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"...genererar varje svensk krona som investeras i IDA cirka tre och en halv kronor till låginkomstländer". Vilken annan form av offentliga utgifter är så effektivt? Givet att ge mer!

💡New Misum Academic Insight: Foreign aid empowers women. Gender-focused aid amplifies effects. But community context matters! Based on the publication from Misum researchers Maria Perrotta Berlin, Anders Olofsgård & co-author Evelina Bonnier. ➡️Read more: hhs.se/en/research/in…

🚨 The ASWEDE Annual Conference 2024 is almost here! 📅 Join us on Nov 21-22 for two days of insightful presentations and discussions on development economics. Check out the full program below and here bit.ly/48V44tn! #ASWEDE2024

I need your help: I am teaching a Bachelor course in Development Economics and I am looking for inspiration for 1) a good course book to use and/or 2) syllabus with great papers to teach. Crossing my fingers you have some advice to provide to improve my teaching. THANKS!

Martina Björkman Nyqvist presented at OECD workshop on randomized control experiments to evaluate government programs. Inspiring to see UK, Italy & France advance evidence-based policy. Integrating this in policy design can ensure resources are directed to meaningful initiatives.

I can't stop thinking about the consequences of the USAID closure. "To billionaires in the White House, it may seem like a game. But to anyone with a heart, it’s about children’s lives and our security, and what’s unfolding is sickening." nytimes.com/2025/02/05/opi…

Big and warm congratulations to Julia Cage and D. Yanagizawa-Drott for this very well-deserved award. Brilliant minds!

Ett naturligt experiment i nutid av Heckscher-Ohlin theory modeller pågår just nu...

🥳Now out in the Journal of Development Economics! doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev… (with new section showing that health workers activities respond to rainfall shocks and reflect trends in mortality) It has been a long journey and i'm very happy this paper found a great home 🙏

🆕 #openaccess paper in JDE by Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Tillmann von Carnap, Andrea Guariso, & Svensson shows how #CHWs in #Uganda help mediate weather shocks. 👶“The risk of infant death increases following low growing-season rainfall, but access to community #healthcare reduces this risk by 46%.”

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Claude Raisaro Geneva Graduate Institute who works on topics related to development + behavioral economics

What a privilege to have the most amazing Mushfiq Mobarak visit us (Misum - Mistra Center for Sustainable Markets and Stockholm School of Economics) with a great talk and nice socializing 🙏

🎉 David Lagakos BU Economics & Joana Naritomi LSE have joined our Editorial Board 🎓 David & Joana join Martina Björkman Nyqvist, Mike Callen, Cesi Cruz, Oliver Hanney & Emaan Siddique. A huge thank you to Stefano Caria for his work as a board member over the last two years!

Incredibly saddened to hear about Ghazala Azmat's premature death. She was a wonderful and kind person, this is an immense loss for the economics community.

Indeed, Cristina Clerici is a cool young researcher 👏

EU has a Gavi Pledge Summit (commission.europa.eu/topics/public-…) right now - I pledge to Sweden to please continue to contribute to Gavi. Evidence shows that immunization works. E.g., research below shows that Gavi funding has saved about 1,5 million lives and most likely more...