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

Environment & Climate

Downpours of Deprivation: Can Excess Rainfall Shocks Shape Perceptions of Relative Deprivation?

Judhajit Chakraborty · December 6, 2023 Food & Agriculture

Is good on average good enough? Not for Sub-Saharan African farmers

S. Jessica Zhu · February 6, 2019 Health & Nutrition

Why we should consider mental health when thinking about poverty

Mohamad Alloush · December 21, 2018 Food & Agriculture

Anticipatory Migration: Learning about Climate Risk from its Impacts on Others

Esteban Quiñones · December 19, 2018 Environment & Climate · Ivory Coast

Competitiveness of African firms: Estimating the impact of temperatures on firm performance

Nouhoum Traore · February 20, 2018 Labor & Migration · Ethiopia

Does Commodity Price Volatility Drive Migration?

Yu Na Lee · December 15, 2016 Gender · India

Let Her Live? Women’s Electoral Success and Girl Survival in India

Nabaneeta Biswas · December 9, 2016 Education · India

From Knowledge to Action in an Information Experiment: What’s the Weakest Link?

Tanvi Rao · November 22, 2016 Food & Agriculture · Ghana

You’re Approved! Insured Loans Improve Credit Access and Technology Adoption of Ghanaian Farmers

Khushbu Mishra · October 31, 2016 Poverty & Risk · Niger

What happens when cash transfers end? Sustained impacts on productive investments in Niger

Quentin Stoeffler · January 20, 2016 Poverty & Risk · Ethiopia

Should bureaucrats in capital cities decide exactly how much aid a villager receives?

Andrew Simons · December 17, 2015 Food & Agriculture · Uganda

Who’s at risk? Biophysical and market forces shape crop nutrient content

Leah Bevis · November 17, 2015