Brown Economics has a great set of job market candidates this year. In this thread, I highlight (alphabetical order) the four candidates for which I am writing letters. Please reach out with any questions. Below is a link to the full list of candidates. economics.brown.edu/job-market-can…

East Africa divergence…. In USD terms, Kenya per capita GDP is roughly x2 Tanzania’s, which is roughly x2 Malawi’s. In 2003 they were nearly identical.

Hey Dropbox when i looked this up i actually wasn't looking for a bunch of intro to CS definitions i was looking for an explanation as to what on earth you could be sending my data to OpenAI for that's so important you set the share toggle to "on" by default?

Has anyone had households in LICs (literacy & numeracy potentially limited) write budgets for the week/month ahead? I want to print and hand out booklets of sort that I can later digitize. Would love to see examples, hear lessons learned.

Baseline cohort 2: We have liftoff 🚀 Tiyeni tiyeni tiyeni

Went to see the eclipse in Northern New Hampshire and it was pretty awesome. instagram.com/p/C5qc7m3ONRU/

I'm hiring two Research Assistants based Busara Center in Nairobi! We will work on a number of exciting topics in development and behavioral economics. This two-year position is good preparation for a PhD in Economics. Details here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… Please RT and apply!

Traveling to University of Minnesota Twin Cities to present my work on market schedule coordination at #NSE2024. Anyone down for dinner or drinks tonight? sites.google.com/umn.edu/nse202…

Hello! Please consider applying to a year-long RA position with me, Nathan Nunn Awa Ambra Seck and Jacob Moscona. Project involves ethnographic and historical work on culture and institutions in SSA. Deadline 6/3/24. Econ RA Listings employment.ucsd.edu/research-data-…

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It was about time 😌

Hiring: Research Manager for Oxford's new Centre for Macro-Experimental Development! Lead operations, finance, team building, and field research in East Africa. Apply by Jan 15, 2025. economics.web.ox.ac.uk/research-manag…

Passionate about development research? I am hiring a pre-doc to work on social norms, media and inter-group dynamics. Apply by Nov 24. Details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1vr71Ih…

Thank you to Jennifer Doleac for sharing my JMP! I am on the Job Market this year, here is my website: ruchimahadeshwar.github.io

Thanks to the World Bank Development Impact Blog for posting my JMP! Yunyu Shu (Brown Economics) studies how information shapes adaptation under input vs output subsidies in the context of shaded cocoa in Ghana 🇬🇭. More insights here 👇 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Excited for two days of Y-RISE conference. Presenting early work on how the graduation model of poverty alleviation works as areas get saturated.

Bringing back this gem because reasons

Vincent Geloso First - this is more my area of expertise - it is frankly pretty extreme to claim that theoretical arguments can do anything convincing on this issue. The theoretical channels for government investment to be complementary to private investment are so ample that any argument to