Another great talk at Williams Economics! Jenny Aker shows that playing a value-elicitation game for a grain storage device makes people more likely to adopt it, and they see benefits from use.

An honor and pure joy giving the keynote at #PIER2023 Williams Economics: "Shining Light on the Stories beneath the Statistics". Outstanding research promoting inclusion in economics & wonderful time reconnecting with Owen Ozier Sara LaLumia Pamela Jakiela Sarah Jacobson Susan Godlonton

Wrapping another wonderful semester teaching program evaluation at the Williams Economics Center for Development Economics tomorrow. All my updated teaching materials are here pjakiela.github.io/ECON523/, in case they are of use to anyone.

Call for papers for the 10th Liberal Arts Colleges Development Economics Conference. Hosted at Amherst College on Sept 29 and 30, 2023. Please share widely! More information here: sites.google.com/site/lacdevcon…

CGD's #gender program is #hiring! Apply here and please share widely. Policy Fellow: …erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/Q169OvEL…

There’s this guy on TikTok who does nursery rhymes in the style of his favourite bands and the production standards are insane. This Mumford and Sons style rendition of You Are My Sunshine is genuinely as good as a song they would release

New conference on Development Economics in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (MEUDC)! NYU Abu Dhabi, November 6th-8th (just before #COP28UAE) Excited to announce a call for papers on this year's theme of climate change and sustainability.

The 7th in my annual series of statistics comparing development journals is now out: over 10,000 papers were submitted in 2022 to the 12 development journals I cover, with less than 1 in 10 accepted 1/5 blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Friends and #EconTwitter: I have started a petition to request the AEA to help pursue libel and threats on the EJMR. Please spread the word and sign if you are able. forms.gle/GQxF54eXkMXFpG…

#Genderjobs for research-to-policy wonks: Gates Foundation looking for a Senior Program Officer on "Gender Equality Policy & Sector Strengthening" * Based in Washington DC * Advanced degree + 10 yrs exp * Salary : $144k - $267k * Closes June 23 👇🏾 gatesfoundation.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Gates/jo…

In 2021, my 40-year-old cousin was found lifeless in her Delhi apartment. Days later, her husband was arrested & charged for murder. In this week's The New Yorker, I tell the story of her death & examine the factors sustaining gender-based violence in India: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Teaching children to read in their mother tongue boosted their English reading comprehension. But teaching them to read in English *reduced* their reading ability in their mother tongue. New paper by Mpumi Mohohlwane et al. cgdev.org/publication/re… Summary blog cgdev.org/blog/what-effe…

We are looking for a visitor to teach intro micro at ⁦Williams Economics⁩ ! Please apply! #EconTwitter aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

.Karen Ruth Levy is one of my favorite people and she's hiring! Chief of Staff, Fit for Purpose Website: fitforpurpose.com JD: docs.google.com/document/d/1Mz… Please RT! (RX!?)

For the record, I get asked to referee papers more than once pretty regularly and I don’t care if you decide not to address my comments after a rejection. A referee report is not a contract unless a path to publication is offered.

Enterprise growth for small businesses in #India led to schooling gains for children of literate parents but schooling losses for children of illiterate parents, lowering relative intergenerational mobility. Read today's article here:

This is an open letter from 436 IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation and the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA. docs.google.com/document/d/1kZ…

The next SEEDEC Conference is in Bergen on June 12-13 2024! Eliana la Ferrara Eliana La Ferrara and Marcel Fafchamps will give the keynote speeches😃 Paper submissions are open, the deadline is 15 March 2024: nhh.no/en/calendar/fa…

I defintely could not have made it through first year of the PhD w/o @cblattsc John Tang Kory Kroft 🇨🇦 and rest of our study group. Cannot over-emphasize the importance of finding friends to study, conference, coauthor, etc. Makes the difference between loving and hating this job.

How do fathers influence early childhood development? Yesterday on #VoxDevTalks, Tim Phillips, David Evans Inter-American Development Bank & Pamela Jakiela Williams Economics Center for Global Development discussed insights from LMICs on the role fathers play in parenting young children: voxdev.org/topic/health/h…