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Job Market Paper Series

Each winter, PhD candidates and postdocs on the academic job market write about their job market papers for a wider audience.

Labor & Migration · Vietnam

When Non-Compliance Gets Costlier, Do Firms Become More Formal?

Alix Naugler · October 7, 2026
Food & Agriculture · Uganda

Tell Me Why: How Mechanistic Explanations Improve Technology Adoption

Anirudh Sankar · February 26, 2026
Nepal

Breastfeeding, sons, and the power to say “not yet”

Jijee Bhattarai · December 22, 2025
Environment & Climate · Kenya

How Household Responsibilities Limit Small Firms’ Green Investments

Jiayue Zhang · December 20, 2025
Environment & Climate

Too cold to cope, too hot to work: heterogeneous effects of extreme weather on intimate partner violence

Julieth Saenz-Molina · December 19, 2025
Labor & Migration · India

Buccal Up! Poor Oral Health Has a Labor‑Market Penalty

Rubina Hundal · December 18, 2025
Methods · India

Can household loans boost women’s agency without targeting women?

Tarana Chauhan · December 17, 2025
Firms & Markets · India

Industrial Policy and Quality Traps: Lessons from India’s Small-Scale Industry Reservation

Kamalesh Pahurkar · December 15, 2025
Food & Agriculture

Paying for Carbon that Lasts: Lessons from Farmers and Soils

Khyati Malik · December 13, 2025
Job Market Paper Series

Governing Environmental Markets: Lessons from Chile’s experiment on water markets

Maximiliano Garcia · December 11, 2025
Food & Agriculture · India

When irrigation isn’t enough: protecting wages from rainfall shocks

Roshan Saha · December 10, 2025
Gender · Myanmar

How Do Opportunities Shape Aspirational Responses?

Ferran Vega-Carol · December 5, 2025