Moritz Poll

TFW you wonder when the World Bank might release their 2024 PPP conversion factors because you need them for your job market paper… and then they announce that the next release is just a few days away 🥰

06.06.2025 00:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sebastião Salgado has passed away 😢 He photographed the Rwandan genocide and so many other humanitarian catastrophes. Without him, the world might have never been able to imagine the horrors of what happened there. Toward the end of his career, he found that he could no longer photograph humans.

25.05.2025 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This is just a quick appreciation post for applied econometricians. I’m writing three papers right now and the methods I use did not yet exist when (or our understanding has dramatically improved since) I started my PhD. Amazingly timely ❤️

13.05.2025 20:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@moritzpoll.bsky.social now shows preliminary result on whether poverty alleviation should be scaled within or across villages. He finds negative spillovers to treating more households in the same village, households tend to enter the same industry (retail) leading to more competition. #OxCSAE2025

24.03.2025 15:30 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Keynote at @oxfordcsae.bsky.social #OxCSAE2025 by James Robinson

24.03.2025 11:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

See It Grow: A randomized evaluation of digital innovations No abstract is available for this item.

Very cool technology evaluated by @berberkramer.bsky.social : Evaluating crop loss for insurance payout with crop/field photos. Encouraging uptake results! ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea22...

23.03.2025 12:31 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Empty Seminar room at St Catherine's College with TV screen

The CSAE Conference has started! Welcome to all of our delegates. #OxCSAE2025

23.03.2025 08:43 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Sunrise in Oxford

Good morning, Oxford

23.03.2025 06:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Learned an interesting thing from Leslie Maasdorp @britishintinv.bsky.social about the fundamental rules of development finance: When you set up a development bank like the World Bank, you sign that you will never get the money back that you put in. Pulling out entirely is not a sensible option.

22.03.2025 12:10 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back in Oxford for the @oxfordcsae.bsky.social #CSAE2025 Conference 💙

22.03.2025 12:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Excited to see that #EconTwitter has found a new home on #EconSky Curious to see if we can rebuild the magic. I’m Moritz, I work on poverty alleviation programs and rural markets and I’ll be on the academic job market this Fall.

22.03.2025 01:27 — 👍 20    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0