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paulgp Agree, Upwork is fantastic. We used it recently to create an animated video for an RCT (to encourage parents to talk more with their infants). Fun back-and-forth between RA in Ghana and illustrator in Ukraine ("Maybe draw a mango tree instead of a pine tree...")

The call for papers for the Development and Political Economics SF Bay Area PhD Student Conference is out! Held on April 18th. Deadline for submission March 2nd. Hosted by UC Berkeley's SocialScienceMatrix. Sponsored by Stanford King Center on Global Development and the Berkeley Center for Economics & Politics

We still accept submissions until Monday for the Development and Political Economics SF Bay Area PhD Student Conference (DevPEC)! Berkeley is hosting the conference on April 18, and we are excited to have Ricardo Perez-Truglia as our keynote speaker.

Today is the last day to submit your papers for DevPEC at [email protected]. Please send us your great Dev and PE work; I want to read all of it!

DevPEC, a PhD Student Conference, is back this year and on hybrid mode. Awesome space for graduate students to share their work. #EconTwitter please help us spread the word! See this thread for more details.

Can interoperability play a role in the adoption of digital merchant payments? Results from a pilot study in #Tanzania by Philip Roessler & Mark Walsh, find out more on our blog ➡️bit.ly/3GEUDm1 #SDGs #FinancialInclusion #MobileMoney

DevPEC PhD Student Conference will take place on April 25-26, 2023. It's an excellent opportunity to present your work & get feedback from peers & faculty UC Berkeley & Stanford University. Keynote speaker is Professor Marco Gonzalez Navarro MarcoGonzalezNavarro! Apply by March 10th #EconTwitter

A 3-minute informational video shown to mothers in Ghana successfully increased how much the women conversed with their infants, a practice that boosts cognitive development, from Pascaline Dupas Camille Falezan, Seema Jayachandran and Mark Walsh nber.org/papers/w31264

PhD student Mark Walsh received support from the King Center for his experiment in #Pakistan studying why people are reluctant to share information about new technologies, adding to the theoretical literature on social learning models. kingcenter.stanford.edu/news/examining…

#Study: A low-cost information campaign in Ghana boosts mother-infant talks & potentially enhances cognitive development. Study by #IPAGhana, Ghana Health Service, & researchers Pascaline Dupas, Camille Falézan, Seema Jayachandran, & Mark Walsh: bit.ly/19272aa

Intergenerational impacts of secondary education subsidies on children in Ghana, from Esther Duflo, Pascaline Dupas, Elizabeth Spelke, and Mark Walsh nber.org/papers/w32742

🆕 Subsidising secondary education has inter-generational benefits Today on VoxDev, Esther Duflo MIT Economics J-PAL, Pascaline Dupas Princeton Economics, Michael Kremer UChicago Economics, Elizabeth Spelke Harvard Psychology & Mark Walsh GiveWell outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

High school scholarships can be a cost-effective public health policy To learn more, read this week's article w/ Esther Duflo MIT Economics J-PAL , Pascaline Dupas Princeton Economics , Michael Kremer UChicago Economics , Elizabeth Spelke Harvard Psychology & Mark Walsh: voxdev.org/topic/educatio…

Simple and inexpensive interventions aimed at making changes in how Bangladesh’s informal brink kilns operate could dramatically cut emissions and boost profits for producers, according to a new Science study. Learn more in this week's issue: scim.ag/4k9CsoV

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While most people know GiveWell for our Top Charities (which still get most funding), we're increasingly funding promising opportunities outside that framework. What's changed? 🧵