chicago Booth), @fschilbach.bsky.social (MIT) & @jzhangecon.bsky.social (Duke Sanford) on the welfare consequences of the Great Recession:
youtu.be/XrBXo9b2e6g
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I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu
April 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I appreciate that the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences has this prominently placed at the top of their main webpage right now. as.tufts.edu
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In "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation," we study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation, applied to a case study about automakers and diesel vehicle emissions. With Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert.
@reveconstudies.bsky.social
@reveconstudies.bsky.social
Recently accepted to #REStud, ``Colluding against Environmental Regulation," from Alé-Chilet, Chen, @jingli-econ.bsky.social and Reynaert:
www.restud.com/colluding-ag...
#EconSky #REStud
#pollution #regulation #collusion
www.restud.com/colluding-ag...
#EconSky #REStud
#pollution #regulation #collusion
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
In "Colluding Against Environmental Regulation," we study collusion among firms against imperfectly monitored environmental regulation, applied to a case study about automakers and diesel vehicle emissions. With Jorge Alé-Chilet, Cuicui Chen, and Mathias Reynaert.
@reveconstudies.bsky.social
@reveconstudies.bsky.social
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🚨 Attention for those who had USAID funding terminated....
Special Application Window for USAID Research - Weiss Fund
Special Application Window for USAID Research Overview Researchers who have recently had projects terminated by the USAID or received a stop work order are invited to apply to a special call of the We...
weissfund.uchicago.edu
April 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
🚨 Attention for those who had USAID funding terminated....
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Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-0lkZ…
March 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Open letter by 700+ Jewish faculty in US on Trump's Columbia funding cuts, supposedly against antisemitism: "Not on our behalf. Harming US Universities does not protect Jewish people. Cutting funding for research does not protect Jewish people. Punishing researchers does not protect Jewish people."
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Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:
March 24, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Welcome to Bluesky, my Tufts colleague @jingli-econ.bsky.social ! Jing has a new NBER working paper out today on political ideology and EVs:
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Thank you to @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, @justsand.bsky.social and others @cgdev.org whose careful data work underpins this important and devastating article by @nickkristof.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. A great eg of combining data with the human face of that data.
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease.
That is, until January."
-- Nick Kristof
That is, until January."
-- Nick Kristof
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Thank you to @charlesjkenny.bsky.social, @justsand.bsky.social and others @cgdev.org whose careful data work underpins this important and devastating article by @nickkristof.bsky.social in @nytimes.com. A great eg of combining data with the human face of that data.
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This is very important. If you’re still out there saying that they’re coming after X, Y or Z “because of woke”, then you’re part of the problem.
Stop pretending that the authoritarian repression is BECAUSE of the problems in {higher education, the media, the law, government, immigration policy, etc.}. This is what authoritarians do. If they didn't focus on these justifications, they'd come up with other ones.
March 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
This is very important. If you’re still out there saying that they’re coming after X, Y or Z “because of woke”, then you’re part of the problem.
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Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!
March 7, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!
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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
February 28, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
Be strong, be brave, be fearless.
You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy.
We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.
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Princeton Econ welcomes Simon Jäger (@simonjaeger.bsky.social), a leading labor economist, to the department and the Industrial Relations Section. Jäger studies labor markets, inequality, worker representation, and wage dynamics.
Read more about his research and appointment: bit.ly/43ij3Ng
Read more about his research and appointment: bit.ly/43ij3Ng
February 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Princeton Econ welcomes Simon Jäger (@simonjaeger.bsky.social), a leading labor economist, to the department and the Industrial Relations Section. Jäger studies labor markets, inequality, worker representation, and wage dynamics.
Read more about his research and appointment: bit.ly/43ij3Ng
Read more about his research and appointment: bit.ly/43ij3Ng
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**Spread the word**
ONLY 4 DAYS TO SUBMIT to the 2025 Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) virtual conference. Submit by February 21 for short presentations. Conference is May 1-2. Check out details and submit:
behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/u...
ONLY 4 DAYS TO SUBMIT to the 2025 Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) virtual conference. Submit by February 21 for short presentations. Conference is May 1-2. Check out details and submit:
behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/u...
behavioralpolicy.org
February 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
**Spread the word**
ONLY 4 DAYS TO SUBMIT to the 2025 Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) virtual conference. Submit by February 21 for short presentations. Conference is May 1-2. Check out details and submit:
behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/u...
ONLY 4 DAYS TO SUBMIT to the 2025 Behavioral Science & Policy Association (BSPA) virtual conference. Submit by February 21 for short presentations. Conference is May 1-2. Check out details and submit:
behavioralpolicy.org/wp-content/u...
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If you are American, please stop what you are doing and contact your representative.
Regardless of who you voted for, tell your representative that you expect them to protect our capacity for research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other crucial science.
—> www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Regardless of who you voted for, tell your representative that you expect them to protect our capacity for research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other crucial science.
—> www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases.
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets
Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.
www.nytimes.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you are American, please stop what you are doing and contact your representative.
Regardless of who you voted for, tell your representative that you expect them to protect our capacity for research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other crucial science.
—> www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
Regardless of who you voted for, tell your representative that you expect them to protect our capacity for research on cancer, Alzheimer’s, and other crucial science.
—> www.usa.gov/elected-offi...