🚨 Hiring a Malawi-based pre-doc/RA 🚨 The Oxford Centre for Macro-Experimental Development is hiring a Field Research Assistant to support our research in Malawi, with scope to contribute to activities across East Africa. Deadline: rolling #predoc #econra #econ_ra

🚨 WP Alert 🚨 ‘Rural-Urban Migration and Market Integration’ with @BenFaber, @WeiLin, and @MingLi is now R&R at AER. www.nber.org/papers/w34098

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Can cash transfers save lives? The latest @nber.org paper by the CSAE's @eggerdennis.bsky.social & co-authors finds giving cash to pregnant women in rural Kenya reduces infant & child deaths. Watch this @give-directly.bsky.social video about the study👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7x-...

New from CEGA: cash transfers ⬇️ infant mortality by 48% & under-5 mortality by 45%! Researchers including Michael Walker, @tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Grady Killeen and Nick Shankar found cash enabled mothers to rest more, eat better + access healthcare. go.cega.org/cashimpacts

New paper by the CSAE's @eggerdennis.bsky.social (@oxfordecondept.bsky.social) & co-authors shows that giving expectant mothers in rural Kenya a one-time $1,000 unconditional cash transfer reduced 🔸infant mortality by 49% 🔸under-5 mortality by 45% economics.web.ox.ac.uk/article/stud...

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🎉 New Season Alert! Episode 1 of Season 7 of NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE #SustainableDevelopmentTalks with @eggerdennis.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @oxfordcsae.bsky.social on his work: "Slack and Economic Development" 🎧 Listen here: bit.ly/41c0HuF Also on Spotify: bit.ly/41xQXw4

🌟NEW @blavatnikschool.bsky.social scholarship for DPhils carrying out quantitative economic research. The Urban Labour Markets in Africa Scholarship will be supervised by Kate Orkin. Join CSAE & #MBRG. ⏰ Apply by Thursday 9 Jan 2025 ℹ️https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/study/dphil/dphil-fees-and-funding

🆕 Do cash transfers cause inflation? Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah, @tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the macroeconomic impacts of cash transfers: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

🆕 How low demand constrains productivity and economic development Today on VoxDev, Michael Walker, Nachiket Shah, @tedmiguel.bsky.social, @eggerdennis.bsky.social, Felix Samy Soliman & @tilmangraff.bsky.social explore the role of slack in Kenyan firms: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

🚨 Ten days left to apply 🚨 I am looking for an experienced research manager to join me at Oxford, starting as early as 1 March. Help set up a new research group for macro-experimental development. A highly impactful role for both research and policy! economics.web.ox.ac.uk/research-man...

I am looking for an experienced research manager, starting as early as 1 March (with some flexibility).

📣🎉REGISTRATION IS OPEN for the CSAE Conference 2025. #OxCSAE2025 Join us for 3 days to discuss economic development in Africa across a range of topics. 🗣️Keynote: James Robinson (Nobel Prize 2024 winner) 📆23-25 March 2025 🏢Oxford, UK 💻Register by 23 Feb (05 Jan for speakers): cvent.me/MmdZ3g

📣We're #hiring for a range of research roles at the CSAE. Join us & work with @eggerdennis.bsky.social, @gamblingondev.bsky.social, Noam Angrist & the whole CSAE team on development across the globe. ⏰Apply by 15 Jan ℹ️Find out more: www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies #EconSky #researchjobs #econ_ra

We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics One Ass. Professor Three Post-Docs One Pre-doc One Research Manager www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies