Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Moogdho Mahzab
Stanford Woods Institute, awesome alum of Williams College who works on topics related to development, political economy + environmental economics in Bangladesh
sites.google.com/virginia.edu/m…
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Now *5* WPs up from large-scale SPIR trial of light-touch graduation model targeting extremely poor households in Ethiopia. . .worth a recap 🧵. Huge collaboration w/Dan Gilligan, Melissa Hidrobo, Harold Alderman, Michael Mulford + most recently Kalle Hirvonen
ifpri.org/project/streng…

Come work @ifpri #EconTwitter ! Poverty, gender + inclusion unit has late-breaking position based *in Dhaka, Bangladesh*. 100% research focusing on policy-relevant applied micro projects, working with one of IFPRI's most dynamic country offices
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Come work with me + my awesome colleagues at @ifpri! Our ad is posting a little late in the game but we are very eager for high-quality applications at the AP-equivalent level up until 12/15. Contact with any questions #EconTwitter

🚨🚨 Econ RA Listings, IFPRI is hiring a research assistant in the Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division. Work on lots of topics, w/ great colleagues, and great fieldwork opportunities. Good place for that (slightly controversial) pre-doc too! Please circulate! bit.ly/3Ck9YEr

My first piece with U.S. News & World Report is up!

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Fascinating new WP about the effect of forced displacement on human capital in Mozambique by Giorgio Chiovelli Michalopoulos Elias Papaioannou and Sequiera, analyzing the effects of a long civil war that displaced around 1/3 population #Econtwitter
nber.org/papers/w29589

New IFPRI research blog post presents a complex picture of gender norms and cash transfers in #Egypt . 💵 🇪🇬

Check it out 👇 Dan Gilligan Naureen Karachiwalla, PhD 🇵🇸

ifpri.org/blog/cash-tran…

Our paper on the role of women's SHGs in empowering women is now open access in World Development! This is joint work with Neha Kumar, Alejandra Arrieta, Amir Jilani and Shinjini Pandey, and builds on our very rewarding collaboration with PRADAN.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Meanwhile, outside the re-occupied bars of US/Europe, things have gotten very bad in the last few weeks In East Africa. They will continue getting worse for a while.

Oxygen failure kills 30 Covid patients at Mulago monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/na… via Daily Monitor

Encourage you to support and follow The Black Economists Network
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In this blog, I share lessons on improving the use of social safety nets in the COVID-19 response.
ifpri.org/blog/social-sa…

So proud of you, Ella! Go Blazers!

🚨Job Market Candidates and Advisers🚨

IFPRI PHND is hiring at #ASSA2019 . If you do applied micro in developing countries, consider applying. Continue existing work, publish in academic journals, live in DC, and join a community of like-minded economists aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

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