The Spring 2024 BREAD Development Economics Conference at UCSDEcon UCSD Development Economics (on 10-11 May 2024) will be livestreamed for viewing from anywhere in the world.

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Webinar link is at: ucsd.zoom.us/j/92369739782

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I'm excited to share share job opportunities to partner with me to shape Open Phil's aid policy work. Please apply by May 12th! (1/3)

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Share good, actionable ideas with USAID via this new mechanism from FAS is now @scientistsorg

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We often have as much or more to learn from the process of creating a great paper than from the finished product itself. The 'Backstories' that Riccardo and fellow grad students are gathering are helping to make that info publicly available.

The GPS UC San Diego 21st Century India Center is hiring a program manager. Come join us to do exciting and impactful work on India! Broad skill sets, experiences, and backgrounds encouraged. Link below. #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket

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postdoc J-PAL / MIT Sloan School of Management in econ of innovation / metascience, with the exceptional Pierre Azoulay & Heidi L. Williams

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I could not be more excited about Institute for Progress's new partnership with U.S. National Science Foundation to help them design and execute experiments on improving scientific grantmaking.

NSF has shown tremendous leadership in this area, and we are thrilled to support their efforts.

How can we accelerate scientific progress?

New piece from Matt Clancy Daniel Correa Jordan Dworkin Paul Niehaus Caleb Watney + me in @nature arguing we need more “use-inspired” science policy research.

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UC Berkeley is recruiting an assistant professor in Technology Policy, Governance, and Society. Joint search betw/ the School of Info and the Goldman School of Public Policy.

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a rare opportunity to work on research that directly shapes programming, and with the incomparable Jeannie Annan

How can we estimate the effects of policies at full scale from experiments run at moderate scale?

Stefan Faridani and I have been thinking about this. here is what we have so far - arxiv.org/pdf/2209.14181…

post-doc in the economics of science / innovation J-PAL Science for Progress Initiative. For someone starting a high-impact research career. Time, support, mentorship from the inimitable Heidi L. Williams & growing SfPI network

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Over the last seven months, Paul Niehaus and I have been building the Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI), and we are excited to share some of our progress.

SfPI is a new J-PAL initiative designed to catalyze scientific research on the scientific process.

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help launch meta-science J-PAL w/ me and the incomparable Heidi Williams

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