⏰ Reminder — The last date to submit papers for the 4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop (June 9-10, 2026, @uofebusiness.bsky.social ) is March 16, midnight GMT! You can submit your papers here: bit.ly/3YRaYMa @climent.bsky.social @sanchariroy.bsky.social
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📢 Call for Papers
4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop, June 9–10, 2026 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social
We welcome papers in applied microeconomics, including health, labour, education, development, and public economics. Submit your paper by 16 March: bit.ly/3YRaYMa
🆕 When do cash transfers empower women?
Today on VoxDev, Mahreen Mahmud (University of Exeter), Kate Orkin (Blavatnik School of Government) & Emma Riley (University of Michigan) discuss how an aspirations workshop paired with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women: https://ow.ly/51YC50XSkZH
🚨 Job alert
We’re hiring 5 permanent faculty positions at Assistant Professor level:
• 3 x Open field
• Health Economics
• IO
Come work in a large, research-intensive department!
⏰ Applications reviewed on a rolling basis (deadline 18 Jan 2026)
#econjobs
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📢 Thrilled to announce the 4th Diversity and Human Capital Workshop on June 9-10, 2026 at the University of Exeter, featuring keynotes by Sascha Becker, Cynthia Kinnan, and Helmut Rainer! Stay tuned for the Call for Papers—coming soon! More info here: bit.ly/4pjRnjm
🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨
Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*
Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026
Details in next two posts 👇
Thrilled to recommend Ye Yuan @ye-yuan.bsky.social, an outstanding economist whose research is sharp, creative, & methodologically rigorous. He is a generous colleague and an excellent teacher. Anyone hiring in #AppliedMicro should take a close look at his work: sites.google.com/view/ye-yuan/
🚨 New opportunity for PhD students in dev econ! Join Rema Hanna, Ben Olken & others in the J-PAL network for a deep dive into social protection research and policy in an upcoming BREAD–IGC Virtual PhD Course.
🌍 Register: https://www.theigc.org/events/bread-igc-virtual-phd-course/social-protection
We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026
We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @nikita_sang at Queen's University Belfast who works on topics related to education, gender + environment
As we all work very hard on our development economics papers this summer, I want to make sure everyone knows about "How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics" - title is self explanatory
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...
Kartik Srivastava @kartiksrivastava.bsky.social (Harvard @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ) wraps-up the session with presentation on "Familiar strangers: Evidence from referral-based hiring experiments in India".
#DHC2025
Session 4 on Labour starts with Amen Jalal @amenjalal.bsky.social (LSE) presenting "Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads".
#DHC2025 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social @climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social
The 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop is now underway at @uofebusiness.bsky.social.
Prof. Steve Wood, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of @UofEBusiness, and Prof. Loukas Balafoutas, Head of the Econ Department, opened the day with an insightful introduction.
#DHC2025
Next, @greg-veramendi.bsky.social (Royal Holloway, University of London) discusses their research on "The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy". #DHC2025
Prof. Imran Rasul (UCL) delivers the 2nd keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop at
@uofebusiness.bsky.social, presenting their research on firm behavior and worker outcomes during the pandemic in Uganda.
#DHC2025
Session 2 on Human Capital kicks off with Ronak Jain @jainr.bsky.social (@econ.uzh.ch) discussing how access to 3G internet impacts human capital development.
#DHC2025 @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
@climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social
Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:
"How to Write a Title and Abstract"
Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.
#EconSky #AcademicSky
Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.
Excited to share work with Kate Orkin @emmariley.bsky.social in rural Kenya. We show that adding an aspiration-boosting workshop to cash transfers increased women’s control over resources & decreased intimate partner violence as compared to cash transfers alone.
tinyurl.com/3fwuhjyc
⭐NEW @cepr.org paper by the CSAE's Kate Orkin on 'Cash Transfers & Role Models: Impacts on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya'
Examining the effects of pairing unconditional cash transfers w/ a workshop to raise women’s aspirations in an experiment w/ women in rural Kenya.
cepr.org/publications...
📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13
Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows
Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...
In today’s episode of VoxDevTalks, @katevyborny.bsky.social addresses a central question in development: Can women be incentivized into entering the labor market?
Evidence from #Pakistan suggests that access to safe transport is key to tapping into a large segment of the country’s workforce:
We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....
This figure shows the key result on profits: over 2 years men and women have similar average and quantile treatment effects, with profits growing $61-65/month (for a $750 training). After 7 years, treatment effects on profits for men are $148/month, vs $39/month for women. 2/3
The last date for submissions for this workshop is March 10th. You can submit your paper here: bit.ly/3EhkEZ6
Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students.
How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below
