Kimberly Bolch
@kbbolch
Economist and Special Assistant to the Global Director for Poverty and Equity @WorldBank. PhD @ODID_QEH @UniofOxford. All views my own.
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📢 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/UgHC50RjSzY
Tax Day. A good day to note that US taxes (income taxes & social insurance contributions) push many low-income households into poverty. New paper by me, David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) Ive Marx & Zach Parolin reports that US taxes push a larger % of adults into poverty than do several other countries.
We have a full-time position available for a writer at Our World in Data!
These three aspects would make this a dream job for me:
• You will be supported by a friendly and very well-functioning team.
• You have a position that asks you to write about a wide range of important
Update to World Bank poverty numbers last week: (a) Poverty numbers until 2022; (b) 101 new surveys (total>2300).
blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/ma…
Details: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…
Data: pip.worldbank.org/home
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Come work with us at King's International Development for a fixed period of 15 months beginning in September 2024. Expected to teach courses in Macroeconomics for Development and Economic Inequality and the Distribution of Income 👇🏼
Lecturer in Development Economics kcl.ac.uk/jobs/086547-le…
Tomorrow, this World Bank ATD Fourth World IMF event will bring together practitioners, academics, and people with lived experiences of poverty to think collectively about how we build knowledge and design policies to combat poverty.
Register to join: bit.ly/3vO0Ok5
Wonderful to be back at University of Oxford for an Expert Workshop on Multidimensional Poverty and Wellbeing Data.
Thank you to OPHI DANE Colombia & Human Development for the invitation to share some innovative work from our team at World Bank Poverty on high frequency welfare monitoring.
A pleasure to join this The Alan Turing Institute panel on the role of #AI in #policymaking for the #SDGs . We must use all of the tools available to us if we are going to get back on track to achieve the 2030 Agenda.
Thank you to Omar A Guerrero for the invitation.
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Calling all Africa-based junior economists (Phd post 2018)
Applications for STAARS program by Cornell Dyson World Bank Research and PEP is open until JAN 19: barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/staars/staars-…
Outstanding mentorship and prof development program. All the alums I've met are amazing
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