We are hiring for a pre-doctoral fellow role Cornell University starting in the summer of 2024 . Please apply if you are thinking of grad school and you are interested in behavioral and/or development. Econ RA Listings #predoc #EconTwitter cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Happy to announce our 3rd Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 8-10 Sept. 2024, Technical University of Munich TU München Heilbronn. Submission deadline 1 May. Keynotes: John List John A. List and Susanna Loeb Susanna Loeb! tinyurl.com/44yvsdks

Ph.D. students in economics: How to organize your projects and not make the replication files a huge pain - a thread with a minimal working example with some potential extensions.

Some people falsely believe that papers using RCTs can only test whether something works or not, but cannot shed light on the underlying mechanisms. What are great papers to use as examples to illustrate that this is not the case? #econtwitter #followerpower

🥳 So happy to see our mental health paper in print: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… (w/ Michael Vlassopoulos @AsadIslamBD Tabassum Rahman, PhD Firoz Ahmed @DebPakrashi)

In 🇧🇩 a 2-hour phone-based counseling intervention for women costing $14 USD: * ⬇️ 20% moderate or severe stress * ⬇️ 33% depression Wow! Michael Vlassopoulos Abu Siddique @AsadIslamBD Tabassum Rahman, PhD Firoz Ahmed @DebPakrashi in AEA Journals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Teleoperadores para salud mental. 2400 mujeres que enfrentaron shock negativo. Las llamaron x teléfono,charlaron sobre temas de salud mental 2 horas Bajó 30% depresión y costó solo 14 USD Michael Vlassopoulos Abu Siddique Tabassum Rahman, PhD @DebPakrashi @AsadIslamBD Firoz Ahmed aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The "Field Days - Experiments Outside the Lab" workshop is in Amsterdam this year! Check out the call for papers and submit your paper by May 31. 🗓️ Oct 17-18, 2024 📍 Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 📄 CfP: tinbergen.nl/event/2024/10/…

We are very excited to share that @FrankSchilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you Andrew Foster! #economics sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Partisan Effects of Information Campaigns in Competitive Authoritarian Elections: Evidence from Bangladesh’ by Firoz Ahmed, Roland Hodler, Asad Islam doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… @AsadIslamBD Firoz Ahmed @RolandHodler@RoyalEconSoc @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

Get-out-the-vote campaigns may decrease voter turnout in opposition strongholds. Fascinating new paper from Bangladesh. Congrats @AsadIslamBD, Firoz Ahmed, @RolandHodler

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Seeking a hard working and ambitious full-time Research Assistant for empirical projects in applied #Economics at IIM Ahmedabad . Training in economics required. No phone calls or DMs. Econ RA Listings Econ RA Listings India Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1OoyPMW…

Happy to present our recent paper on "Exposure to supernatural agents and the role of social norms: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh" (w/ Andreas Pondorfer and Jonathan Schulz) at the Department of Economics, Ca' Foscari University Venice.