So excited that Robert Smith NPR NPR's Planet Money did a podcast on our Senegal auctions project: npr.org/sections/money…

We're hiring for a non-tenure track position in social entrepreneurship--we interpret this to include development economists working with small businesses. Please let your students or colleagues who may be interested know! jobs.virginia.edu posting: 0623748.

Particularly relevant research this week, with Hurricane Florence on the way-- Timothy Beatty , Jay Shimshack and Richard Volpe show that households fail to follow government advice prior to hurricanes. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Batten is looking to fill a visiting fellowship for a full professor which comes with up to $90k to supplement the person's salary. If you know of anyone interested in visiting UVA next year, please let me know (it is required to be someone who is already a full professor).

My research with Laura Schechter on mobile money and savings for sanitation is now featured on VoxDev!

Because of the many development professionals displaced by the COVID crisis, UVA's Batten School has decided to re-open admissions for stellar candidates. If you know of anyone who has had to return to the US and is newly interested in getting an MPP, please let them know!

Please let your grad students on the market know--Batten is hiring two 2 year post-docs, see the announcement below:

ADBI is planning a sanitation and development workshop in October and Britta Augsburg and I are co-editing a special issue of JDE with Andrew Foster following the workshop. Submit by August 1 adb.org/adbi/research/…

‘Sanitation and Development’ on the agenda, including a workshop in October by the @ADBI, Institute for Fiscal Studies, François Bimogo and JDE Special Issue, co-edited by Molly Lipscomb, Andrew Foster and myself. For more info: adb.org/adbi/research/…

I was recently appointed Director of the Center for Social Innovation@ UVA. We are looking for an Associate Director. This would be a great pre-doc for an Econ BA with a bit of experience or an MPP. Please encourage interested candidates to apply: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Ch…

We are still accepting applications for Associate Director of the Center for Social Innovation @ UVA. Please encourage your friends, students and colleagues to apply!

Economists! UVA Batten School is hiring! Come work with a great group, including @ianhsolomon, Jay Shimshack, Molly Lipscomb, Sebastian Tello-Trillo, @christopherruhm, Craig Volden, and many others! Please help us spread the word. Due: November 19 Job ad: higheredjobs.com/faculty/detail…

What makes Raymond Guiteras join Twitter? #EconToiletPapers! New hashtag -- credit to Raymond! Only 2 days to go until the Asian Development Bank Institute, @theIFS, UVA Batten School, François Bimogo conference on Sanitation & Development with many ToiletPapers. Kicked off by Sebastian Galiani. Join: ifs.org.uk/events/1944

VoxDev just published a blog post on a project that I have been working on with Joe Kaboski, Virgiliu Midrigan, and Carolyn Pelnik--we show that the elasticity of supply of investment goods matters a lot for the impact of increased access to finance in alleviating poverty traps.

We are hiring for a new Associate Director for the Center for Social Innovation (we are basically looking for an Economics predoc that wants to spend 1-2 years in the position). Please let your students know in case they are interested! uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Ch…

We are hiring at UVA Batten's Social Innovation Center! The Associate Director position is similar to a predoc with about 75% of the time working on data cleaning and data analysis (some time on grants, logistics and management). Apply asap--jobs.virginia.edu/us/en/job/R005…

New link: uva.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UVAJobs/job/Ch…. We are hiring at UVA Batten's Social Innovation Center! Similar to a predoc with about 75% of the time working on data cleaning and data analysis (some time on grants, logistics and management). Apply asap!