Mahreen Mahmud

BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on social protection 2025 Join the BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course 2025 to deepen your understanding of social protection challenges and policies.

🚨 New opportunity for PhD students in dev econ! Join Rema Hanna, Ben Olken & others in the J-PAL network for a deep dive into social protection research and policy in an upcoming BREAD–IGC Virtual PhD Course.

🌍 Register: https://www.theigc.org/events/bread-igc-virtual-phd-course/social-protection

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026
We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @nikita_sang at Queen's University Belfast who works on topics related to education, gender + environment

How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics Paper You win or lose your readers with the introduction of your economics paper. Your title and your abstract should convince people to read your introduction. Research shows that economics papers with mor...

As we all work very hard on our development economics papers this summer, I want to make sure everyone knows about "How to Write the Introduction of Your Development Economics" - title is self explanatory
www.cgdev.org/blog/how-wri...

Kartik Srivastava @kartiksrivastava.bsky.social (Harvard @harvardkennedy.bsky.social ) wraps-up the session with presentation on "Familiar strangers: Evidence from referral-based hiring experiments in India".

#DHC2025

Session 4 on Labour starts with Amen Jalal @amenjalal.bsky.social (LSE) presenting "Screening Women Out? Experimenting with Salary Disclosure in Job Ads".

#DHC2025 @exeter.ac.uk @uofebusiness.bsky.social @climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social

The 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop is now underway at @uofebusiness.bsky.social.
Prof. Steve Wood, Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of @UofEBusiness, and Prof. Loukas Balafoutas, Head of the Econ Department, opened the day with an insightful introduction.
#DHC2025

Next, @greg-veramendi.bsky.social (Royal Holloway, University of London) discusses their research on "The Labor Market Returns to Delaying Pregnancy". #DHC2025

Prof. Imran Rasul (UCL) delivers the 2nd keynote at the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop at
@uofebusiness.bsky.social, presenting their research on firm behavior and worker outcomes during the pandemic in Uganda.
#DHC2025

Session 2 on Human Capital kicks off with Ronak Jain @jainr.bsky.social (@econ.uzh.ch) discussing how access to 3G internet impacts human capital development.

#DHC2025 @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
@climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan (Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance by inves...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Questionnaire on the use of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data Please click the link to complete this form.

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

Excited to share work with Kate Orkin @emmariley.bsky.social in rural Kenya. We show that adding an aspiration-boosting workshop to cash transfers increased women’s control over resources & decreased intimate partner violence as compared to cash transfers alone.

tinyurl.com/3fwuhjyc

⭐NEW @cepr.org paper by the CSAE's Kate Orkin on 'Cash Transfers & Role Models: Impacts on Women’s Empowerment in Rural Kenya'

Examining the effects of pairing unconditional cash transfers w/ a workshop to raise women’s aspirations in an experiment w/ women in rural Kenya.

cepr.org/publications...

📢Call for Papers: Joint @g2lmlic.bsky.social
/BREAD/path2dev dev econ conference at LUMS (Lahore/Pakistan) on Sep 11-13

Including mentoring feature for young scholars from South Asia by BREAD fellows

Submit by May 15 here: conference.iza.org/GLMLIC_BREAD...

In today’s episode of VoxDevTalks, @katevyborny.bsky.social addresses a central question in development: Can women be incentivized into entering the labor market?

Evidence from #Pakistan suggests that access to safe transport is key to tapping into a large segment of the country’s workforce:

CSAE VISITING FELLOWSHIPS CSAE Visiting Fellowships

We have just opened the 2026 CSAE Fellowship scheme. We host and support rising African scholars for 3 months at Oxford. This year we had five scholars visiting. See the application process here www.csae.ox.ac.uk/visiting-fel....

This figure shows the key result on profits: over 2 years men and women have similar average and quantile treatment effects, with profits growing $61-65/month (for a $750 training). After 7 years, treatment effects on profits for men are $148/month, vs $39/month for women. 2/3

The last date for submissions for this workshop is March 10th. You can submit your paper here: bit.ly/3EhkEZ6

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

Grateful for @kbeegle.bsky.social 's thoughtful deep dive on our new paper & a related study—we find that a couples training program in Rwanda, meant to reduce IPV, unexpectedly increased it, raising important questions on backlash & spillovers.
Paper 🔗: openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub...

Hello! Severine @oxfordecondept.bsky.social and I @uofebusiness.bsky.social are organising an online Behind-the-Scenes Seminar series, focussing on the story behind research papers + an interactive survey during the seminar to measure & discuss audience beliefs. Find out more here: bts-seminar.net

📢JOB OPENING @CERPakistan

Research Associate based in Karachi

Join our exciting project on mobile money and domestic remittances! The candidate should be able to travel to field sites in Khairpur and Mardan.

For details see: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

Join us at the BSE Summer Forum Development Economics workshop... Jun 18-19 in Barcelona!

This is one of my favorite conferences, held in a striking Modernist former hospital (a stone's throw from Gaudi's Sagrada Familia...)

Submit your papers by Feb 28! events.bse.eu/live/files/5...
#EconSky

📢 Thrilled to announce the 3rd Diversity and Human Capital Workshop on June 16-17, 2025 at the University of Exeter, featuring keynotes by Josh Angrist, Patricia Cortes, and Imran Rasul! Stay tuned for the Call for Papers—coming soon! See more info here: bit.ly/3OQ5eNx

Periodic reminder that my BibTeX Converter allows you to simply copy a screenshot of the journal website and get a perfectly formatted BibTeX entry chatgpt.com/g/g-4edrlrF3...

EDGE Network Sign-up form Economic of Diversity, Gender and Equality (EDGE) is a network of UK-based economists working on issues in diversity, gender and equality across developed and developing countries. The aim of the netw...

Join us for the last EDGE seminar of the year by JMC Gabriela Deschamps Ochoa (@LSEEcon) titled "Motherhood and violence in Mexico" next Monday, 2nd December, at 2 pm BST.

Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Just re-upping this #econsky: I currently have more mentors than mentees/students (can probably match another 10-11 students from LMICs who would like feedback on a research paper from a senior scholar.) Fill out the form here if interested! forms.gle/ekvvoEKBLYQM...

📢 We are hiring 📢

ifo is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one

6-year Postdoc 👩‍🎓

to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education!

👉https://econjobmarket.org/positions/11131
Deadline: 24 Nov 2024

Please spread the word! #EconSky