@LEAPdevelopment

Laboratory for Effective Antipoverty Policies at @Unibocconi. Rigorous scientific research to improve the lives of the poor. Use #leapdevelopment to reach out!

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leap.unibocconi.eu
Joined June 2019
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@LEAPdevelopment 10th anniversary kick off today! Great talk by @AnneKaring => New evidence on antibiotic misuse: pharmacies play a pivotal role in AMR risk, but blunt restrictions can reduce overuse while increasing undertreatment!
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@LEAPdevelopment 10th anniversary: second talk in the health section - How should health insurance be designed? See Lorenzo Casaburi paper on health insurance in Uganda!
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Development economists? Don’t forget to submit your application!!!
CEPR
@cepr_orgMar 25
📢Apply for the 25th Summer School in International and #Development #Economics: Economic Development in the Age of Big Data and #AI ⌛Deadline: 4 May 📆1-4 September | 📍Tuscany, Italy Lecturers: @thesamasher & @paulnovosad ow.ly/55T650Yyvse
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A special thanks to our local partners: Un Sole per Tutti & Aguidie Guinea for their incredible work supporting adolescent empowerment and immigrant integration unsolepertutti.com @elianalaferrara @giac_bat @CornoLucia @LEAPdevelopment @Unicatt
VoxDev@vox_devMar 16
🆕 Can providing information reduce risky migration? Today on VoxDev, @giac_bat (@RF_Berlin), Lucia Corno (@Unicatt) & @elianalaferrara (@Kennedy_School) outline an informational intervention on the risks of irregular migration in Guinea: voxdev.org/topic/migration-u…

Can providing information reduce risky migration?

In Guinea, providing information about the risks of migration journeys corrects overly optimistic beliefs and significantly reduces irregular migration intentions and behaviour among young people,...

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JMC: for those not familiar w/ the Italian system, this is similar to a 4-year post-doc (no teaching!), after which the candidate can apply for a 5-6 yrs AP that automatically transitions into tenure. Deadline Nov.30! @unicatt @leapdevelopment @RoyalEconSoc @EAYEconomists 👇
LuciaCorno@CornoLucia7 Nov 2025
Are you a JM candidate interested in Development/Labor/Applied micro? Come to work w/ us in Milan! @Unicatt @LEAPdevelopment Look fwd to read your JM paper! econjobmarket.org/positions/…
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Are you a JM candidate interested in Development/Labor/Applied micro? Come to work w/ us in Milan! @Unicatt @LEAPdevelopment Look fwd to read your JM paper! econjobmarket.org/positions/…
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This is a fantastic pre-doc opportunity! @michelacarlana is a great mentor and an outstanding researcher! Joint her and her team at @LEAPdevelopment
Michela Carlana@michelacarlana4 Mar 2025
PRE-DOC OPPORTUNITY @LEAPdevelopment @Unibocconi! Join us to work on education-related projects in Italy, Finland, and Chile. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Start date: between April and September. Detailed information available here: michelacarlana.com/wp-conten…
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6 Feb.: International Day of Zero Tolerance for FGM. Thanks to the incredible activists I’ve met during my research. Your relentless fight against FGC is changing lives! #AmazonianInitiativeMovement #LeapDevelopment #EndFGM
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Are you based in Boston? Join the effort to make a difference: volunteer for the Homeless Census! Collecting data on homelessness is crucial for designing efficient public pulicies! More info here: boston.gov/departments/housi… Registration here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1aHb…

Annual Homeless Census

In the annual Homeless Census, volunteers go out through all neighborhoods of Boston. They survey and offer shelter and services to people staying on the street. View the 2026 Census

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Thank you all for coming! So great to see how our community is growing! @LEAPdevelopment #leapdevelopment
Michela Tincani@MichelaTincani20 Dec 2024
Last work trip of the year: Bocconi’s @LEAPdevelopment Christmas meeting in beautiful Milan’s Villa Invernizzi (yes, those are flamingos by the fountain!)
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Bocconi students interested in development? Apply!👇
LEAP@LEAPdevelopment24 Oct 2024
📢 The LEAP Internship Program is back for its Winter 2025 Round! This opportunity is dedicated to @Unibocconi students, for curricular internships with LEAP Faculty Affiliates. Deadline November, 15th 2024. Details here➡️leap.unibocconi.eu/vacancies… #LEAPdevelopment
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📢 Call for papers: Excited to announce the 4th Workshop on Networks & Development! Naples, 22-23 May, keynotes by @emilybreza (@HarvardEcon) & @yveszenou1 (@MonashBusiness) Apply before Jan 30th. Details👇 @csef_unina @UninaIT @LEAPdevelopment
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Splendid event & packed house for the first #IGIER @LEAPdevelopment @Unibocconi seminar of the year: @karthik_econ presenting his masterpiece “Accelerating India’s Development” with insightful comments by @singhabhi & @edoardoteso.
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Excited to share our new working paper on social isolation with my amazing coauthors Sule Alan @sulealan_econ and Michela Carlana @michelacarlana
Sule Alan@sulealan_econ11 Sep 2024
A new paper with my awesome coauthors @michelacarlana and Marinella Leone! We show how social isolation in the class can be mitigated, simply by making teachers aware of it and informing them about the developmental risks associated with it. @JPAL_Europe
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We are ready to kick off the third day of summer school in #development and #politicalEcon in beautiful Gargonza! Looking forward to the new lectures from @SMGSequeira and @claudferraz and to the PhDs presentations 🙌 @MariapiaMendola @marcosanfilip
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Really happy to share the final program of the 3rd Workshop on Networks and Development. Exciting papers and fantastic keynote by @JacksonmMatt Looking forward to meeting all the participants in Napoli next week! @csef_unina @UninaIT @LEAPdevelopment @wb_research
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Was very nice to meet old friends from UCL! Thank you @bmpcarvalho @ggminale @JanShuler @Daniela_Sola_ for the great hospitality! #leapdevelopment
Bruno P Carvalho@bmpcarvalho29 Apr 2024
Today @CornoLucia (Cattolica University) is presenting at the AE seminar series @EconomicsUc3m. Lucia is presenting work on interventions to change harmful norms, focusing on breast-ironing practices in Cameroon. 👇🏻
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Replying to @YaleEGC @elianalaferrara @Kennedy_School @HarvardCID @samuelmoyn @yale_history @YaleLawSch @YaleEconomics
A very important and great conversation on harmful norms. Thank you to the always brilliant @elianalaferrara Rohini Pande and @samuelmoyn!
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What challenges are facing the African continent, a growing set of countries, and not only demographically? #viaSarfatti25 discusses these here 👇 viasarfatti25.unibocconi.eu/… @GIMPA_Greenhill @TGHORFI @CornoLucia @RobertoIsibor @DeserrannoErika @AndreaColli9 @NicolaLimodio
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Day 2 at the @LEAPdevelopment @EUDevNetwork with @RobertaZippi showing that matrilocal women are more likely to divorce after a reform on justice in Indonesia!
LuciaCorno@CornoLucia18 Jan 2024
Great kick-off of the @LEAPdevelopment @EUDevNetwork with Simon Goarlach talking how the effect of high temperature on migration can be mitigated by roads network in Kenya! #leapdevelopment
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