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📢 Applications for our Evaluating Social Programs Course in #Accra from 19-23 August are open! Targeted at policymakers, practitioners, and donors, this course dives into how to, when to, and why to conduct randomized evaluations. Apply & learn more: j-p.al/ESP-2024

If you study Chinese politics and plan to be on the market in Fall 2024, please consider applying for the 2024 New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference at Harvard on September 27-28, 2024. Application materials due by April 30, 2024. More details below:   Scholars in Chinese

Fellow Africanists in the greater Boston area, please submit your papers for stellar feedback 👇

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New Deadline❗ 🌟Attention #EconomicDevelopment PhD students! 🌟 CID's Visiting Researcher Program is accepting applications from qualified candidates for #fellowships beginning September '24. Applications due 4/25! 🎓 #EconTwitter bit.ly/49BQ0oj

Hello! Please consider applying to a year-long RA position with me, Nathan Nunn Awa Ambra Seck and Jacob Moscona. Project involves ethnographic and historical work on culture and institutions in SSA. Deadline 6/3/24. Econ RA Listings employment.ucsd.edu/research-data-…

My boring 2 cents on last night: read this paper by Le Pennec and Vincent Pons before arriving at any far-reching conclusions. vincentpons.org/tvdebates

Update to previous job post! Please apply to a year-long RA position with me, Nathan Nunn (UBC) Awa Ambra Seck (HBS) and Jacob Moscona (MIT). Project on culture and institutions in SSA using ethnographic data. Deadline 7/11/24. Thank you! Econ RA Listings employment.ucsd.edu/research-assis…

Is there any way to read the majority such that ordering the military to assassinate a domestic political rival isn’t an official act and therefore absolutely immune?

If you are a nonprofit looking to build up your research/evaluation capacity, did you know you can "rent" top-notch academics? Many policy-oriented researchers are happy to "buy out" their teaching in order to spend more time doing the research-focused work they love.

This paper had everyone at NBER talking this week. Amazing natural experiment, important results! "The Impact of Denying a Wanted Abortion on Women and Children" by Juliana Londoño-Vélez & Estefanía Saravia conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f2…

Alexander Berger Chris Blattman David McKenzie early modern boy-actress (they/them) Paul Niehaus The right way to think about the impact of RCTs is not an individual RCTs told us X worked but a set of RCTs changed our view of humans or institutions. Eg the whole field of behavioral economics draws a lot on RCTs. One of the big insights Lant talks about is how education...1/n

Whole thread a banger but this is the one

But is it economics? Congratulations to my colleagues—especially James, who describes himself as a “recovering economist”. He taught me my first political economy of development class 21y ago, then became my colleague when he recruited me to Harris Policy and The Pearson Institute 8y

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via John Burn-Murdoch 2024 Democrats are the red dot. Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

It’s time to move. You‘ll find me at Pia Raffler.bsky.social. It’s buzzing over there

To all undergrads/recent grads interested in careers in evidence-informed approaches to poverty reduction: J-PAL's and IPA's annual recruitment drive is now open (through Jan 13). povertyactionlab.org/page/recruitme…. I can't think of a better way to start out

Scholars of political economy in Africa: please remember to apply for the 2025 #WGAPE meeting at OSU on April 25-27. Papers and research designs are due Jan. 7. Full travel funding is provided for selected authors. Africa-based scholars are particularly encouraged to apply.

Please submit your papers for the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE), scheduled for May 16, 2025, Brown University with the generous support of Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Submission deadline: March 28, 2025 Link: forms.gle/vTGSfp4kEpuJWi…