Local tax compliance is a key challenge for revenues & governance. 🎙️ Join Prof. @wsandholtz.bsky.social @NovaSBE for the next NOVAFRICA – IGC @theigc.bsky.social at Quelimane 2025 Webinar on: Willingness to Pay Local Taxes 📅 Mon, Sep 15 | 1pm PT / 2pm Moz 📍 Online via Teams: bit.ly/48awYHy

You have to bring the teachers along when you implement educational reform! waynesandholtz.com/pdfs/PSL_PE_... by @wsandholtz.bsky.social

A 2011 Wisconsin reform weakened teachers' unions, raised test scores, and was a political win for its main proponent, from Barbara Biasi and Wayne Aaron Sandholtz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33666

[email protected] and I show that Scott Walker's teacher pay reform worked on 2 levels: it improved student performance, and it won votes. Big implications for current policy debates -- and, I promise, something to cheese people off from every part of the political spectrum. 🧵:

[email protected] and I show that Scott Walker's teacher pay reform worked on 2 levels: it improved student performance, and it won votes. Big implications for current policy debates -- and, I promise, something to cheese people off from every part of the political spectrum. 🧵:

🚨🆕 In a new NBER working paper out today (tinyurl.com/2vv3vnhf), with @wsandholtz.bsky.social we ask a 🔥question: Can controversial public policies end up being political successes even when they cause lots of backlash? And if the answer is yes, what drives pol success? A thread 👇

📢 New NOVAFRICA Working Paper! "Urbanization, Political Interests, and Electoral Mobilization in Mozambique" by NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE Professors #AlexArmand, @wsandholtz.bsky.social, #PedroCVicente & PhD candidate @fredam22.bsky.social. 🔗Full paper: bit.ly/4j8dFB9 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4hW8J27

Mississippi State Univ. is hiring a tenure-track Econ Assistant Prof w/ August start! Open field; pref. for applied micro & teaching PhD Micro I & II (Micro II this fall). Apply: MSU site & www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=2025-01_111475768 Please repost—it's an off-cycle search. Thanks!

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

This is such a cool paper!

📢 New NOVAFRICA Working Paper by NovaSBE Professors @wsandholtz.bsky.social & #PedroCVicente "Tax morale, public goods, and politics: Experimental evidence from Mozambique" They use an RCT to explore how public goods info & political autonomy impact tax morale & electoral support. 🔗 bit.ly/3D5jZK7

I'll be teaching Development Economics to PhD students later this year and really psyched for it. If you feel inclined to be a giant upon whose shoulders I could stand, I'd love to see the PhD dev syllabus from a class you think worked well.

R&R! Woo

⏳ One month left to submit - we are looking forward to your paper! Scientific Chairs: Shafik Hebous and @fgerard.bsky.social + 35 committee members; Local Organizers: Amos Njuguna (USIU), @dinapomeranz.bsky.social + team; Keynotes: Rema Hanna, Niels Johannesen, Ravi Kanbur, @oyebolaoo.bsky.social .

I'm hiring RAs to work on data analysis for projects on education, infrastructure, and political economy in Latin America. Spanish/Portuguese language helpful; remote work possible. Please share, and/or apply! Links in next tweet. #econra #econ_ra #EconSky

These are the productivity enhancements I'm looking forward to in the AI economy. Make any movie a muppet movie

If you're curious about the posters in a starter pack but not ready to take the plunge on following them, you can make them a list and check in on them at your leisure. Very demure. Very mindful. nws-bot.us/bskyStarterP...

Novafrica has entered the chat!

All policy is politics! Really cool work by @mrao.bsky.social

What do parents prefer, (a) on-site school meals, (b) take home rations or (c) #cashtransfers? New evidence from #Ghana shows: (a) > (b) coz of high meal prep time constraints at home; (a) > (c) coz of food price volatility. Abreh et al www.cgdev.org/sites/defaul...

We have put together some of our favourite sources of research, newsletters, articles, blogs, podcasts & videos on development economics, including economists who have written for VoxDev, in this starter pack. VoxDev has had ~2000 authors so let us know if we missed you! go.bsky.app/4rsxm7G

Rad paper by a crack team:

I started a starter pack for World Bank researchers. Let me know if I am missing you go.bsky.app/BWMsQG6

Inspired by @dmckenzie.bsky.social's World Bank Researchers starter pack. I've created a starter pack for researchers within the J-PAL, IPA, and CEGA networks go.bsky.app/GXq3VE5 As the name suggests, it's just a start. Space to add more!

Could someone point me toward the Development Economists starter pack(s)?

Starter pack for those interested in the politics of education, loosely defined. Please let me know if you'd like to be added (and forgive omissions!). Thanks! go.bsky.app/4LxftVF

Our World in Data now has an account on Bluesky! Follow us here: @ourworldindata.bsky.social

Good job econ twitter exodus getting us all in on the ground floor over here

📢 Call for papers 📢   CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek)   13-14 Sept 2024, Munich   Keynote: @mdoepke.bsky.social   👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...   Submission deadline: 2 June 2024   Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Call for papers: 2024 NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development, June 27-28 in Lisbon Submit your paper by Feb 15: bit.ly/3Hffiff David McKenzie, Chris Udry, and I will be giving invited talks. #econsky

14th International Workshop on Applied Economics of Education (IWAEE) - call for papers open. 23rd to 25th June, 2024 - Catanzaro, Italy Keynotes: @dynarski.bsky.social, Brian Jacob and Sarah Turner. Submissions via iwaee.org Deadline end february

Primary learning and secondary access are both super important, but they are not in complete tension with each other. I've found that free secondary ed in Tanzania 🇹🇿 *increased primary learning*. Thread coming soon, but here's the paper: twitter.com/wsandholtz/s...

Excited to share a new working paper on preschool effectiveness! Recent high-quality evaluations of preschool programs produced puzzling results. We examine theories on why results from modern programs differ from those from demonstration programs. edworkingpapers.com/ai23-885 Comments welcome!

I have gotten very into reading "high-level" lectures and speeches as I prepare to give the Bernie Saffran lecture at my Alma Mater: www.swarthmore.edu/economics/be... I noticed that there's no collection of the old AEA Presidential Lectures so I made one: paulgp.github.io/speeches.html

Are you a researcher who hopes your work will shape policy? *Consider policymakers' incentives!* For a policy to have legs, politicians must believe it will help them win elections🗳️. But researchers often (willfully?) overlook this crucial detail. A 🧵 on my recent WP: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Retweeting to bookmark!

👏 gorgeous headline

The deadline to submit your paper/poster/policy talk proposal for #AEFP2024 is almost here! Get your submissions in by end of day tomorrow! aefpweb.org/callproposals

Also just out in EJ (w/ Autor, Figlio, Roth & Wasserman): academic.oup.com/ej/article/1.... Girls' advantage in educational and behavioral outcomes is most pronounced in the bottom half of the distribution, where family disadvantage disproportionately hurts boys relative to girls.

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) Saturday, March 9, 2024 Stanford King Center on Global Development Submit Your Paper Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...

Francisco and Emily out here with really cool work on how technology affects the development of central state authority

One result of universal primary education in Africa was that governments and schools started reporting very high enrollment figures that were not actually true. I saw a paper making this point about 8 years ago, possibly at PAA. Does anyone know the citation? #econsky #edsky

Great website with LaTeX templates for slides, papers, and referee reports

Providing "front-line health workers [in Guinea-Bissau] with evidence of their program’s effectiveness in improving local health indicators...significantly enhanced healthcare service delivery performance, with...workers providing 39% more healthcare time." www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/xasje...

My regular plug for Varanya Chaubey's "Little Book of Research Writing." It's so good.

This week's links include @kopalo.bsky.social on the political routes of low African labor productivity, the positive productivity spillovers of large firms, offering prizes for saving in Mexico, @wsandholtz.bsky.social on Liberian education and voting, & more... blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Really looking forward to presenting "The Politics of Public Service Reform: Experimental Evidence from Liberia" at the @nberpubs Political Economy meeting on Friday. The whole program looks amazing: t.co/XWN0Jfvh7K Tune in on youtube, meeting starts at 9am eastern: t.co/mfVaPPgeKb