Just published in the Journal of Public Economics: "Movin' on Up? The Impacts of a Large-Scale Housing Lottery in Uruguay" by Armentano (Vinny Armentano 📈), McIntosh, Monestier (Felipe Monestier ), Piñeiro, Rosenblatt (Fernando Rosenblatt), & Tuñón (Guadalupe Tuñón) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share a VoxDev post on my new paper on digital financial services and women’s empowerment with Rachel Heath

Policies promoting refugee's long-term socioeconomic integration, so they can thrive in new communities, are crucial. This #WorldHumanitarianDay 🌍, Dany Bahar 🌎, Giovanni Peri & Rebecca Brough offer a review of integration plans to help guide policymakers: bit.ly/4ac3mbb

Financial access boosted labour market outcomes in Brazil 🇧🇷 Bernardus Doornik, Armando Gomes WashU Olin Business School, David Schoenherr Princeton Economics & Janis Skrastins WashU find that access to vehicle financing improved mobility and generated large returns: voxdev.org/topic/finance/…

Which strategies work to improve the quality of public preschools? In new research published in JPE, Yale University's Orazio Attanasio (Orazio Attanasio) + coauthors partnered w/ the Colombian govt to evaluate a nationwide expansion of its preschool program: economics.yale.edu/news/240814/ne…

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Mayra Pineda-Torres Georgia Tech School of Economics who works on topics related to gender + health in the U.S. and Latin America mayrapinedatorres.com

Need help making choices when designing #socialassistance #cashtransfer interventions? Innovations for Poverty Action have summarised the evidence to help make decisions about size, duration, payment mechanism, etc 👉poverty-action.org/evidence-at-yo…

"Even with our most conservative estimates, the magnitude of learning gains achievable through lead eradication is comparable to many popular policy initiatives to improve education quality in the developing world." academic.oup.com/wbro/advance-a…

Out now in World Development! Brooke Krause and I explore the effect of a multi-dimensional women’s empowerment program called Maisha Bora (MaishaBora_Tanzania) in rural northern Tanzania. An #econtwitter 🧵: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

💸How Cost-Effective Is Global Health Aid? 📣Please check out our new paper! Center for Global Development Brian Webster Dr. Karen Grépin et al cgdev.org/blog/how-cost-… cgdev.org/publication/co…

A study by researchers in the J-PAL network (Ariel Kalil Susan Mayer Philip Oreopoulos) and Rohen Shah finds that light-touch educational media like the Big Word Club can supplement current curriculum and increase student vocabulary. Read more: povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/clo…

📚 Postdoc, Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL) - support the creation of IDEAL, manage research associates, and work with CEGA-affiliated faculty like Edward Miguel and Graeme Blair - PhD required, salary starts at $90,000

Hiring at NU Global Poverty Research Lab a "Senior Director" (aka Executive Director). Please help spread the word! povertyactionlab.org/careers/senior…

🚨Deadline approaching (20/09)! 🌐Call for papers: 17th International Conference on Migration & Development 🗓️Dec. 9-10, Bologna ℹ️ The conf. is devoted to investigating ways in which int'l #migration affects economic & social change in developing countries 📨[email protected]

📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 Dean Karlan Jacopo Ponticelli and I are hiring 2 full-time Research Fellows (predoc RAs) for the 2024-2025 academic year Details here: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/FIN… Rolling with priority deadline Sep 30 cc #EconTwitter Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org Innovations for Poverty Action J-PAL NU Global Poverty Research Lab

We’re thrilled that the next #WEFIDEV Conference on #Finance and #Development will feature a dual submission option with the Review of Financial Studies Society for Financial Studies Join us LSE Mar 28-29 Submit by Dec 1 ⬇️ DM Giorgia Barboni Kim Fe Cramer Nicola Limodio or me for info

Fascinating new papers on gender-related topics out in EDCC! From my colleagues at @ifpri Dan Gilligan Naureen Karachiwalla, PhD 🇵🇸 Sikandra: cash transfers meaningfully ⬇️ women's engagement in decision-making as well as ⬇️ women's decision-making power journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…