It was an honor to present the 2024 Francis Wilson Memorial Prize for Data-Driven Research to Tim Köhler for best peer-reviewed article and Dr Emma Whitelaw for best dissertation at University of Cape Town. DataFirst SALDRU. Congratulations to Tim and Emma!

John Knodel was a wonderful colleague, collaborator, and friend. He made so many important contributions to the field of demography and to the Univ. of Mich. Population Studies Center UM Population Studies Center. He will be greatly missed. psc.isr.umich.edu/news/rememberi…

Looking forward to participating in this interesting conference in Cape Town Nov. 8-9: bit.ly/IWN-Cape-Town Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺

I'm looking forward to seeing 40 years worth of PhD students and collaborators at this event on Friday. Thanks to everyone who helped organize it! psc.isr.umich.edu/events/david-l…

⚠️New call for proposals G2LM|LIC⚠️Fantastic opportunity to implement great research🖥️. Please help to spread the news!!! David Lam Kate Vyborny Ahmed Elsayed Taryn Dinkelman Pamela Jakiela Clare Hofmeyr Owen Ozier Janneke Pieters Stefano Caria kanika mahajan Simon Franklin

Great funding opportunity for research on gender, labor, and economic growth from G2LM|LIC. g2lm-lic.iza.org/call-for-propo…

Great and much deserved tribute to Martin Ravallion from David McKenzie and Berk Ozler. Martin was truly a giant in the field.

World Bank Dev Impact blog: Great JMP by Michigan's James Allen James Allen IV shows that increasing overlap in school calendar and farm calendar in Malawi led to declines in both grade advancement and time worked on the farm. James is a great job candidate. jamesalleniv.com

Call for papers for fall NBER Development Economics conference, Cambridge, MA, on Dec 2. Submit complete papers by Sept 19, midnight ET.

Submit papers at:
papers.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

The Development Econ session at NBER Summer Institute kicks off tomorrow at 9 am ET. Here's the full schedule: nber.org/conferences/si…

Livestream can be found here: youtube.com/channel/UC79EL…

Read today's featured article: Youth bulges and youth unemployment by David Lam from U-M ISR and U-M Economics University of Michigan wol.iza.org/articles/youth… #WorldPopulationDay

The chart shows one of the most important achievements in humanity's history — in the last 200 years the majority of the world left the very worst poverty behind.

[from Max Roser's post 'The history of the end of poverty has just begun' ourworldindata.org/history-of-pov…]

We have an awesome lineup of talks for the Development Econ session at NBER SI on July 25-26. (They'll be live-streamed.) nber.org/conferences/si…

Thanks to the selection committee: It's a treat to see all the great devo papers being written these days, but also a lot of work!

Wonderful tribute here from SALDRU and Murray Leibbrandt to South African economist Francis Wilson, including a great interview with Francis: saldru.uct.ac.za/2022/04/29/in-…

A fine tribute to Francis Wilson by Pippa Green
dailymaverick.co.za/article/2022-0…

Very sad to learn of the passing of Francis Wilson, a giant in South African economics, founding director of SALDRU at University of Cape Town UCT. I feel very fortunate to have known him and worked with him. A unique and inspiring person.

Submit your papers for NBER's Summer Institute by this Wednesday night (March 23rd)! You do not have to be a member of NBER.

The call for papers and submission links may be found here:
nber.org/calls-papers-a… #NBERSI

NEW OPINION PIECE: Labor markets in low-income countries: Challenges and opportunities by David Lam from U-M Economics and Ahmed Elsayed from IZA wol.iza.org/opinions/labor… #lowincomecountries #economicgrowth #povertyreduction #globalpoverty #developingcountries

Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries is available in print and digital open-access. All chapters may be viewed and downloaded free of charge from Oxford University Press website (under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for non-commercial use). oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/o…

Join us for book launch of Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries Wed Feb 23 at 15:30 CET/9:30 ET. Presenters: Markus Goldstein, Pamela Jakiela, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak; Policy panel: Ernest Aryeetey, Louise Fox Adnan Qadir Khan, Dr. Vera Songwe Register: bit.ly/3p7jBRd