📣 #CallForPapers 📣 The Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) is organizing the 4th Workshop on Development Economics in Spain at the Universidad de Alicante☀️ 📅 October 26–27, 2026 ⏰ Submission deadline: June 20 🗣️ Keynote speakers: @catiabatista.bsky.social @hjortj.bsky.social

The last in our JMP blog series has Guilio Schinaia with a 2-stage clustered RCT to see how market advisory information affects decisions of cashew farmers in Guinea-Bissau. Information increases farmer revenue, as they make more transactions & get better prices blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

📢 Exciting recognition for Hardi Ahmed, PhD candidate in Economics at FAE – University of Alicante (@ua.es): his Job Market Paper has been featured on the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog 🙌

Congrats @hardiahmed.bsky.social (Univ. Alicante) on this excellent JMP blog entry!! Hardi has a growing research agenda on institutions & hh behaviour, with projects on gender norms, family dynamics, and the role of religious/customary institutions. More here: sites.google.com/view/hardiah...

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

🚨 New Paper Alert "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...

📢 The first NOVAFRICA Featured Paper is here! "Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City" by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director & NovaSBE Professor of Economics #PedroCVicente with NOVAFRICA affiliates @fracchiamattia.bsky.social and @tmolinamillan.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4hlNmXJ

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

🔆 New Paper out in #JDE! "What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde" by @novafrica.bsky.social Scientific Director and #NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social w/ #DavidCosta, #PedroFreitas, #GonçaloLima #AnaReis 🔗 bit.ly/3Zb3kfj

Just published in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social "The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation" Joint work with @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social and @lmerlino.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...