On how to integrate qualitative methods into your RCT from J-PAL 👇🏽

What would be the economic impact of reducing transportation time in #Africa? How much would the continent's GDP and trade grow after implementing it? 🌍 📰 Find the answers in our policy paper on trade and infrastructure integration in Africa: wrld.bg/YZ5u50SXz2O

Call for papers for the 17th annual conference on migration and development, this year to be held in Bologna on Dec 9/10. Submissions due Sept 20. Always an excellent conference & has featured some of the best work on the topic. Keynotes are Dean Yang & Sandra.Sequeira

Retirement and precautionary motives are the dominant motives for saving in Europe partly because social safety nets are not fully adequate, from @charlesyuji and Luigi Ventura nber.org/papers/w32838

The global economy is expected to stabilize for the first time in 3 years in 2024—but at a level that is weak by recent historical standards. Read the Global Economic Prospects 2024 report ➡️ wrld.bg/5WPc50T3qrg #GEP2024

I'm delighted to introduce the most recent issue of the JEEA (August 2024) - consisting of 12 pathbreaking articles at the frontier of knowledge in economics. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/22/4

Concluding a great holiday in Porto, Portugal. Back to work and twitting about papers soon 🤞🏼