Dev. Economist, Univ. of Gothenburg, @Efd_initiative, & @JPAL. V. Prof. @UCT_news Coordinate early career & Women researcher support in LMIC. Opinions, own.
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Yonas Alem retweeted
🚨#Econjobmarket @EconomiaUAndes is hiring two assistant professors of any field of Economics!
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Come work at a vibrant community with amazing colleagues and brilliant students, in a beautiful country and city.
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A new @nberpubs review paper from @JPAL_NA Associate Director of Policy @DrKimDadisman, @JPAL affiliate @POreopoulos, and Andre Nickow presents a meta-analysis of #RCTs that estimate the impacts of early childhood parenting programs on learning. Read more: nber.org/papers/w32959
Yonas Alem retweeted
While #AI advances in higher-income countries, lower-income nations need to catch up.
@ChidoCleoMpemba @AU_YouthEnvoy is advocating for the inclusion & recognition of young people’s contributions to digital progress.
Have a listen!🎧 wrld.bg/U2OO50SUJjm #WBGDigitalProgress
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"How to Improve Education Outcomes Most Efficiently? A Review of the Evidence Using a Unified Metric" is now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics!
Working paper here cgdev.org/publication/how-im…
by @Angrist_Noam, Filmer, @RGlenner, Rogers, @Shwetlena, and me
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"Men can cook" --> a gender-sensitive graduation program ⬆️ gender equitable attitudes, but were sustained only w/ additional men's engagement groups 🇪🇹
@dogilligan @leightjessica @m_mulford @IFPRI @IFPRI_ESARO et al. in @WorldDevJournal #EconTwitter
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Solar is expected to surpass coal as the world’s most available source of energy by 2027. ☀️ Learn how the right policies and regulations have broken down barriers to #solar – and can continue to do so: wrld.bg/ha4K50RsB3G #LivablePlanet
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I'm delighted to introduce the most recent issue of the JEEA (August 2024) - consisting of 12 pathbreaking articles at the frontier of knowledge in economics. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/…
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What would be the economic impact of reducing transportation time in #Africa? How much would the continent's GDP and trade grow after implementing it? 🌍
📰 Find the answers in our policy paper on trade and infrastructure integration in Africa: wrld.bg/YZ5u50SXz2O
Yonas Alem retweeted
Retirement and precautionary motives are the dominant motives for saving in Europe partly because social safety nets are not fully adequate, from @charlesyuji and Luigi Ventura nber.org/papers/w32838
Yonas Alem retweeted
The global economy is expected to stabilize for the first time in 3 years in 2024—but at a level that is weak by recent historical standards.
Read the Global Economic Prospects 2024 report ➡️ wrld.bg/5WPc50T3qrg #GEP2024
Yonas Alem retweeted
Call for papers for the 17th annual conference on migration and development, this year to be held in Bologna on Dec 9/10. Submissions due Sept 20. Always an excellent conference & has featured some of the best work on the topic. Keynotes are @deanyang & @SMGSequeira
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Don't miss our free online webinar tomorrow, Wednesday, Aug 14 at 1.00 p.m. CEST with Martine Visser and Joseph Cook.
Topic: "Distributional analysis of water use amongst urban households in a multi-country study".
See you there!
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Yonas Alem retweeted
Read how Chinese Traditional Medicine (TCM) demand for Nile Perch fish bladders (maw) is driving illegal fishing and severe depletion of fish stocks in Lake Victoria impacting food and economic insecurity of the region’s residents.
Yonas Alem retweeted
CSAE Director Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev (@OxfordEconDept & @BlavatnikSchool) will give a public lecture on 'South Africa's Gamble on Economic Development' at @UPTuks as part of the CSAE Economic Development in Africa Workshop.
🗓 4 December 2024, online
Registration info👇
We invite you to register for our upcoming Online Public Lecture by Prof Dercon: “South Africa’s Gamble on Economic Development and Inclusion, then and now”
Learn more and register: econrsa.org/events/public-le…
@Oxford_CSAE @UPTuks
Yonas Alem retweeted
AERC is hosting a technical workshop in Nairobi from September 16-27, 2024, aimed at enhancing the research methods, proposal writing, and presentation skills of researchers from underrepresented African groups, with a focus on women participants.
The workshop will cover topics such as identifying research topics, conducting literature reviews, data management and analysis, and using econometric software, along with practical exercises. Applications are due by August 16, 2024.
Read More: bit.ly/3SuGexT
#WeareAERC #AERCImpact
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In a lab-in-the-field experiment involving “money earlier or later” (MEL) games, evidence is found that subjects neither narrowly nor broadly bracket their choices, from @AlemResearch, @loeserjohn, and @aprajit_mahajan nber.org/papers/w32683
Yonas Alem retweeted
Energy transitions are boosting the world’s appetite for solar panels, electric cars & batteries
But reliable & expanding critical minerals supplies will be essential to build them
On a path to 1.5 °C, demand for critical minerals quadruples by 2040 → iea.li/3VY0l8h
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Not saying that I think about this paper almost daily, and not not saying that, perhaps because...
"Women in Science: Lessons from the Baby Boom"
@Petramoser6 & Scott Daewon Kim (R&R, Econometrica)
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Yonas Alem retweeted
Hi #EconTwitter! 📈
Curious about the latest in causal inference with panel data models?
Check out 👇the latest version of this #econometrics survey by @ArkhangelskyD (@CEMFInews) and @guido_imbens (@stanford)!
It covers everything from difference-in-differences and two-way-fixed-effect estimators to nonlinear models, synthetic controls, and design-based inference.
A must-read for insights into this literature. Don't miss out!⭐️
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2311.15458
