Jessica Leight
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Development economist, @Yale / @UniofOxford / @MIT. Asso editor, REHO + CER. Editorial board member, BMC Public Health + PloS One. Structural transformation, agriculture, gender, IPV. Views my own
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Fascinating new paper shows evidence of labor market effects of an intervention designed to ⬇️ C-section rates in CA: ⬆️ probability of mothers returning to work + returning to same employer in the quarter after birth; also ⬇️ future C-sections.
(plus, when I feature those not online, they probably don't even know about it - so encourage your friends/coauthors to, at least, get on Linkedin!) Feel free to suggest yourself! Looking forward to getting to know another 40-odd cool researchers next year.
so either published papers or a website (ideally both - create a site!) Eager to showcase researchers from varied backgrounds across the world. Prefer those who are also on social media (at least one network) as part of the goal is to strengthen the dev community online;
Criteria: development economists (or researchers working primarily in dev econ, publishing in dev econ journals); between PhD and roughly 8 years post-PhD (no hard upper bound, but has to be post-PhD). I want to be able to read + link to your work. . .
I recently found my first cool young resarcher post - May 13, 2022! (I featured @sancharim) Since then it's been a steady, weekly feature, now on 3 social networks; I love working on it. So, here's the call for 2026 names #econtwitter #econsky
Love to see more economists doing systematic reviews! New from @manimetrix + Theiss in JAE #econtwitter #econsky: preprimary education programs in sub-Saharan Africa have small but positive effects on both cognitive and socioemotional development (0.1 standard deviations)
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I am an Economist at the International Monetary Fund, specializing in development economics with a focus on social protection, labor markets, and migration. I hold a Ph.D. in Public Policy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where my research examined the dynamics of poverty,
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Aditi Singh
Aditi Singh is a PhD Candidate at the Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia
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Sherajum Monira Farin is an applied microeconomist with a research focus on health, labor and public economics.
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Sugat Chaturvedi
I am an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. My research is at the intersection of labor economics, innovation, and political economy—focusing on topical social and economic issues, such as women's labor force participation in South Asia, impact
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Yabo Gwladys Vidogbena--Ph.D candidate in Economics at the University of Houston. My main interest is in development Economics, specifically in education. My primary research agenda aims at understanding the low level of learning (learning crisis) in Sub-Saharan African countries. I am on the job market 2024-2025 and you can find my [CV here].
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Alejandra Ramos
I am a tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Trinity College Dublin (currently on leave). I am affiliated with TIME and the CESifo Research Network and invited researcher at JPAL.
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It's time for the best day of the year. . .my recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky I featured 45 different researchers this year - read their papers, cite them, look out for them! Post part 2 tmrw w/ more about how I got started on this / how it's going
;) One of the best responses I've ever gotten! My pleasure
women + men whose wives already work do not hold these expectations. Plus lots, lots more - check out his work!
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His jmp explores a puzzle linked to low female labor force participation in India: husbands whose spouses do not work expect large utility costs from women entering the work force, driven by a loss of control
over household resources + bargaining power. . .
over household resources + bargaining power. . .
Another paper currently R&R at EDCC documents *very* high levels of seclusion among women in India ( ⬆️ over time): the median woman leaves home for just just 0.5 hours/day. Joint w/@alison_andrew1
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One published paper in JEEA shows that the provision of girls' clubs in rural Sierra Leone buffers girls from ⬆️ risk of teenage pregnancy + associated ⬇️ enrollment during the Ebola crisis; joint w/@ImranRasul3 @markus_gold _ + team
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @andrea_smurra @LSE @IFS
@GLMLIC who works on topics related to development, labor + gender
@GLMLIC who works on topics related to development, labor + gender
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Ever look at that cute little button on your lap and be like wow, this one was expensive? You're not alone: 10% ⬆️ in the cost of childcare leads to ⬇️ 6% decline in the birth rate - from Dow at BU Econ
Always a pleasure to be back at NEUDC, and especially to see my first mentor in economics, Doug Gollin, present! Here's hoping 2026 will be better. But grateful for all the amazing opportunities that I had this year to share findings, see colleagues + learn from others
Addis in October to present findings around the effects of PSNP + join colleagues in a high-level workshop joint with the Ministry of Agriculture; while my own photos were limited to a measly snap of my coffee purchase
Ithaca in September to join IFPRI + Cornell in looking forward to a new research agenda in food policy; a great chance for a sunset walk with many colleagues
Honduras for the WFP Regional School Meal forum to report on our work with Avanzar 2030 in evidence aggregation on school meals
Nashville for Ashecon: presented findings around psychosocial support in post-conflict Ethiopia (Tigray); great dinner with the global health economics crowd + a lovely post-dinner stroll in downtown Nashville
Excited to visit leafy London for the IFS-ADBI-GHE seminar + shared evidence around effectiveness of gPM+ group therapy in a setting of conflict; Helsinki for the UNU-WIDER conference + presented findings around the effects of an ultrapoor graduation model in Somalia
Always happy to go back to DC, this time to celebrate IFPRI's 50th anniversary and new Global Food Policy Report w/a keynote from Michael KRemer