Laura Schechter

Excited to share that my JMP was featured on the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog! The post shows how digital receipts can increase transparency, improve quality, and shift behavior in markets with information frictions. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter

"Political brokers use social networks to identify and target reciprocal non-copartisans for vote buying. Parties recruit brokers central in networks to sway persuadable voters." From @rduartegonzalez, Finan, @HLarreguy, and @LauraASchechter: restud.com/brokering-vote… #REStud

@DaveEvansPhD It will be on zoom uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regist… and on YouTube @UChicagoCenterinDelhi" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@UChicagoCente…

@LauraASchechter Do you know if it will be streamed?

This is going to be a great constructive and thought-provoking conversation.

Register here for this great event - The Chicago School of Thought: Methods and Fieldwork in Development Economics uchicago.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

What impacts did one-on-one face-to-face counselling have on the mental health of adolescents in Nepal? Read today's paper to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

@paulnovosad This reminds me of The Tyranny of Merit which I just read and was very thought-provoking. goodreads.com/book/show/5036…

Deep meritocracy is fundamentally unstable, because elites can't tolerate their kids losing. They will engage in destructive status competition with each other, and also just directly corrupt the institutions. 1/

Put your reading glasses for Research Wednesday. AAE faculty members Nick Parker and Sarah Johnston researched clean energy development, which could bring billion in potential income to Indigenous communities. Read more at the link below: grow.cals.wisc.edu/priority-theme…

Still time! Apply to AAE's M.S. Professional Option program -a 12-to 21-month STEM M.S. prepares you for data intensive and quantitatively focused jobs. Deadline: Int'l: 4/14; Domestic: 6/1. Learn more: aae.wisc.edu/grad/mspo/ Watch video: youtu.be/7PXJCQ1YfZ4?si…

Congratulations to @UW_AAE's Andrew Stevens on receiving a @USDA_NIFA grant for his project "Analyzing the effectiveness and efficiency of farmland preservation policies in supporting small and medium-sized farms"! @agronoeconomist Learn more: ecals.cals.wisc.edu/2023/12/29/gra…

My study on how birds are affected by different types of energy infrastructure is covered in this week's edition of The Economist!

Bori-bori (vori-vori) 🇵🇾is the best soup in the world in 2023. View complete TasteAtlas Awards 23/24 lists: tasteatlas.com/best/foods-by-… Bori-bori (vori-vori) is a hearty Paraguayan soup filled with meat (usually beef or chicken), fluffy dumplings consisting of cornmeal and cheese, and vegetables such as carrots, celery, and onions. The soup is traditionally flavored with bay leaves, cloves, and parsley, while saffron gives it a rich golden color. Photo: @Karuseando

This paper on unintended spillovers in incentivized experiments run in multiple villages is super important and fascinating. Highly recommended.

La investigación sobre raza y etnicidad llega a LACEA 2023 @voxlacea e Brasil representado com a @ana_p_melo blogs.iadb.org/igualdad/es/la…

Submit to the Midwest international economic development conference. It will be April 5-6 2024 at the University of Chicago. Submission deadline is December 17. bfi.uchicago.edu/21st-midwest-i… Acronyms #mwiedc or more painfully/controversially #miedc

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @EleanorWiseman, currently a postdoc at Stanford + headed for @UW_AAE next fall. linkedin.com/in/eleanor-wis… profiles.stanford.edu/eleanor-wiseman

Kudos to @MonicaEcon JMC @UW_AAE. Focusing on development economics & economics of education, currently researching affirmative action policies in childhood and their impact on children’s educational outcomes. Learn more: monica-agarwal.github.io

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "Spillovers without Social Interactions in Urban Sanitation" by Joshua W. Deutschmann, Molly Lipscomb, Laura Schechter, and Jessica Zhu. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…