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Belinda Archibong @belindaarch.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks to the University of Lagos Economics department and the excellent scholars at the Centre for the Study of the Economies of Africa for hosting me recently. Really fantastic scholars and much appreciation for the helpful questions and comments on our (new, thread forthcoming) Firm Culture paper

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jun 24

When 3 of my BFFs (aka co-authors 😀) are on a panel together, I know it's going to be 🔥🔥🔥

Join @victorpouliquen.bsky.social Gabe Tourek, Fabrizio Santoro (+Joseph Eloi-whom I hope to meet soon) to learn about the use of AI in tax systems
Tomorrow Weds June 25 10am EST
Register: ow.ly/ruoG50WcmjL

International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) @ictdtax.bsky.social · Jun 23

📢 Join us on Wednesday!

In the 3rd session of our webinar series on tax and digitalisation, co-hosted with the World Bank, we look at the risks and opportunities #AI presents in building more efficient tax systems.

Register here 👉 ow.ly/ruoG50WcmjL

#TaxPolicy #Tax #Digitalisation

Webinar: AI in Tax Administration - ICTD

Join this ICTD-World Bank webinar which dives into cutting-edge developments in AI and their implications for tax policy and administration.

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks for having me! This was a fun conversation to have. Hope folks find it helpful. Now I have something to send to anyone who asks me what it's like doing research at the WB!

Econ That Matters @econthatmatters.bsky.social · May 21

Check out our newest interview! @oyebolaoo.bsky.social talks about taxation policy in developing countries, working at the World Bank and advice for PhD students
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/05/etrm... #ETRM #EconSky

ETRM Interview Series – Oyebola Okunogbe

As part of our interview series, we ask renowned experts in the field about the future of research in development economics, and for their advice for young researchers. For this interview, we got t…

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · May 22

Thanks so much for having me! It was really fun chatting with you. And thanks for all the work with editing!

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Apr 28

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @mattsson_martin @NUSingapore who works on formal + informal institutions

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Apr 1

Do you have a recent working paper that uses the World Bank enterprise survey as its main data source?

Consider submitting to the David Dollar memorial prize. Winner gets USD 3000! www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/david-dol...

David Dollar Memorial Prize

www.enterprisesurveys.org

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Mar 28

I feel like I'm crushing it with this work-life integration business (at least today).

I'm making a presentation for Heritage Day at my child's school and I just pulled some maps from my AEJ Applied paper on national integration in Nigeria www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Please clap. 👏

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 30

I imagine this applies to grad school applications as well.
I always advise African students: Practice like crazy and do your very best on those tests and definitely submit the scores. That will make Admissions take a closer look at your file since your other credentials will be unfamiliar to them

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · Jan 30

Important new research by my @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social colleagues: test-optional admission *hurts* the chances of less advantaged applicants, who don't submit scores that would dramatically increase their chance of admission. www.nber.org/papers/w3338...

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 24

congrats!

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 24

haha, I appreciate your persistence in making sure we get it. Diamond will be proud.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · Jan 23

One last conference announcement for today... Submit your papers to the BREAD Development Economics conference at Princeton, May 2-3! Submission deadline Feb 25.

ibread.org/conference/b...
#EconSky

BREAD Conference on Development, Princeton, May 2-3, 2025 – BREAD

ibread.org

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 22

😅 😅

Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 21

Here are connection details for the panel (note the time zone)

🗓 Date: 22nd January 2025 ⏲️Time: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (EAT)
📍Platform: Webex
Join here : kra.webex.com/kra/j.php?MT...

Meet virtually with Cisco Webex. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.

Simple, modern video meetings for everyone on the world's most popular and trusted collaboration platform.

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 21

Tomorrow 6.30 AM (!) I will join a panel hosted by the by the Kenya Revenue Authority on taxing high-net-worth individuals. I figured this is an important enough topic to join at that time 🙂 It's simply very hard for governments to raise revenue if they do not pay attention to those with the most $$

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 20

Turns out there are major gender gaps in employment in African countries, they just aren't related to the birth of a child as is the case in higher income countries 2/2

Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 20

For a second, I got excited to see a map where African countries are doing well--little to no child penalty in employment for women! Until I opened the article and saw the other half of the story... 1/2

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jan 20

Today's article presents the child penalty in employment – i.e. how much the birth of a first child impacts the employment of mothers relative to fathers - for 134 countries around the world ⤵️

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 17

Lesson: Don't be embarassed you somehow missed part of the curriculum. See if you can find someone to walk you through a familiar example (pay them if you need to) so you can focus your energy on your brilliant ideas instead of trudging through condescending comments on stackexchange and statalist 🙂

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 17

I sent a paper to a mentor to review.She saw the excel lines in the background &said "no more" (literally drew a big X 😅).She had her RA use my data to prepare some decent tables.This made the automated Stata-to-Latex tablemaking process way more accessible/ less intimidating.I've never looked back!

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 17

This used to be me years ago 🤦‍♀️(funny the things they don't actually teach in grad school but expect you to know somehow). I tried using online resources etc but would get overwhelmed (like some folks reading this AER data editor post may feel). Here's what finally helped:

AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · Jan 17

I sometimes see researchers doing copy-pasting between output from Stata/R/MATLAB ➡️Excel, to create tables. This is a lot of work, source of many copy-paste errors & a bad 👿idea. I describe 1 way to avoid this, even when you don't want to invest in a new and better tool. Think "halfway house"...

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Reminds me of @aeacswep.bsky.social webinar with Esther Duflo AER Editor a few years ago. Totally changed my approach to refereeing.

Paraphrase: "stop thinking a paper must be perfect-it's not the word of God. Instead focus on what we can learn from it"
Check it out www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

CSWEP Webinar Series: Fireside Chats with Journal Editors

www.aeaweb.org

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Listen, listen:
"Refereeing is not about how many papers you can knock down but how many you can lift up" - John List (JPE)

I think it's very helpful when journal editors share that they are not impressed by how critical a referee is.
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Léa Rouanet @lea-rouanet.bsky.social · Jan 16

Check this Nigeria evaluation from WB colleagues, demonstrating the transformative potential of generative AI in classrooms, especially in developing contexts: blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time

"AI helps us to learn, it can serve as a tutor, it can be anything you want it to be, depending on the prompt you write," says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as "Uyi" by his friends, a student from the Edo Bo...

blogs.worldbank.org

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Jan 16

In case you missed it on the other site: fascinating new [preliminary] RCT evidence that use of chatgpt as an after-school tutoring method in Nigeria *dramatically* shifted learning outcomes #econsky

blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 16

Thank you, @femmeeconomics.bsky.social ! I am sooo late to the party but finally made it over.

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Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo.bsky.social · Jan 15

GAIN is an amazing resource for African students interested in graduate school (masters and phd): information, advice, mentoring, funding for test and applications fees etc. Please share this opportunity with your network.

CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Jan 15

Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) co-founder Frank Odhiambo explains:
🔸What is GAIN?
🔸How does it support student applications?
🔸Who can apply?

📺Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_C...

⏰This video includes 2024 dates, the 2025 deadline is 16 February 2025.

Introduction to the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

www.youtube.com

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