🚨Hiring a pre-doc/RA with background in econ/data science/remote sensing to work with me at Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment on novel uses of 🛰️imagery for development econ research. I'll review applications as they come in - please reach out with questions! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-…

"Market days are the pulse of rural economic and social life in many parts of the world." Moritz Poll (PhD at Brown University) plans to study how market days are set in western #Kenya and the impact on attendance & market performance. More ➡️ ow.ly/PjUI50N3wpU

Claudia is such an immensely generous person. Couldn’t be happier for her. And I’m loving the little sketch of Detective Goldin and Pika 😍

Can we take a moment to appreciate her dog blog ? scholar.harvard.edu/goldin/pages/p…

The wonderful Ben Golub 🇺🇦 is now a Fellow of the Econometric Society. What a richly deserved recognition and bright spot :)

So here I am, studying how to reduce exposure to health, weather, economic, and social shocks in extremely poor settings ... and Brown University 's UnitedHealthcare healthcare plan would rather med-evac me later than reimburse CDC-rec'd travel vaccines ✌️ smh we've learned nothing.

1/3 Do take a look at Brown's fascinating and talented crop of development students on the market (A-Z). Some keywords to get you started-- Conflict, refugees, community meetings, Mozambique henriquepitabarros.com Water, women, religion, Middle East giuliabuccione.com

Baseline survey. ready. set. go.

Brown Economics has a great set of job market candidates this year. In this thread, I highlight (alphabetical order) the four candidates for which I am writing letters. Please reach out with any questions. Below is a link to the full list of candidates. economics.brown.edu/job-market-can…

East Africa divergence…. In USD terms, Kenya per capita GDP is roughly x2 Tanzania’s, which is roughly x2 Malawi’s. In 2003 they were nearly identical.

Hey Dropbox when i looked this up i actually wasn't looking for a bunch of intro to CS definitions i was looking for an explanation as to what on earth you could be sending my data to OpenAI for that's so important you set the share toggle to "on" by default?

Has anyone had households in LICs (literacy & numeracy potentially limited) write budgets for the week/month ahead? I want to print and hand out booklets of sort that I can later digitize. Would love to see examples, hear lessons learned.

Baseline cohort 2: We have liftoff 🚀 Tiyeni tiyeni tiyeni

Went to see the eclipse in Northern New Hampshire and it was pretty awesome. instagram.com/p/C5qc7m3ONRU/

I'm hiring two Research Assistants based Busara Center in Nairobi! We will work on a number of exciting topics in development and behavioral economics. This two-year position is good preparation for a PhD in Economics. Details here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… Please RT and apply!

Traveling to University of Minnesota Twin Cities to present my work on market schedule coordination at #NSE2024. Anyone down for dinner or drinks tonight? sites.google.com/umn.edu/nse202…

Deadline in 5 days! 🚨🚨🚨 Doing a PhD studying **development** and based at institution in Austria, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, or Slovenia? Apply to come spend a year at Harvard!

Hello! Please consider applying to a year-long RA position with me, Nathan Nunn Awa Ambra Seck and Jacob Moscona. Project involves ethnographic and historical work on culture and institutions in SSA. Deadline 6/3/24. Econ RA Listings employment.ucsd.edu/research-data-…

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