Francesca Truffa
@FrancescaTruffa
Asst. Prof. @MichiganRoss. Labor and Gender Economics | Formerly @StanfordGSB, @NUEconomics.
📣📣📣 Menaka Hampole (@menaka_hampole), Ashley Wong (@ashleyywong) and I are hiring a pre-doc at University of Michigan starting Sept 2025 to work on a project on student debt, innovation, and entrepreneurship. More details: bit.ly/3UfXp6y Apply by August 8! @econ_ra
📄 New Policy Brief @GLMLIC: Access to online networks improves female entrepreneurs’ innovation, business practices, and profits by 26%.📈 Findings by @Monica_Lambon, Edward Asiedu, @FrancescaTruffa, and @ashleyywong. #Ghana Read: bit.ly/3UhZgbF @FCDOGovUK #EconTwitter
Today @ashleyywong (@TiUEconomics) presented a joint work with @menaka_hampole (@YaleSOM) and @FrancescaTruffa (@StanfordGSB) on #GenderInequality in corporate leadership. More female peers increase female MBAs likelihood of reaching senior management positions.
Exciting news! A big thank you to my amazing friend and co-author @ashleyywong and to everyone who helped us throughout this process with feedback and support!🤩
Beyond thrilled that @FrancescaTruffa and my JMP on gender diversity and direction of scientific research has been conditionally accepted at the AER!!!! 🥳🤩🎉
Looking forward to visiting @CESifoNetwork!
Welcome to @FrancescaTruffa, our research guest from @StanfordGSB at the ifo from March 4th to 11th. Wishing you a wonderful stay filled with fruitful exchanges. Enjoy your time!
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.” #NobelPrize
Was honored to attend the amazing @WiEMecon conference hosted by @BeckerFriedman this weekend and give some advice for more junior academics. Below I share my top 10, which benefited from assistance from many of my very wise friends!
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Violence against Women at Work,” by Adams-Prassl (@abicadams), Huttunen (@KristiinaHuttu2), Nix (@EmilyNix100), and Zhang (@ningzhang0927): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
What happens to women’s careers as a result of an unplanned pregnancy? Does the impact depend on career progression? Find out in a few hours when I present at NBER: nber.org/conferences/si… with amazing coauthors @gregveramendi Juanna Joensen and @EvaRye
🆕 Expanding professional networks catalyses female entrepreneurship. Today on VoxDev, Edward Asiedu (@ugbsofficial), @Monica_Lambon (@UnivofGh), @FrancescaTruffa (@StanfordGSB) & Ashley Wong (@SIEPR) outline their research in #Ghana: voxdev.org/topic/firms-tr…
In this month’s policy brief, SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow @ashleyywong and co-authors [@FrancescaTruffa + @menaka_hampole] examine the value of female networking in #MBA programs and discuss the policy implications of closing the gender gap. Learn more: stanford.io/3PwRkBt
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @Monica_Lambon who works on issues related to health, education and social protection at the University of Ghana researchgate.net/profile/Monica… ug.edu.gh/economics/peop…
The main figure from my proposal in this collection on enhancing the NIH -- we need more meta-science RCTs!
In a collection of short proposals, @pierre_azoulay, Chiara Franzoni and Paula Stephan, @KRoyMyers, @mayadurvasula, @cookdeegan, @RushHolt and @PatentScholar – contribute their thoughts on to enhance the NIH’s ability to support high social-impact work -> brook.gs/3pJw00R
📣 New announcement📣 We're excited to share that @ProfNoto is joining Amy Finkelstein as co-scientific director of @JPAL_NA. Join us in welcoming @ProfNoto to the role & learn more about our new leadership: news.mit.edu/2023/matthew-n…
Another awesome edition of @DondenaCentre #AlpPop ! I want to thank all AlpPoppers for the great papers, the friendly social interaction and the fantastic skiing together! @Arnstein_Aassve @sissinicobalbo
Read the new Research Note from Edward Asiedu, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, @FrancescaTruffa & @ashleyywong. They study how online #networking opportunities and #legal support benefit business #collaborations and #performance in #Ghana. Read more: bit.ly/7926RN #EconTwitter
We (economics department @UDLernerCollege @UDelaware) are hiring 2 tenure track assistant professors (rookie or advanced) in all sorts of fun fields (micro/macro/public/labor/IO/devo). JOE: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… We are also hiring senior (see below). Come be my colleague!
We (economics department @UDLernerCollege @UDelaware) are hiring a tenured associate/full in broadly defined labor. JOE: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… We will also be hiring 2 in the junior market. JOE forthcoming. Yes, this in addition to the 4 we hired last year, come join us!
We (economics department @UDLernerCollege @UDelaware) are hiring a tenured associate/full in broadly defined labor. JOE: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… We will also be hiring 2 in the junior market. JOE forthcoming. Yes, this in addition to the 4 we hired last year, come join us!
A short profile from JPAL of my great coauthor Monica Lambon-Quayefio: povertyactionlab.org/blog/9-28-22/a…