Are you a #researcher working on #fintech, #entrepreneurship and related topics? IPA's EPSD Program & LIFT at Haas School of Business invite paper submissions for a Researcher Gathering on Oct 7-8, 2024 in #Berkeley. Submit by July 31 here: bit.ly/ipalift2024

📢Applications open today! The World Bank has relaunched its Junior Professional Associates (JPA) program. This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates looking to start a career in international development. Apply before August 9: worldbank.org/en/about/caree…

Economics, law, and political economy: a revitalization - A. Patrick Behrer summarizes how recent work uses digitalized court data, machine learning approaches to understand non-quantitative digital data, and employs new tools of hypothesis generation blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

The latest episode of the Scaling Impact Capital podcast has Kusi Hornberger interviewing me about capacity building, business training, and capital in scaling businesses in developing countries - and what the song One Tree Hill means to me scalingimpactcapital.libsyn.com/site/scaling-i…

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Weekly links July 26, 2024: scaling impact, fertility impacts of other interventions, summer reading, watching, and listening links blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Very nice wrap-up of the recent ABCDE conference by Eeshani Kandpal & Justin Sandefur

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 Dean Yang & Sandra.Sequeira

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🚨Deadline approaching (20/09)! 🌐Call for papers: 17th International Conference on Migration & Development 🗓️Dec. 9-10, Bologna ℹ️ The conf. is devoted to investigating ways in which int'l #migration affects economic & social change in developing countries 📨[email protected]

Six Questions with Gaurav Khanna - the Development Impact blog is back from our break with an interview with Gaurav Khanna. We hear about different uses for structural models in development papers, unanticipated effects of international student migration... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Any suggestions for a good undergraduate level introduction to key ideas in behavioral economics, particularly around mental accounting and inconsistent time preferences? Even better if linked to small business owners and their decisions. Thanks.

Weekly links September 6: slow down, when to shut down, incoherence summarized, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

I am recruiting for a fully funded, 4-year PhD position in economics focused on migration&human capital, involving an impact evaluation of a major migration-related project in Central America. The application deadline is September 29. See details here: rug.nl/about-ug/work-….

In today's blog, a new paper by Jason Kerwin, Nada Rostom & Olivier Sterck shows that joint orthogonality tests of balance between treatment and control can over-reject (so you conclude not balanced) and that RI can solve this blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Check out David's great summary of our new paper on how to run balance tests in RCTs! We have good news: your results are probably too pessimistic, and fixing them is very easy.

Weekly links September 13: pricing health insurance, sharing research with subjects, cities, climate resilient ag, and more… blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…