Nuestros investigadores Javier Larequi Fontaneda 🇪🇺 y Tijan L. Bah han publicado un artículo en The Conversation ES sobre las recientes elecciones en Gambia: "La compleja estabilidad de un país donde se vota con canicas". theconversation.com/gambia-la-comp…

Are you an African student who is interested in pursuing graduate school in the U.S? Join us in March 21-22 to discuss the application process for Ph.D programs in Economics. Speakers include Africans who did their undergraduate degrees in Africa and pursued their PhDs in the U.S

Grab this opportunity! The call for papers for the pre-conference PhD Workshop on #Economic #Development is open. The initiative of NOVAFRICA PhD students will take place on June 21 at NovaSBE campus in Lisbon, Portugal. bit.ly/3IxjEwq

How should development economists think about the range of feasible migration policies? Join me, Caroline Theoharides & Tijan L. Bah for the last lecture of the International Growth Centre /BREAD Virtual PhD course this Thursday 10am-11:30am Eastern Time. Register here theigc.org/event/bread-ig…

If only we’d just done a before-after: an experiment to reduce irregular migration from The Gambia when it reduced anyway, and learning from an experiment with a rare outcome - based on work with Tijan L. Bah Catia Batista & Flore Gubert blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Supporting women’s empowerment and #genderequalitypays dividends, including reaching climate goals. Our #COP27 event will showcase engagements that are supporting women's empowerment, including one by IFC partner BIX Capital : wrld.bg/bsZB50LBlJO #ClimateActionWBG

Join us tomorrow for the J-PAL Africa pre-PhD webinar! And register for NovaSBE Phd in Economics session Tuesday, Nov 22, 1:30pm: bit.ly/3hGh4g6 Check the profile of our brilliant African PhD graduates for inspiration! Machine Learner Tijan L. Bah And PhD Director Alex Armand

“Inclusivity is not a tick-box exercise.” –Mandy Rambharos. Did you miss our #COP27 event on why women and girls are key to effective climate action? Watch the full event here: wrld.bg/SxFh50LGqGm #ClimateActionWBG #InvestInPeople #COP27

🚨NOVAFRICA Job Market Candidate 2022/2023🚨 In his JMP Stefan Leeffers asks: Many governments provide disaster preparedness information, but does this change people’s behavior? Stefan used a large-scale RCT in flood-prone urban Mozambique to show it does! NovaSBE #EconTwitter

Interested in how to support women-led businesses? Do you work with #womenentrepreneurs? See this new survey of literature and key policy interventions prepared for the World Bank Gender Strategy Update World Bank WBG Gender IFC hdl.handle.net/10986/38564 Comments welcome!

4️⃣ways by Jaime Saavedra & Hana Brixi to remove barriers affecting girls’ #education: Shifting stereotypes that affect #learning Making schools safe Shifting norms hindering girls Supporting young women to transition to the labor market ℹ️ wrld.bg/jV4A50NbjOZ #IWD2023

Now out in the JDE & free for next 50 days at the link below "Can Information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from the Gambia?" - this paper went through the registered report process, which was a great experience 1/5 authors.elsevier.com/a/1hXkO15DRG45…

Our paper "Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia?" has been published in the Journal of Development Economics Joint work with Tijan L. Bah Flore Gubert David McKenzie Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 2024 @NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development NovaSBE on June 27-28 Submit your paper by Feb 15: bit.ly/3Hffiff Keynotes: Seema Jayachandran Seema Jayachandran David McKenzie David McKenzie Chris Udry Christopher Udry #NOVAFRICA2024 #EconTwitter

Congratulations to Dennis Egger Johannes Haushofer @tedmiguel Paul Niehaus Michael Walker 🎉🎉 Dennis Egger discussed this important research on cash transfers and the wider economy on a previous episode of #VoxDevTalks. Listen here: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

The World Bank Young Professionals Program is open Sept 1-30. Your development expertise could make a real impact. Join us and tackle global challenges! Apply here: wrld.bg/AN5950T7eI4 #WBGYPP

Social networks is one of the main job-finding sources (David McKenzie and Eliana Carranza 2024). Our paper in Labor Economics shows soft-skills training helps recent grads expand job networks and find jobs faster, though effects fade over time. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New Working paper: We find that bilateral labor agreements significantly increases migration. Low- and lower-middle-income countries can gain US$ 120 million each year from a single BLA in the form of higher migrant earnings! documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

What makes for good analytical work at the World Bank? Money helps internal ratings and external visibility (downloads). More academic teams get external visibility, but low internal ratings.