Fun fact: While discussing a policy experiment with education stakeholders in Nigeria Leonard Wantchekon African School of Economics confirmed what many of us suspected all along. He has Nigerian blood. His great grandfather Jegede was Nigerian 🇳🇬🇳🇬 😄😄

🎥Last week, the Kiel-CEPR African Economic Development Conference took place at Bundesministerium der Finanzen, co-hosted by CEPR. ➡️Keynote speaker Leonard Wantchekon gave us a brief insight into his inspiring presentation on state capacity! 👇 @PUpolitics @ase_africa Tobias Heidland, moving to heidland.bsky.social Moritz Schularick

At the Hamburg Sustainability Conference #HSC2024 ystrdy duting the session on "Catalysing Policy #Action for Sustainable Agriculture and #FoodSystems" I enhanced the fact that if we design #Policies systemically we should #implement them systemically:coherence is critical.

“The imperative of mobilizing and empowering people’s agency needs to be a more important part of the development discourse.” From Leonard Wantchekon, Founder and President of African School of Economics at today’s #GrowthSummit in DC Charter Cities Institute Center for Global Development Growth Teams Open Philanthropy

HAPPENING NOW: Join us for this week's #AfricaEconomicSeminar as Prof. Leonard Wantchekon @graballand1 and World Bank's Stuti Khemani explore how political distortions impact economic development in Africa. Discover new insights and potential policy solutions: wrld.bg/C7za50TWYYM

🎇 NEW Working Paper 🎇 When does adversity make you stronger? Leonard Wantchekon and I find that adverse weather boosts noncognitive skills, such as GSE and self-esteem, in Ethiopian adolescents. Our results support a model of child agency and learning-by-doing. A thread 🧵:

Prof. Wantchekon gave an address at the 2024 Conference of African Materials Research Society where he argued scientific innovation has the potential to shape governments and the social infrastructure of African countries, which is the most effective mechanism for sustained economic prosperity.

Wonderful opportunity!

The Our Long Walk Essay Competition just launched. Any African 25 or younger can apply. The prize money of $500 is not massive. But it is a start. (I'm funding it through paid subscriptions.) And you get your ideas published on the blog. Theme: 'Progress and Innovation in

I'm tagging a few scholars who can help spread the message: Ken Opalo Isaah Mhlanga Wandile Sihlobo Leonard Wantchekon Nathan Nunn Oliver Kim Josh Budlender Felix Meier zu Selhausen Zakes Mda Nonso Obikili

Princeton University highlights Prof. Leonard Wantchekon as Exceptional Faculty. Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin. He was a keynote speaker and co-host for the recent World Bank-UN Refugee Agency conference on forced displacement.

SA@30: We opened in plenary with a frank discussion on overcoming corruption in the South Africa's institutions with speakers from New South Institute (NSI) UCLA Corruption Watch Princeton University With Yoliswa Makhasi Brian Levy David Lewis Leonard Wantchekon & chaired by SALDRU director Reza Che Daniels

Leonard Watchekon Leonard Wantchekon has been appointed to an United Nations High-Level Expert Group to develop recommendations for measures that go beyond Gross Domestic Product as a gauge of prosperity as part of the Sustainable Development Goals. Global Goals. un.org/sustainabledev…

Le Béninois Leonard Wantchekon , professeur à Princeton et fondateur de l’African School of #Economics, vient d’être nommé par le secrétaire général de l’Onu au sein d’un groupe d’experts de haut niveau chargé de formuler de... lanation.bj/economie/nomme… Nations Unies (ONU)

Keynote by Leonard Wantchekon at the International Development Conference on Nanterre: "Development as Collective Agency". Love that title! He stresses the importance of two key dimensions for development: - Higher education and science - State capacity 1/n

African School of Economics that Leonard Wantchekon founded is a great initiative towards strengthening economics expertise on the continent. The endeavor is huge and growing. The way he can build so much is by working with others and creating teamwork. Thinking big. 4/n

Leonard Wantchekon Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) If you are (or know) an African student or recent graduate interested in becoming a researcher in economics, please let them know about the GAIN program. Next cycle starts around February: gain-network.net 6/n

Leonard Wantchekon Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) Final words from Leonard Wantchekon: "Use your social drive to motivate your research. There are not enough people who have social entrepreneurial interests who join the PhD. There are great ways in which your social ambitions can inform and strengthen your academic research." 7/7

Loving the new Handbook of Culture & Economic Behavior (Benjamin Enke, Paola Giuliano, Nathan Nunn, Leonard Wantchekon)--insightful, well-structured chapters! Huge thanks to editors & authors for such essential work. As a cultural/political economy fan, I've learned so much. Excited!

It was great to participate in #ABCDE2025 World Bank last week to discuss growth and opportunity in #Africa. Agriculture is foundational to growth on the continent. We must boost investment in R&D to increase productivity and enable transformation in this crucial sector. CGIAR