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In late March, Yifu He and @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social each presented their work at the 2026 CSAE conference in Oxford, one of the largest annual conferences on development economics.
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“Bureaucrats had labyrinthine requirements and were painfully slow. They demanded paper documents and rejected submissions in English.”
Sigh.
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Now, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social presents on the direct and indirect impact of a nursing training program for women. The training increases both participants’ and connect individuals’ employment and earning. Spillovers likely emerge due information spillovers. #OxCSAE2026
So good to be back @oxfordcsae.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk for the 2026 CSAE conference on development economics. I will post on Bluesky about the papers I see over the next days. Stay tuned. #OxCSAE2026
FAZ and the council are traditionally the home of German ordoliberal orthodoxy. So far, so expected on c).
But that she is from the US and offers an international perspective was *the point*, and is still needed. Germany's economic weakness in part comes from its insular economic debates.
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This long-term thread will collect stories about Germany's absurd, over-lawyered and court-heavy bureaucracy following my Free Exchange column this week. www.economist.com/finance-and-...
New WP: “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”
Debates on international students often focus on capacity constraints, funding, or competition.
In the paper, I show that the main effects of internationalization on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
Our department co-hosted the Dutch Development Economics (DuDE) PhD Workshop at the Tinbergen Institute on Friday, 31st October 2025.
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A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:
Can public attention shape justice?
In a forthcoming paper in the American Economic Review: Insights, our colleague @nadineketel.bsky.social (together with Olivier Marie and Kyra Hanemaaijer) explores how sudden surges in media attention, “salience shocks”, influence judicial decision-making.
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One of my favorite traditions is now underway: for the 15th straight year, the Development Impact blog launches a call for PhD students in development economics to blog their job market paper - submissions due 8pm EST on Wednesday November 5: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
Why don't firms publish pay in their job adverts?
We present the first experimental evidence on how (not) posting wages changes the applicant pool, and whether that gives firms a reason to hide wage info.
Great short thread by my co-author Lukas + link to the full paper👇
The return of the Puma Speedcat really shocked me...
🚨🚨New WP Alert (tinyurl.com/4sesthst)%F0...
@marcjosefwitte.bsky.social , @balgovamaria.bsky.social , Tsegay Tekleselassie, and I have a new working paper using a field experiment to study the causal impact of pay information in job adverts on application numbers and applicant skills. A🧵
@basvdklaauw.bsky.social -- is this something @economics-vu.bsky.social might consider?
Wouldn't even call them side alleys anymore, it's so blatantly obvious when looking at it from a certain distance
A) Hormuz?
D) Panama canal?
C) looks like Gibraltar
Ah, sorry: as a German it takes me 3-4 business days to process jokes, and certainly not on the weekend
But the article says that these buildings do have air conditioning:
"[...] they rely on energy-intensive air conditioning and heating systems to maintain a liveable internal temperature. [...] 'it is very quickly dramatic' if for any reason the air conditioning switches off".
