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How about an old-school magazine instead?
🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!
The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.
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We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece.
Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...
🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
The time for effective climate adaptation is running out. @opkuusela.bsky.social and @kallehi.bsky.social highlight that aid cuts threaten vulnerable communities and forward-looking policies are a necessity.
📖 Read this @uk.theconversation.com article here: go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
We wrote about a worrying trend: foreign aid is shrinking — and what’s left goes to emergency relief.
But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis.
With @opkuusela.bsky.social:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org @unu-wider.bsky.social
✨ Speaker Spotlight: #GFPR2025 ✨
Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary.
🔗 bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50 @cgiar.org
Just accepted: "Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world", Cristián Jara, Francisca Pérez, and Rodrigo Wagner. Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here.
Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
The civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the deadliest of this century. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in November 2022. In Mekelle, Zeywegih Leyti describes the anxiety of waiting for another war.
We are looking to engage with researchers (especially early career based in the LMIC) on the labour market impacts of AI in developing countries.
The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June.
Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale)
Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course) #econsky
We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started.
It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work.
You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians.
Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
Call for papers. Deadline: Feb 28
Firms, Labor Markets, and Development
Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
Text of letter available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SMkdyaeJWOHN4y-DC5RPY1ZGk9B_SIIk5Tv_Yz5zQRw/edit?tab=t.0
I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
and I are sharing the letter we wrote, signed by 110 economists, urging its continuation. 1/4
We could really use your help. We’re beginning this year with a big push for new subscribers – because the more subscribers we have, the easier it is for us to raise funding to keep doing the kind of journalism we do. Our subscription details are here 👇
No experience, but I've wondered if it could be effectively used for back-translating survey questionnaires (i.e., to check if the original meaning remains intact).
Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025.
Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo).
No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025.
Link below:
Can a "big push" program help conflict-affected households in Somalia? Yup...
(p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
@kallehi.bsky.social et al
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
🆕 #ResearchBlog by @kallehi.bsky.social, Naureen Karachiwalla, @leightjessica.bsky.social and @meanregressive.bsky.social:
Graduation from #poverty: Can a big push program help #conflict -affected households? Evidence from #Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
@cgiar.org
New blog post! Hot-off-the-press evidence (from survey concluded 2 months ago): effectiveness of graduation model intervention targeting internally displaced households in Somalia @ifpri @ifpri.org @NKarachiwalla @kallehi.bsky.social @meanregressive.bsky.social @meanregressive
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
🆕 How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed @ifpri.org, Melissa Hidrobo @ifpri.org, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy @ifpri.org & Salauddin Tauseef @ifpri.org:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
15 years of lessons from #Ethiopia’s PSNP, all in one great paper!
Hoddinott et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
New systematic lit review looks at #cashtransfers and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in #Africa.
Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
New paper! We study the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on local conflict (2005–19). District level DiD analysis shows the PSNP reduced civil unrest by nearly half, mainly during the 2014–18 protest wave, with no significant impact on violence. doi.org/10.35188/UNU...
🚨🚨New working paper🚨🚨
@apvjustino.bsky.social @kallehi.bsky.social and I were leading an 18 months program: www.wider.unu.edu/project/stre.... 14 WP will be published by Jan-25. One of the outputs is a review of the literature on social assistance during crises www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
A remarkable transition:
Kenya is Africa's leading country when it comes to renewables.
In 2000 fossil fuels contributed 60% to electricity generation.
Today it is 6%. In 2023 electricity was from almost 50% geothermal, 20% wind+solar and 22% hydro.
