🆕 How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective
Emily Beam, Lasse Brune, Stefan Dercon, Dean Karlan, Ashley Pople, Christopher Udry & Rocco Zizzamia voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/...
Thanks for highlighting our work on the promise of group coaching programs! Lower cost + similar effects = easier scaling! www.nber.org/papers/w34309 @roccozizzamia.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @lassebrune.bsky.social
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.
Article by the CSAE's @gamblingondev.bsky.social, @roccozizzamia.bsky.social & Ashley Pople @odid-qeh.bsky.social (@ebeam.bsky.social @christopher-udry.bsky.social)
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@gamblingondev.bsky.social and I are looking for an RA to contribute to a range of exciting projects focusing on innovations in social protection responses to extreme weather events. Deadline 19/08.
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My recent paper on the role of repeated rejection in job search, now available as a CSAE WP.
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The Bovine Mistique by the late great James Ferguson: www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/2...
Deadline coming up (6 April) for the @isdcberlin.bsky.social Fragile Lives conference in September!
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop
📆30 September – 1 October 2025
Fragile Lives 2025 & the 21st HiCN Annual Workshop will review the role of gender & institutions in the formation, functioning & impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict & emergency.
Nan Sandi (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/nan-sandi) presenting now at #OxCSAE2025. In a field experiment with 1,024 farmers in Thailand, offering a capital rental subsidy reduces crop residue burning by 29%, cutting air pollution at just $1.42/ton of CO₂ averted 🚜🔥 Fantastic paper. @oxfordcsae.bsky.social
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
A flyer advertising the 2024 SALDRU December Workshop: Frontiers in Applied Economics for Developing Countries. The flyer contains an abbreviated programme. The full programme in machine-readable format is available on the SALDRU website here: https://www.saldru.uct.ac.za/2024/11/21/saldru-december-workshop-2024-programme/
Come attend the 2024 SALDRU December Workshop!
12-13 December, School of Economics, U of Cape Town.
We've got a great list of speakers, and v pleased the keynote will be Dennis Egger (@eggerdennis.bsky.social) presenting "Slack & Economic Development".
All welcome! RSVP: forms.gle/cwdPjw7iEjqa...
We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics
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