Apply if you’re passionate about data and economics! After 2 years of piloting incl designing a new misinformation training, measurements and building a lab in the field, we’re finally launching an experiment that will generate a lot of interesting data. #EconRA #predoc 🤓

I love this series of 🧵 aiming to showcase the work of young (aspiring) dev economists -- thanks so much for including me Jessica Leight !

🆕 VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable Today on VoxDev, Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social World Bank Research, Giulia Mascagni International Centre for Tax and Development, @mazharwaxim Manchester Economics, Miguel Almunia CUNEF Universidad & Vedanth Nair Institute for Fiscal Studies outline key takeaways from their research: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

📣 Du 2 au 5 juillet 2024, J-PAL organise à Rabat la 4ème édition de son école d'été "Méthodologies du Développement” destinée aux chercheurs africains intéressés par l’évaluation d’impact. Pour en savoir plus: povertyactionlab.org/fr/event/ecole… Postulez avant le 28 avril !

🚨🚨I’m hiring a predoc! Come work with me, Mery Ferrando, and Teodora Tsankova on topics related to gender, labor, and migration 😊 Tilburg University more info here: meryferrando.com/pre-doctoral-f…

🚨🚨🚨 My team at the @worldbank is hiring tax experts at the Economist + Senior Economist level. Exciting & rewarding work program. Research-y background welcome. Deadline: Friday, May 24. Thanks for applying & spreading the word! tinyurl.com/wbtaxjob1 tinyurl.com/wbtaxjob2

This year will be the last edition of the Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing countries, which we have been organizing for 9 years now! Don’t miss it! Make sure to apply by July 1st: econ.uzh.ch/en/eventsandse…

📢 📢We are thrilled to announce the 1st European edition of the Junior Spatial Economics Conference. It will take place in Paris Sciences Po on the 18th-19th of Dec 2024. Send us your most recent work before June 20th. Extended abstracts are welcome! 👉cepr.org/events/junior-…

I am looking for a predoctoral fellow based at CEMFI to assist in the ERC-funded research project "City buzz: Quantity, quality, and variety implications of the urban environment" for one year starting September 2024 Application deadline 31 July #EconRA econjobmarket.org/positions/10683

For those on the postdoc market this autumn: note the early deadline for Oxford-Nuffield positions Department of Economics, Oxford

🚨 Call for Papers STEG Annual Conference & Theme 5 Workshop The role of the public sector Jan 8-11, 2025 at Oxford Economics, London, UK Send us your Macro ∩ Public ∩ Dev papers. The workshop (on Jan 11, 2025) will focus on the role of governments in structural

📢 JMCs: Apply to join us at Sciences Po Sciences Po ScPoEcon in Paris ! Dynamic and rapidly growing team in a great environment 🌟 Fields: econometrics; health/environment econjobmarket.org/positions/10952

On the JM with a paper on Development? We open a 2 years post doc position at LEAP. Come to work with us! Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10989

Are you an early career scholar? Apply to our next PEDL #Matchmaking #Workshop! This event connects young scholars to advance research on private enterprise development in Africa and South Asia. To learn more & apply: bit.ly/MMW2025

Okay, last but certainly not least, I'll tweet about another excellent student, David Henning. David is a development economist, focusing on firms and their interactions with regulation/tax administration. His JMP studies how tax audits affect firms AND aggregate output in Uganda.

🚀I'm on the job market! Curious how digital tech boosts productivity and efficiency but still faces adoption barriers? Digital payments are powerful tools, yet data observability can be a double-edged sword. My JMP takeaways on the World Bank blog ! 🙂👇blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

One month left to apply to the IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance annual congress taking place in August in Kenya! Francois Gerard Francois Gerard and Shafik Hebous will be coordinating, and great keynotes to expect by Niels Johannesen, Oyebola Okunogbe Oyebola Okunogbe, Ravi Kanbur, Rema Hanna!

👇 Important experimental results from Liberia on the role of legibility 🧐 for successful public policies -- in the case of taxation knowing the taxpayer is often the first order challenge in LICs ! And often taken for granted in standard public finance models & research.

May 15 is the deadline to submit a paper to the 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference. Holds in London Sep25-26. Keynotes: Tim Besley + Annette Alstadsæter Dario Tortarolo Chris Hoy Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social Lucie Gadenne Justine Knebelmann and many others! worldbank.org/en/events/2025…