📣 #CallForPapers 📣 The Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) is organizing the 4th Workshop on Development Economics in Spain at the Universidad de Alicante☀️ 📅 October 26–27, 2026 ⏰ Submission deadline: June 20 🗣️ Keynote speakers: @catiabatista.bsky.social @hjortj.bsky.social

The last in our JMP blog series has Guilio Schinaia with a 2-stage clustered RCT to see how market advisory information affects decisions of cashew farmers in Guinea-Bissau. Information increases farmer revenue, as they make more transactions & get better prices blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Should I wait or should I sell? The impact of market information and commercialization advice on farmers’ sales decisions. Guest post by Guilio Schinaia

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📢 Exciting recognition for Hardi Ahmed, PhD candidate in Economics at FAE – University of Alicante (@ua.es): his Job Market Paper has been featured on the World Bank’s Development Impact Blog 🙌

Congrats @hardiahmed.bsky.social (Univ. Alicante) on this excellent JMP blog entry!! Hardi has a growing research agenda on institutions & hh behaviour, with projects on gender norms, family dynamics, and the role of religious/customary institutions. More here: sites.google.com/view/hardiah...

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In today's JMP blog, @hardiahmed.bsky.social uses DiD to show how sharia law reform in Northern Nigeria affected child health and fertility, and how this varies with enforcement intensity. Weak enforcement of child protection laws particularly harmed non-muslims blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española

Por: Jorge García Hombrados y María Hernández-de-Benito En Nada es Gratis hemos hablado muchas veces de cómo la economía, más allá de los precios, los mercados o los tipos de interés, sirve para en...

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🚨 New Paper Alert "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...

📢 The first NOVAFRICA Featured Paper is here! "Motivating Volunteer Health Workers in an African Capital City" by NOVAFRICA Scientific Director & NovaSBE Professor of Economics #PedroCVicente with NOVAFRICA affiliates @fracchiamattia.bsky.social and @tmolinamillan.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/4hlNmXJ

What motivates volunteer health workers in African cities?

📢 Introducing NOVAFRICA's Featured Paper Series! We are excited to launch a new initiative that highlights research advancing our understanding of development economics. Each month, we will feature a ...

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Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

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Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

🔆 New Paper out in #JDE! "What matters for the decision to study abroad? A lab-in-the-field experiment in Cape Verde" by @novafrica.bsky.social Scientific Director and #NovaSBE Professor @catiabatista.bsky.social w/ #DavidCosta, #PedroFreitas, #GonçaloLima #AnaReis 🔗 bit.ly/3Zb3kfj

Just published in the Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social "The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation" Joint work with @liamwrenlewis.bsky.social and @lmerlino.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The long run impact of childhood interracial contact on residential segregation

This paper exploits quasi-random variation in the share of Black students across cohorts within US schools to investigate whether childhood interracia…

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