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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 1h

From Chen et al., paper here

Bittersweet: Grandparenting and Elderly Mental Health in the Two-Child Policy Era

We exploit China’s universal two-child policy and variations in adult children’s birth cohort to examine the causal impact of the family-planning poli…

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 1h

A sobering take on the joys (?) of grandparenting in China. . .now out in the JDE! The rollout of the universal two-child policy ⬆️ number of grandchildren + ⬇️ mental health (but happily, not clinical depression)

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 1d

It finally begins to decline 5 years after enrollment. Paper is here

The impact of PhD studies on mental health—a longitudinal population study

Recent self-reported and cross-sectional survey evidence documents high levels of mental health problems among PhD students. We study the relationship…

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 1d

Important new paper on mental health in PhD programs finally published: from @EvaRanehill @Sanna_Bergvall @annahsandberg, evidence that in Sweden, use of psychiatric medicine sharply ⬆️ after enrollment in PhD compared to other highly educated ind, up to a peak of 40%

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

Have noticed the number of journals with explicit policies around use of AI in referee reports (i.e., mandated acknowledgment of policies ruling out this use) is increasing *extremely* rapidly

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

Plus lots, lots more - check out her work!

Warda Riaz

SYEDA WARDA RIAZ

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

And evidence from Pakistan that even a modest subsidy toward transport costs for pregnant women seeking health care in Pakistan ⬆️ utilization of postnatal care and thus ⬆️ height-for-age among their children
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

Evidence from the same context + the same team (now adding @JeffBloem) that while depression ⬆️ among women in the perinatal period in S Africa, exposure to the grant during the perinatal period eliminates this increased risk
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

Another paper joint w/@mmalloush now forthcoming at @J_HumanResource finds that in utero exposure to cash transfers (the Older Person's Grant) in South Africa leads to significant ⬆️ in height-for-age + weight-for-age among children
malloush.com/wp-cont...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

One published paper joint w/Majid finds a positive effect of UCTs on women's labor force participation in Pakistan, and also some evidence of positive effects on resilience
www.tandfonline.com/...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 2d

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @sawar92 @LifeAtLUMS who works on topics related to health, labor + development

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

higher-level conceptual weakness; so maybe in that sense, I didn't learn that much about the core arguments; but important confirmation of where I should focus my efforts. Though it's not free, imo it's worth it (you can also see a preview of comments, before purchasing)!

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

and imprecise or slightly incorrect language used to describe empirical methods (that were slightly on my research frontier, and thus where my language was less confident). It also matched for all 3 papers my own self-assessment of the most significant. . .

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

incorrect citations (citing a paper that didn't contain the content I was describing) or unclear citations; coding errors (average standard effect that didn't match the coefficients on the constituent variables); missing pieces of key descriptive info;

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

(Full disclosure - I initially used it around June, to share some feedback. Got 2 credits and I used them more recently; the tool also improved a lot in this period.) On various papers, it's caught errors in calculation of sample size; mismatches btw text and table;

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

#econtwitter #econsky: recently used Refine.ink (developed by @ben_golub) as a AI assessment tool for papers + it is amazing, so wanted to share some examples of what it can do if you are curious. (It's much, much better than other free tools I've used)

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 5d

The best part is when you're going in circles trying to debug code and it keeps saying "Great work, you're definitely almost there now!" when in fact the most recent edits introduced like 4 new errors

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

And lots more fascinating work in progress - check out his work!

Elijah Kipchumba

Elijah Kipchumba PhD CandidateTrinity College Dublin

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

And new evidence about the effects of a livelihoods program modified to target persons with disabilities in Uganda shows that the program does encourage switching from casual labor to more productive work, ⬇️ social interaction but does not ⬇️ stigma
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

More evidence from Somalia that a role model intervention in middle school has positive effects on girls' and boys' attitudes toward gender equity when delivered by female role model, but no effects on educ aspirations. Joint w/@danilaserra_eco @EconCath
docs.iza.org/dp17261...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

Evidence from Tanzania: while self-reported socioemotional skills show a gender gap (in favor of men), behavioral measures show few, + smaller gaps - suggesting underlying pattern is men's overestimation of own skills! joint w/@rchlcassidy @claradelav
tinyurl.com/mw5vcyf4

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

One paper in JAE assesses effects of variously sized business grants vis-a-vis UCTs in Somalia; findings suggest business grants have larger effects on business ownership + income vis-a-vis UCT; medium-size grantsmost cost-effective. W/@munshisulaiman
tinyurl.com/2atcu758

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @KipkechElijah, a brand-new PhD from @tcdeconomics: congratulate him! Have been seeing Elijah's work for years, was excited to meet him for the first time this year + now feature him here

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 9d

Banger headline

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 13d

Paper is here, from Clay et al.

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 13d

Stumbled across this fascinating paper today about the long-run effects of an early (the first?) community health intervention, a tuberculosis detection program in none other than Framingham, MA! (Close to where I grew up). . .⬆️ case detection, but no effects on mortality

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 14d

An unfortunate byproduct of the rapid ascension of AI is a tendency for people to often use AI as a summary term for "anything related to computing" and I find this to be extremely confusing.

If you're talking about AI, explain exactly what you're referring to!

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 16d

Exciting work in progress on violence and policing, and lots more - check out her work!

Julia Rizzotto

Júlia Sbroglio Rizzotto Postdoctoral Researcher at USP 📧 [email protected]

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 16d

And evidence from PISA data that bullying has negative effects on student performance as well (but not psychological bullying)
link.springer.com/ar...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 16d

Another paper joint w/Aniceto França shows that in Brazilian schools, the school disciplinary climate significantly affects student performance (particularly the climate in reading classes)
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