🎙️ At #OxCSAE2025, John Hoddinott shared tips on publishing African economics research
✅ Nail the intro: What’s the big question & why now?
✅ Skip long lit reviews—clarity wins
✅ Descriptive ≠ weak—just show real insight
✅ Desk rejects? Even Nobel winners get them
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📺💡📚Chief Editor of the #JournalofAfricanEconomies John Hoddinott hosts a session on publishing papers on African Economics in Academic Journals at #OxCSAE2025.

Hoddinott discusses pitfalls & opportunities, drawing on experiences from academia & his role at the JAE.
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In case you missed it: #Migration Research at #OxCSAE2025. The CSAE's @kris10mccollum.bsky.social (COMPAS) has written a great round-up for you here 👇

Missed the CSAE Conference 2025? You can watch the Natural Resources & the Environment 8 session online. #OxCSAE2025

Papers & discussion by Jeffrey Pagel, @mathildegois.bsky.social & Oluwabunmi Adejumo

@univparissaclay.bsky.social

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Watch the AERC panel session from the CSAE Conference 2025 'Strategic Plan and Policy Challenges for Africa: A Roadmap to 2025-2035'. #OxCSAE2025

Missed the CSAE Conference 2025? You can watch the Labour Market Dynamics session online. #OxCSAE2025

Papers & discussion by Deresse Fekadu Nigussie, Fadzayi Chingwere, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social & Tevin Tafese

You can watch the Natural Resources & the Environment 8 session from the CSAE Conference 2025 online. #OxCSAE2025

Papers & discussion by Jeffrey Pagel @mathildegois.bsky.social & Oluwabunmi Adejumo

Missed the CSAE Conference 2025? You can watch the Consumption Smoothing & Resilience session online. #OxCSAE2025

Papers & discussion by @danishussalam.bsky.social Jedediah Silver & Joanna Upton

📺Watch the CSAE Conference 2025 closing panel: Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa. #OxCSAE2025

🗣️ @scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social

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ICYMI: great summary of latest education and development research in SSA presented at #OxCSAE2025

Featuring my own WP on "Effects of overlap between school and farming calendars on education and child labor": hdl.handle.net/10568/138825

📺Watch the 'SA-TIED: Unlocking Data for Economic Research and Policy Impact' session from the CSAE Conference 2025. #OxCSAE2025

Aimable Nsabimana (Research Fellow @unu-wider.bsky.social ) discusses the work of SA-TIED & the National Treasury Secure Data Facility. 👇

Watch the CSAE Conference 2025 keynote speech 'Wealth in People' by Nobel Prize winner James Robinson. #OxCSAE2025

@blavatnikschool.bsky.social @gamblingondev.bsky.social @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @odid-qeh.bsky.social

📺Watch via the CSAE YouTube channel 👇
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Thanks to @leecrawfurd.bsky.social @cgdev.org for a round-up of last week's CSAE Conference 2025.

With 259 papers presented, Crawfurd suggests #OxCSAE2025 may be the biggest development economics conference in the world!🎉

📖Read it here: www.cgdev.org/blog/what-ec...

Had a great time at the @oxfordcsae.bsky.social conference this week! I had the opportunity to present my paper and engage in inspiring discussions with friends, colleagues, and co-authors. The sessions were full of thought-provoking research. Looking forward to next time. #OxCSAE2025

Hello hello. Some @oxfordcsae.bsky.social's #OxCSAE2025 hangover. Loved hanging out with this bunch. @danishussalam.bsky.social @elijah @pallavi.

#EconSky #EconConf

Photo of closing panel at CSAE Conference

Panel and projector at CSAE Conference 2025

The closing panel of #OxCSAE2025 has begun! Join us online for the last session of the CSAE Conference 2025.

@scepticalranil.bsky.social @olihanney.bsky.social @voxdev.bsky.social

💡CSAE Publications Spotlights #OxCSAE2025

The Seeds of Misallocation: Fertilizer use & Maize Varietal Misidentification in Ethiopia

✒️ Nils Bohr, @timdeisemann.bsky.social, Douglas Gollin, Frédéric Kosmowski, Travis Lybbert

Journal of Development Economics

Wrapping up, we have Daniel Pérez - Parra, presenting his paper on the impact of a middle school expansion program on gendered-beliefs, women empowerment, and gender based violence in Senegal #OxCsae2025

Following up we have Amanda Awadey discussing her research on the impact of reducing curricular pace on learning outcomes in Ghana #OxCsae2025

Kicking off the School Policies session at #OxCsae2025, we have Amadou Jallow presenting a paper on the impact of the Double Shift System on students' performance in the Gambia.

Natural Resources & the Environment 8 session live now at the CSAE Conference 2025.

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Follow the Natural Resources & the Environment 8 session live now at the CSAE Conference 2025.

With Jeffrey Pagel, @mathildegois.bsky.social, Oluwabunmi Adejumo

View here 👇
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Tevin Tafese now presents evidence on how Ethiopia’s industrial parks affect local labor markets. He documents a shift out of informal work and towards construction. The effect on earnings are more ambiguous. #OxCSAE2025

Next up is my co-author and friend @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social. He show that providing info about available vacancies improves outcomes, but only for relatively less educated women. #OxCSAE2025

Next up, Fadzayi Chingwere presents on how tax incentives shape charitable donation behavior in South Africa. Using administrative tax data she show that incentives really matter. #OxCSAE2025

Next in the #OxCSAE2025 @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Trade, Investment & Services session, @verenaw.bsky.social looks at: which firms benefit from expanded internet infrastructure?

csae conference 2025 closing panel graphic with photographs of Ranil Dissanayake, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, and Oliver Hanney

📽️Watch #OxCSAE2025 Closing Panel live at 16:30 GMT today

Evidence-based Policy: Towards an Improved Research-policy Equilibrium in Africa

@scepticalranil.bsky.social, Miriam Laker, Justice Tei Mensah, Nompumelelo Nyathi-Mohohlwane, @olihanney.bsky.social

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First up in the #OxCSAE2025 @oxfordcsae.bsky.social Trade, Investment & Services session, Matthew Mcketty (@uwmadison.bsky.social) looks at the relationship between the growth of the tourism industry in Jamaica and household welfare

Now in the labor dynamics session at #OxCSAE2025, Deresse Nigussie on how universal screening of workers in industrial parks shapes turnover and earnings dynamics in Ethiopia.

Labour Market Dynamics session live now at the CSAE Conference 2025.

📽WATCH #OxCSAE2025 LIVE

Follow the Labour Market Dynamics session live now at the CSAE Conference 2025.

With Deresse Fekadu Nigussie, Fadzayi Chingwere, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social, Tevin Tafese

View here 👇
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💡CSAE Publications Spotlights #OxCSAE2025

The Political Economy of Economic Advice

✒️ @gamblingondev.bsky.social

#JournalofAfricanEconomies