Hi friends, want to come work with me at Michael Kremer’s Development Innovation Lab at UChicago? Please get in touch! Key skills: writing clearly about economics, managing many priorities, and understanding LMIC contexts. Former IPA and J-PAL folks, I’m looking at you!

What’s the Latest Research in Development Economics? A Roundup from NEUDC 2022 - a classic David Evans & Almedina Music round-up of 135 conference papers blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

[1/n] I recently offered a free Zoom "intro to R" data visualization workshop after popular demand. Specifically, I went through the use of ggplot2. All disciplines with no prior R skills were welcome. All free materials are below!🧵 PhD Voice - Independently Run Academic Chatter™ OpenAcademics

New in #JDevStudies: Utteeyo Dasgupta Subha Mani Smriti Sharma & Saurabh Singhal use data from incentivized tasks & surveys w/ uni students --> historically marginalized castes report ⬇️scores than upper castes on competitiveness, confidence & personality traits tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

The most underrated way to learn economics? YouTube 🎥 No. I don't mean for undergrads. I mean for academics and econ policy nerds! Here are the best econ channels to learn from:

🚨 Advice for PhD students: you should consider doing a Summer Internship. In this thread, I explain why. 👇 #EconTwitter

The main takeaway today is that the Fed may soon call time on its rate-rising campaign. Powell said there's vast uncertainty re the economic impact from ongoing banking stress and that a pause was even considered ft.com/content/8fefdd…

Esther Duflo and I are delighted to put our MIT Economics PhD. Micro Development Economics course, 14.771, online MIT OpenCourseWare. All videos, syllabi, and lecture notes are free and open for all, including for use in your own classes. ocw.mit.edu/courses/14-771…

🧵on my, @juliacajalgrand, & Rocco Macchiavello's Journal of Economics Perspectives piece -- out today!

A few years ago at JEEA we started encouraging authors of accepted papers to post teaching materials for their work. Free for all to use & organized into topic areas. A great resource for those preparing courses! eeassoc.org/teaching-mater… Jonas Hjort Guido Lorenzoni Giovanni Peri

Our new #VoxDevLit on Female Labour Force Participation is out now! Senior Editor Rachel Heath synthesises evidence on the barriers to women's labour supply in low- and middle-income countries & evaluates policies to increase women’s labour supply: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/fema…

12 happy economists clicked at our annual PhD applied micro workshop. In other news - two of our undergrads going to Cornell University econ and Columbia University econ for their PhDs. We at Fordham University Fordham Economics are so happy for them 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Help a new department chair out! One of our wonderful visiting faculty got a TT offer late in the game (now). This is great for him! But a real pickle for me. I need to find someone to cover his courses this fall 🚨 Do you know anyone who could do this? Details below. (1/3)

#2024SEA in DC. Met two of the smartest mentees AMIE PRERNA DOKANIA and Ridwan Hossain both doing excellent research. Always a delight to meet colleagues Abu Syeid Shonchoy and Saravana Ravindran

My brilliant PhD student, Katherine Theiss's (Fordham Economics) JMP on today's development impact blog. She shows that women surveyed in the evening are less likely to report IPV.

Quick Stata tip: I've added 43 new tips to my book, bringing the total to 140. You can download "Quick Stata Tips" and the accompanying .do file for free at toddrjones.com/quickstatatips/

Join us this Thursday (1 May) as Ridwan Hossain, from Fordham University, presents his Paper: 📢"Motivating Students: Exploring the Effect of Incentives on Performance". Register here: sites.google.com/view/phd-evs20………………… #Childlearning #Educationperformance

Presented my job market paper at AFE 2025 The University of Chicago Grateful for the feedback, connections, and energy in the room. Inspiring conversations, smart people, big ideas. #FieldExperiments #EconTwitter

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr

Presenting three papers at #SEA2025 in Tampa this weekend: • My Job Market Paper on student motivation and incentives • A paper on intergenerational schooling effects • A paper on measuring competitiveness in adolescents Happy to connect if you’re in Tampa!