Associate Professor. Political economy of development (aid, gender, conflict, culture, trust). 🌴
Joined November 2010
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
Feb 11
I was writing about land reform in West Bengal last night and was curious if it had persistent effects on the ownership distribution.
So I did what anyone would do, I* wrote an academic paper on it
Turns out — yes! 1/
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Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from @amorygethin and Emmanuel Saez nber.org/papers/w34217
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
9 Aug 2025
The deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan could end one of the world’s most intractable conflicts and a regional detente. Whether that happens will be a test of American diplomacy and of the countries themselves economist.com/europe/2025/08…
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
28 Jul 2025
Just published in @JPubEcon:
"Does the prospect of upward mobility undermine support for redistribution?"
By @donandrewmoore, @ReneChoudhari, & @aileenwu_
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
#econtwitter #publiceconomics
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
28 Jul 2025
CHAOTIC energy coming from the table notes today
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
24 Jul 2025
Which is true?
1. None of his advisors understand percentage changes.
2. At least some know Trump’s spouting nonsense but feel they can’t tell him.
3. Some actually tell Trump his math makes no sense and he ignores them.
Trump: We will have reduced drugs prices by a 1000%, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400… Not 30 or 50%,
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22 May 2025
Amazing how Groningen city center is being constantly improved and made convenient for pedestrians and cyclers. When your city changes that often no need to move anywhere 😉
21 May 2025
Het college heeft het inrichtingsplan voor Oosterstraat en Gelkingestraat vastgesteld. bit.ly/4k3V3my Beide straten worden voetgangersgebieden. De straten krijgen een nieuwe inrichting waarbij voetgangers alle ruimte krijgen. De #raad050 besluit in juli over het plan.
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
10 May 2025
This paper confirms my belief that figuring out how to effectively employ LLMs at scale in education is one of the most important research problems of the day (and no, the answer is not “replace teachers with AI”).
Huge potential returns, and the worst case is already happening
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
9 May 2025
10/ Please help share our extended replication to stop the spread of this erroneous policy evaluation!
Read the new report here: econstor.eu/handle/10419/316…
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
9 May 2025
🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by @JohnHolbein1 alerted me, @OlleFolke, and Joop Adema (@Jopieboy) to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
9 May 2025
A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
11 Apr 2025
If you have a PhD (by 10 September) and you work on #gender #economics you have the opportunity to express your interest for a great #mariecurie postdoc @Unibocconi and work with us @AxaGenderLab! unibocconi.it/en/horizon-eur…
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
15 Apr 2025
I taught that new Anthropic paper "on the biology of LLMs" today and I just wrote a huge thread explaining it. Unfortunately that thread got deleted. But Twitter assured me it wasn't my fault. Anyway, here's a substack that explained it.
causalinf.substack.com/p/ins…
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What are the consequences of menopause, both for women's health and their earnings? In the latest #VoxTalks @RitaGinja @UiB tells @timsvengali about the menopause penalty, and the difference that education and choice of career can make
🎧 cepr.org/multimedia/menopaus…
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
20 Feb 2025
Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.
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The Women Professors Monitor 2024 shows that the proportion of women, particularly in higher academic positions, continues to decline notably with each stage of the academic career ladder. End of 2023, the average percentage of women professors at Dutch universities is 28,7%.
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
21 Nov 2024
Do women earn less than men because they are less competitive? This awesome paper by @ErnestoReuben, Paola Sapienza, and @zingales shows that once we measure earnings some years after graduation, competitiveness does not explain the gender gap (or predict earnings) 🧵1/7
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
21 Nov 2024
De problemen op de wegen in en rondom #Groningen lossen zich zo langzamerhand op. Het extra aangebrachte zout en de inzet van de lava storm ( youtube.com/watch?v=9V27wtuq… ) doen hopelijk de problemen helemaal oplossen.
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21 Nov 2024
Ok, Bluesky it is. I guess the time has come for me to move there too.
20 Nov 2024
I've decided that my econometrics posts will be over on Bluesky for the time being. I might repost some of them here, but no promises.
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Anna Minasyan retweeted
19 Nov 2024
BÆM is back! Come and join us in beautiful Bristol for the 2nd edition of the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings:
Development Economics: May 6-7
Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital: May 8-9
Submit your paper by Feb 28. Travel support is available. baem.info. 1/4
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