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The joint conference of G2LM|LIC and BREAD in Nairobi just kicked off! Many great presentations ahead of us in the next two days...see the programme here: conference.iza.org/conference_fil… Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office #EconTwitter

G²LM|LIC & BREAD Conference on Development Economics, Nairobi 🇰🇪 with Jenny Aker Annabelle Krause-Pilatus @orianabandiera Pascaline Dupas Imran Rasul Ahmed Elsayed Monica Lambon- Quayefio Ibrahim Okumu Mauricio Romero Leonard Wantchekon 👉conference.iza.org/conference_fil… #GLMLIC_conference #EconTwitter G2LM|LIC

A great time at the BREAD-G2LMLIC Conference in Nairobi, the first in-person BREAD conference in SSA. Huge thanks to all organizers, hosts, presenters, mentors and mentees. We need to do this again sometime! Pascaline Dupas Danila Serra sara lowes Andrew Foster Eoin McGuirk

Busing students to the suburbs has benefits for those being bused and no downside for the rest. Read more about this great work from Elizabeth Setren from Tufts Economics Tufts University wbur.org/news/2024/01/1…

Are politicians swayed by personal interests when voting on war? Article in Tufts University magazine on joint work with Nate G. Hilger and Nicholas Miller published in JPE: now.tufts.edu/2024/02/27/how…

Recently accepted by REStud, ``Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa,'' from McGuirk and Nunn: restud.com/transhumant-pa…

Mai Mahmoud is an outstanding prospect as future researcher, in my humble opinion. If you look to hire in development economics, check out her work! Her job market paper investigates how efficiently the market mechanism allocates agricultural inputs. It has it all!

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Really lovely to have Kelsey Jack back Tufts Economics (she left us in 2018). Her visit was both an excellent reunion of old friends and a great way to learn about how clever pricing of fuel subsidies can lower emissions.

Call for papers is out for the BREAD-CEPR-TIME-TCD Symposium. Send in your submissions, any area of development economics by July 1st. Anyone can submit - please RT to help spread the word. Submission portal: bit.ly/BREAD-CEPR-TIM…

Many thanks to our wonderful speakers Felipe Lozano-Rojas Gaurav Khanna Michele Belot Matthew Pecenco Betsey Stevenson Mike Mueller-Smith 🏳️‍🌈 David Frisvold Eoin McGuirk Jamein P. Cunningham Mireille Jacobson and David Figlio! Join us for seminars Thursdays 3:30-4:45PM PT at: sdsu.zoom.us/j/88923406625

New VoxTalks CEPR podcast interview with Tim Phillips Talk Normal on joint work with Nathan Nunn 👨‍🌾🐄

More new research from the Paris School of Economics -CEPR Policy forum 2024 Tim Phillips Talk Normal interviews Eoin McGuirk Tufts University about how #economicdevelopment in #Africa can sometimes lead to conflicts between crop farmers and pastoralists. 🎧 Listen now: cepr.org/multimedia/whe… #Podcast

Just in time for #WorldFoodDay, an #EconTwitter podcast from the wonderful VoxDev

CHEPS & SDSU ECON welcome Eoin McGuirk to present his paper (w/ Nathan Nunn), “Development Mismatch? Evidence from Agricultural Projects in Pastoral Africa” Link for Paper: conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2… Join us on Thurs 10/31, 3:30PM PT in AL 660 or at: sdsu.zoom.us/j/88923406625

Tufts Economics crowd at #NEUDC!! Congrats Sarah Shaukat and Carolyn Pelnik 👏

We are hiring! NovaSBE is hiring in #AllFields in #Economics! Apply to join us! See the ad here: econjobmarket.org/positions/10960 Deadline to apply: November 30 #EconTwitter

Agricultural development projects increase civil conflict in traditionally pastoral areas of Africa. The effect is reversed in agricultural areas, suggesting "mismatched" policy, from Eoin McGuirk and Nathan Nunn nber.org/papers/w33191

🆕 How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence Today on VoxDev, Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) & Nathan Nunn (UBC Economics) outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

How some development projects undermine Africa’s pastoral communities, sparking violence Last week on VoxDev, Eoin McGuirk (Tufts University) & Nathan Nunn (UBC Economics) outlined their research: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…