📢 2 days left to apply! Join our team at CSAE! Ashley Pople, Stefan Dercon and I are looking for an RA to contribute to a range of exciting projects focusing on innovations in social protection responses to extreme weather events.

I'm excited to see that the 1st Africa ESA conference will take place this December in beautiful Cape Town. Target audience: behavioral, experimental, development. Keynote speakers: Sule Alan & Bertil Tungodden Weather: sunny & warm :) Link: tinyurl.com/AfricaESA

Just spotted The New York Times covering our paper on Bangladesh :) … nytimes.com/2023/07/03/cli…

New short WP by me, alan manning & Barbara Petrongolo: Do firms that pay higher wages fill vacancies more easily? We find a 10% wage increase reduces vacancy-filling time by 25-40%. iza.org/publications/d… (1/5)

🌍 Teach and inspire on MSc Economics for Development course, lead quantitative methods, micro & macro theory classes. Contribute to a vibrant research community. Join ODID as a Departmental Lecturer in Development Economics. Apply by 21st August. ow.ly/3yWG50Pwsoy

1) Exciting work by Rocco Zizzamia, Stefan Dercon and Ashley Pople (University of Oxford), Narayan Das, Rozina Haque and Maliha Noshin Khan (@BIGD_bracu) where they investigate:

2) the role that coaching plays within ultra-poor graduation programs – specifically, how sensitive the welfare benefits of graduation interventions are to the intensity and the type of coaching inputs in Bangladesh.

Rocco Zizzamia presents evidence from unbundling BRAC's ultra-poor programme by testing a reduction in the frequency of coaching in Bangladesh. Key result: no differential impact on household outcomes. Coaching matters but does not need to be every week! #ADE2023

🌟NEW CSAE Working Paper ‘Income Risk and Education Investment: Evidence from India'. 🖋️Shagnik Chakravarty (ODID) Read it here (click ORA Record): csae.web.ox.ac.uk/publication/20… 🧵1/4 Department of Economics, Oxford Blavatnik School of Government

🌟NEW Episode 12 of the CSAE Research #Podcasts! Locked Down & Locked Out: Repurposing Social Assistance in South Africa. Rocco Zizzamia (Department of Economics, Oxford) & Ihsaan Bassier (Economics at Surrey) discuss work w/ policymakers in South Africa during COVID-19. 🎧csae.ox.ac.uk/locked-down-an…

📢🔔WE'RE HIRING 2 Senior Research & Policy Officer roles at the CSAE & Blavatnik School of Government with: 🔹What Works Hub for Global Education 🔹CSAE Digital Public Infrastructure Lab ⏰Apply by 21 Oct 24, 12 noon BST ℹ️ Find out more & apply: csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Interested in coming to work with me and Christian Meyer and Noam Angrist? Apply now.

🌟NEW CSAE Working Paper 'Poverty without Poverty Line'. ✒️Olivier Sterck (ODID RefugeeStudiesCentre & IOB - Institute of Development Policy UAntwerpen) 📚Click ORA record to read: csae.ox.ac.uk/publication/20… A 🧵(1/8)👇

The CSAE Lunchtime Seminars start next week! Join Suanna Oh (Paris School of Economics) for a discussion on 'Worker Absences and Demand for Flexible Contracts'. 🕧12:30-2pm, Wed 16 Oct 🏢Manor Road Lecture Theatre, Oxford ℹ️ csae.ox.ac.uk/events

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Ronak Jain who works on topics related to development + behavioral economics ronak-jain.com

Join our growing development economics group at Oxford! We are hiring an Associate Professor of Development Economics. econjobmarket.org/positions/11116

I am hiring a post-doctoral fellow for 3 years to join me at Department of Economics, Oxford and CSAE ! Continue to develop your own research, and help set up a new research group for macro-experimental development. No teaching required (but possible). Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11184

Come work with me and other amazing researchers as a Pre-Doc at Oxford, on several large-scale RCTs in East Africa. Great for future PhDs or those interested in a career in development research. #econra #econ_ra #EconTwitter

We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics One Ass. Professor Three Post-Docs One Pre-doc One Research Manager csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. Apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below