➡️ The geography of child disability is the geography of inequality — but new data can guide smarter policy.
📄 paper 👉 ifs.org.uk/publications...
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💶 Expand financial support for low-income families raising disabled children.
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🎯 Target resources and interventions in regions with higher disability rates — especially southern Italy.
🏥 Improve socio-economic and environmental conditions + strengthen healthcare quality and accessibility through specialist services & telemedicine.
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Higher disability rates appear where:
• economic vulnerability is high
• employment is low
• avoidable & infant mortality are higher
• families must travel for care (“health emigration”).
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Children from the poorest families are almost twice as likely to be disabled as those in the richest deciles — even when using pre-birth parental earnings.
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by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti, Aaron Sojourner
🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP
"The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
My first Half and LOVED IT!!! 💙
I run for Cancer Research UK 💙
You can still donate👉🏻
www.justgiving.com/page/gabriel... 🙏🏻
👩🏻🔬 Every donation supports world-class research that’s changing how we prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer. You can support here: www.justgiving.com/page/gabriel...
by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
Spoke on:
📊Measuring children’s socio-emotional skills
💡New tools
🤖AI for scale & new frontiers
Tx++ to organizers @danipiazz.bsky.social @lucapiccoli.bsky.social L Mangiavacchi 🙌🏻
Reposted by Gabriella Conti
🔴She will work w/ me & E. Del Bono on the @nuffieldfoundation.org project "#Menopause, #HRT & Women Well-Being"
Warm Welcome @fnajeeb.bsky.social! 🥳
by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
scholar.google.com/citations?us...
Feeling proud, grateful, and motivated.
Thank you to the mentors, co-authors, and students who’ve shaped this journey with me.
Onward! 🚀
#10K #Citations #ResearchImpact #Gratitude #Scholarship
Reposted by Gabriella Conti, Aaron Sojourner, Georg Weizsäcker
📍 Nicosia, Cyprus
📅 Dec 7–9, 2025
🌱 A key platform for ECRs across econometrics, macro, micro, theory & more.
📝 Submit by Sept 7
🔗: www.econometricsociety.org/regional-act...
by Aaron Sojourner — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
📍 Amazing speakers confirmed—submit your paper by Aug 3!
👉🏻 www.caf.com/media/467715...
#CallForPapers
by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
Busy & productive as always—reconnecting w/ co-authors and brainstorming ideas w/ potential new ones! 🌟
Great to be here w/ @ucl.ac.uk #HEPL #Health #Economics #Policy #Lab crew + fab women & health economists Ana Balsa & Stefi Schurer ✨
#WomenInEcon
#IHEA2025
Below with session 1 moderator Bernard Moscoso and moderator & presenter of session 2 Nicole Black & Adam Akmal Dzulkipli @monashuniversity.bsky.social
Two interesting and engaging sessions - now enjoying the rest of the conference💥
We are soon starting the session “#Food and #Nutrition” in Surabaya (2nd floor BICC)!
I will present on changes in nutrition in pregnancy and adherence to the #NHS #guidelines👇🏻
Our work helps turn these commitments into action #ResearchToPolicy💪🏼
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📌 Sure Start — long-run improvements in child outcomes and ROI
🔗 ifs.org.uk/publications...
📌 ProKind — delivery models & professional continuity matter
🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🔗 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
🔗 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
•Coming soon: FOI-based report on Universal Health Visiting +work on #FNP #nurse #quality
•Completing: Reanalysis of the #BuildingBlocks trial & evaluation of #StartforLife / #FamilyHubs
•Also underway: integrated evaluation of early years programmes
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by Gabriella Conti — Reposted by Gabriella Conti
Grateful & happy for the strong turnout and genuinely engaged, thoughtful discussion! 🙏🏻
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