Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum

📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026

Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF).

⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

We are hiring!!!
UPF has several junior positions available and we'll be looking across fields in econ and finance. Apply! The posting is here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
If you have any questions about the department or living in BCN, DM me!

The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD seminars continue on 23 Sep @ 16:00 CEST.
Leopoldo Fergusson (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia) presents "Accents as Capital"
Moderator: @gianmarcoleonc.bsky.social
cepr.org/events/event...
#EconSky

So nice to come back from vacations and see this on your desk 🎉🎉
@erikadeserranno.bsky.social @stefanocaria.bsky.social @pkastrau.bsky.social

The program for our Development Econ Workshop at the BSE
Summer Forum is out! Coorganized w/ @andregroeger.bsky.social , P Bustos, G DeGiorgi, and D Yang.
Looking forward for an exciting couple of days of talks in June!

Our paper "Promotions and Productivity: The Role of Meritocracy and Pay Progression in the Public Sector" (w/
@erikadeserranno.bsky.social and @pkastrau.bsky.social ) is out in the latest issue of AER:I !!!
Here is a short summary of the paper: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

deadline is this friday!

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Here is a short piece we wrote on it on @voxdev.bsky.social :
voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Policymaking, Trust, and the Demand for Public Services: Evidence from a Mass Sterilization Campaign (February 2025) - We study a large-scale family planning intervention in which more than 260,000 Peruvian women were sterilized. Many of these medical procedures are alleged to have been performed wit...

Our paper on the effects of (failed) government policies on trust and the demand for health services (w/ D Zejcirovic and @ffernandezbazan) is out at AEJ Policy @AEAjournals !
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Submit your best work to the development workshop at the BSE Summer Forum!

I am hiring a predoctoral fellow to work on projects in development, organizational and personnel economics. Position based at Bocconi University, Milan. Please share and/or apply!

Details here:
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/k7lvy...

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ICREA Academia 🥳🥳🥳!!!!

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