Now forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics!
With @alessandracassar.bsky.social, (the newly-minted Dr.) @mirandainez.bsky.social, Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu, and @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social
In our latest Job Market Insights article, Miranda Lambert @mirandainez.bsky.social explores how childhood trauma shapes adult relationships in post-conflict settings.
Link: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/01/25/w...
In a new study, @eeshani.bsky.social & fellow experts ask: What does life look like for northern Ugandan women who were taken as children and are now adults?
20 years on, the study finds lasting psychological & social impacts that economic measures often miss:
https://go.cgdev.org/49j4n31
@danilaserra-eco.bsky.social @eckelc.bsky.social
My broader agenda explores barriers that limit women and disadvantaged populations. Other work includes experimental evidence on gender gaps in leadership and mental health interventions for conflict-affected women. Excited to connect! #EconJMP
sites.google.com/view/miranda...
I use psych and lab-in-the-field measures to uncover why these patterns emerge. Mental health and perceived social status increase victimization risk, while prosociality from shared trauma offers protection.
The cycle continues: children in households where at least one parent was abducted are 17-20 percentage points more likely to be hit by their mothers. This holds whether the mother, father, or both were abducted, revealing how trauma echoes across generations.
Abducted women married to not abducted men face the highest IPV risk. When both partners share trauma, this risk is mitigated. Abducted men experience higher verbal abuse than not abducted men regardless of wife’s status.
I study couples in Northern Uganda where the Lord's Resistance Army abducted over 50,000 children during the civil conflict. Using original survey and lab-in-the-field data, I show that partners’ childhood trauma history fundamentally changes household violence patterns decades later.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g0MKAJeczm5NYjduWR-gRAi2phErgDcG/view?usp=drive_link
I'm on the #EconJobMarket!🥳 My research examines how childhood trauma from violence shapes household violence in adulthood. My #EconJMP asks: How do trauma histories interact with their partners' experiences to shape intimate partner violence and violence against children? 🧵
My broader agenda: How do policies & tech shape opportunities for people with disabilities?
Other projects explore minimum wages, remote work in the UK, the intergenerational effects of 1980s paratransit (w/ restricted Census data), & a JPAL-funded RCT on on-demand paratransit. 5/6
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.
My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
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It’s time for the 3rd Annual Texas Applied Microeconomics Student (TEAMS) Workshop hosted by yours truly at Texas A&M! This is a one-day event for PhD students across Texas to share research, network, and build community in applied micro. Let’s go! 🧵
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