Thanks to everyone who posted and followed our Job Market Paper Series! In this series, we featured posts about a diverse array of places: India (2), Uganda, the UK, Kenya, Nigeria, China, and Mexico. The papers showcased different empirical methods as well, from difference-in-differences, randomized control trials, to structural modeling. While our blog represents just a slice of the excellent development economics research happening globally, we hoped this series exposed readers to the wide range of important policy questions being tackled and the variety methodological approaches being applied across countries and contexts. As junior academics ourselves, it was very humbling and inspiring to see all the great papers we received.
In case you missed them, check out the Job Market Paper Series and the Elevator Pitches below and join us in wishing good luck to all the candidates!
We will return to our regular posting schedule starting with a post by Fabiano Dal-Ri this Wednesday.
Job Market Paper Series Posts
- Russell Morton – How Low Can You Go? Prices, Bargaining, and Relational Contracts in Indian Garment Supply Chains
- Ritwika Sen – Supervisors Transmit Tacit Production Knowledge
- Shadi Farahzadi – Can Migration Buy Me Love? Insights from Muslim Marriage Migration to the UK
- Muhammad Zia Mehmood – Short Messages Fall Short for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
- Sarah Vincent – Does forced male sterilization lead to an increase in violence? Evidence from Emergency India
- Hamad Mahar – Do Child Rights Matter in Developing Countries? Evidence from the Child Rights Act in Nigeria
- Qinyou Hu – More Empathy, Fewer Bullies, But Why?
- Ignacio Rodriguez Hurtado – El Chapo’s Guns and Schools: Mexican drug traffickers, homicides, and school dropout
We are grateful for the engaged readership that keeps us motivated to share new development economics content. Please let us know at econthatmatters@gmail.com if you have any topics you would like to see covered as we move forward.
ETRM Editorial Team
