Adrienne Lucas
@profalucas.bsky.social
Development/Education/Health Economist | Prof and Dept Chair, UDelaware | Research Associate, NBER | Faculty Affiliate, J-PAL | Non-Resident Fellow, CGD | she
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Adrienne Lucas
@profalucas.bsky.social
· May 20
New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
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For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Epstein Document Search
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November 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
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Election Day! Vote. Vote. Vote. All elections are consequential!
November 4, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Election Day! Vote. Vote. Vote. All elections are consequential!
UDelaware Economics PhD student @anxhelabeluli.com spent the summer as an intern at Amazon. lerner.udel.edu/seeing-oppor...
My Summer Internship: Anxhela Beluli
Anxhela Beluli, economics Ph.D. student, spent her summer as an Economist Ph.D. Intern at Amazon.
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November 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
UDelaware Economics PhD student @anxhelabeluli.com spent the summer as an intern at Amazon. lerner.udel.edu/seeing-oppor...
Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!
October 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!
New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38!
(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)
(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)
(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)
(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)
September 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38!
(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)
(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)
(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)
(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)
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🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨
Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.
Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!
#EconSky
Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.
Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!
#EconSky
September 30, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨
Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.
Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!
#EconSky
Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.
Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!
#EconSky
Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!
September 26, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!
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Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
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 29, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).
If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography.
Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
University of Delaware - Details - Chair, Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, College of Earth, Ocean and Environment University of Delaware
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August 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography.
Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).
careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...
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I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.
The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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August 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.
On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments
August 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments
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Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!
August 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!
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If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2
I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan
I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan
July 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2
I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan
I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan
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Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.
When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
June 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.
When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile
New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
June 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile
Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!
May 23, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!
Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.
May 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.
Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote!
May 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote!
New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
May 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798
Reposted by Adrienne Lucas
Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33798
May 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33798
On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!
May 16, 2025 at 11:01 PM
On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!
Honored to be part of the Advisory Board Meeting of the Tanzania Institute of Education EdLab in February. Thank you @wwhglobaled.bsky.social for featuring the meeting in today's email blast!
May 16, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Honored to be part of the Advisory Board Meeting of the Tanzania Institute of Education EdLab in February. Thank you @wwhglobaled.bsky.social for featuring the meeting in today's email blast!
Good morning DC! Great day yesterday presenting at the World Bank (thank you for the invitation #LelysDinarteDiaz !) Today, Georgetown to collaborate with @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social & #JamesHabyarimana
May 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Good morning DC! Great day yesterday presenting at the World Bank (thank you for the invitation #LelysDinarteDiaz !) Today, Georgetown to collaborate with @jacobuscilliers.bsky.social & #JamesHabyarimana
Hello friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department: today is I heart UD giving day. Please consider a donation to your favorite economics department (us, of course) givingday.udel.edu/amb/economics
I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14
I Heart UD Giving Day - May 14
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May 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hello friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department: today is I heart UD giving day. Please consider a donation to your favorite economics department (us, of course) givingday.udel.edu/amb/economics