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🚨 I am excited to share my Job Market Paper. "Jim Crow and Black Economic Progress After Slavery" (w/ Hugo Reichardt) We provide new evidence that a Black family's socioeconomic status today strongly depends on their historical exposure to racially oppressive institutions.

🚨#JMP 🚨 How do development policies affect rural households’ most productive investments: migration& agri technology upgrade? My JMP uses reduced-form& structural modeling to estimate the intricate effects of subsidies&cash transfers on these 2investments, a🧵 #EconJobMarket ¼

With strikes on the horizon, here's a bit of context on what's been happening to average nurse pay in England. Since 2010, nurses' pay (the purple line) has lagged behind inflation, and behind average pay growth in both the public and private sectors.

Join us for the full launch of the Report on Economics Inequalities by Race and Ethnicity in the UK, part of Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review. Webinars starts at 2pm and you can sign up here: ifs.us2.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=32… Lucinda Platt Romesh Vaitilingam UCL Economics theguardian.com/education/2022…

A fantastic and very thorough report by Heidi Safia Mirza & Ross Warwick on inequalities by Race and ethnic backgrounds in the UK. Covers inequalities across education, incomes, poverty, wealth, health.

Preschool quality and child development in Colombia. 🆕 by Alison Andrew Department of Economics, Oxford, Orazio Attanasio Yale Department of Economics, Raquel Bernal Economía Uniandes, Lina Cardona-Sosa World Bank Research, Sonya Krutikova Manchester Economics Institute for Fiscal Studies & Marta Rubio-Cordina Inter-American Development Bank: ow.ly/AhkH50MyzwW

We put a massive amount of work into this report and we were SHOOK by the results Made all the code available here: bit.ly/42LDHTf, and the HESA data is freely available online - it's fully transparent, reproducible research. 💪 Please share and use widely!! 🔥🔥🔥

Department of Economics, Oxford is hiring three open-field post-docs. These are flexible research posts, up to 3 years with no (or very limited) teaching. Two are associated with Nuffield College, one with Queen’s. All applicants are automatically considered for both. econjobmarket.org/positions/9913

The next SED meeting will take place in Barcelona, Spain, on June 27-29. Submissions are open: editorialexpress.com/conference/SED… Deadline: Feb 15!! afogli001 Elena Manresa Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria Review of Economic Dynamics

We’re hiring TWO mid-career/senior positions in development in our productive and friendly group. Feel free to reach out informally if useful too.

📢 On Monday, February 5th, we are releasing Issue 1 of our 🆕 #VoxDevLit on Job Search Barriers. This review documents the labour market barriers faced by jobseekers & firms in LMICs & evaluates the impacts of a wide set of interventions designed to address these barriers.

I learnt a lot contributing to this and even more reading everyone else's contributions! Have a read and join Stefano Caria and Kate Orkin for a webinar in 2 hours time (link below).

Exploring the effects of incentivizing people to use healthcare when overcrowding harms care quality. In the January 2024 issue, by Alison Andrew Alison Andrew and Marcos Vera-Hernández Marcos Vera-Hernández 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 zurl.co/h2A1

Loved going to this last year!! Apply! 👇👇👇

Very happy to see our paper published in Journal of Public Economics - and thanks for all the helpful comments along the way! Jack Blundell

Oxford is looking to hire in development economics. Although the post is labelled associate, we are open both to candidates straight from PhD and those with more experience. It’s a wonderful department and group!