Today's column outlines how spillovers undermined an agronomy training programme in Rwanda.

Yields decreased for farmers who did not receive training, with these negative externalities likely due to the crowding out of key inputs which were in limited supply. Read more here:

🆕 The apparent positive impact of training coffee farmers in Rwanda was driven by negative spillovers on farmers who weren't trained.

Esther Duflo J-PAL MIT Economics, Daniel Keniston LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business, Tavneet Suri MIT Sloan School of Management & Céline Zipfel Stockholm School of Economics: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

Excited that we finally have a draft of our paper on a Rwanda agronomy training program for coffee farmers

It's been a long time in the making! But such fun working with Céline Zipfel Stockholm School of Economics #EstherDuflo MIT Economics & #DanielKeniston LSU E. J. Ourso College of Business

voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

Another opportunity for economists to write a paper on canals...

I am going to be in #London for a month starting Monday visiting Imperial College London Imperial College Business School

Super excited! It will be lovely to be back in the UK.

Looking forward to seeing family, friends, development economists I know & importantly those I don't know. Please come say hey!

A new VoxDev Lit is launching this week! This one is titled 'Bureaucracy'

Senior Editor: Guo Xu

Co-editors:
Erika Deserranno
Diana Moreira 🇺🇦
Edoardo Teso

Launch event is tomorrow! It will be great!

Please register to join here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Cool technology

It has been studied by #JennyAker & #KelseyJack in Niger

Paper is forthcoming The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)
sites.tufts.edu/jennyaker/file…

Training increases adoption, which then has effects on agricultural production & wealth

Read the VoxDev blog here: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

My MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program always ask me what class I would take @MIT if I could take any class I wanted... this class would be close to the top of my list!!!

Maybe next year Justin Khoo will let me sit in on the class...

Deadline to submit to the fall #WEFIDEV Webinar in #Finance and #Development is Aug 19.

DM Kim Fe Cramer Giorgia Barboni Nicola Limodio or me for details

Link to submit below

Very excited for the new WEFIDEV season! Submit your (early-stage) work on #Finance and #Development here. Deadline is this Saturday (Aug 19th).

Giorgia Barboni, Nicola Limodio, Sean Higgins

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Super cool research!! I wonder how long this would take (if ever) to put into a practical solution for malaria...

One thing I really miss about being Editor in Chief at VoxDev is reading & talking about cool papers every week.

Can you help me fill that gap??

What are a few cool papers in development that you have read or seen presented this year?

Please include paper links if you can!

Amazing job opportunity!!!

J-PAL Africa is looking for an Executive Director

You will be working with an absolutely fantastic team (that much I can guarantee), building out @JPAL's research and policy work on the continent.

Job posting here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/execut…

Read the 2nd issue of the VoxDev #Lit on #Mobile #Money ! Senior editor Tavneet Suri & co-authors review recent research studying the expansion of mobile money providers and accounts.

New issues will continue as new work is released.
Read: bit.ly/VDLITmobile #EconTwitter

Very nice David McKenzie 'Six Questions' interview w/Tavneet Suri, including what's it like to teach development economics in a business school:
blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Six Questions with Tavneet Suri Tavneet Suri - including lessons from mobile money research for working on AI and green growth, the surprising mobility of Kenyans in a UBI trial, and a new high risk project with a biological engineer and bacteria blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

Thanks to David McKenzie for asking me to contribute to his 'Six Questions with... ' series.

Fun (& useful!) to reflect on research, how I ended up working on stuff, our #UBI project (I am writing a will for it now...), and more!

It did remind me how much I love what I do!!!

Learn more about our African Scholars Program and see how we are aiming to provide more opportunities for African researchers: j-p.al/asp

The #VoxDevLit review on Bloomberg Green adaptation in developing countries. Fascinating insights on the impacts of climate change, the effectiveness of various adaptation approaches, and the urgent need for policy intervention. A must-read for policymakers. UN Climate Change Mark Carney

For those who missed our #VoxDevLit launch event earlier, you can catch up on Senior Editor Namrata Kala's presentation of the key takeaways from economic research on climate adaptation in developing countries here: youtu.be/BswwpFgeYCc