First speaker is Annabelle Doerr on the long-term effects of job market training in Chile. #OxCSAE2021 Labour day CSAE

Next, @simonrquinn talks about 3 distinct job-search interventions for Syrian refugees and disadvantaged Jordanians using an adaptive targeted field experiment. Adaptivity led to modest 1% increases amongst other effects #OxCSAE2021 Labour day CSAE

How do workshops on self-affirmation and goal-setting impact job search and employment in Ethiopia? James Walsh show positive effects for men (especially those with low locus of control), but not women (possibly constrained by gender norms). #OxCSAE2021 Labour day CSAE

Final speaker of the first session Laurel Wheeler talks about the impact of LinkedIn training in SA where youth unemployment is very high. Positive employment impacts likely driven by reducing supply side information frictions. #OxCSAE2021 Labour day CSAE

Today's second special event day begins with a session on "Mental Health Measurements for Economists" hosted by #MBRG's Julia Ruiz Pozuelo with Victoria Baranov, Crick Lund (UCT) and Prof Miranda Wolpert. #OxCSAE2021 CSAE

First up is Victoria Baranov who discusses conducting mental health interventions, scaling them up and measurement approaches. One such measure is the use of biomarkers such as hair to create a 6-month time series. #OxCSAE2021 CSAE #MBRG

Next, we have Crick Lund (UCT) who identifies several important steps for implementing mental health measures into low-resource settings, highlighting the importance of locally adapting and validating screening instruments #OxCSAE2021 CSAE #MBRG

Lastly, Miranda Wolpert wraps up the speaker presentations with a discussion on the importance of harmonising different mental health metrics to ensure a common language for researchers to use. #OxCSAE2021 CSAE #MBRG

Yesterday 1000+ people attended our protest in Oxford. THANK YOU, our 🇺🇦 community feels so supported. Many donated & asked how else to help. We'll be sharing things to do in coming days. Don't let solidarity stop here. Donate, pressure government & stay updated 📷 Paul Brimble 🇺🇦

Next up, @emmariley discusses how information campaigns, in the form of interactive voice response (IVR) messages on the benefits of mobile banking, can successfully encourage financial technology use in Ghana #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

How do UCTs affect labor allocation and farm productivity? Paul Sirma explores this topic using Malawi's flagship social protection program; there is an increase in both agricultural productivity and own farm labor and a reduction in casual labor #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

Final speaker for the session is Mirko Vintar who shows how a reduction in food entitlements in a large refugee camp in Uganda can impact health, nutritional and employment outcomes using a regression discontinuity design #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

The #OxCSAE2022 CSAE Empowerment and Intra-household Bargaining session begins with the chair Rossa O'Keeffe-O'Donovan introducing the three speakers: Zaki Wahhaj, Hannah Uckat and sveva vitellozzi

First up is Zaki Wahhaj discussing investment decisions and the role of differences in intra-household perceptions and decision-making power using a sanitation microcredit intervention in India; these differences matter but at different stages #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

How do women's promotions in the workplace affect bargaining in the household? Hannah Uckat shows that women's bargaining power increases and the results indicate that there are complementarities between women's power in the workplace and the household #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

Final speaker of the session is sveva vitellozzi who studies the impact of a floods in Bangladesh on time use patterns and empowerment; results show that the shock led women to be more empowered, an effect which persists over time #OxCSAE2022 CSAE

Exposure to a 1987–88 TV adaptation of a Hindu epic strengthened religious identity, increased Hindu-Muslim conflict in the short run, and raised longer-run Hindu nationalist electoral success, from Resuf Ahmed, Paul Brimble, Akhila Kovvuri, Alessandro Saia, and Dean Yang

How the Ramayan TV show helped shape a singular nationwide Hindu identity G Sampath ✍️ thehindu.com/society/how-th…