Professor at @amseaixmars, applied microeconomics, development & family economics

Marseille, Frankreich
Joined October 2010
After a long (!!!) way, my former JMP has been accepted at EDCC 🥳🥳🥳 Double the Diapers, Double the Degrees? Anticipated Children and Educational Investment in China journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10… #EconTwitter #EconOfEducation #DevelopmentEconomics #Demography
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I don't post here anymore, but I own this to my younger self: Today is my first day as a (tenured) professor! 🥳🥳🥳 It's also my son's first day at pre-school (école maternelle) which feels somehow more exciting (and scary).
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🎉Congratulations to Aisha Salith, PhD student at @amseaixmars, for winning the Best Poster Award at the #ICDE for her poster "Harvesting Hope: #ClimateShocks and Religion in Sub-Saharan Africa," co-written with @evaraiber. #Economics #WomenInEconomics 📷AMSE
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En Chine, les parents jouent un rôle important dans le choix des partenaires de leurs enfants. Des chercheurs analysent ces préférences parentales 🔎💕...À lire cette semaine dans #DialoguesEconomiques ⤵️ amse.site/FSsKQ @evaraiber @CNRS_dr12 @CNRSshs @Sciences_Po_Aix
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In China, parents play a leading role in their children's choice of partners. Researchers looked at these preferences 🔎💕...To be read in #DialoguesEconomiques ⤵️ amse.site/j80h6 @evaraiber @CNRS_dr12 @CNRSshs @Sciences_Po_Aix
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New publication, based on our online experiment with @danielahsaenz and @DemontTimothee : --> Exposure to worrisome topics can increase cognitive performance when incentivized by a performance goal Open Access in Scientific Reports: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-5…
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But, we find a positive effect of the labor market topic under the threshold payment. This could be indicative of a 'tunneling effect (from scarcity theory) or a positive stress effect.
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Yet, digging deeper (with Athey's causal forest), we find that the result is driven by financially well-off students. Students with financial struggles are less likely to benefit from the treatment. This points to an inequality‑widening mechanism.
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Eva Raiber retweeted
A study in #Kenya shows that traditional #scam detection tips do not help people differentiate scams from genuine messages, making them overly cautious. @elifkubilay, @LSpantig @UoE_Economics, @evaraiber @amseaixmars, Cahlíková @UniBonn, Kaaria @uonbi ow.ly/GbQH50Q5qEv
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Eva Raiber retweeted
Financial fraud in developing countries: Common scam detection tips do not help distinguish scam from non-scam messages @elifkubilay, @LSpantig @UoE_Economics, @evaraiber @amseaixmars, Jana Cahlíková @UniBonn, Lucy Kaaria @uonbi ow.ly/cGfY50Q5qVY
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And it is published with *open access* in the Journal of Development Economics: sciencedirect.com/science/ar… Very grateful to JDE for the surprisingly fast turnaround!
Excited to share our new discussion paper @cepr_org: Can you spot a scam? Measuring and improving scam identification ability In an online experiment, we test the effectiveness of scam education on a novel measure of scam identification ability.
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⚠️🌟Few places available for entering the Master 1 Economics programme in September 2023 ! Apply until July 18 ➡️ bit.ly/3Q8Koev More information on the program of study → bit.ly/46FGhw7 @univamu @Centrale_Med @CNRS_dr12 @EHESS_fr 📷 dizain / AdobeStock
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#easp2023krk is over and I'm seeing so many tweets about how great it was. No denying the truth to that, but there's also the not so great truth about how #visa issues were handled.
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Lucy Kaaria and I presented our paper on scams (joint with @LSpantig @evaraiber and Jana Cahlikova) last week at the Africa Evidence Summit in Kenya. Many thanks to the organisers for doing a great job - I learned a lot and will definitely come back! @CEGA_UC @BusaraCenter
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