Wanted to highlight a very useful new paper in EDCC by Teresa Molina-Millán + Karen Macours analyzing the effects of attrition in RCTs + exploring how correcting for attrition can shift results
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

📢 ICYMI on @Vox_Dev:
We studied a large HIV/AIDS program that decreased HIV testing by worsening misinformation and HIV-related stigma... but we counteracted these negative effects!
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Read how on #VoxDev : voxdev.org/topic/health/c…
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w/ Dean Yang, A Mahumane, J Riddell IV & H Yu

Today's IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is
Lauren Falcao Bergquist (@YaleEconomics)!
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Do Ugandan coffee farmers face lower quality premiums because of *distortive* market power or *efficient* downstream quality upgrading? Impressive data and model suggest a bit of both.

🆕 Community health programmes and HIV/AIDS outcomes in Mozambique 🇲🇿

Today on VoxDev, Dean Yang @UMichEcon @FordSchool, James Allen IV IFPRI, Arlete Mahumane, James Riddell IV University of Michigan Medical School and Hang Yu Peking University outline their research: voxdev.org/topic/health/c…

The theme for #IWD2024 is #InvestInWomen : Accelerate progress.

In recognition of this theme, IFPRI is highlighting recent research on the importance of investing in women as part of efforts towards gender equality, poverty eradication, and food security:
CGIAR #GenderInAg
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Today's IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is Julia Vaillant (World Bank Gender Innovation Lab)!
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In rural DRC, where mothers do childcare 14 hrs/day, childcare centers had high uptake and ⬆️ women's ag productivity & income. w/ Aletheia Donald & sara lowes.

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Moogdho Mahzab
Stanford Woods Institute, awesome alum of Williams College who works on topics related to development, political economy + environmental economics in Bangladesh
sites.google.com/virginia.edu/m…
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New from in Asterisk:

Free HIV/AIDS drugs have saved millions of lives.

Why were economists so skeptical?

asteriskmag.com/issues/05/pepf…

Applications are open for the 2024 GAIN program!

Information sharing, mentoring, and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields.

➡️ Apply here: gain-network.net/participants
🗓️ Deadline: March 11th

Please share widely!

Today's IFPRI Applied Micro & Development speaker is Jason Kerwin (AP Applied Economics UM)
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He shared the large long-run impacts of a literacy intervention in #Uganda that had positive effects on literacy (some of the largest in the literature) and grade progression six years later.

📢📢 #AMIE is excited to announce its '3rd Workshop in Applied Microeconomics' for PhD students, to be held virtually on April 26, 2024.

Submission Deadline: March 1

Call for papers: econmentoring.org/wp-content/upl…

please share, R/T #EconTwitter 1/3

New effort to diversify econ in Latin America!
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Brian Daza 🦜: 'Thanks to UBC Economics & Universidad de Piura, EconThaki is able to secure the participation of 10 students from... Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia in the Lima Summer School in Economics '24.'
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Help fund their trip: gofund.me/6efc6a56
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Great Econ That Matters blog post by my friend and U-M Economics JMC Russell Morton!
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Using data from Indian garment firms 📊, he studies how relational contracts 👥are affected by how a firm's vertical integration ⏫ changes its bargaining power. 👍

Happy Friday 😃: Cape Verde is the first country in sub-Saharan #Africa to be declared malaria-free in over 50 years! Big win in our fight against #malaria .
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Granted being an arid island chain gave it an advantage, but still!
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bbc.com/news/world-afr…

Cool new paper in JDE: good lesson for any intervention aiming to increase school participation without complementary investments in school capacity. 🏫

Job Market Series 2023 Wrap-Up: we received a record 65 submissions of job market blog posts, here are the 26 we published along with some stats on countries, methods, and more blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Calling all Africa-based junior economists (Phd post 2018)
Applications for STAARS program by Cornell Dyson World Bank Research and PEP is open until JAN 19: barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/staars/staars-…
Outstanding mentorship and prof development program. All the alums I've met are amazing
Chris Barrett

Finally got around to revamping of my website jamesalleniv.com to make me look less like a job market candidate. 😅 (Sorry if you were still planning to download my teaching evaluation from 2019.)

#EconTwitter , feedback welcome... 🙌

🎉New year, new social media account on... let's say... Azure Airspace? 😏
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If you there, please find me at the same handle: @jealleniv