Our next #WEFIDEV seminar is tomorrow, May 18 at 11am EST/5pm CEST and will feature work on disposition effect in 🇨🇳 by Qinling Ouyang from Stockholm University. The full schedule is available at wefidev.com @seankhiggins.bsky.social.

Don’t miss the second webinar of the 2026 Spring #WEFIDEV series tomorrow at 11amET/5pmCEST. Yao Zeng will speak about #digital #payments in #India. 👇👇👇 check the webinar schedule on www.wefidev.com

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited for this week’s #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development! Yao Zeng will present work on the impact of interoperability on #digitalpayments in 🇮🇳 Monday Apr 6 at 11a ET / 5p Central Europe Organized with @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer Nish Vats Nicola Limodio

Our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance & #Development is tomorrow Nov 10 @ 11amET/5pmCET. Excited to have Amineh Mahmoudzadeh talking about Justice in Lending in 🇮🇷 and Paul Brimble on Contagion in Financial Cooperatives in 🇰🇪 Details on the webinar schedule & the 2026 #WEFIDEV workshop at wefidev.com.

Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...

One week left to submit to the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development! Dual submission option with RFS Apr 18-19 at @kelloggschoolnu.bsky.social organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16: form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm...

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Excited to announce the 2026 WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development Dual submission with RFS Apr 18-19 at Kellogg organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social #KimFeCramer #NicolaLimodio Submit by Nov 16 form.jotform.com/WEFIDEV/subm... Details seankhiggins.com/assets/pdf/W...

Are you a researcher who'd like to learn more about developing & implementing innovative & policy-relevant randomised evaluations? Join the CSAE's @muhammadmeki.bsky.social for a @j-pal.bsky.social webinar. 📆20 August, 2 - 3 pm GMT. Register👇 uct-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @odid-qeh.bsky.social

If you do work in #Finance and #Development please consider submitting to #WEFIDEV! Our Fall webinars feature preliminary or early-stage work. Link to the form👇👇👇

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very exciting that Review of Finance recognizes the importance of research on the future of payments and will have a special issue on this topic! revfin.org/special-issu...

🌟We're hiring! Join @ebrd.bsky.social's Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) in London as a Research Analyst and work with us on policy-relevant & cutting-edge research Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/pe3m458x #econra @fraloi.bsky.social @helenaschweiger.bsky.social

📢The program for the 7th @ebrd.bsky.social and @cepr.org Research Symposium is now on-line!📢 Join us on June 2-3 in London to discuss “The Economics of Demographic Change" Keynotes: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde (UPenn) and @mdoepke.bsky.social (LSE) Program and registration: lnkd.in/e5aNypaf

Join us for our final #WEFIDEV Spring webinar in #Finance and #Development that takes place today at 11am ET/5pm CET. Cameron LaPoint and Smit Gade will present their work! And check www.wefidev.com for important upcoming news! With @seankhiggins.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer and Nicola Limodio

Our #WEFIDEV #webinar on #Finance and #Development is back! We are meeting on April 14, 28, and May 12, with great speakers. Have a look at our program & sign up for our mailing list: www.wefidev.com/spring-2025-... Organized w/ @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Fe Cramer & Nicola Limodio

WEFIDEV - SPRING 2025 WEBINAR SCHEDULE

Seminars take place the second and fourth Monday of every month at 5pm Central European Time / 11 am Eastern Time on Zoom.

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I was incredibly honored to be awarded the CSWEP Carolyn Shaw Bell Award. When I accepted the award, I talked about the importance of mentoring. The lessons I pass on are kind of obvious. But they are important, so I am going to share them yet again. (A🧵)

CSWEP@aeacswep.bsky.social · 2y ago

@aeacswep.bsky.social announces Sandra E. Black as the 2024 Carolyn Shaw Bell Award winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations to @econsandy.bsky.social

📢Today is the deadline to submit!📢 2025 WEFIDEV-RFS- @cepr.org #Conference on #Finance and #Development Mar 28-29 at LSE Dual submission option with the RFS Submit by today Dec 1: sfs.org/wp-content/u... DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me with questions

Don’t miss the last #WEFIDEV appointment of the season! 👇👇👇 today’s webinar starts at 11am ET/ 5pm CET. Check wefidev.com for further info!

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development (last of the fall series!): Jiayue Zhang on solar demand of small firms in 🇰🇪 Hakan Ozyilmaz on two-sided #payments adoption in 🇯🇴 Mon Nov 25 at 11a US Eastern/5p Central European DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social Kim Nicola or me for details

Join us for our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar on #Finance and #Development next Monday! We have Daniel Araujo and Jacelly Cespedes presenting. If you are not on the mailing list yet, sign up here: wefidev.com/contact or contact @NicolaLimodio @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer or me

Our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development is on #ClimateFinance! @FabrizioFerriani on climate shocks and global portfolio flows #HarishKamal on climate shocks and government bank lending in 🇮🇳 Mon 11/27, 11a ET DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me 📉📈

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...

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🚨 Join our research team in Kananga, DRC! 🚨 My co-authors and I are looking to hire up to two French-speaking research interns to work on DEV and PE projects studying the role of state capacity in economic development. More information here: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/rese...

Hi #EconSky, does anyone have suggestions on any reference I should look at regarding the use of the newly introduced wildboostrap command in Stata 18? I would like to understand in particular if I could/should use it as an alternative to boottest. Thank you!

Hi #EconSky! Today at 11amEST/5pmCEST our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development featuring work of @sedai.bsky.social in 🇮🇳 and Laura Aquino Arriaga in 🇲🇽. Full schedule on wefidev.com. Pls DM us to join the community @seankhiggins.bsky.social, Nicola Limodio and Kim Fe Cramer

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...

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

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Available for free the next 50 days at this link, my paper with Catia Batista on using lab experiments to test classic theories of migration is now out. Adding risk and uncertainty changes the level and selection of migration, & causes IIA to start to break down. authors.elsevier.com/a/1hvpL5330f...

If you are working on public policy or related fields and are interested in visiting @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social in beautiful #Trentino #Trento, please consider this: irvapp.fbk.eu/visiting-res... #EconSky 📉📈

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Looking forward to the next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development today at 11amET/5pmCEST. Junior researchers on #EconSky with interest in #Finance and #Development, please get in touch if you would like to join our #WEFIDEV community! www.wefidev.com

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 3y ago

Excited to chair our next #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development session on finance and firms in Iraq 🇮🇶 Mon Oct 9 at 11a US Eastern / 5p Central European time DM @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or visit wefidev.com for more info #econsky 📉📈 #menasky

Please join us next Monday Oct 9 for our next #WEFIDEV webinar in #Finance and #Development. The fall schedule can be seen on www.wefidev.com. #econsky

Sean Higgins@seankhiggins.bsky.social · 3y ago

The #WEFIDEV #Webinar in #Finance and #Development continues next Monday Oct 9 with @Razan_Amine1 presenting "How to Make Firms Ready for Investment? Evidence from a Blended-Finance RCT in Iraq 🇮🇶" DM @giorgiabarboni @KimFeCramer @NicolaLimodio or me for info #econsky 📉📈

We are looking for a Research Associate to work with me and my co-authors (Lucas Mariani, Bernardo Ricca and José Renato Ornelas) on Fintech adoption in Brazil. We are reviewing applications on a rolling basis. See below for details 👇👇👇 Please get in touch if interested!