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Happy to announce the call for applications for the next Summer School in Development Economics! 👩‍🏫☀️🌍📈 🗓️ Sept 4-7 in Tuscany (IT) Topic: "Gender, Labor and Development" 👀 Speakers: Taryn Dinkelman (Taryn Dinkelman) & Rachel Ngai (LSE Department of Economics )💥 Link: tinyurl.com/3uxykx3t

📢Our article on the impact of COVID-19 on mental health in 8 LMICs has been published in PLOS Medicine .Depression rates increased by 0.29 SD in the 4 months following the pandemic onset, and recovery was not statistically significant in the subsequent period. Check it below🔗⤵️

📢WE'RE HIRING a RA to work on a study exploring the governance challenge of how to get high human capital, high integrity, representative citizens to put themselves forward for consideration as political candidates. Econ RA Listings ⏰Apply by 18 February ℹ️ csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Listen to & read this VoxDev post & podcast in which the CSAE's Niccolò Meriggi (Department of Economics, Oxford) discusses an experiment in Sierra Leone that convinced 2 major political parties to adopt a primary system for candidate selection. ▶️voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Research published in nature shows the use of mobile clinics increases #vaccine uptake in Sierra Leone IGC Economist/PI Niccolò Meriggi, @mushfiq_econ, Maarten Voors & collaborators show that improving access to the C19 vaccine increases #immunisation rates theigc.org/news/last-mile…

It's accompanied by an insightful Nature News & Views by Alison Buttenheim and Harsha Thirumurthy discussing what needs to be done to expand the coverage of health services in low-income countries nature.com/articles/d4158…

⭐️New paper ‘Last-mile Delivery Increases Vaccine Uptake in Sierra Leone’ by the CSAE’s Niccolò Meriggi (Department of Economics, Oxford) et al. has been published in nature. 📚Read it here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Researchers ran an intervention with last-mile delivery of doses & health professionals to the most inaccessible areas across 150 communities increasing the immunisation rate by about 26% points within 48–72 hours 📚nature.com/articles/s4158…

📢Showcasing the findings of a new paper from Postdoctoral Research Fellow Niccolò Meriggi!

It's always nice to see when the @nature news team covers one of "my" papers. In this case, Max Kozlov 🇺🇦 wrote about @mushfiq_econ Niccolò Meriggi's study showing how to increase vaccinations in Sierra Leone: nature.com/articles/d4158…

Congratulations to #MercuryProject team ‘Marklate don cam’—ft. @mushfiq_econ Niccolò Meriggi Desmond Maada kangbai @NeelaSaldanha+ — who are are now testing if bundling multiple vaccines in mobile units ⬆️ vaccination by ⬇️ decision & logistical costs of getting vaxxed. ssrc.org/grantees/scali…

Collaborating with top institutions and policymakers, Niccolò Meriggi and co-authors devised a mobile vaccination strategy that met WHO's 70% target. Their cost-effective model offers insights for rural vaccinations globally. Learn more here: ow.ly/PNB950QWJKw CSAE

How should political parties choose candidates? Last week on VoxDev, Katherine Casey Stanford Graduate School of Business, Abou Bakarr Kamara International Growth Centre & Niccolò Meriggi CSAE Department of Economics, Oxford shed light on which systems of leadership selection are most effective: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

🚨NEW working paper: CSAE & Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) Working Paper 'Participation, legitimacy and fiscal capacity in weak states: evidence from participatory budgeting'.   ✒️feat. Kevin Grieco, Abou Bakarr Kamara & Niccolò Meriggi   Julian Michel & Wilson Prichard 🔗theigc.org/publications/p…

📢New Working Paper from LoGRI & CSAE: "Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting" ✍️Kevin Grieco, Abou Bakarr Kamara, Niccolò Meriggi, Julian Michel & Wilson Prichard 🔗logri.org/publication/pa…

🆕 Can participatory budgeting build government legitimacy and increase tax revenues in weak states? Today on VoxDev w/ Kevin Grieco IAST, Abou Bakarr Kamara International Growth Centre, Niccolò Meriggi CSAE, Julian Michel Hong Kong Baptist University & Wilson Prichard Munk School: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Thanks to VoxDev for publishing this summary of our work on participatory budgeting, legitimacy and tax compliance in Sierra Leone. You can find the full paper here: logri.org/publication/pa…

Evidence from Sierra Leone shows that digital participatory budgeting can increase government legitimacy in weak states but only increases tax compliance for supporters of the incumbent government. Read today's article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…