My coauthor Lin Tian has written a very nice summary of our joint paper "Strategic or Confused Firms? Evidence from missing transactions in Uganda" (also with Jonas Hjort and Justine Knebelmann), which recently came out in The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) 📃 knowledge.insead.edu/economics-fina…

🧑‍💻Le FID recrute : rejoignez-nous ! Nous recrutons un.e Responsable d'équipe projet - expert.e en évaluation d'impact, en charge de l'analyse des conditions et des modalités de financement ainsi que du suivi de projets financés par le FID. ➡️L'annonce : fundinnovation.dev/news/responsab…

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Women in Empirical Microeconomics Conference 2024 seeks to offer a platform for innovative empirical research in microeconomics. All interested researchers are invited to send submissions. ow.ly/zZe650QHV43

⚠️Call for papers⚠️ UoNEconomics NICEP Conference! What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics When: May 13-14 Submit before March 25 Confirmed: Oriana Bandiera Oriana Bandiera, Ernesto Dal Bò, Garance Génicot Garance Genicot & Mathias Thoenig. sway.cloud.microsoft/jISSEa24z948zS…

📅 Call for Papers! The 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference is now inviting paper submissions on "Public Finance and Structural Transformation." Keynote address by Chicago Booth's Chang Tai Hsieh. Deadline: April 15! worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

Apply if you’re passionate about data and economics! After 2 years of piloting incl designing a new misinformation training, measurements and building a lab in the field, we’re finally launching an experiment that will generate a lot of interesting data. #EconRA #predoc 🤓

I love this series of 🧵 aiming to showcase the work of young (aspiring) dev economists -- thanks so much for including me Jessica Leight !

🆕 VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable Today on VoxDev, Anne Brockmeyer World Bank Research, Giulia Mascagni International Centre for Tax and Development, Mazhar Waseem Manchester Economics, Miguel Almunia CUNEF Universidad & Vedanth Nair Institute for Fiscal Studies outline key takeaways from their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

📣 Du 2 au 5 juillet 2024, J-PAL organise à Rabat la 4ème édition de son école d'été "Méthodologies du Développement” destinée aux chercheurs africains intéressés par l’évaluation d’impact. Pour en savoir plus: povertyactionlab.org/fr/event/ecole… Postulez avant le 28 avril !

🚨🚨I’m hiring a predoc! Come work with me, Mery Ferrando, and Teodora Tsankova on topics related to gender, labor, and migration 😊 Tilburg University more info here: meryferrando.com/pre-doctoral-f…

🚨🚨🚨 My team at the @worldbank is hiring tax experts at the Economist + Senior Economist level. Exciting & rewarding work program. Research-y background welcome. Deadline: Friday, May 24. Thanks for applying & spreading the word! tinyurl.com/wbtaxjob1 tinyurl.com/wbtaxjob2

This year will be the last edition of the Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing countries, which we have been organizing for 9 years now! Don’t miss it! Make sure to apply by July 1st: econ.uzh.ch/en/eventsandse…

📢 📢We are thrilled to announce the 1st European edition of the Junior Spatial Economics Conference. It will take place in Paris Sciences Po on the 18th-19th of Dec 2024. Send us your most recent work before June 20th. Extended abstracts are welcome! 👉cepr.org/events/junior-…

I am looking for a predoctoral fellow based at CEMFI to assist in the ERC-funded research project "City buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment" for one year starting September 2024 Application deadline 31 July #EconRA econjobmarket.org/positions/10683

🚐🚐🚐 We are hiring for a full-time position in Kampala on an exciting project collaborating with minibus operators. Work with [email protected], judith mbabazi and me and others! Read more below and apply here: 👇🏼 povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

For those on the postdoc market this autumn: note the early deadline for Oxford-Nuffield positions Department of Economics, Oxford

🚨 Call for Papers STEG Annual Conference & Theme 5 Workshop The role of the public sector Jan 8-11, 2025 at Oxford Economics, London, UK Send us your Macro ∩ Public ∩ Dev papers. The workshop (on Jan 11, 2025) will focus on the role of governments in structural