Development Economist, Senior Researcher @cmi_no, PI @EXCInequality & @InclusionIndia, PhD @UZH, public economics & labour economics

Bergen, Norway
Joined December 2018
Our partner is hiring! The Development Innovation Lab (DIL)- India, based at the UChicago Trust in India, is expanding its research team and recruiting for several exciting roles working on cutting-edge development research. 1/3
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We're hiring a research associate & a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research & work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.
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Viola Asri retweeted
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We'll be hosting the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) at @linneuni in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16-17, 2026. Keynote speakers: @HjortJ & Rohini Somanathan 🤩 Submit your papers here (deadline February 28): axacoair.se/go?py3X14W0
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🚨 Our comment on Begum, Grossman & Islam (2018) is now out in Demography @ReadDemography (w/ Bonander, @gunther_bensch, @nikljako & Brodeur @I4Replication): doi.org/10.1215/00703370-123…
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We have 2 postdoc positions to work with @Econ_4_Everyone's Experimental Econ team: 1 to be involved with @_jilaee (see details below) based in Buenos Aires and Chicago & 1 based at @UChicago (job-boards.greenhouse.io/uni…) Apply if you want to work on the frontier of exp econ!
We are hiring postdocs at @_jilaee If you want to work in a young team of experimentalists between Buenos Aires and Chicago and launch new field experiments in Latam apply here: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?J… #EconTwitter #AcademicTwitter #BehavioralEconomics
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If you are planning on applying to PhD in Economics/Public Policy programs for Fall 2026 in the US, I would be happy to look over your SOP + other application materials. Email me! [email protected]
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Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @nikita_sang at Queen's University Belfast who works on topics related to education, gender + environment
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RA position for research on culture and development. Please consider applying @econ_ra employment.ucsd.edu/research…
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Fascinating new paper shows that papers reporting statistical significance get at least 60% more media attention #econtwitter #econsky: from Brodeur Cook @nikolaimcook @taylor_wright, a short 🧵
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A 3-year teaching fellowship at Warwick to teach my modules on "Politics in Eastern Africa" and "Violence and Reconciliation in Eastern Africa". Please do share! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/a…
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Thanks to all participants for a fantastic development economics workshop! The 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) are not over yet. Tomorrow we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital.”
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I’m hiring a full-time predoc in @sciencespo Paris to work on labour & violence against women in MENA. Ideal before a PhD in economics. Flexible start (Jul–Sept 2025) & open to international applicants. Info: drive.google.com/open?id=1yq… @predoc_org @econ_ra
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Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @sararlowes as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk.
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Urgently looking for #data on #electricity prices for #Malawi for the 2004-2020 period for a paper revision. Any leads will be appreciated!
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My occasional reminder that NBER working papers are not open access: "All visitors to the NBER website are eligible for 3 free downloads each year." Be a sport; post a version on your website rather than just link to the NBER website.
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“We have now incorporated all of the reviewer feedback…”
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🚨 📢 We are #Hiring a #ResearchAssociate! Join a Dream Team of PI's carrying out an #Intervention on studying the impacts of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Development Program being implemented in #AndhraPradesh for Class 9 students. Apply now at daiadvisory.org/careers/appl…! #Jobs
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