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Kate Orkin

@kateorkin

Associate Prof Economics & Public Policy @BlavatnikSchool @UniofOxford @Oxford_CSAE. Design interventions to boost employment&earnings. She/her. Personal views

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Martina Björkman Nyqvist (@bjorkmanmartina) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢Our paper on "Understanding Child Sex Trafficking Using Victim-Level Data" is forthcoming in EDCC. The fieldwork for this paper was one of the toughest in my life, and I am glad the paper is out, and the world will learn so we can try to change. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Dean Karlan (@deankarlan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨

👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries!

Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances.

A short primer in 22 tweets🧵
Farrukh (@implausibleblog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Tim Farron, "The unpleasantness about this debate is only matched by the lack of proper information" #BBCQT "85% of refugees settle in the country next to where they come from" "The French take 3x more refugees than we do" "The Germans take 4x more refugees than we do" "If

Elias Papaioannou (@eliaspapaioann2) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#NobelPrize2024 in Economics to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and Jim Robinson. Want to know more about their far far far-reaching impact? Have a look at the breadth of work summarized in this CEPR VoxEU E-book. Stelios & I edited some years ago cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

CSAE (@oxford_csae) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Apply for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) Blavatnik School of Government (1 year graduate degree). Scholarships available for future leaders, policy makers, & public servants who are committed to Africa's development. ⏰Apply by 09 January 2025 ℹ️ Find out more: bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/mpp

Apply for the Master of Public Policy (MPP) <a href="/BlavatnikSchool/">Blavatnik School of Government</a> (1 year graduate degree).

Scholarships available for future leaders, policy makers, &amp; public servants who are committed to Africa's development. 

⏰Apply by 09 January 2025
ℹ️ Find out more: bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/mpp
John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!

My wish for the next election is that poll trackers look like the one on the right 👉 not the left

This was yet another election where the polling showed it could easily go either way, but most of the charts just showed two nice clean lines, one leading and one trailing. Bad!
Dan Neidle (@danneidle) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Budget employer national insurance increase will mostly end up being passed to employees in the form of lower wages and reduced employment. A thread on why I'm disappointed by the Budget, and why this chart makes me sad.

The Budget employer national insurance increase will mostly end up being passed to employees in the form of lower wages and reduced employment. A thread on why I'm disappointed by the Budget, and why this chart makes me sad.
Blavatnik School of Government (@blavatnikschool) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are thrilled to announce a NEW scholarship for DPhils carrying out quantitative economic research. The Urban Labour Markets in Africa Scholarship will be supervised by Kate Orkin. ⏰ Apply by 9 Jan 2025! More details here ow.ly/KVrU50UhGH1 or here 👇

We are thrilled to announce a NEW scholarship for DPhils carrying out quantitative economic research. The Urban Labour Markets in Africa Scholarship will be supervised by <a href="/kateorkin/">Kate Orkin</a>. ⏰ Apply by 9 Jan 2025!

More details here ow.ly/KVrU50UhGH1 or here 👇
CSAE (@oxford_csae) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Day 3⃣ of the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop 2024 continues with presentations from our delegates and a focus on 1:1 discussions.

Day 3⃣ of the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop 2024 continues with presentations from our delegates and a focus on 1:1 discussions.
VoxDev (@vox_dev) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Last year we released four more VoxDevLits, including 'Barriers to Search and Hiring in Urban Labour Markets' by Stefano Caria and Kate Orkin ⤵️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/barr…

Blavatnik School of Government (@blavatnikschool) 's Twitter Profile Photo

"Foreign aid is what great nations do." In his latest piece for The Independent, Professor Stefan Dercon (Stefan Dercon) argues that foreign aid is not only a reflection of a nation’s character - it’s a marker of global power.👇 independent.co.uk/voices/musk-tr… #ForeignAid #Musk

Mahreen Mahmud (@mahreenmahmud) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excited to share work with Kate Orkin Emma Riley in rural Kenya. We show that adding an aspiration-boosting workshop to cash transfers increased women’s control over resources & decreased intimate partner violence as compared to cash transfers alone. tinyurl.com/3fwuhjyc