ECMA is happy to announce the 2024 Frisch Medal has been awarded to Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, & Michael Walker for their outstanding paper: General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya econometricsociety.org/prizes/frisch-…

Feeling very happy and honored to be part of this project, with such wonderful co-authors, research assistants, field managers, enumerators, implementing partner, and funders. What a great team!

📢 Join Daron Acemoglu, and an expert panel featuring Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides and Professor Helen Margetts as they discuss 'The Future of Work in the Age of AI'
When: Thur 2 May at 17:00
Where: Saïd Business School, Oxford
Register at: ow.ly/Eef750R7wbz

St Cross Road will be closed between Friday 26 and Monday 29 April. Pedestrians and dismounted cyclists will have access except for 11am-2pm on Friday 26 April, when the road directly outside the Life and Mind Building (on both sides of the corner) will be completely closed.

🔊One month until the OUBEP Summer Programme kicks off! The programme combines academic insights, practitioner perspectives, and lively discussions. Online launch on 20 May, followed by lectures, tutorials, and a residential week in July.
Find out more: lnkd.in/eSUzJ53V

Today marks the official start of Trinity term!

We hope everyone has a good final term of the 2023-24 academic year, and very best wishes to all our students for their assessments this term 👏

📢 Discover your pathway at the September Summer School 2024 Webinar, hosted by Oxford University Economics Summer Schools! 🌞🎓

🗓️ Date: 23rd April 2024 (Tuesday)
🕒 Time: 5:00pm - 6:00pm (BST)
🌐 Location: Online (via Zoom) [Registration Link: shorturl.at/GNRT3]

Congratulations to our Head of Department Hamish Low!

How should political parties choose candidates?

Last month on VoxDev, Katherine Casey Stanford Graduate School of Business, Abou Bakarr Kamara International Growth Centre & Niccolò Meriggi CSAE Department of Economics, Oxford shed light on which systems of leadership selection are most effective: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

🚨MATCH-UP (9-11 Sept, Oxford) submission portal is OPEN🚪:
easychair.org/conferences/?c…. Deadline extended to 8 May 🥳. Page limit is now 18 pages 🤯 in line with ACM SIGecom and SAGT. Keynotes🔑🎵: Tommy Andersson and Kavitha Telikepalli. Look forward to your submissions! 👇👇👇👇

🚨 Launch day is finally here for my new book, GROWTH: A RECKONING! Very excited to discuss the ideas in the weeks to come. 🚨

📚The CSAE’s #JournalofAfricanEconomies March 2024 issue's editor’s choice is: ‘From Food Subsidies to Cash Transfers: Assessing Economy-Wide Benefits & Trade-Offs in Egypt’ & it's #openaccess !

📚Read here: doi.org/10.1093/jae/ej…

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Thank you to all who joined Treatment Effects: The Basics, diving into lectures and sessions with Francis DiTraglia! Interested in advanced concepts? Join Treatment Effects: Beyond The Basics this September.
Learn more at our free webinar on April 23 17:00 rb.gy/vscubj

🌟📽️The opening panel of the CSAE Conference 2024 is available to watch online. #OxCSAE2024

Free Money: A Discussion on the Research & Ethics of Cash Transfers

🎙️Sam Soko, Lauren DeFilippo, Miriam Laker-Oketta MD GiveDirectly💸, Dennis Egger, & Stefan Dercon

youtu.be/6kVDWk075h4?fe…

🔊 Oxford University has been ranked 3rd in the QS Top Global Universities ranking this year, rising from 4th in 2023. As well as this, Oxford has remained 9th in the world for Economics!

Find out more here: ow.ly/OrCa50Rf7HA

Prof. Isaiah Andrews will join us for the annual Hicks Lecture!
📅June 6th, 17:30 - 18:30
Titled, 'True and Pseudo-True Parameter Values', Isaiah will explore the implications of misspecified models converging to pseudo-true values.
Register for free here: ow.ly/k1Bc50ReQHb

A very warm welcome to our students arriving back in Oxford, or who have remained over the Easter vac, ready for the start of Trinity. 😍

🙌 Let's go for the final term of the 2023-24 academic year, and very best wishes to all our students for your assessments this term. 💙

Calling all University of Oxford Oxford Students!

Finishing your studies in March - April? Join us on 17 April at The Market Tap by Tap Social Movement for the Leavers’ Pop-up. Collect your My Oxford Card and explore post-grad opportunities! 🎓🤩

Register: alumni.ox.ac.uk/event/leavers-…

Prof Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist The EBRD discusses economics in Ukraine. She highlights the government achieving macroeconomic stability, but stresses need for more private sector activity and immediate foreign support.
Watch her interview with CNBC here: youtube.com/watch?v=_0jnJl…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18976
The Adoption and Termination of Suppliers over the Business Cycle
Le Xu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Yang Yu Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Francesco Zanetti Francesco Zanetti Department of Economics, Oxford University of Oxford
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