NU Global Poverty Research Lab
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Our Lab aims to use empirical evidence and interdisciplinary engagement to understand drivers, consequences and solutions to poverty issues around the world.
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Just published in the Journal of Public Economics: "Movin' on Up? The Impacts of a Large-Scale Housing Lottery in Uruguay" by Armentano (Vinny Armentano 📈), McIntosh, Monestier (Felipe Monestier ), Piñeiro, Rosenblatt (Fernando Rosenblatt), & Tuñón (Guadalupe Tuñón) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Policies promoting refugee's long-term socioeconomic integration, so they can thrive in new communities, are crucial. This #WorldHumanitarianDay 🌍, Dany Bahar 🌎, Giovanni Peri & Rebecca Brough offer a review of integration plans to help guide policymakers: bit.ly/4ac3mbb
Financial access boosted labour market outcomes in Brazil 🇧🇷 Bernardus Doornik, Armando Gomes WashU Olin Business School, David Schoenherr Princeton Economics & Janis Skrastins WashU find that access to vehicle financing improved mobility and generated large returns: voxdev.org/topic/finance/…
Which strategies work to improve the quality of public preschools? In new research published in JPE, Yale University's Orazio Attanasio (Orazio Attanasio) + coauthors partnered w/ the Colombian govt to evaluate a nationwide expansion of its preschool program: economics.yale.edu/news/240814/ne…
Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Mayra Pineda-Torres Georgia Tech School of Economics who works on topics related to gender + health in the U.S. and Latin America mayrapinedatorres.com
Need help making choices when designing #socialassistance #cashtransfer interventions? Innovations for Poverty Action have summarised the evidence to help make decisions about size, duration, payment mechanism, etc 👉poverty-action.org/evidence-at-yo…
Out now in World Development! Brooke Krause and I explore the effect of a multi-dimensional women’s empowerment program called Maisha Bora (MaishaBora_Tanzania) in rural northern Tanzania. An #econtwitter 🧵: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
💸How Cost-Effective Is Global Health Aid? 📣Please check out our new paper! Center for Global Development Brian Webster Dr. Karen Grépin et al cgdev.org/blog/how-cost-… cgdev.org/publication/co…
A study by researchers in the J-PAL network (Ariel Kalil Susan Mayer Philip Oreopoulos) and Rohen Shah finds that light-touch educational media like the Big Word Club can supplement current curriculum and increase student vocabulary. Read more: povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/clo…
📚 Postdoc, Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL) - support the creation of IDEAL, manage research associates, and work with CEGA-affiliated faculty like Edward Miguel and Graeme Blair - PhD required, salary starts at $90,000
Hiring at NU Global Poverty Research Lab a "Senior Director" (aka Executive Director). Please help spread the word! povertyactionlab.org/careers/senior…
🚨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]
📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 Dean Karlan Jacopo Ponticelli and I are hiring 2 full-time Research Fellows (predoc RAs) for the 2024-2025 academic year Details here: seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/FIN… Rolling with priority deadline Sep 30 cc #EconTwitter Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org Innovations for Poverty Action J-PAL NU Global Poverty Research Lab
We’re thrilled that the next #WEFIDEV Conference on #Finance and #Development will feature a dual submission option with the Review of Financial Studies Society for Financial Studies Join us LSE Mar 28-29 Submit by Dec 1 ⬇️ DM Giorgia Barboni Kim Fe Cramer Nicola Limodio or me for info
Fascinating new papers on gender-related topics out in EDCC! From my colleagues at @ifpri Dan Gilligan Naureen Karachiwalla, PhD 🇵🇸 Sikandra: cash transfers meaningfully ⬇️ women's engagement in decision-making as well as ⬇️ women's decision-making power journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…