We are hiring for a pre-doctoral fellow role Cornell University starting in the summer of 2024 . Please apply if you are thinking of grad school and you are interested in behavioral and/or development. Econ RA Listings #predoc #EconTwitter cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Trying to catch up with all the cool work from the Berkeley dev JMCs... Super interesting paper by Jed Silver 🟣 on the interaction of multiple market failures on aggregate productivity. A useful (self-)reminder that focusing on *one* market at a time might be misleading!

Man have I got the JMP for you

I just attended a thought-provoking, inspiring and passionate talk by @NinaBuchmann6 on the topic of “paternalistic discrimination”. If you get a chance, please take a look at her paper!

I'm hiring two full-time predocs at UChicago Economics to begin this summer. Will be working on development, labor and education projects. Experience with RCT's and/or data cleaning preferred. Apply here: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/C…

Very excited for Michel Armel Ndayikeza, PhD !

Félicitations Michel Armel Ndayikeza, PhD !! I'm so proud of you :) Can't wait to celebrate together 🫶

🆕 Do short-term contracts limit investments in training workers? 🇧🇮 Today on VoxDev, Luisa Cefala Luisa Cefalà Haas School of Business, Pedro Naso @_SLU, Michel Armel Ndayikeza, PhD & Nick Swanson Stanford King Center on Global Development outline evidence from rural Burundi: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

What are the downsides to short term contracting in agriculture? King Center Postdoc Fellow Nick Swanson research in rural #Burundi shows that training can have big returns. His team offers policy insights on approaches to information sharing between farmers and laborers.🌱

Grant opportunity for Ph.D. students! In 2022, I received a grant for my work in Burundi from SurveyCTO. SurveyCTO is now accepting applications for this year's grant, and I encourage everyone to apply! More info here 👇 surveycto.com/data-collectio…

Gisèle Pelicot walking to take the stand today, her strength echoing in every step: “It’s not for us to have shame, it’s for them,” she told the court. "I want all women who have been raped to say: Madame Pelicot did it, I can too. I don't want them to be ashamed any longer,"

Submit your papers to the Women in Empirical Micro Conference Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, August 21-22! Info here: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c… Please submit by Feb 28.

I’m *so* excited that this article is out! Super proud of Michel Armel Ndayikeza, PhD: this is so well deserved ☺️