Professor in Social Protection and Development
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Joined October 2015
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Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Afghan Women Singing in English for Freedom and Gender Apartheid 🇦🇫
The slogan "My voice is not private" of Afghan women after the Taliban enacted a new law for women and banned women's voices in the media.
#Poems_For_Freedom #GenderApartheid #UN
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
The Taliban has banned Afghan women from showing their faces or speaking out loud in public under strict new laws.
@Channel4News
Codify #GenderApartheid As A #CrimeAgainstHumanity
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Afghan Women Rights Activist Tahmina Salik:
With these sounds, and poetry we Afghan women shook the palace of your authoritarian rule and we will destroy it.
Afghan women are shared their voices through the poetry for their freedom.
#صدای_زن_عورت_نیست #GenderApartheid
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Afghan women can now be punished for singing or speaking in public.
The Taliban's silencing of women’s voices in Afghanistan is abhorrent.
@hrw @WRNAfghanistan
#LetUsExist
End #GenderApartheid
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
🚸How do rural roads impact child labor and schooling in 🇪🇹? The study "Rural Roads, Child Labor, and Schooling in Rural 🇪🇹" in #JDevStudies finds that improved road access doesn’t lead to more dropouts or child labor.
👉🏽Read: doi.org/10.1080/00220388.202…
@gassmann21 @MaastrichtU
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Interested in tracking urbanization trends, conflict areas or economic activity?
Discover the potential of @NASA's #BlackMarble #data with our latest blog post, and explore how #R and #Python packages simplify data access and analysis.
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Franziska Gassmann retweeted
📢 New free course exploring why & how political institutions affect economic development + applying theories & empirical techniques to real-world examples.
More details on this course w/ Abhijit Banerjee & @Ben_Olken: mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/c…
Teaser ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=zZL2qPwE…
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Join our vibrant and committed @UNICEFSocPolicy network as Chief of Social Policy in @UNICEF_Burundi- lead and exciting and urgent agenda to address child poverty, scale-up social protection and public finance for children.
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Franziska Gassmann retweeted
The Development Impact blog has been slowed down by the World Bank transitioning us to a newer, slower, more cumbersome, platform. But we are up and running with two posts. Here's Gabe Englander on publishing in science journals blogs.worldbank.org/en/impac…
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Join our dynamic and vibrant Public Finance for Children team as Public Finance Specialist. Critical agenda to enhance impactful investments across social protetion, health, nutrition, WASH, ECD and more! Apply by March 17th! @UNICEFSocPolicy @orriagoni
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Franziska Gassmann retweeted
This is a must-read. A powerful critique of mainstream economics coming from Angus Deaton, a recent Nobel Prize winner in economics who has spent most of his career within the mainstream.
He highlights five major deficiencies of mainstream economics, and they are spot on: the neglect of power structures in economic analyses, the marginalisation of philosophical issues, the obsession with efficiency, the narrow interpretation of empirical methods and the blind fixation on inferential statistics, and the lack of humility vis-a-vis other social sciences.
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Franziska Gassmann retweeted
A new validation method shows that people systematically misreport subjective well-being, which means caution is warranted when using such survey responses as welfare measures, from @JamesAndreoni, B. Douglas Bernheim, and Tingyan Jia nber.org/papers/w32208
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
How to make sure funds for school meals are used well?
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"A transparency intervention in the Colombian School Meals Program significantly changed the behavior of powerful operators. The intervention consisted of informal audits & text messages to parents."
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Calling PhD scholars interested in social policy and welfare studies 😃👇 I look forward to some inspiring days 🤓📚
Call for Papers: Apply now! The 13th International NordWel Summer School will take place at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen from 19 to 23 August 2024. CRC 1342 welcomes applications by PhD students by 31 March 2024. Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en/
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
"Towards improved and more transparent ethics in randomised controlled trials in development social science" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Cash transfers are an anti-#poverty tool using prediction models that reach a billion people worldwide. Are they targeting the right households?
Stephan Dietrich @MalerbaDaniele & @gassmann21 develop a assessment framework:
bit.ly/3Subyx7
@UNUMERIT @IDOS_research
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
What is the actual cost of cash assistance programmes?
In this @ConversationUK article, our researchers @gassmann21, Conrad Nunnenmacher & Julieta Morais, discuss how cash transfers can help people escape poverty while stimulating the economy.
💡theconversation.com/how-gove…
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
Doing a literature review takes a lot of time and effort.
Here's a new AI-powered workflow that will supercharge your literature reivew.
You can learn it in less than 15 min:
Franziska Gassmann retweeted
🌟NEW CSAE Working Paper 'The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice' by @gamblingondev.
This paper offers a framework for assessing how to maximise the economic development impact of advice, allowing for the political incentives of those in power.
csae.ox.ac.uk/publication/15…
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