🆕 Culture and economic development 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, Natalie Bau (UCLA), @saralowes.bsky.social (@ucsandiego.bsky.social) & @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris School of Public Policy) discuss how culture shapes economic policy and, consequently, development: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Please apply!! RA for research on culture and development. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

Hiring a full-time pre-doc. Please apply! Thank you!! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from Sara Lowes and @nathannunn.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w33981

Are you: ✅ A young scholar in econ, poli sci, or law ✅ Working on institutions, broadly defined ✅ Interested in spending a week in Italy with amazing faculty If so, please apply to this year’s Coase Institute Workshop! It’s a transformative experience for many, and always fun. I’ll be there.

🆕 The @comparativeecon.bsky.social 4th annual ACES Political Economy Summer School (August 2025). This 3-day summer school will expose participants to cutting-edge research in political economy, economic history & development economics More details & application: www.acesecon.org/conferences/...

Please apply! Send your applications directly to us ☺️

Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to [email protected] and [email protected], subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!

ACES summer school in Zanzibar!! Please apply!

The deadline for submissions for the Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in June 2025 is in 3 weeks. Kynotes: @ingelaalger.bsky.social @saralowes.bsky.social. Submissions 👇 hhdi.co.uk/nide-qub-joi... #econtwitter #econsky #callforpapers #workshop

Call for Applications: 2025-2026 ACES Dissertation Research Fellowship. One-year fellowship includes stipend, tuition scholarship, and additional research/travel funding for PhD students advanced to candidacy. Applications accepted through April 15, 2025. www.acesecon.org/aces-dissert...

Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

Today’s the day! Please submit your proposals for SIOE 2024 by 6 pm ET. Interdisciplinarity + Chicago + gala blues cruise = great fun. AND we will have an AI bootcamp on Thursday for those who arrive early. We can help grad students along every margin but travel. Please apply!

Our next seminar will take place on January 25th, exceptionally at 4pm (UTC+1).  Sara Lowes (@) and Ghyslain Mombo-Ngoma (@) will discuss the effects of culture and beliefs on health care utilization in Africa. Register here: listserv.gwdg.de/mailman/list...