📢 Exciting news! Applications are still open for the World Bank Africa Fellowship Program. Calling all PhD candidates & recent PhD graduates from #Africa. African women, we especially want to hear from you!▶️ wrld.bg/fT6E50Pg8GC #WBGFellows

The paper "Can information and alternatives to irregular migration reduce “backway” migration from The Gambia? " by Catia Batista joint with Tijan L. Bah  Flore Gubert David McKenzie is now published in The Journal of Development Economics. ➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev… #EconTwitter

We are looking for bright African #PhD students to join our World Bank Africa Fellowship program. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to jump-start your career in #development and make a lasting impact. Apply by August 25. wrld.bg/P4UZ50Pu1Mn #WBGFellows #Africa

Amazing job opportunity!!! J-PAL Africa is looking for an Executive Director You will be working with an absolutely fantastic team (that much I can guarantee), building out J-PAL's research and policy work on the continent. Job posting here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/execut…

🚨 🚨 🚨 Consider applying to this and circulate among your network and potential candidates. Deadline is August 25 👇

Russia's found a workaround for Western oil sanctions, says a new study from KSE Institute. But there is a way to make those sanctions stick and reel Russia back into compliance. The study is led by Benjamin Hilgenstock Benjamin Hilgenstock, a KSE senior economist 1/

Training Microentrepreneurs by Zoom in Mexico and Guatemala: I summarize new work with Leonardo Iacovone, Elwyn Davies, & Peter Deffebach that looks at feasibility, cost, and effectiveness of training micro business owners in live Zoom sessions blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

We are recruiting research economists. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

📣 Available research #funding 📣 The IGC's call for proposals is now open, inviting submissions for full and small research grants, focusing on #sustainablegrowth in developing countries. 🔗 Click here for more details and guidance on how to apply ➡️ theigc.org/funding/call-f…

New NBER-DOT Economics of Transportation in the 21st century data resource on speed and congestion in US cities: nber.org/research/data/…. Kindly contributed by Prottoy Aman Akbar, Victor Couture, Gilles Duranton and Adam Storeygard. NBER

We just a launched a new report on the #FutureofWork analyzing the impact of #Technology on businesses and workers in Europe with Rafa de Hoyos Iván Torre Nicolò Dalvit, Ioanna Pantelaiou, and Aleksandra Peeva! 👇👇

JMP🧵1/ startups matter for macro! I spent years fascinated by a missing investment puzzle Why did macro investment ⬇️ if profitability ⬆️? I found firms' investment boomed! Boom missing in macro data because: ⬇️ startup rate ⬆️ firm age Please share: sites.harvard.edu/martin-aragone…

Just published. Open Access!! Check it out! routledge.com/Local-Content-…

Econometrica Volume 91, Issue 6 (November 2023) is now online econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

For 40 years, technological advancements in European countries have primarily benefited college graduates and a small group of large, innovative companies. New World Bank research identifies ways countries can make sure the benefits of technology are spread more evenly.

What drives the adoption of technologies? What is the impact on firms when they adopt them? How labor markets and the supply of skills are helping workers in Europe? Check out our new report on "Future of Work in EU" Rafa de Hoyos Iván Torre Nicolo Dalvit & Aleks Peeva a 🧵👇

Interested in learning more about what drives productivity? Join a very interesting ongoing conference today and tomorrow online, in DC or Vienna youtube.com/watch?v=l-ad6W…