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Great experience attending the Dev Econ Summer School at the Barcelona School of Economics. Detailed lectures by Pamela Jakiela and Owen Ozier with ample scope for branching discussions. And of course, all of this in the beautiful city of #Barcelona ! Couldn't have been better !!

Question: Can someone point me to an example of an instrumental variables (IV) paper that's both credible AND isn't just using randomization as an instrument? Answer: See this new Center for Global Development paper from Pamela Jakiela, Owen Ozier, Lia Haskin Fernald, & Heather Knauer PhD cgdev.org/publication/pr…

From our AEA cttee on the job market, an update on the #EconJobMarket. In brief, the # of job listings is down, esp. nonacademic. Summary with graphs follows, with full report at: aeaweb.org/joe/communicat… Cc: AEA Information @JOE_listings CSWEP AEA Committee on the Status of LGBTQ+ Individuals #EconTwitter 1/5

Williamstown economists defending the “largest group run” #ECON5k title with a run along the storm-swollen Hoosic River.

3 JMPs this year (!) find pollution-haven effects in battery recycling: 1. Emily Litzow et al in Mexico: erinlitzow.github.io/MyFiles/JMP_Li… 2. Gerald Ipapa in Kenya: drive.google.com/file/d/1-00MNO…. 3. Moogdho Mahzab et al in Bangladesh: drive.google.com/file/d/1Yd5W0p… There seems to be a pattern here.

Most popular Development Impact posts of the past year - lots of love for old posts (although our traffic numbers miss all our email readers and anyone who still reads through RSS/Feedly etc.) blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Williams Economics is looking for a visitor in applied micro: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Amazing!

Submit the paper right now!

Development economists at liberal arts colleges: LAC-DEV 2024 conference September 27-28 at Williams College; submissions due June 15. Link: sites.google.com/site/lacdevcon…

🆕 Comparing approaches to breaking the poverty trap by promoting entrepreneurship Today on VoxDev, @AndrewBrudevold World Bank Research, Maddalena Honorati WB Social Protection, Ipapa Etarukot Univ. of Delaware, Pamela Jakiela Center for Global Development & Owen Ozier @WilliamsEcon outline research in Kenya: voxdev.org/topic/firms/co…

Hope you can join us in western MA at that other purple school in September!

I am honored and excited to be taking on the role of President of CGD! Looking forward to working with all the brilliant researchers there.

Tweet experiment reminds me of this paper in EDCC by David McKenzie and Berk Ozler papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Submissions are open for NEUDC 2024 at Northeastern!

"The Role of Fathers in Promoting Early Childhood Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Review of the Evidence" (by Pamela Jakiela and me) is now out in the World Bank Research Observer! Open-access published version: academic.oup.com/wbro/advance-a…

🆕 How do fathers influence early childhood development? Today on #VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips Talk Normal, David Evans Inter-American Development Bank & Pamela Jakiela William Center for Global Development discuss insights from low & middle-income countries on the role fathers play in parenting young children: voxdev.org/topic/health/h…

Microfranchising raises self-employment, improves wellbeing in Kenya. Cash only raises self-employment. Just Accepted new paper by A. Brudevold-Newman (@AndrewBrudevold), M. Honorati, G. Ipapa (Ipapa Etarukot), P. Jakiela (Pamela Jakiela), and O. Ozier (Owen Ozier) zurl.co/bYXQu