Has anybody run an SMS campaign in Malawi? We are looking for a bulk messaging solution we can implement in 2 business days max. 💡 Any lead appreciated! 💡

What’s the best thing you can do in August if you are an economist and study education? The Valle Nevado workshop of course!

🎓Calling all aspiring African PhD students! We will be running a webinar on 21 Feb 4pm SAST to share information on how to prepare for and get into good Econ graduate programs in North America & Europe. Apply here: j-p.al/phd-web-21feb.

I've updated my Short History of Global Living Conditions. here it is: ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-g…

Our spring recruitment drive just went online! Join the fantastic DIME team. We put research and creativity to the service of people, prosperity and the planet. worldbank.org/en/research/di…

DC peeps, come find me at Zeba Bar this Saturday (I'll be on at midnight) ra.co/events/1876211

We are happy to welcome Benedetta Lerva (World Bank) to the Applied Seminar Royal Holloway Economics Department ⏰ 01/05/2024 (13:30 – 15.00) 🏢 Horton 321 👉 Relaxing Demand-Side Constraints to Secondary Education: Evidence from Uganda #EconTwitter #research #university #rhul #royalholloway Benedetta Lerva

📢 Call for proposals. Researchers are invited to submit abstracts using the World Bank LSMS’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys data. Papers from selected abstracts will be presented at a conference on December 10, 2024. Details here ➡️ wrld.bg/7X1p50RiB8y

Deadline extended to 31 May Submit your paper here: rb.gy/fxfekm

You should absolutely work with Konrad if you want to learn how to think like an economist and write clear, elegant, and compelling papers

📣 The #EdDev community group AEFP will meet tomorrow, Fri (06/14) at 11am ET! Benedetta Lerva + Shahadath Hossain will present their work; Glenda Palacios + Juan S. Muñoz-Morales will discuss. Join us for the last meeting of the term! (DM me for invite/learn how to get emails)

Thanks for having me! Not sure anyone noticed we had a “BBC dad” moment during the presentation - my dog pushed through the door and my partner had to fetch her out and lock the door

Both great feedback and great fun was had at this workshop. Thanks to the organizers! (If you work in child nutrition, you should follow Melanie Luhrmann!)

Looking to apply for PhD programs this fall? Read advice from recent J-PAL post-docs and staff with PhDs: povertyactionlab.org/blog/10-27-23/…

📣 The #EdDev community group AEFP 2024-25 Updates! Todd Pugatch and I are excited to co-chair this year! We will meet online on the second Friday of every month at 11am ET. Two presenters will share their work-in-progress followed by quick reflections from two volunteers.

We are launching DaTax: a new tax microdata laboratory to provide key insights into taxation, firm dynamics, and labor markets and design more growth and equity oriented public finance policies. @thiagoscot 岸和田手押し相撲貝塚手押し高石手押し相撲堺手押し相撲手押し相撲泉大津手押し相撲相撲泉佐野手押し相撲 worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open - our 14th year of publishing posts by PhD students on the development job market (submissions due Nov 6) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

🔊 How government analytics can improve public sector implementation In this week's VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips Talk Normal speaks to Daniel Rogger World Bank and Christian Schuster UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy about how to improve government implementation using data: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…