Anja Sautmann

All opinions my own.

[Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN) @GAIN_Network_]

Applications are open for the 2024 GAIN program!

Information sharing, mentoring, and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields.

➡️ Apply here: https://t.co/atUJ2TqOvF
🗓️ Deadline: March 11th

Please share widely!

[AidGrade @AidGrade]

Thrilled to announce a collaboration with the @WorldBank on the Impact Data and Evidence Aggregation Library (IDEAL)!

IDEAL will provide an open repository of impact evaluation results that could be used for meta-analysis and policy. Learn more here: https://t.co/4Pn8wcTVWM

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

The World Bank's Development Research Group (DECRG)'s JOE ad is now up. We are recruiting on the junior market again this year: https://t.co/BvLmzslJD1

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

@rbpless It should be added that two of the four tickets cost less than the cancellation fees, and Frontier are recouping these arbitrary fees off of what was paid for the more expensive tickets.

[Oyebola Okunogbe @oyebolaoo]

Such a wonderful honor- Our paper w @victorpouliquen was awarded best paper @AEAjournals:EP

Broad question: Do e-government initiatives improve efficiency and reduce corruption?

Answer: It depends 😀

THREAD on key lessons from e-filing in Tajikistan 1/n
https://t.co/chc5TCxAhK

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

@Jabaluck @A_Schwa @poverty_action @predoc_org If the link is not working: long URL here: https://t.co/nEOOQNy4xt , or go to World Bank careers page - Current Openings - search for "req20455".

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

Looking for a bright and driven full-time RA to support a new ambitious health project with PIs from Penn, Vermont, Yale, World Bank, as well as EHAC Nigeria. ASAP start, remote or in DC, 1 yr. JD here: https://t.co/e7I58VeSwU @Jabaluck @A_Schwa @poverty_action @predoc_org

[Emily Nix @EmilyNix100]

🧵 on new paper w/ @abicadams, @KristiinaHuttu2 & @ningzhang0927: "Violence Against Women at Work"

#MeToo demonstrated assaults b/w colleagues are an internationally relevant phenomenon. We study consequences of realized assaults for perpetrators, victims & wider firm. [1/18]

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

@econ_ra

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

New, complex and ambitious health project with PIs from Yale, UPenn, ThinkMD and eHealth Africa -- hiring for an RA role in Abuja: https://t.co/4OkHPIwyWD

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

The World Bank's Development Research Group @wb_research is hiring on the junior market again this year. Our JOE ad is now up: (https://t.co/7FSQZhq7l9). We are looking for research economists/social scientists working on important issues relevant for development. Deadline Nov 15

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

Hiring 1-2 (remote) part-time RAs for a new project in Kenya. Interested in matching, value-added modeling, bandit algorithms...? Ad here: https://t.co/IfSE7Cc23e @econ_ra

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

@thesamasher @predoc_org @cblatts @paulnovosad @tylercowen MIT offers MicroMasters programs that include statistics courses. For a sliding scale fee, students can opt into proctored exams, and the full credential can make them eligible for an accelerated Masters degree. Esther Duflo founded the DEDP MicroMasters. https://t.co/uzZLyX9nEK

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

New paper with @bnesposito: an adaptive trial in Kenya to select the best call format that gets parents engaged in home reading – working through implementation challenges & open questions surrounding adaptive experiments in practice. Feedback welcome!
https://t.co/XwWV4jf0rh

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

The causal reasoning Turing test, dev econ edition.

[Quan Le 🗞️ @qlquanle]

grading papers in the age of gpt-3 gonna be fun

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

But reducing overuse can help stretch limited resources today, and perhaps even put early safeguards in place against the health cost explosion that many rich countries experience.

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

Our latest paper in AEJ Applied shows that even in resource-strapped healthcare systems (here public clinics in urban Mali), providers succumb to pressure from patients to prescribe unnecessary medication.

[AEA Journals @AEAjournals]

The January 2022 issue of AEJ: Applied Economics (14, 1) is now available online at https://t.co/ltd0e0Zsco.

[Anja Sautmann @ASautmann]

Paying attention to the overuse of medical care may seem counterintuitive when we still haven't achieved universal healthcare access.

[Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck]

Our 350,000 person, 600 village RCT evaluating the impact of masking on COVID builds on a large, but not entirely unambiguous literature studying the impact of masks on respiratory diseases, including COVID.