We're the Centre for the Study of African Economies, a research centre at Oxford. We focus on improving economic and social conditions in developing countries.
We are very sad to learn of the passing of Professor Stephan Klasen of
@uniGoettingen
. Stephan was a prolific researcher on a wide range of topics in development economics, and was a valued colleague and mentor.
We send deepest sympathies to his family, colleagues and students.
🎉The CSAE's
@kateorkin
(
@BlavatnikSchool
) has won the
@ESRC
award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact, for her role advising the South African government during COVID-19 and beyond. Congratulations, Kate!
We're delighted to welcome Khadijat Busola Amolegbe, Lecturer at the University of Ilorin, to Oxford as a visitor. We look forward to working with you!
ℹ️
@busolatinwol
@OxfordEconDept
We’re excited to announce the launch of the new CSAE Development Economics Webinar Series with a presentation by Professor Michael Kremer (Nobel Prize 2019 winner) tomorrow,1-2pm (BST). Register now:
@OxfordEconDept
@BlavatnikSchool
@ODID_QEH
@oxsocsci
🎉The CSAE Conference 2024 call for papers is open! Taking place from 17-19 March 2024 at St Catherine's College, Oxford,
#OxCSAE2024
will feature sessions on a range of development economics topics in relation to Africa.
Submit your paper now:
Thanks to
@PJakiela
, CSAE will now get a 21st century policy. We have reached out to Pam to sort this case out. Any others who would welcome opportunities for childcare at the CSAE conference, could they get in touch as well with the CSAE office?
What does inequality mean in sub-Saharan Africa? Join us on the first day of
#OxCSAE2021
for our panel ‘Inequality and Development: A Panel Discussion in Memory of Professor Stephan Klasen’.
🕑Monday 15 March 2021, 14:00 (GMT).
Register for free now👉:
Applications open for 12 African scholars to attend the Nobel in Africa Symposium 2024 with funding (hosted by
@STIAS_SA
&
@StellenboschUni
) incl. an Economics Writing Workshop on Micro-development in Africa.
Find out more & apply by 15 October 2023👇
📢Are you an economist interested in including mental health measures in your own research? Then join us for our
#MBRG
panel ‘Mental Health Measurement for Economists’ at
#OxCSAE2021
!
🕑Monday 22 March 2021, 12:00 (GMT).
Register for free now👉:
🎉We’re very pleased to announce that Romuald Méango has joined the CSAE in the
@OxfordEconDept
as an Associate Professor in Economics. Welcome to the team, Romuald!
ℹ️
📸by Romy Vinogradova
#COVID19
- Will people do as they are told? Check out Kate Orkin’s (CSAE) BBC interviews on what behavioural science can tell us about people’s responses to COVID-19 measures. Full interviews available here:
@kateorkin
#MBRG
@BlavatnikSchool
@UniofOxford
🌟NEW CSAE Working Paper 'The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice' by
@gamblingondev
.
This paper offers a framework for assessing how to maximise the economic development impact of advice, allowing for the political incentives of those in power.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for an amazing 3 days of discussion at
#OxCSAE2023
. We hope to see you all again for the CSAE Conference in March 2024!
🚨Join us for
#OxCSAE2021
from 15-26 March (week days only), it's free and will be entirely online!
This year we have 8 exciting
#development
#economics
topic days and 2 special event days in our programme.
Register now:
📢WE'RE HIRING a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in
#Development
#Economics
. Join the ERINN programme looking at how identity, norms & narratives play a role in organisations in sub-Saharan Africa.
Find out more & apply:
#EconTwitter
@OxfordEconDept
⭐️We're excited to announce that
@DrArkebe
(British Academy Global Professor,
@SOAS
, & fmr. Senior Minister & Special Adviser to PM, Ethiopia) will be the keynote speaker at the CSAE Conference 2024!
#OxCSAE2024
ℹ️
📢Call for papers for the CSAE Conference 2022: Economic Development in Africa is now open! This year, we’re taking
#OxCSAE2022
online again for a fully virtual event!
🗒️Submit your paper:
ℹ️Find out more:
⏰Deadline: 25 Oct 2021
The CSAE Conference 2024 is finished. Thank you to all our speakers, panellists, participants, exhibitors, & host,
@CatzConferences
, for an amazing few days filled with discussions on economic
#development
in Africa.
#OxCSAE2024
.
ANNOUNCEMENT! The call for papers for the BREAD Conference on Behavioural Economics and Development 2020 is now open! Hosted by the Mind and Behaviour Research Group (CSAE) and BREAD (). Find out more...
@kateorkin
@elianalaferrara
Are you working on economic development in Africa? We're inviting submissions on a range of topics for
#OxCSAE2024
. View our topic descriptions & submit your paper today.
⏰Deadline: 19 September 2023
📑Submit here:
ℹ️ Topic info:
We’re very pleased to announce that Yasmine Bekkouche has joined the CSAE and
#MBRG
team in the Blavatnik School of Government as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Welcome to the team, Yasmine!
@bekkouche_econ
@BlavatnikSchool
The keynote address at the CSAE Conference 2023 will be given by Abebe Aemro Selassie (Director of the African Department at the International Monetary Fund).
Register now to join us:
Conference dates: 19-21 March 2023
#OxCSAE2023
@IMFNews
@aselassie
🚨Job Alert! The CSAE &
@OxfordEconDept
are looking for a Research Assistant in
#Development
#Economics
to support ongoing work with
@angrist_noam
at the intersection of development economics and human capital. Deadline 09 April 2021.
Find out more here:
Every Thursday in September,
#MBRG
will host a 'Behavioural Measurements: Webinar Series' aimed at young researchers. Each panel will focus on a measurement technique and provide a platform for discussion. For the full schedule and to register, click here:
📢Announcement: We would like to try to recreate the CSAE Conference on Twitter, can you help us?
#DIYCSAE
will take place from 16-31 March 2020, for all those who would still like to engage, find out how to get involved…
We're thrilled to be hosting
@cblatts
today, to discuss "The long term impacts of grants on poverty: 9-year evidence from Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program".
Chris, thanks for being here!
We’re excited to announce a Meta-analysis in Development Economics workshop, organised by the Mind and Behaviour Research Group at the CSAE, on 20 June 2019. Find out more (including how to register) on the CSAE website
@kateorkin
@marcjosefwitte
We’re excited to welcome
@hmmlowe
, Assistant Professor of Economics at the
@UBC
, to the CSAE as a visitor this term. We look forward to working with you, Matt.
ℹ️
🌟NEW! The paper ‘Better Night Lights Data, For Longer’ by Prof. John Gibson (
@waikato
), begun while visiting the CSAE, is now available to read here:👇
We have some funding available to support African conference speakers (see full criteria). If awarded, funded participants will attend both a pre-conference workshop at
@Makerere
in Kampala, Uganda, &
#OxCSAE2024
.
Find out more & submit your paper:
🎉We’re very pleased to announce that Natasha Ahuja has joined the CSAE in the
@BlavatnikSchool
as a Research Assistant supporting
@Young1ove
, a youth-focused NGO in Botswana. Welcome to the team, Natasha!
ℹ️
50 chapters, 70 authors, over 500,000 words, and more than 1000 pages! Great to be joined by Chris Cramer (SOAS) for the Oxford Handbook of the Ethiopian Economy book launch.
#OxCSAE2019
🎉Congratulations to
@LukasHenselEcon
from the
#MBRG
on his new post as a Faculty Track Research Fellow at Peking University (
@GSM_PKU
). Lukas remains an affiliated researcher for the
#MBRG
and a visitor at the CSAE.
ℹ️
We're looking for a new Research Assistant to join the CSAE Mind and Behaviour Research Group, working with Kate Orkin and Stefan Dercon on a number of research projects. This exciting position is for 2 years, full-time. Apply now!
@kateorkin
@econ_ra
We can't wait for the Economic Development in Africa Workshop to start tomorrow. A warm welcome to all participants joining us in Addis Ababa this week!
@AAUEconomics
#OxCSAE2020
We’re very pleased to announce that Christian Meyer has joined the CSAE in the Department of Economics as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow (Nuffield College). Welcome to the team Christian!
@chrmeyer
📢📢The CSAE Development Economics Webinar Series is back in 2021! Starting next week and taking place every Wednesday this term at 1pm (GMT).
Register now to join us:
Take a look at this term's speakers👇
💕It was lovely to see our members last night for a winter celebration. Thank you to those who joined us at Lula's Ethiopian and Eritrean Cuisine in Oxford.
The Mind & Behaviour Research Group (
#MBRG
,
@BlavatnikSchool
) curate a glossary of concepts frequently used in behavioural research.
🤓Each measure includes a brief overview, links to measurement tools, and references to key works.
Take a look: 👉
Are you researching economic relationships between China and the African continent? We're excited to announce a special CSAE conference that will be focusing on just that in March 2020. Get your papers ready for the summer 2019 call for papers. Watch this space!
#CSAEChinaAfrica
This
@TheEconomist
article discusses the CSAE’s Douglas Gollin’s work on the impact of high-yielding crops in the developing world (joint with Casper Worm Hansen and Asger Wingender from the University of Copenhagen).
@ODID_QEH
NEW! Kate Orkin discusses her work at the CSAE (
#MBRG
) on improving labour market outcomes for young workseekers in South Africa. Watch the full video on the CSAE YouTube channel now:
@kateorkin
@BlavatnikSchool
@UniofOxford
📢WE'RE HIRING a RA to work on a study exploring the governance challenge of how to get high human capital, high integrity, representative citizens to put themselves forward for consideration as political candidates.
@econ_ra
⏰Apply by 18 February
ℹ️
The CSAE Visiting Fellowship 2024 scheme is open! The scheme supports a residency in Oxford from January to March, including flights, accommodation, & a small stipend. Open to African scholars currently pursuing a career in
#economics
.
ℹ️
@OxfordEconDept
How do you accurately measure a person's beliefs? What's the best approach to measure risk attitudes? What methods minimise reporting bias?
The CSAE’s
#MBRG
Measures Matter series is here to help answer these questions, check it out now:
Welcome to
#OxCSAE2019
! We're thrilled to see so many friends and colleagues back at
@UniofOxford
for such an exciting conference.
Participants should download our conference app at -- then join us for coffee at 10.30am and our opening session at 11am!
Want to be a CSAE Visiting Fellow in 2024? Applications are now open for the scheme aimed at African scholars pursuing a career in economics. Applicants must have a doctorate in economics.
⏰Deadline 31 May 2023, 12 noon (BST)
Find out more and apply:
📢Registration is open for the CSAE Conference 2021📢
Taking place online from 15-26 March (weekdays only) the Conference will feature sessions from a range of development economics topics.
Register now (using your institution email address):
👉
#OxCSAE2021
NEW! CSAE is reading... Check out Paul Brimble, a Research Assistant
@BlavatnikSchool
, discussing the paper 'Generic Machine Learning Inference on Heterogenous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments' by Chernozhukov, Demirer, Duflo, and Fernández-Val
#MBRG
@pbrimble
We are very sorry to announce that the CSAE Conference 2020: Economic Development in Africa
#OxCSAE2020
has been cancelled. Further details on the CSAE website
🎉The CSAE project 'Anticipatory Cash Transfers in Climate Disaster Response', the first large-scale evaluation to rigorously test the impact of humanitarian cash transfers in response to a sudden climate shock, has won the
@ADB_HQ
Innovative Policy Research Award!
@CentreForDP
#OxCSAE2019
is now ending.
Thank-you to our keynote speaker, our panellists, and all the presenters. Many thanks also to our
@Oxford_CSAE
staff and our many conference volunteers!
Best wishes everyone, for another great year of exciting research...see you at
#OxCSAE2020
...! 🌍
Forthcoming in the AER: "Asset-Based Microfinance for Microenterprises: Evidence from Pakistan" by Faisal Bari, Kashif Malik, Muhammad Meki, and Simon Quinn.
Clément Imbert (University of Warwick) will be presenting the paper ‘Entry, Exit and Candidate Selection: Experimental Evidence from India’ at today’s CSAE Lunchtime Seminar. Thank you for joining us Clément. See you all there!
@clem_imbert
📢WE'RE HIRING!📢
We're looking for a Research Assitant to join the project 'Shock-responsive Social Protection in Extreme Droughts' with
@ashley_pople
and Stefan Dercon (
@OxfordEconDept
).
ℹ️Find out more:
⏰Deadline: 22 October 2021
#EconTwitter
🌟NEW Paper 'Agricultural productivity and structural transformation: evidence and questions for African development' by the CSAE's Douglas Gollin (
@OxfordEconDept
)
Read it here: