A fantastic group of bright young scholars presented their work to peers & post-docs at the 8th DENeB PhD workshop last Friday. We will introduce the participants & their work in the coming days (incl. our keynote speaker @jisteinert). Stay tuned! #phd #phdlife #EconTwitter

We are incredibly excited to kick off a three-day Ph.D. course on Subjective Beliefs, Attention, and Economic Behavior CEBI - Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality in Copenhagen. We have an amazing group of Ph.D. students from all over the world attending the course! @cp_roth Ingar Haaland Sonja Settele Johannes Wohlfart

Inbar Amit, 1st year PhD candidate Department of Economics, Oxford, presented his work on the relationship btw firms' labor mkt power & development. Using a large cross-country dataset, he finds employers in poorer countries have more labor mkt power than those in richer countries #PhDWorkshop

I'm incredibly proud of the strength of resistance against the judicial coup. There is no limit to what Netanyahu and this gov't will do. Even if they back off tomorrow, this cannot end with the men responsible in power. No compromise on democracy.

Very excited to be presenting our paper with Vicente Valentim on coeducation and gender norms at the #EPSA2023 Gender and Politics panel! Join if you can!

"Treatment Effects: The Basics" led by Francis DiTraglia explores causal inference fundamentals using R with practical applications. Covering selection, DAGs, LATE, and more! 📅April 10-12 Oxford More information: ouess.web.ox.ac.uk/event/treatmen… #OUESS #CausalInference #TreatmentEffects

My paper on the impact of temperatures on forced migration through armed conflict is out in the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research (VYPR)! 📌 Paper is based on my master's thesis for which I won the Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences Award for the Best Dissertation School of Social & Political Science Edinburgh.🧵

In his JMP, Carlos shows that more information about the asset on offer can «reduce» efficiency in decentralised markets by exacerbating an adverse selection problem. He explains how and when, and what this means for financial regulation. To learn more: bit.ly/499n7QK

Recruiting for 3 posts: 1) Nairobi based research assistant, 2) Joburg based research assistant, both (stata/econ background, field experience). 3) Remote data engineer (SQL required, ideally R/python/stata). Unfortunately only SA residents for post 2, others are open.