Cynthia Kinnan

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025!

📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here:

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More details to come!

#NEUDC #NEUDC2025

@justsand.bsky.social and I try to answer the question: how many lives saved by US foreign assistance each year. Best estimate: 3.3 million.

www.cgdev.org/blog/how-man...

Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order.
TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

In Aid We Trust: Hearts and Minds and the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005 Abstract. In 2005 an earthquake in northern Pakistan led to a significant inflow of international relief groups. Four years later, trust in Europeans and Americans was markedly higher among those expo...

The sudden and illegal elimination of all US aid personnel worldwide immediately reduces US soft power. It makes Americans less secure, everywhere.

Economists have shown that pro- and anti-American attitudes are directly shaped by aid given in time of need.

Modern supply chains don't look like trade theory 101!

They involve constant border crossings, each now hit by tariffs.

Tariffs raise prices, but the more important thing they do is disrupt supply relationships.

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Looking to stay up to date with the literature on microfinance? Check out out updated VoxDevLit! #EconSky

Looking forward to co-organizing one of BFI's most popular conferences again! And this year, we were super duper lucky to nab @seema.bsky.social as the keynote speaker :)

More info: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...
Submission deadline: Feb 28

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Journalists. Please. Too many of you are going to call this a tax “on Colombia”.

It’s a tax on Americans. All Americans who ever drink coffee. Or buy cut flowers.

A tax. On Americans.

Huge congratulations to my awesome colleague Elizabeth Setren!

Apply to GAIN — GAIN We are looking for extremely motivated individuals who aim to apply to graduate programs at top institutions worldwide and eventually pursue a PhD in economics and other social sciences. We strongly e...

Applications are open for the Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) programme 2025!

Information sharing, mentoring & financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics & related fields.

➡️ Apply: gain-network.net/participants
🗓️ Deadline: 16 February 2025

1) Pre-doc opportunity ( link in tweets below)! The Weiss Fund for Research in Development Economics invites applicants for the Kabir Banerjee pre-doctoral fellowship program. This is a great opportunity for individuals interested in pursuing PhD work in dev economics.

🆕 VoxDev Event: Using evidence to make humanitarian aid more effective

On Tuesday January 28th, Jeannie Annan, Luc Behaghel, Tarek Ghani & Jonas L. Heirman will join us at this free online webinar.

Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.

My excellent student @sarahshaukat.bsky.social is on the job market! Check out her great JMP: "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan". Read more about her work: sites.google.com/view/sarahsh...

@hlarreguy.bsky.social or @eoinmcguirk.bsky.social might know if Ernesto is on Bluesky

Ernesto Tiburcio (ernestotiburcio.com) and Kara Ross Camarena have a paper looking at this question. They find evidence of formal job losses in “migrant intensive” sectors and rightward shifts in vote share and fiscal policy: ernestotiburcio.com/wp-content/u...

And @mpmcinerney.bsky.social

Also @ursina.bsky.social

Gimli points out that this could have been an email.

The AEA Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession maintains a listing of minority job market candidates as a resource for employers. To learn more or to request to be added to the list, visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co.... #econsky

Of potential interest to young scholars:

Young Urban Economist Workshop at www.theigc.org/events/9th-u.... Presenters will receive feedback on their papers from one of the academic keynotes: Matt Turner, Kelsey Jack, Ed Glaeser. Funding for travel and accommodation available.

#econsky

Pricing health insurance in India Households are willing to pay for public health insurance, but those who pay to enrol have higher average costs than those who enrol when insurance is free. How then should governments set premiums fo...

How should LMICs price social programs like health insurance? Subsidies ↑ takeup, ↓ adverse selection -- but raising revenue is costly. Anup Malani, Alessandra Voena, Gabriella Conti, Kosuke Imai & I have a new discussion of our work on this question @voxdev.bsky.social : voxdev.org/topic/public...

Hi #Econsky, can anyone suggest a paper w/ a graphical analysis of a case w/ offsetting treatment and selection effects? (Eg, school meals -->different set of students present on test day; training-->different set of workers with observed wages?) Lee (2009) does not have a graphical analys afaik.

Blog your job market paper 2023: submissions now open Our annual call for PhD students on the job market to summarize and share their research

Blog your job market paper: our annual opportunity for job market candidates in development to share their work is now open for submissions blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...