Great to see our affiliates Rachel Glennerster Chris Blattman Seema Jayachandran Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak honored for their work to address global poverty & inequality. We are grateful to support them in their continued efforts to generate evidence & impact.

📢 #VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT: We are hiring an RA at J-PAL South Asia

The candidate will work with Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, Sandip Sukhtankar, Gaurav Chiplunkar and Kartik Srivastava and will gain firsthand experience in field research.

Apply:
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#EconTwitter In addition to our senior labor chair position we are also looking for two Assistant Professors to join UVA's Economics Department (one in labor economics and one in macro)!

More info here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Apply here! tinyurl.com/JrEconPosition

Please spread the word about this opportunity for researchers from low and lower-middle income countries to be predoctoral fellows as a bridge to PhD econ programs. We're hosting our first fellows at NU Global Poverty Research Lab this year and plan to continue.

Can community media hold local officials to account? Thanks to MIT GOV/LAB for this 🌟 write up on my research with Video Volunteers, recently published in Comparative Political Studies. shorturl.at/BF016

#EconTwitter we are delighted to be hiring a Senior Chaired position in Labor Economics at UVA Economics! The position will involve teaching grad labor and PhD supervision. Please reach out if you know anyone looking to move. Please, RT!

More info here: tinyurl.com/UVA-Labor-Chair

🚨Calling all aspiring development policy & research professionals—we're hiring!

Interested in working at the intersection of #RCT research & social policy in South Asia?

Check out open positions in this week's job roundup⤵️

Econ RA Listings Women in Econ/Policy

Picking the wrong Hyundai is just embarrassing. Going down a protectionist path reminiscent of the country’s own, impoverished socialist past — and out of sync with the openness being displayed by manufacturing successes like Vietnam — is the bigger folly: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Yesterday, #EstherDuflo spoke at #NYTCF during #ClimateWeekNYC . In a new @NYTimes interview, she shared her perspective on how to address climate change and promote global development: nytimes.com/2022/09/19/cli… NYT Climate

Covid-19 disrupted education around the world, with more extended school closures in LMICs

In a new paper with Abhijeet Singh & Mauricio Romero, we present evidence on learning loss, recovery, and impacts of remediation in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu

riseprogramme.org/publications/c…

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A Statement

The Centre for Policy Research does excellent work, and is one of India's most invaluable knowledge producing institutions.

NCRB reports.

Screening requirements for loans mitigate fraud, but they also introduce delays. What's the trade-off between the two? Clever paper by Sandip Sukhtankar & colleagues using data from the U.S. PPP loan program preprints.apsanet.org/engage/api-gat…