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Development economist @ International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) kallehirvonen.com
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Institute for Replication
2 months ago
🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science! The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents. Info 👇
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Jeffrey Bloem
5 months ago
We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this
@voxdev.bsky.social
piece. Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE:
bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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VoxDev
6 months ago
🆕 What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed? Today on VoxDev, Vittorio Bruni (University of Oxford) & Olivier Sterck (University of Antwerp) demonstrate how aid cuts are having dramatic impacts on food security in one of the world's largest refugee camps:
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What happens when humanitarian aid is cut or delayed?
Humanitarian aid systems are under mounting pressure, with key donors like the US and UK cutting funding despite growing needs. New research in one of the world’s largest refugee camps shows that aid ...
https://voxdev.org/topic/institutions-political-economy/what-happens-when-humanitarian-aid-cut-or-delayed
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UNU-WIDER
6 months ago
The time for effective climate adaptation is running out.
@opkuusela.bsky.social
‬‬ and
@kallehi.bsky.social
‬ highlight that aid cuts threaten vulnerable communities and forward-looking policies are a necessity. 📖 Read this
@uk.theconversation.com
‬ article here:
go.unu.edu/zvOCO...
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How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.
https://go.unu.edu/zvOCO
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We wrote about a worrying trend: foreign aid is shrinking — and what’s left goes to emergency relief. But without long-term climate investment, vulnerable communities stay stuck in crisis. With
@opkuusela.bsky.social
:
theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts...
@ifpri.org
@unu-wider.bsky.social
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How aid cuts could make vulnerable communities even less resilient to climate change
Global cuts in development aid budgets could undermine climate finance commitments.
https://theconversation.com/how-aid-cuts-could-make-vulnerable-communities-even-less-resilient-to-climate-change-255358
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International Food Policy Research Institute
7 months ago
✨ Speaker Spotlight:
#GFPR2025
✨ Michael Kremer, Professor in Economics, University of Chicago; 2019 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, will be speaking at the launch of the 2025 Global Food Policy Report—a special edition marking IFPRI’s 50th anniversary. 🔗
bit.ly/GFPR2025
#IFPRI50
@cgiar.org
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Economics & Human Biology
7 months ago
Just accepted: "Sleep hours fall as income rises: Macro and micro evidence on sleep inequality around the world", Cristián Jara, Francisca Pérez, and Rodrigo Wagner. Link:
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Institute for Replication
7 months ago
We did not want to start the week like this, but here we are. Yet again our chair’s inbox is filled with messages from replicators who have opened “replication” folders only to find names, Social Insurance Numbers, mental-health diagnoses and incomes of study participants. 🧵
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Moogdho Mahzab
7 months ago
First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here. Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!
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The Continent
9 months ago
The civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the deadliest of this century. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in November 2022. In Mekelle, Zeywegih Leyti describes the anxiety of waiting for another war.
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One day in Mekelle
Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering.
https://continent.substack.com/p/one-day-in-mekelle
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Rodrigo Oliveira
9 months ago
We are looking to engage with researchers (especially early career based in the LMIC) on the labour market impacts of AI in developing countries. The first step is a very short (!) expression of interest, to be followed by development of a more detailed proposal.
www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/...
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UNU-WIDER : The effects of artificial intelligence on firm and labour market outcomes
UNU-WIDER requests research proposals for a project on the Firm and labour market effects of AI in developi
https://www.wider.unu.edu/opportunity/effects-artificial-intelligence-firm-and-labour-market-outcomes
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Marco Sanfilippo
10 months ago
10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June. Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) Info:
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social
@marimendola.bsky.social
@fscoamodio.bsky.social
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Laura Derksen
10 months ago
Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course)
#econsky
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Kaja Kallas
10 months ago
We shouldn't take anything off the table before the negotiations have even started. It is clear that any deal behind our backs will not work. You need the Europeans, you need the Ukrainians. Extracts from my doorstep ahead of NATO Defence Ministers meeting ↓
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Mushfiq Mobarak
10 months ago
Call for papers. Deadline: Feb 28 Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Beautiful coastal city of Bari in southern Italy. A ferry ride away from Dubrovnik, Croatia
steg.cepr.org/events/firms...
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Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop|STEG
The workshop, now at its 5th edition, seeks to promote the exchange and dissemination of new research in the field of development economics and its intersections with industrial organization, international trade, labor economics, and migration.
https://steg.cepr.org/events/firms-labor-markets-and-development-workshop
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Corinne Low
10 months ago
I am hearing that PEPFAR programs are still being stalled, and medication appointments cancelled, despite a waiver in place to allow life-saving programs to continue. Thus,
@belindaarch.bsky.social
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The Continent
10 months ago
We could really use your help. We’re beginning this year with a big push for new subscribers – because the more subscribers we have, the easier it is for us to raise funding to keep doing the kind of journalism we do. Our subscription details are here 👇
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Magnus B Rasmussen
11 months ago
Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025. Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo). No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025. Link below:
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Ugo Gentilini
12 months ago
Can a "big push" program help conflict-affected households in Somalia? Yup... (p.s. big push = cash (9 months) + asset or TVET training + coaching + financial literacy + business facilitation + savings groups + disaster risk training)
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International Food Policy Research Institute
12 months ago
🆕
#ResearchBlog
by
@kallehi.bsky.social
, Naureen Karachiwalla,
@leightjessica.bsky.social
and
@meanregressive.bsky.social
: Graduation from
#poverty
: Can a big push program help
#conflict
-affected households? Evidence from
#Somalia
www.ifpri.org/blog/graduat...
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Graduation from poverty: Can a big push program help conflict-affected households? Evidence from Somalia
Moving from assistance to self-sufficiency.
https://www.ifpri.org/blog/graduation-from-poverty-can-a-big-push-program-help-conflict-affected-households-evidence-from-somalia/
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Jessica Leight
12 months ago
New blog post! Hot-off-the-press evidence (from survey concluded 2 months ago): effectiveness of graduation model intervention targeting internally displaced households in Somalia @ifpri
@ifpri.org
@NKarachiwalla
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@meanregressive.bsky.social
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Tanja Pyhäjärvi
12 months ago
Big news from Finnish publication forum. Almost all MDPI and Frontiers journals will be downgraded to level 0 and thus are not considered as properly peer reviewed trustworthy scientific journals.
julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/chan...
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Changes to the classification
https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en/news/changes-classification
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VoxDev
12 months ago
🆕 How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers New on VoxDev by Akhter Ahmed
@ifpri.org
, Melissa Hidrobo
@ifpri.org
, John Hoddinott Cornell University, Bastien Kolt WHO, Shalini Roy
@ifpri.org
& Salauddin Tauseef
@ifpri.org
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voxdev.org/topic/health...
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How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers
A transfer programme in Bangladesh led to sustained consumption increases and reduced poverty four years post-programme, but design and context mattered.
https://voxdev.org/topic/health/how-programme-design-and-local-context-shape-lasting-effects-cash-and-food-transfers
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Ugo Gentilini
12 months ago
15 years of lessons from
#Ethiopia’s
PSNP, all in one great paper! Hoddinott et al
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Ugo Gentilini
12 months ago
New systematic lit review looks at
#cashtransfers
and other social assistance programs through a crisis lens in
#Africa
. Hirvonen et al
www.wider.unu.edu/sites/defaul...
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New paper! We study the impact of Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) on local conflict (2005–19). District level DiD analysis shows the PSNP reduced civil unrest by nearly half, mainly during the 2014–18 protest wave, with no significant impact on violence.
doi.org/10.35188/UNU...
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Rodrigo Oliveira
12 months ago
🚨🚨New working paper🚨🚨
@apvjustino.bsky.social
@kallehi.bsky.social
and I were leading an 18 months program:
www.wider.unu.edu/project/stre...
. 14 WP will be published by Jan-25. One of the outputs is a review of the literature on social assistance during crises
www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
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Jan Rosenow
12 months ago
A remarkable transition: Kenya is Africa's leading country when it comes to renewables. In 2000 fossil fuels contributed 60% to electricity generation. Today it is 6%. In 2023 electricity was from almost 50% geothermal, 20% wind+solar and 22% hydro.
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Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel)
12 months ago
The standard errors of persistence Timothy G. Conley, Morgan Kelly Forthcoming in J Intl Econ
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
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Jessica Leight
12 months ago
Though dominance of cash over in-kind transfers is often assumed by researchers + many practitioners, the (small) literature on recipient preferences suggests a more mixed picture - following up on this post from @JustinSandefur @justsand.bsky.social
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International Food Policy Research Institute
12 months ago
🦋IFPRI is excited to join
@bsky.app
! Colleagues, partners, friends
@cgiar.org
and beyond - who's there? đź‘‹ Welcome to our cloud!
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Max Roser
about 1 year ago
My new, very brief article is about economic growth — highlighting nine countries in Africa where incomes have more than doubled since 1990.
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Vasudeva Ramaswamy
about 1 year ago
On the
#EconJobMarket
! When does inflation increase slowly ("hump-shaped") vs rapidly? When do different drivers (wages, markups, etc) play bigger roles? My
#JMP
explores these Qs by bringing a key variable back to the center of the debate: capacity utilization A thread 🧵👇
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VoxDev
about 1 year ago
🆕 How deforestation drives malaria in Nigeria, affecting women and children most Today on VoxDev, Julia Berazneva and Tanya Byker (Middlebury College) show how forest loss increases malaria exposure in the tropics:
voxdev.org/topic/health...
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How deforestation drives malaria in Nigeria, affecting women and children most
Forest loss in Nigeria raises neonatal mortality and worsens birth outcomes by increasing malaria exposure among pregnant women.
https://voxdev.org/topic/health/how-deforestation-drives-malaria-nigeria-affecting-women-and-children-most
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Economics & Human Biology
about 1 year ago
Just accepted: "Employee well-being in the digital age: Assessing the impacts of a smartphone application in the workplace", by Aizawa, Okudaira, Kitagawa, Kuroda, and Owan. Link:
doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
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Ludovica Gazze
about 1 year ago
We're hiring. 2 asst positions open. Our department is supportive of juniors, full of talented researchers who often cross field boundaries to produce unique research and who are also kind and thoughtful and fun humans. I've been super happy here. Apply!
econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
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EJM - Econ Job Market
https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11181
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Economics & Human Biology
about 1 year ago
Just accepted: "Teen parent trap? The education and labor implications of motherhood and fatherhood during the transition from adolescence to Adulthood in Cebu, the Philippines", by Chakraborty and Villa. Link:
doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
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Economics & Human Biology
about 1 year ago
Just accepted: "Fiscal externalities and underinvestment in early-life human capital: Optimal policy instruments for a developing country", by Lawson and Spears. Link:
doi.org/10.1016/j.eh...
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Ranil Dissanayake
about 1 year ago
New paper and blog! I've recently been thinking a lot about 'localization' of development cooperation. This is an area getting a lot of attention at the moment, but I worry there are challenges associated with the movement to localize that we have yet to fully appreciate.
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Economics and Human Biology is here!
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about 1 year ago
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David McKenzie
about 1 year ago
A thoughtful new post from
@berkozler12.bsky.social
unpacks the indirect spillovers from cash transfers (Give Directly), & how to reconcile the large positive effects in the recent Econometrica paper with some negative or small impacts measured in earlier studies
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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Heterogeneity of spillover effects of cash transfers
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/who-benefits-from-the-indirect-effects-of-cash-transfer-programs1
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David McKenzie
over 1 year ago
I've just finished the annual update of our curated links on the Development Impact blog, which sort key posts from the last 13 years. First up, technical topics and methods: how to do RCTs, power calcs, DiD, IV, RDD, PAPs, publication, analysis issues, and more:
blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
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A Curated List of Our Postings on Technical Topics – Your One-Stop Shop for Methodology
This is a curated list of our technical postings, to serve as a one-stop shop for your technical reading. I’ve focused here on our posts on methodological issues in impact evaluation – we also have a ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevaluations/curated-list-our-postings-technical-topics-your-one-stop-shop-methodology-0
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Rodrigo Oliveira
about 1 year ago
September 15 is the submission deadline for the WIDER Development Conference 2025. Don’t miss the chance to enjoy Helsinki summer. All expenses covered.
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