Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners Manasi Deshpande, Tal Gross, and Yalun Su for their paper 'Disability and Distress: The Effect of Disability Programs on Financial Outcomes'.

🆕 National policy reversals & deforestation in the Amazon

Robin Burgess LSE Department of Economics International Growth Centre, Francisco Costa Lerner College & Ben Olken MIT Economics J-PAL highlight the crucial role of policy continuity & political commitment in fighting deforestation: voxdev.org/topic/energy-e…

📢 New free course exploring why & how political institutions affect economic development + applying theories & empirical techniques to real-world examples.

More details on this course w/ Abhijit Banerjee & Ben Olken: mitxonline.mit.edu/courses/course…

Teaser ⤵️ youtube.com/watch?v=zZL2qP…

Voting systems 🗳️ & the role of the media 📺 are among the topics covered in Political Economy & Economic Development, taught by Ben Olken & Abhijit Banerjee. Enroll to explore the relationship between political institutions & economic development: j-p.al/rt7

Please submit your paper for the 2024 NBER Development Economics Summer Institute!

The deadline for all NBER Summer Institute submissions is March 21, 2024, and the call for papers is here:
nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Come work with me! I'm hiring an RA to work on projects on social protection, state capacity, and climate change.

Apply here:
povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

⭐ VoxDev Talks: NEW EPISODE Today ⭐

Can we conserve the natural environment without affecting the incomes of the global poor? Ben Olken MIT Economics & Seema Jayachandran Princeton Economics talk to Tim Phillips VoxDev.

Listen & Subscribe: podfollow.com/voxdev

I am very much looking forward to hosting this exciting discussion on Monday together with Rema Hanna. Looking forward to hearing from our panel of policy makers about challenges and opportunities in designing social protection systems in practice.

2/2 How has #SocialProtection impacted policies, practices and ideas? Learn from our guests Rebecca Holmes (@IDS_UK/STAAR Facility)&  Ben Olken (@MITEcon/J-PAL)
✅Quick Wins by Mary Imbong, socialprotection.org Ambassador
🗣Host: Joanne Sharpe
▶ bit.ly/SPpodcastEp30

How does economic development impact political institutions, and vice versa? Explore these and other questions in the #DEDP course Political Economy & Economic Development, taught by Abhijit Banerjee & Ben Olken: j-p.al/a54 #EconTwitter
youtu.be/zZL2qPwEKxI

“Health insurance is supposed to provide financial protection against the medical costs of poor health. Yet many insured people still face the risk of enormous medical bills for their ‘covered’ care,” write Liran Einav and Amy Finkelstein. nyti.ms/3pRq2eO

The 2023 BREAD conference is being hosted MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Economics & J-PAL this week, May 12 (Friday, all day) and May 13 (Saturday morning).

It will be livestreamed!

The full conference program & link to the livestream are posted here:
ibread.org/conference/for…

Congratulations to AEJ:Applied Best Paper award winners Enghin Atalay, Phai Phongthiengtham, Sebastian Sotelo, and Daniel Tannenbaum for their paper 'The Evolution of Work in the United States'.

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#EconTwitter plz rt. On July 26th (straight after NBER EEE/DEV) Clare Balboni, Namrata Kala, and I are hosting a PEDL workshop on Climate & Environment at MIT Sloan School of Management. Please share and submit your best firms and environment papers! More details here tinyurl.com/PEDL23

BREAD conference Spring 2023 will be Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Sloan J-PAL

Papers: submit at the link below by Tues Feb 28

Am joined on the program committee by
#AbhijitBanerjee
#DavidAtkin
#DaveDonaldson
#NamrataKala
#KarenMacours
Ben Olken
Frank Schilbach
Guo Xu

ibread.org/announcements/

Nominations are open for the AEJ Best Paper Awards. Articles published since 2020 in each of the AEJ journals are eligible. For more information, visit: aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono….

The AEJ Best Paper Nominations are now open. Articles published since 2020 in each of the AEJ journals are eligible. For more information, visit: aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

Will Brazil's double reversal of fortune turn into a triple?

Good day to bump up this nice paper by Burgess, Francisco Costa and Ben Olken highlighting the powerful role that a committed central government can play in combatting tropical forest loss

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