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Building Inclusive Growth Lab: Development economics research lab at the University of Notre Dame, @ndecon.bky.social #econsky
📢 Now hiring predoc Research Associates for the BIG Lab!
🔬Collaborate on development research projects with Notre Dame faculty! Deadline: 12/31/25
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🔬Collaborate on development research projects with Notre Dame faculty! Deadline: 12/31/25
✍ Learn more and apply: buff.ly/BjAcByg
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November 11, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📢 Now hiring predoc Research Associates for the BIG Lab!
🔬Collaborate on development research projects with Notre Dame faculty! Deadline: 12/31/25
✍ Learn more and apply: buff.ly/BjAcByg
#econ #predoc
🔬Collaborate on development research projects with Notre Dame faculty! Deadline: 12/31/25
✍ Learn more and apply: buff.ly/BjAcByg
#econ #predoc
From the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina 👇👇
Brazil's Embrapa programme - a large public #R&D effort to create agricultural #innovation - shifted research to local needs and raised agricultural productivity by 110%, far outweighing its costs.
Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, Heitor Pellegrina, Karthik Sastry
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Ariel Akerman, Jacob Moscona, Heitor Pellegrina, Karthik Sastry
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October 31, 2025 at 3:23 PM
From the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina 👇👇
Missed the BIG Forum? Be sure to check out Pete Klenow's Keynote on his research on misallocation and inequality below or on the BIG Lab's site! 🌍
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BIG Forum Pete Klenow
First major academic conference of the Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Missed the BIG Forum? Be sure to check out Pete Klenow's Keynote on his research on misallocation and inequality below or on the BIG Lab's site! 🌍
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Missed the BIG Forum? Be sure to check out Ted Miguel's Keynote on his research on cash transfers in Kenya below or on the BIG Lab's site! 🌍
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BIG Forum Ted Miguel
First major academic conference of the Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Missed the BIG Forum? Be sure to check out Ted Miguel's Keynote on his research on cash transfers in Kenya below or on the BIG Lab's site! 🌍
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How much do credit card terms really affect default? 📉
Turns out, losing your job matters 7x more than a 30-point interest rate cut. BIG Lab's Enrique Seira has a new publication out in REStud examining the powerful role of employment shocks in consumer credit risk.
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Turns out, losing your job matters 7x more than a 30-point interest rate cut. BIG Lab's Enrique Seira has a new publication out in REStud examining the powerful role of employment shocks in consumer credit risk.
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Contract Terms, Employment Shocks, and Default in Credit Cards
Abstract. Regulatory concerns over a tension between expanding financial access and limiting default have led to significant restrictions on contract terms
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October 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
How much do credit card terms really affect default? 📉
Turns out, losing your job matters 7x more than a 30-point interest rate cut. BIG Lab's Enrique Seira has a new publication out in REStud examining the powerful role of employment shocks in consumer credit risk.
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Turns out, losing your job matters 7x more than a 30-point interest rate cut. BIG Lab's Enrique Seira has a new publication out in REStud examining the powerful role of employment shocks in consumer credit risk.
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Missed the BIG Forum? Be sure to check out the Fireside chat with Dean Karlan and Lakshmi Iyer recording linked below or on the BIG Lab's site!
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"BIG Forum"- 9/25/25 4:45pm Fireside Chat
First major academic conference of the Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Call for Papers: 23rd Midwest International Economic Development Conference. April 24-25, 2026. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Details: mwiedc.org Submit: editorialexpress.com/conference/m... #EconSky
Midwest International Economic Development Conference
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October 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Call for Papers: 23rd Midwest International Economic Development Conference. April 24-25, 2026. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Details: mwiedc.org Submit: editorialexpress.com/conference/m... #EconSky
📣 BIG Lab PHD student Andres Ramasco's paper, “Not a Sip: Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Road Traffic Fatalities,” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Health Economics.
October 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
📣 BIG Lab PHD student Andres Ramasco's paper, “Not a Sip: Effects of Zero Tolerance Laws on Road Traffic Fatalities,” has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming edition of the Journal of Health Economics.
As shifting weather patterns push farmers to use more resilient crop varieties, how can farmers adjust and learn new practices to optimize yields ? The BIG Lab's Alejandro Estefan and Paul Winters team up in a new paper for Food Policy on Oil Palm in Ecuador.
Hybrid agricultural extension and the adoption of climate-resilient varieties: Evidence from oil palm in the Amazon
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October 10, 2025 at 3:12 PM
As shifting weather patterns push farmers to use more resilient crop varieties, how can farmers adjust and learn new practices to optimize yields ? The BIG Lab's Alejandro Estefan and Paul Winters team up in a new paper for Food Policy on Oil Palm in Ecuador.
How do trade policies impact tropical deforestation?
Read about it in the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina's work in the latest VoxDevLit.
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Read about it in the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina's work in the latest VoxDevLit.
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Deforestation
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October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
How do trade policies impact tropical deforestation?
Read about it in the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina's work in the latest VoxDevLit.
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Read about it in the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina's work in the latest VoxDevLit.
🔗https://buff.ly/oZ4OaBm
Pete Klenow giving our keynote at #BIGForumND
September 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Pete Klenow giving our keynote at #BIGForumND
Catch the BIG Forum live stream of Pete Klenow's keynote at 1:20 PM Eastern, Friday, September 26. Don't miss out! #BIGForumND
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BIG Forum Keynotes
The Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab seeks to address structural & barriers to equitable economic growth in different parts of the world.
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September 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Catch the BIG Forum live stream of Pete Klenow's keynote at 1:20 PM Eastern, Friday, September 26. Don't miss out! #BIGForumND
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Cultural capital in India presented by Paul Novosad. High level results: cultural similarity to the dominant group gives an economic advantage. #bigforumND
September 26, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Cultural capital in India presented by Paul Novosad. High level results: cultural similarity to the dominant group gives an economic advantage. #bigforumND
Alejandro Estefan’s paper on monopsony power in Mexico after the 2021 reforms. #BigforumND
September 26, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Alejandro Estefan’s paper on monopsony power in Mexico after the 2021 reforms. #BigforumND
Catch the BIG Forum live stream of Ted Miguel's keynote at 10:30 AM Eastern, Friday, September 26. Don't miss out! #BIGForumND
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BIG Forum Keynotes
The Building Inclusive Growth (BIG) Lab seeks to address structural & barriers to equitable economic growth in different parts of the world.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Catch the BIG Forum live stream of Ted Miguel's keynote at 10:30 AM Eastern, Friday, September 26. Don't miss out! #BIGForumND
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Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what are the best ways to address global poverty? Ensure that aid money is used so they local governments are most effective. Strengthen their ability to use evidence to best use the limited resources #bigforumND
September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what are the best ways to address global poverty? Ensure that aid money is used so they local governments are most effective. Strengthen their ability to use evidence to best use the limited resources #bigforumND
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what are the determinants of inclusive growth? We’re still figuring it out #bigforumND
September 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what are the determinants of inclusive growth? We’re still figuring it out #bigforumND
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: the vendors were re-indebted but making $1 more per day #bigforumND
September 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: the vendors were re-indebted but making $1 more per day #bigforumND
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what doesn’t work? When the debt of small vendors was paid off they found that 6 months later they were again in debt. Financial literacy training helped a bit #bigforumND
September 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: what doesn’t work? When the debt of small vendors was paid off they found that 6 months later they were again in debt. Financial literacy training helped a bit #bigforumND
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: the financial interventions that work best include psycho-social training as well #bigforumND
September 25, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Fireside chat between Dean Karlan & Lakshmi Iyer: the financial interventions that work best include psycho-social training as well #bigforumND
Join the BIG Forum for a live stream of our fireside chat with Dean Karlan and Lakshmi Iyer starting at 4:45 Eastern, Thursday 9/25. #BIGForumND
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September 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Join the BIG Forum for a live stream of our fireside chat with Dean Karlan and Lakshmi Iyer starting at 4:45 Eastern, Thursday 9/25. #BIGForumND
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Recent research has shown that learning gaps between girls and boys in school are only becoming more common. A new publication co-authored by BIG Lab’s Rebecca Thorton finds these educational gender gaps begin as early as preschool in 25 sub-Saharan countries.
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September 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Recent research has shown that learning gaps between girls and boys in school are only becoming more common. A new publication co-authored by BIG Lab’s Rebecca Thorton finds these educational gender gaps begin as early as preschool in 25 sub-Saharan countries.
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Very cool that our colleague Lakshmi Iyer, @biglabnd.bsky.social, was honored as a member of the Provost's "All-Faculty Team" at last weekend's home football game. Learn more here:
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Lakshmi - Iyer - 2025
As the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, John McGreevy is Notre Dame’s chief academic officer.
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September 16, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Very cool that our colleague Lakshmi Iyer, @biglabnd.bsky.social, was honored as a member of the Provost's "All-Faculty Team" at last weekend's home football game. Learn more here:
provost.nd.edu/faculty-reco...
provost.nd.edu/faculty-reco...
New working paper by the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina
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Public R&D investment in Brazilian agriculture increased agricultural productivity by 110 percent, with a benefit-cost ratio of 17, by catalyzing the development of locally appropriate technology, from Akerman, Moscona, Pellegrina, and Sastry https://www.nber.org/papers/w34213
September 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
New working paper by the BIG Lab's Heitor Pellegrina
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