We just posted an exciting role on our #UCLA team for an early- or mid-career researcher who wants to design and conduct policy-relevant research with administrative data in California. Please share with your networks:
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Looking for a field-based pre-doc running an RCT on cash transfers to college women in Zambia. If you want to do a PhD in devo economics and want some work / mentorship first, this could be the job for you! #econRA PIs: me, Natalie Bau + Bryce Steinberg.
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President Biden President Biden, would you hold your word, and hold Putin accountable?

Speaker Johnson Speaker Mike Johnson, would you do your job and hold the vote on the aid to Ukraine on your floor?

We need your leadership.

A short interview on our paper measuring the “love for variety” in production networks.

Next BREAD Conference on Development Economics will be hosted by UCSDEcon
May 10-11, 2024 (including pre-conference junior session)
All areas of development economics considered.

Deadline: Friday, March 1st

Submit here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/confer…

Wednesday - @Dbaqaee highlights the crucial role of input entry and exit in driving economic growth at our next International Economics seminar: ow.ly/ZCpx50LnUrX

In honor of amazing mRNA work that won the Nobel today, it boggles my mind that 'we now have two effective cheap malaria vaccines' is barely making the news. Almost certainly the most deadly disease in human history, ~600k still each year, largely kids. theguardian.com/global-develop…

🔔 APP DEADLINE: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of UCLA Labor Studies.

📕📢 Labor Studies hires will join a community of scholars & practitioners dedicated to understand & improve the lives of working people.

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Search by UCLA that might fly under the radar with end of September deadline! UCLA's labor studies program is hiring. If an economist is hired, they will join the econ department ladder faculty. Of interest to fresh candidates and early junior laterals: recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08459

The deadline for paper submission is coming up soon! Don't forget to submit!

The development groups at UCSD and UCLA are organizing a one-day workshop for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in the Southern California area to present work related to Economic Development, Political Economy, and Culture. Natalie Bau UCSDEcon UCLA Economics

.Royal Sonesta Boston has horrific customer service. Why do we keep using them for NBER SI? Perhaps we need a competitive bid process.

Public school improvement in Pakistan has a positive spillover effect on private schools, as demonstrated by a grants program that increased test scores in both sectors due to heightened competition.
T Andrabi, Natalie Bau, J Das, Naureen Karachiwalla, PhD 🇨🇦 🇰🇪, Asim Ijaz Khwaja
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Development economists might think they don't care about 'love-of-variety' and 'quality-ladders,' but stay for tweet #5, where we learn (with the help of exceptional admin data) that supplier churn is one of the most important drivers of aggregate productivity growth.