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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Aug 19

Are you a researcher who'd like to learn more about developing & implementing innovative & policy-relevant randomised evaluations?

Join the CSAE's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social for a @j-pal.bsky.social webinar.

📆20 August, 2 - 3 pm GMT.
Register👇 uct-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@odid-qeh.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Building Better Research Webinar: Muhammad Meki . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Aug 18

If you do work in #Finance and #Development please consider submitting to #WEFIDEV! Our Fall webinars feature preliminary or early-stage work. Link to the form👇👇👇

Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Aug 18

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall!

We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented

We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall

Submit:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Webinar in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV)

This form collects interest for presentations in the fall season of the Webinar series in Finance and Development (WEFIDEV) for junior scholars working on finance topics in developing countries. We ar...

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Jul 4

Very exciting that Review of Finance recognizes the importance of research on the future of payments and will have a special issue on this topic!

revfin.org/special-issu...

Special Issue: Call for Proposals on the Future of Payments—CBDC, Digital Assets and Digital Capital Markets - Review of Finance

Organisers: CEPR, European Central Bank, Review of Finance and Bocconi University (local host). Guest Editors Elena Carletti, Dirk Niepelt, Marcus M. Opp (Sponsoring RoF Editor), Claudio Tebaldi. D...

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · Jun 24

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research

Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x

#econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

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Ralph De Haas @ralphdehaas.bsky.social · May 22

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢

Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change"

Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE)

Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · May 12

Join us for our final #WEFIDEV Spring webinar in #Finance and #Development that takes place today at 11am ET/5pm CET. Cameron LaPoint and Smit Gade will present their work! And check www.wefidev.com for important upcoming news! With @seankhiggins.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer and Nicola Limodio

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Feb 27

Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list:

www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-...

Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio

WEFIDEV - SPRING 2025 WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Seminars take place the second and fourth Monday of every month at 5pm Central European Time / 11 am Eastern Time on Zoom.

www.wefidev.com

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Jan 7

I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring.

The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · Nov 12

@aeacswep.bsky.social announces Sandra E. Black as the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations to @econsandy.bsky.social

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Dec 1

📢Today is the deadline to submit!📢

2025 WEFIDEV-RFS- @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development

Mar 28-29 at LSE

Dual submission option with the RFS

Submit by today Dec 1: sfs.org/wp-content/u...

DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me with questions

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Nov 25

Don’t miss the last #WEFIDEV appointment of the season! 👇👇👇 today’s webinar starts at 11am ET/ 5pm CET. Check wefidev.com for further info!

Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Nov 24

Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development (last of the fall series!):

Jiayue Zhang on solar demand of small firms in 🇰🇪

Hakan Ozyilmaz on two-sided #payments adoption in 🇯🇴

Mon Nov 25 at 11a US Eastern/5p Central European

DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Nicola or me for details

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Nov 9

Join us for our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development next Monday! We have Daniel Araujo and Jacelly Cespedes presenting. If you are not on the mailing list yet, sign up here: wefidev.com/contact or contact
@NicolaLimodio @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social
@KimFeCramer or me

wefidev.com

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Nov 20

Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development is on #ClimateFinance!

@FabrizioFerriani on climate shocks and global portfolio flows
#HarishKamal on climate shocks and government bank lending in 🇮🇳

Mon 11/27, 11a ET

DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me

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Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc.bsky.social · Oct 31

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev)

Saturday, March 9, 2024
Stanford King Center on Global Development
Submit Your Paper

Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky

cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...

Center for Effective Global Action - Pacific Conference For Development Economics (PacDev) 2024 - St...

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · Oct 25

🚨 Join our research team in Kananga, DRC! 🚨

My co-authors and I are looking to hire up to two French-speaking research interns to work on DEV and PE projects studying the role of state capacity in economic development.

More information here:
www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/rese...

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Oct 24

Hi #EconSky, does anyone have suggestions on any reference I should look at regarding the use of the newly introduced wildboostrap command in Stata 18? I would like to understand in particular if I could/should use it as an alternative to boottest. Thank you!

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Oct 23

Hi #EconSky! Today at 11amEST/5pmCEST our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development featuring work of @sedai.bsky.social in 🇮🇳 and Laura Aquino Arriaga in 🇲🇽. Full schedule on wefidev.com. Pls DM us to join the community
@seankhiggins.bsky.social, Nicola Limodio and Kim Fe Cramer

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Oct 16

Blog your job market paper: our annual opportunity for job market candidates in development to share their work is now open for submissions blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Blog your job market paper 2023: submissions now open

Our annual call for PhD students on the job market to summarize and share their research

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Oct 13

Available for free the next 50 days at this link, my paper with Catia Batista on using lab experiments to test classic theories of migration is now out. Adding risk and uncertainty changes the level and selection of migration, & causes IIA to start to break down. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvpL5330f...

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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · Oct 10

If you are working on public policy or related fields and are interested in visiting @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in beautiful #Trentino #Trento, please consider this: irvapp.fbk.eu/visiting-res...
#EconSky 📉📈

Visiting Research Fellows

The Research Institute for the Evaluation of Public Policies (IRVAPP) at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) is a leader in applied research and program evaluation, conducting independent research and ...

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Ashish Sedai @sedai.bsky.social · Oct 10

Here we go! Job: #EconProfessor UT Arlington Start: 09/01/24 Asst./Assoc. Prof. in Econ Arlington Apply by Dec 8: uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/25037 Must-Haves: PhD by Spring '24 Join the Fun! #Econbsky #UTAEcon #ApplyNow . Reach out for Questions.

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Oct 9

Looking forward to the next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development today at 11amET/5pmCEST. Junior researchers on #EconSky with interest in #Finance and #Development, please get in touch if you would like to join our #WEFIDEV community! www.wefidev.com

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Oct 3

Please join us next Monday Oct 9 for our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development. The fall schedule can be seen on www.wefidev.com. #econsky

Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · Oct 2

The #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development continues next Monday Oct 9 with @Razan_Amine1 presenting "How to Make Firms Ready for Investment? Evidence from a Blended-Finance RCT in Iraq 🇮🇶"

DM @giorgiabarboni @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me for info

#econsky 📉📈

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Giorgia Barboni @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social · Sep 25

We are looking for a Research Associate to work with me and my co-authors (Lucas Mariani, Bernardo Ricca and José Renato Ornelas) on Fintech adoption in Brazil. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis. See below for details 👇👇👇 Please get in touch if interested!

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