Panel on Economic Research on/in Africa at #afes2018 @ASE_cotonou, chaired by Eliana La Ferrara, with Renee Bowen, Patrizio Piraino, and Habiba Djebbari. Live streaming here: africanschoolofeconomics.com

Keynote talk at #AfES2018 by Nobel prize winner Roger Myerson on local agency costs of political centralization. You can follow live on ASE website.

Great first day of conference at #AfES2018. Particularly enjoyed discussions on data quality and access in Africa. For an example of good data put to good use in Africa check saldru.uct.ac.za/income-compari… by SALDRU at the UCT

Fantastic keynote speech by Dilip Soman 🇨🇦 on behavioral insights and nudge at #BI4GOV in Cape Town!

Have an interest in working for the top university in Africa? UCT is hiring a macroeconomist. See ad below. Dept representatives will be at ASSA in Atlanta. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…,,

Many thanks to @MiguelNinoZ, Melvin Wong & Patrizio Piraino for their interesting presentations on “Measuring & analyzing inequality”. Thanks also to Branko Milanovic, DIAL & all the attendees for their thoughtful contributions to the debate! #ConfInequalities Agence Française de #Développement (AFD) 🇫🇷 🇪🇺

Great news for J-PAL Africa! We are so proud of our SALDRU colleagues. This would not have happened without the commitment and integrity that you take into the very difficult processes involved in translating evidence from good research into good, implementable policies.

Excited to learn about actions to boost decent employment in Africa from an excellent crowd of African scholars and practitioners today in Nairobi.

We look forward to welcoming our friends of WGAPE at UCT for their first meeting on African soil! Great opportunity for Africa-based scholars to attend an excellent event in the region. Apply and see you in Cape Town!!

some interesting field projects taking off in South Africa in the next few months. apply here to join a fantastic team at J-Pal Africa: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

DEADLINE APPROACHING: There is less than a week left to apply to be a presenter or participant for WGAPE's Annual Meeting at the University of Cape Town! Submit by Wednesday, March 27th at 11:59 pm PT. tinyurl.com/yxp3gdeq

Join Dr. Cally Ardington, Patrizio Piraino and Pascaline Dupas from 29 Jul-2 Aug to learn how randomised evaluations are designed and used in our Evaluating Social Programmes course at #UCT in Cape Town. Apply here by May 12: j-p.al/africa-exec AEN UCT

It is good to see our research on South Africa's stuttering social mobility making it into an interesting piece into The Economist . Our work is an example of the particular contribution the NIDS data can make to our understanding of contemporary South Africa.

New blog! Patrizio Piraino talks through some of the ways to expand the seminal intergenerational mobility model for developing country contexts. Check it out ➡️05 go.unu.edu/virZG #SocialMobility #GlobalDev

Seminar in Applied Economics organized by Miles Corak will feature Patrizio Piraino. "Fairness Concerns and Demand for Redistribution: Experimental Evidence from South Africa" Tuesday 5/9 12-1:30PM EST via Zoom gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/97481144103

Finally! My intro to the "Handbook of Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action" that has turned out be stellar due to excellent contributions by Roland Rathelot Vijayendra Rao Rajiv Sethi Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @mazbertrand Naila Kabeer Kaushik Basu ... 1/ link.springer.com/referenceworke…

We're hiring a Research Associate at the Kellogg Institute (University of Notre Dame). Please share this with your network. Thank you! jobs.nd.edu/postings/34393