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📚The CSAE’s #JournalofAfricanEconomies January 2025 issue includes: 'The Effects of Antenatal Care Utilisation on Birthweight: Evidence from Ghana’. ✒️Alex Bawuah, Simon Appleton, Yang Li, Lina Song (@uniofnottingham.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/jae/...

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⏰Post closing on Friday! Join us as a post doc in urban labour markets in developing countries. See sites.google.com/site/kateork... for more info on the research agenda!

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Green industrial policy is like couscous. Take a shortcut or copy someone else's recipe, and you'll regret it. My talk at Princeton's C-PREE will highlight: - ugly/bad side of the exclusionary green economy - Good IP adaptation that market forces can't deliver! cpree.princeton.edu/events/2025/...

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Join us tomorrow for the final seminar in our OPHI-IIEP series: “Using Machine Learning to Estimate Multidimensional Poverty” from Heriberto Tapia & Moumita Ghorai of UNDP HDRO. 📆 11 Mar ⏰ 16:10 GMT 📍Join in person: Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗 Register to join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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📺 Watch last week's African Governance programme event 'The billionaire tax: a (modest) proposal for the 21st century' with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social online. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS_K... Includes comments by @gamblingondev.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxmartinschool.bsky.social

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🦋Looking for #DevelopmentEconomics insights on #EconSky?🦋 Check out our #GlobalDev research org #StarterPack: 🔗 bsky.app/profile/did:... Featuring: @cgdev.org @cega-uc.bsky.social @theigc.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social & more!

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Join us on Wednesday for the next CSAE Lunchtime Seminar of term! Arlen Guarin (World Bank) will discuss 'Reparations as Development? Evidence from Victims of the Colombian Armed Conflict' 📆12 March, 12:30 - 2 pm Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

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Why does youth engagement matter? Join us for 'Young People and Community-Led Change' to explore how youth-led decision-making drives better social outcomes. Sign up: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/young-people-and-community-led-change-the-why-what-and-how-tickets-1262509603209?aff=oddtdtcreator

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How can we use machine learning to measure multidimensional poverty? Learn more in our final seminar of the term, by Heriberto Tapia & Moumita Ghorai of UNDP's Human Development Report Office. 📆11 Mar ⏰16:10 GMT 📍Join in person: Meeting Room 2 @odid-qeh.bsky.social 🔗Join online: bit.ly/OPHIseminar

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JOB OPPORTUNITY ➤ We are seeking a distinguished and high-impact scholar for a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Social Policy in the @dspi-oxford.bsky.social and Director of the Economics, Inequality & Opportunity (EIO) Programme of @inetoxford.bsky.social 🔗 www.inet.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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⭐NEW IMF Working Paper 'Transport Frictions & the Pass-Through of Global Price Shocks in a Spatial Model of Low-Income Countries' by the CSAE's Chris Adam (@odid-qeh.bsky.social), Lisa Martin, & Doug Gollin(@oxfordecondept.bsky.social) www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

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Excited to be in Oxford today to talk about the — more needed than ever — billionaire tax. Come join us if you’re around!

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📣EVENT TODAY 'The billionaire tax: a (modest) proposal for the 21st century' with @gabrielzucman.bsky.social. Ricardo Soares de Oliveira chairing. Part of the CSAE's @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Programme on African Governance. 🕔5 pm (GMT) Join online: www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/the-b...

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📚The CSAE’s #JournalofAfricanEconomies January 2025 issue includes: 'Digital Labour Platforms as Shock Absorbers: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Mozambique’. ✒️Sam Jones ( @unu-wider.bsky.social) & Ivan Manhique (@sussex.ac.uk) doi.org/10.1093/jae/...

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📌 Join us with the Centre for Sustainable Finance for: 🌍 ♻️ A #Green and Just Planet: Presentation of the G20 Taskforce on Global Mobilization Against Climate Change's independent report, with Daniela Gabor (SOAS), Amir Lebdioui (Oxford) and Ulrich Volz (SOAS) Info event 🔗 tinyurl.com/mtcsckst

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"There is no doubt that many aid programmes have saved lives & changed them for the better." CSAE Director Stefan Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social) writes in The Independent about the recent cuts to foreign aid.

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Excited for CIES Conference 2025? 🎉 Join us for a workshop on running A/B tests in your education programming. 🚀 Don’t miss out on valuable insights to take your work to the next level using rapid, rigorous and iterative methods. Add the workshop to your schedule: tinyurl.com/25pcbdxq

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"Aid is likely to become more transactional." Professor Stefan Dercon comments on the future of aid in this latest piece in @financialtimes.com 👇 www.ft.com/content/b366... #GlobalAid #Trump #USAID @gamblingondev.bsky.social

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📲🥳The CSAE Conference App 2025 is now available to download on Play Store & App Store. Are you joining us for #OxCSAE2025? Then make sure you get the app! Key Features: 🔸Make your own schedule 🔸Key event info 🔸Message other attendees 🔸Event map Download today: web.cvent.com/event/334d21...

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📢 ReCIPE Annual Conference 2025 – Recordings Now Available! Missed the discussions on conflict, fragility, and economic growth? You can now watch all sessions and policy panels online. 🎥 Access the recordings here 👉 recipe.cepr.org/event/first-... #EconSky

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Join our friends in the Future of Development Programme at @oxmartinschool.bsky.social for their Women in State Capacity Conference. 🗓 12 March, Oxford, UK Find out more & register www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/women...

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ReCIPE is launching its first virtual course this spring, featuring expert-led lectures on how conflict shapes economic growth & policy. More details & register: recipe.cepr.org/event/virtua... #EconSky @dominic-rohner.bsky.social

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⏰EXTENDED DEADLINE 04 MARCH (TOMORROW) Apply for the MPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford & be automatically considered for the new scholarships available at the CSAE. csae.web.ox.ac.uk/scholarships #EconSky #scholarships #researchopportunity Find out more and apply today! 👇

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📢 Free Virtual Course for Economics Students! The ReCIPE (@cepr.org) research programme is hosting a course on ‘Key Concepts for Economies in Conflict and Fragile Settings’, taught by a series of experts in the field. More details & registration: recipe.cepr.org/event/virtua...

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Our founding Dean Ngaire Woods will be joining Lord Malloch Brown at St Antony’s College to discuss the future of the IMF & World Bank amid rising nationalism. 📅 3 March, 17:00 Register ⬇️ https://buff.ly/4ifF03N

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❗️NEW extended deadline of 04 March 2025. Apply for the MPhil in Economics course & all eligible candidates will be considered for the CSAE MPhil Scholarship (no separate application). 👇

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Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

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Aspiring economists from Africa: Extended deadline 4 March Oxford's CSAE offers full scholarships >3 year for African students How? Apply for grad studies in Econ = 2 yr Master's course w/ progress to PhD We automatically consider all applicants www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/g...

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‼️CLOSING TODAY AT 12 GMT 👇

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📚The CSAE’s #JournalofAfricanEconomies January 2025 issue includes: 'Moral Hazard Incentives under Formal Insurance & Informal Insurance: Evidence from a Framed Field Experiment’ ✒️Aisha Nanyiti & Haki Pamuk (@w-u-r.bsky.social) 📚 academic.oup.com/jae/article/...

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🦋 Looking for the best #DevelopmentEconomics insights on Bluesky? 🦋 Check out our #GlobalDev research org #StarterPack: 🔗 bsky.app/profile/yale... Featuring: @cgdev.org @theigc.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social @worldresources.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social & many more

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Can South Africa Gamble on Growth & Development? In the latest ERSA Economic Note, CSAE Director @gamblingondev.bsky.social (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social) looks at the role of elite coalitions in shaping economic development. econrsa.org/publications...

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📣1 day left to apply to join the CSAE in Addis Ababa as the CSAE Economic Policy Network's Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economics (seconded to the Ministry of Finance, Gov't of Ethiopia). ⏰28 Feb, 12 PM GMT ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies #postdoc #EconSky #hiring @blavatnikschool.bsky.social

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🎙️Listen to the CSAE's @eggerdennis.bsky.social discussing how Slack, the underutilisation of factors of production, affects productivity in microeconomic settings in developing countries, on @novafrica.bsky.social's #SustainableDevelopmentTalks. 🎧 novafrica.org/novafrica-po...

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We're excited to welcome Basit Zafar to Oxford today to present at the CSAE Lunchtime Seminar. 🕧Join us at 12:30 in Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford, for a discussion on 'Information-Sharing within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses'. See you there!

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🆕 Development Dialogues w/ @yaleegc.bsky.social: The future of evidence-based policymaking & international development 🔊 Stefan Dercon @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @gamblingondev.bsky.social, Trudi Makhaya & Rory Stewart discuss how to ensure that evidence still matters: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

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📣 Join our team in South Africa as a Research Manager! Support cutting-edge research on a set of scaling evidence-based programs in collaboration w/ the Department of Basic Education @youthimpactorg.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social Lego Zenex + more www.youth-impact.org/join-our-tea...

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📣We're #hiring a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Development Economics! Are you interested in urban lab or markets in developing economies? Apply to join us & Kate Orkin (@blavatnikschool.bsky.social) as a #postdoc & work on projects in South Africa & Kenya. ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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In an age of populism, how can we ensure that facts & evidence still matter in policymaking & international development? CSAE Director @gamblingondev.bsky.social joins Trudi Makhaya & @rory-stewart.bsky.social to discuss this in @voxdev.bsky.social's Development Dialogues voxdev.org/topic/instit...

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🎉We're excited to welcome Uday Wadehra to the CSAE as a Research Manager in @oxfordecondept.bsky.social Uday is working with Niccolò F. Meriggi on projects in Sierra Leone. We look forward to working with you, Uday! www.csae.ox.ac.uk/people/uday-...

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Join us on Wednesday for the next CSAE Lunchtime Seminar of term! Basit Zafar (University of Michigan) will discuss 'Information-Sharing within Couples: Evidence from a Sequential Survey of Spouses' 📆26 Feb, 12:30 - 2 pm Seminar Room G, Manor Road Building www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

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⏰️⏰️CLOSING TODAY AT 23:59 GMT Last chance to register to attend the CSAE Conference 2025. #OxCSAE2025 #Econsky Details here 👇

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We're #hiring a Quantitative Researcher! The post-holder will be a member of a research group titled Choosing Islamic Conservatism, which studies intergenerational transmission of Islamic knowledge among Muslim communities in the West. Deadline: 12 March Details: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/quan...

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