🚨 Full-Time Pre-doc Position at UC Berkeley🚨

Want to get your hands dirty with big data, economic modeling and empirical work across projects in low- and middle-income countries?

Come work for me as a full-time predoc based at Berkeley Haas.

According to a field experiment in DR Congo, property tax rates are above the revenue-maximizing rate. The government could increase revenue by (i) lowering tax rates or (ii) investing in enforcement capacity, which shifts up the revenue-maximizing rate econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Come work with us! Looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development.

Predoctoral RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers/predoc…

RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

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RA review of literature that examines changes to institutions, consists of real-time studies of plausible critical junctures, and exploits field experiments, from Michael Callen, @jonathanweigel, and Noam Yuchtman nber.org/papers/w31964

🚨Excited to present my JMP! 'Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal'

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🚨Join our research team in Kananga, DRC!🚨

We are looking to hire up to two French-speaking research interns to work on DEV and PE projects studying the role of state capacity in economic development.

More information here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

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Join our research team! Looking for French-speaking research intern to work on projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development.

More here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Econ RA Listings

Join our research team! Looking for French-speaking research intern to work on projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development.

More here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

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How do states build their informational capacity? Jeremy Bowles argues distributive politics condition the development of state capacity. He finds registration promotes access to narrow-based resources while increasing tax payment.
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How Economists got Africa’s AIDS Epidemic Wrong

Brilliant case study by ⁦Justin Sandefur⁩ ⁦Center for Global Development⁩ cgdev.org/blog/how-econo…

Wish I could take this!

📢Last few spaces remaining

Join our Political Economy summer school with Jean-Paul Carvalho to discover more about social-political institutions in which markets are embedded.

Find out more here: economics.ox.ac.uk/september-summ…

Such a wonderful honor- Our paper w @victorpouliquen was awarded best paper AEA Journals:EP

Broad question: Do e-government initiatives improve efficiency and reduce corruption?

Answer: It depends 😀

THREAD on key lessons from e-filing in Tajikistan 1/n
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We are now moving to our research presentations, and are excited to hear from our presenters Anders Jensen, Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣, James Dzansi, and Gabriel Tourek 📊 #TaxforGrowth

LIVE on YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=P-atk_…

This week's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @marimavngoma at Tufts. . .I normally focus on researchers who have PhDs, and she just defended this month, so big congrats🥳🍾 ! Marina works on questions around manufacturing, religion + institutions
sites.tufts.edu/marinamavungu/

Exciting new initiative by International Growth Centre! Tax for Growth supports researchers and policymakers to develop effective approaches to make taxation work for poverty reduction & economic development.

Free only launch event this Wednesday (UK times)

Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Looking for another RA to join our team in DRC! Same links as below to apply.

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Happy to share a recent paper in Journal_Int_Development, authored w/ Rachel Beach & supported by International Centre for Tax and Development

Looking at Sierra Leone & Togo, we show that rural taxation is inefficient, leading to little (if any) revenue, w/ implications for citizen-state relations🧵

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ji…

Summer School in Political Economy, 'Political Economy for a Changing World,' August 16 - 18, 2023 at UC Berkeley. Deadline April 15. Students please apply - it's a great chance to get exposure to a variety of political economy work. Association for Comparative Economic Studies