This🧵is about a tricky problem in education
The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate
We have two new papers showing that this can be changed
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📢 Call for submissions: Columbia Gender in the Global Economy Conference!
For economists in any subfield working on the role of gender in the economy.
📍 Columbia University, NYC
🗓️ Oct 30, 2026
⏰ Deadline: July 15, 2026
Assistant profs & postdocs especially encouraged 👇
I'm hiring a research manager to run fieldwork for follow-up studies in Guinea Bissau and The Gambia
Info on original studies here: https://t.co/elWe8YdZsY
Job advert attached; email CV and cover letter to [email protected] and [email protected], hiring asap!
cc: @econ_ra
This🧵is about a tricky problem in education
The problem: despite growing global wealth and technological progress, there are extremely poor parts of the world where most children grow up illiterate and innumerate
We have two new papers showing that this can be changed
1/n
The @aefpweb EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) Community Group fall season kicks off this Friday Sept 13 at 11am ET!
Join us to hear Serena Canaan & Josep Nadal-Fernandez present work in progress.
All are welcome! Contact me for Zoom link.
📣 The #EdDev community group
@aefpweb 2024-25 Updates!
@toddpugatch and I are excited to co-chair this year!
We will meet online on the second Friday of every month at 11am ET. Two presenters will share their work-in-progress followed by quick reflections from two volunteers.
Ecstatic to see my job market paper on the development impact blog. I study how we can teach innovation in schools https://t.co/uYdRVriWeh via @worldbank
Take a look at the great job market candidates from @EPSAatTC. Got to work with some of these great PhD students during my sabbatical year at Columbia. So excited to see where they land!!
Breaking my silence here to tell you to check out the amazing econ job market candidates from @TeachersCollege@EPSAatTC here: https://t.co/adSx9V4a1i
I'm the placement director/DGS and happy to field all/any inquiries.
They are objectively great!!!
From a recent interview:
Ashenfelter: "how do you feel about the way you historically were treated in the profession as a woman?"
Goldin: "I spent six years at Princeton, and not once in the six years that I spent at Princeton was I asked to give a seminar"
JOB ALERT! 🚨 My dept. is hiring an AP in public, enviro, and/or IO.
Miami is an awesome place to work. True research/teaching/life balance. Great colleagues & students. Affordable COL in either a charming college town or nearby Cincy.
Apply & share! https://t.co/XypzerP1Nx