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Frank Schilbach

@FrankSchilbach

Behavioral and development economist @MIT studying poverty, sleep, alcohol, pain, mental health, and loneliness

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So exciting! 💤💤💤 Watch this wonderful video by @econimate to learn more about our paper on sleep along the urban poor: youtu.be/Y5LzJXmxK4E

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Economic Consequences of Increasing Sleep among the Urban Poor,” by Bessone (@BessoneTepedino), Rao (@raogautam), Schilbach (@FrankSchilbach), Schofield (@h_schof), and Toma (@mattietoma): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…



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Economists interested in gender norms typically focus on norms that constrain the behaviour of women. But what about those that constrain men? @iedarm is spearheading this work on masculinity norms, and she is on the job market this year (iedamatavelli.com). A 🧵


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"Mental health is a goal in and of itself." Thanks for reminding us @FrankSchilbach #neudc #mentalhealth

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Colleagues: please email your students today encouraging them to vote. If you are teaching a class tomorrow, please consider making attendance optional or rescheduling. Or, even better, turn it into a field trip to the nearest polling location. Iwillvote.com


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I'm very excited to join @Princeton in the spring, w/ joint appointment @PrincetonEcon and @PrincetonSPIA + the Industrial Relations Section! Very grateful to wonderful mentors, colleagues, students + staff @MITEcon for an incredible time! Looking forward to the next adventure!


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I and twenty-two other Nobel economists signed a letter endorsing Kamala Harris for President. We believe Harris's policies will result in a stronger economic performance, with economic growth that is more robust, more sustainable, and more equitable. cnn.com/2024/10/23/pol…


Very proud of our student @CharlieRafkin for winning the @CESifoNetwork Affiliate Award 2024 in Behavioral Economics. This is our second student winning this award after the inimitable @hmmlowe!

🏆 Congratulations to @CharlieRafkin from @UCBerkeley, winner of the #CESifo Affiliate Award 2024 in Behavioral Economics! 🎉 His paper ‘Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market’ stood out for its impactful insights. 👏

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🏆 Congratulations to @CharlieRafkin from @UCBerkeley, winner of the #CESifo Affiliate Award 2024 in Behavioral Economics! 🎉 His paper ‘Eviction as Bargaining Failure: Hostility and Misperceptions in the Rental Housing Market’ stood out for its impactful insights. 👏

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Just published in @JPubEcon: "Listen to her: Gender differences in information diffusion within the household" By @dietmarfehr (@Uni_Stuttgart ), Johanna Mollerstrom (@GeorgeMasonU), @pereztruglia (@uclaanderson) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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📢 Early-Career Behavioral Economics Conference 2025 📢 Check out the call, help spread the word to your early-career colleagues, and submit your wonderful papers! FAIR, Bergen, June 19-20, 2025 More info: sites.google.com/site/ecbeconfe…#ECBE2025 #EconTwitter


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Incredibly important piece by Jens Ludwig in the @chicagotribune "The most important problem in higher education that no one is talking about," including this devastating chart: chicagotribune.com/2024/09/08/opi…

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The Journal of Development Economics invites scholars to contribute to a special issue on “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”. This special issue aims to delve into the relationship between mental health and broader socioeconomic outcomes. sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…


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If you’re not already watching @juliana_londono present @nberpubs #NBERSI causal evidence that abortion denial increases women’s mortality stop what you’re doing and watch at youtube.com/watch?v=S3BfL9…. Full paper at conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

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🚨 New working paper! 🚨 Information experiments are a popular method for learning about effects of beliefs on actions. What are the key assumptions? What estimator should I use? @VilfortVod and I develop a formal framework to answer: arxiv.org/abs/2309.04793

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Team Scientist @betsylevyp had a wide-ranging conversation with @behscientist about how she comes up with ideas, her working habits, what she’d like to do next, and more: bit.ly/3UCUIvw


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📢Come work with us! 3-year PhD position at the Professorship for Global Health @TU_Muenchen @HfPMuenchen to support an @ERC_Research funded study on economic violence against women in India (Indian applicants particularly welcome!) More information here👉hfp.tum.de/en/hfp/news/ar…

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Bringing work home: Flexible work arrangements as ‘gateway jobs’ for women - Lisa Ho (@MIT), Suhani Jalota @suhani_jalota(@Stanford), Anahita Karandikar @anahitark (@UBC) Read more: ideasforindia.in/topics/product…


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New paper from Norway: Banning smartphones in school - significantly decreased doctors visits for psychological symptoms and diseases among girls - reduced bullying among both genders - improved girls’ GPA and attendance rates - largest effect sizes were among the poorest kids

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👉New working paper w/ @AndreasGrunewa3 & @JonasRadbruch: nudges and other behavioral policy interventions may not only improve targeted choices, but also help people make better decisions in *other* domains of their lives.

The Double Dividend of Nudges - superb, brilliant, important paper, producing an insight that has long been awaiting explicit treatment and empirical support. @AGrunewald @SteffenAltmann @R_Thaler @m_sendhil @katy_milkman @NatashaRSarin rationality-and-competition.de/wp-content/upl…



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So happy to see mental health getting center stage at the JDE. Submit to the special issue focusing on “Mental health and Socio-economic outcomes”! Edited by the all-star team: @Prof_Nishith_P Gautam Rao and @FrankSchilbach sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…


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Gentle reminder: Please consider submitting to the 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments with keynotes by @Econ_4_Everyone and @loeb_susanna! All infos: field-experiments.eu P.S. Blends nicely with this year’s AFE in London, September 5-6! 😉 Come to Europe, everyone 🚀🚀🚀

Happy to announce our 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-10 Sept. 2024, Technical University of Munich @TU_Muenchen Heilbronn. Submission deadline 1 May. Keynotes: John List @Econ_4_Everyone and Susanna Loeb @loeb_susanna! tinyurl.com/44yvsdks

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