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Beyond happy to see this paper forthcoming! To celebrate 🎉 a short 🧵 on how we arrived here - i.e. on the wild ride to Econometrica ! Also, I post in the first comment a link to an old thread in which I describe the paper 👇. 1/

My #JMP is on the WB Blog! Can mentors improve young job seekers' career trajectories? Yes! +27% employed +18%💰 Conversations’ transcripts show why: ⛔️ Job referrals 🔀 ⛔️ Search skills 🔍 ✅ Correct optimism 🔮 ✅ Explain job ladder 🪜 ✅ Encourage them while climbing it! 💪🏾

Some preliminary findings from a new project with Vittorio Bassi Imran Rasul & Elena Spadini 1⃣ long-run impacts of vocational training (✅) 2⃣ role of skills training in building resilience to negative macroeconomic shocks (✅)

Are you interested in macro-development? Do you want to spend some time in NYC with a very competitive salary working with great data and (hopefully) great mentors? Apply below 👇. We are searching for a pre-doc to start July 1st for a project on human capital and climate change!

🚨🚨 Pre-Doc opportunity to work for two years Columbia Business School with me and Chris Moser . Great environment, (hopefully) awesome mentoring, the best city in the world, and terrific placements into PhD programs (NYU, Stanford, Chicago, etc..) RT and share with your network 🙏!

Great opportunity to join an amazing team! Very grateful to have had such supportive mentors. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to get hands-on experience in field work. Please reach out if you have any questions on the position or living in Kampala! Econ RA Listings

🆕 How are manufacturing firms organised in Uganda? 🇺🇬 Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bassi USC Economics International Growth Centre, Jung Hyuk Lee, Ph.D., Alessandra Peter New York University, Tommaso Porzio Columbia Business School, @RitwikaSen Kellogg School & Esau Tugume BRAC Uganda outline new evidence: voxdev.org/topic/firms/ho…

Most workers in developing countries are self-employed. Would there be transformational gains from organizing them into firms? In this (possibly controversial) paper 👇 we argue “maybe not”. Why? Because there is very small labor specialization even in larger (Ugandan) firms.

📢 We're hiring!! Come work with Lori Beaman Anisha Sharma, Karmini S & me on our Firms and Sexual Harassment Prevention project! 1️⃣YR pre-doc position based in Delhi 🇮🇳 ⏱️Start asap, deadline June 6th dropbox.com/scl/fi/un54naa…

New WP: on the returns to worker skills during the pandemic. Combines 10-year panel data on workers and firms to study how each reacted to the pandemic shock. With the fantastic team of Livia Alfonsi Vittorio Bassi and Elena Spadini Comments welcome! bit.ly/Covidworkers

🚨New WP!🚨 Were skilled &unskilled workers differentially impacted by the pandemic? Why? Differential exposure &/or resilience? Are returns to skills maintained by the same mechanisms in good & bad times? ➡️bit.ly/Covidworkers w/Vittorio Bassi @imranrasul3 Elena Spadini

💡 Skills matter—especially in a crisis. Our decade-long study in Uganda shows that vocational training helped workers recover faster from COVID-19 job losses. More skills = more resilience. W/ Imran Rasul Vittorio Bassi Elena Spadini Read more: library.hbs.edu/working-knowle…

Last semester, I organised an informal seminar at UCL sharing my experience & tips for securing research grant / planning an own survey as a PhD student. I updated the slides for public sharing. I hope this will be helpful, esp. for devo students! yasukatateishi.com/resources/