Today is the final day to complete your application for the 2023 CeMENT workshops! Follow the link to learn more. Lori Beaman and Jessica Holmes

Don't forget the CeMENT application portal is open! The deadline to complete your application is August 15th. For more information about both workshops, visit our website: aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm… Lori Beaman Jessica Holmes

I have benefited from CeMENT as a mentee, learned a lot as a mentor, and now I get to organize the next workshop. Please apply and join this wonderful community!

I'm hiring an RA for a one-year position to work with Lori Beaman and Karmini S on an exciting project in Delhi relating to women's employment in firms. Please apply or send to people who might be a good fit! See here for more details: tinyurl.com/44kzxmpj

Looking forward to participating in #KnowldegeWeek !

#Econopalooza is back! 📢🎉🙌💃🕺

This virtual CSWEP networking event will take place June 14-16.

Junior folks (post-PhD) can learn more and sign up here: forms.gle/sLbBs64ERsYWNn…. We'll put out our call for senior participants next week.

RT to spread the word!

China Econ Lab & NU Global Poverty Research Lab's China Lab invite you to their 2nd Master Lecture:

David Autor (MIT) on “The Enduring Consequences of the China Shock”

📆Dec. 1 2021 8pm EST.
🔗Registration link: chinaeconlab.org/events-

.Francesca Truffa & Ashley Wong are super productive scholars with an exciting research agenda on gender in the labor market. JMP #1 is on the glass ceiling: Having more female MBA classmates helps women's careers, in part b/c they're steered toward female-friendly firms. 1/2

.Lori Beaman Ariel BenYishay Jeremy Magruder and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak explore how social network-based information dissemination in #Malawi impacts technology adoption.
📝Read the summary: j-p.al/es56
📹Watch the video: youtube.com/watch?v=d7wcBk…

Come work with me: I'm looking for a predoc to support my projects on agriculture, social networks, and gender equality. The RA will be member of lovely NU Global Poverty Research Lab team. Do share and apply! tinyurl.com/46tn67dx Econ RA Listings

Come work with us NU Global Poverty Research Lab! We are hiring a full-time RA to assist in projects mostly on agriculture, social networks, and gender equality. The RA will be working with Lori Beaman and other GPRL-affiliated faculty.

🔗Visit: careers.northwestern.edu, search for Job ID: 41057

New! Can youth sports change life outcomes? Lori Beaman Niall Keleher Magruder, & Sylvan Herskowitz puzzle over some findings from Liberia - better employment, but perhaps not through the route they expected?
poverty-action.org/blog/can-sport…

For out 4th VDEV Seminar, we're very happy to host Christopher Udry (Northwestern U.), presenting 'Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali', with Lori Beaman, Dean Karlan and B. Thuysbaert. Join us this Tuesday at 5pm CET, 4pm BST, 11am EST, 8am PST

Join us for the Virtual BREAD Conference 2020: May 29-20. A great line up! bit.ly/2B8kXFr

Panopto Live Stream Links:
Friday - bit.ly/3genXzT
Saturday - bit.ly/2zswfDE

Use Slido link to ask questions live: app.sli.do/event/r7rs6o3s

On the Dev Impact blog, Markus Goldstein reviews results from Lori Beaman & Andrew Dillon working with IPA in Mali- does who you target to spread farming information in a village matter? Gender sure does-
(Plain language IPA summary: poverty-action.org/study/agricult…

blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Summer School on “The Economics of Networks” will take place in Marseille from July 8th to July 10th 2020. Lectures by Lori Beaman, S. Goyal, Y. Bramoullé and H. Djebbari . For #graduate students #professionals #researchers
📲bit.ly/2uqE4rf
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Research findings from Andrew Dillon & Lori Beaman w/IPA in Mali - Using existing social networks to share information about best farming practices is often seen as an effective way to spread knowledge cheaper and faster. And it did ... for men.
Summary:
poverty-action.org/study/agricult…

Job opening w/ J-PAL gender sector as Policy Manager for new Gates Foundation-funded initiative on women's work. Based in Nairobi w/ frequent travel across E. Africa. Ideal candidate has extensive experience in E. Africa. More info: povertyactionlab.org/careers/policy…

The Global Poverty Research Lab has worked with some fantastic PhD Students on the #EconJobMarket . We want to help you get to know them and their work. (In the emerging standard style of #EconTwitter Job Market Candidate threads)

Bruno Barsanetti
In his JMP, Bruno studies the consequences of a severe frost that damaged coffee trees to understand how capital destruction may permanently change the distribution of economic activity. Learn more at tinyurl.com/uxk4c8c #EconJobMarket