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🚨#JMP 🚨 How do development policies affect rural households’ most productive investments: migration& agri technology upgrade? My JMP uses reduced-form& structural modeling to estimate the intricate effects of subsidies&cash transfers on these 2investments, a🧵 #EconJobMarket ¼

Child marriage in Bangladesh is high and things aren’t changing fast enough. I’m happy to share a new Center for Global Development p/ship with BRAC Institute of Governance and Development-BIGD that aims to reduce child marriage and keep girls in school. With M Lee Crawfurd Radhika Nagesh Khandker Wahedur Rahman [Wahed] cgdev.org/blog/trust-me-…

Read our blog about a project we are developing to address the issues of child marriage and school drop out of girls. Let us know your thoughts and suggestions about the intervention and the research.

Curb Your (Wage) Enthusiasm: How Mentorship Can Shape Career Formation – today's job market post by Livia Alfonsi shows how Ugandan youth have overly optimistic expectations about first jobs and how mentors can help correct this bias blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

My #JMP is on the WB Blog! Can mentors improve young job seekers' career trajectories? Yes! +27% employed +18%💰 Conversations’ transcripts show why: ⛔️ Job referrals 🔀 ⛔️ Search skills 🔍 ✅ Correct optimism 🔮 ✅ Explain job ladder 🪜 ✅ Encourage them while climbing it! 💪🏾

Let’s increase the upside of the peace deal in Ethiopia for the whole country and its entire population, as a means to help it stick. Worth a gamble now. Nice to see this short piece coming out just when in Addis Ababa discussing these issues at the highest levels.

🗣 OPINION: "Economic incentives for peace must be spearheaded by the international community to support long-term peacebuilding in Ethiopia," write Stefan Dercon and Christian Meyer of the University of Oxford. context.news/socioeconomic-…

JOIN US: The 2022 Jobs & Development Conference takes place next week. The Keynote Speakers & special sessions will be live-streamed via: youtube.com/playlist?list=… #Jobs4Dev 2022 is hosted by: WBG_Jobs, IZA, UNU-WIDER, Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) & IBS Warsaw

⌛️Starting soon in the #Jobs4Dev conference: Jobs and the just transition in the developing country context 👀Join LIVE to hear from Francesco Vona, Stefanos Tyros, and Margaret Chitiga-Mabugu, with chair Christian Meyer youtu.be/h85h2IWTJOU #ClimateAction #JustTransition

Deepening macroeconomic crisis will put all the gains toward peace and stability at serious risk. buff.ly/3YDseD9

Stefan (Stefan Dercon) and I on how the international community should help Ethiopia's peace deal with more support for economic stabilisation

On the economic cost of Ethiopia's conflict and the large upside of lasting peace -- me in DW Amharic Thanks for the good conversation Eshèté Bekele! p.dw.com/p/4KwMo?maca=a…

Christian Meyer Christian Meyer and myself in plea not to delay support for macroeconomic reform and stabilisation in Ethiopia by IMF, WB or EU. Accountability matters but give it the time required. Don’t delay support beyond humanitarian, or peace/stability may be hard to maintain.

Only TWO WEEKS left to apply to our 2023 Young Scholars Matchmaking Workshop! PhD students and recent graduates from around the world will have the opportunity to collaborate on #research projects focusing on #firms in #LICs. Apply here: bit.ly/YSWorkshop23 #EconTwitter

Few thought this possible 3 months ago, but it needs others to gamble on peace too. Christian Meyer and I think that one way of doing this is to ensure that the Ethiopian macroeconomy is stabilised, with IMF, WB, US, UK, EU support and G20 DSSI debt relief. 2/2 x.com/ForeignPolicy/…

Happy New Year! Only ONE WEEK left to apply to our 2023 Young Scholars Matchmaking Workshop! PhD students and recent graduates from around the world will have the opportunity to collaborate on #research projects on #firms in #LICs. Apply here: bit.ly/YSWorkshop23 #EconTwitter

📢Registration is NOW OPEN for the CSAE Conference 2023 (#OxCSAE2023)! This year the conference will be in person at St Catz, Oxford in Oxford, UK, from 19-21 March. 💻Register now: cvent.me/WkNwPa

Join as BRAC executives Asif Saleh, Shameran Abed, Imran Matin and Scott MacMillan speak on Pioneering evidence-driven innovations in global development and 50 years of BRAC programs in Asia and Africa. 🗓️ 3rd March from 11:00 GMT Register now ⬇️ oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/pioneer…

Stimulating exchange between BRAC Asif Saleh Shameran Abed Imran Matin and international development scholars from Oxford Oxford Martin School on gender, social-mobility and research collaborations in policy #futureofdevelopment

📣 (Please RT) Lorenz Goette and I are hiring a predoc, for 1-2 years, to support our experimental agenda. Dive into research, learn the tools of modern experimental work and get ready for grad school applications. Link to application: shorturl.at/cvAO6 Econ RA Listings 1/4