🎉 Congratulations to Binta Zahra Diop, who has been awarded the 2024 Edgeworth prize for her outstanding DPhil thesis titled "Public Interventions and Labor Allocation”. Binta's research explores migration and location choices under constraints. Find out more: bit.ly/4b0XAc4

Quite an honor to be among the great Department of Economics, Oxford economists who have been recipients over the years. I am grateful for the incredible friends and family, wonderful cohort, and supportive mentors who have kept me sane and helped me thrive throughout the PhD years.

Just released! A crowdsourced dataset that maps 30,000 road crashes in Nairobi. Download here microdata.worldbank.org/index.php/cata…. This is work with Sveta Milusheva Lupe Bedoya Rob Marty to prioritize road safety investments and save people's lives on the roads journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

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-….

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

On my way to The 2nd Annual Conference 'Shaping Regional Transformation' of the BMWK in Essen. I will share results from WB work with EU member states on testing and scaling innovations in public policy to enhance economic growth. lnkd.in/enDjUrKX

I will introduce #ImpactAI — the power of large language models to extract insights from impact evaluation research— access to causal evidence for decision-making. 📅 18/09/2024, 2:00-4:00 pm CEST at DEval - German Institute for Dev. Evaluation lnkd.in/ei6cqmrs

Great discussion on regional innovation at the 2nd Annual Conference 'Shaping Regional Transformation' of the BMWK in Essen. Presenting how open designs, experimental learning and adoption of effective solution can help us fuel the economy.

Museumsmeile in Bonn

Evidence that makes a difference 👇🏾

With Minister Habeck, inspiring leader on climate action while incentivizing innovation and growth

Well done Binta!!