Teresa Molina-Millán
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Teresa Molina-Millán
@tmolinamillan.bsky.social
Development economist at Universidad de Alicante.
Congrats @hardiahmed.bsky.social (Univ. Alicante) on this excellent JMP blog entry!!

Hardi has a growing research agenda on institutions & hh behaviour, with projects on gender norms, family dynamics, and the role of religious/customary institutions. More here: sites.google.com/view/hardiah...
In today's JMP blog, @hardiahmed.bsky.social uses DiD to show how sharia law reform in Northern Nigeria affected child health and fertility, and how this varies with enforcement intensity. Weak enforcement of child protection laws particularly harmed non-muslims blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?
Enforcement Matters: How Nigeria’s Sharia Reform Created Winners and Losers: Guest Post by Hardi Ahmed
blogs.worldbank.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Reposted by Teresa Molina-Millán
🚨 New Paper Alert

"Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment"

By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social

📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...
July 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Reposted by Teresa Molina-Millán
📢 The first NOVAFRICA Featured Paper is here!

"Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City"

by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director & NovaSBE Professor of Economics #PedroCVicente with NOVAFRICA affiliates @fracchiamattia.bsky.social and @tmolinamillan.bsky.social

🔗 bit.ly/4hlNmXJ
What motivates volunteer health workers in African cities?
📢 Introducing NOVAFRICA's Featured Paper Series! We are excited to launch a new initiative that highlights research advancing our understanding of development economics. Each month, we will feature a ...
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February 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Reposted by Teresa Molina-Millán
Holy forking shirt balls

"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
January 30, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Teresa Molina-Millán
🔆 New Paper out in #JDE!

"What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde"

by @novafrica.bsky.social Scientific Director and #NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social w/ #DavidCosta, #PedroFreitas, #GonçaloLima #AnaReis

🔗 bit.ly/3Zb3kfj
December 5, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Reposted by Teresa Molina-Millán
Just published in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social

"The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation"

Joint work with @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social and @lmerlino.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation
This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether childhood interracia…
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November 21, 2024 at 8:26 AM