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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

1 year

Beyond excited to join @NYUEconomics as an AP in 2024 after spending one year as an Int Econ PostDoc @DartmouthEcon ! Immensely thankful to my amazing advisors @ImranRasul3 , @fpvinay , @orianabandiera , and #CostasArkolakis who supported me throughout this journey

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

4 years

Such an amazing end to seven years of work

Imran Rasul

@ImranRasul3

4 years

Our paper on training is now forthcoming in Econometrica. Compares returns to vocational vs on-the-job training over 4 yrs, combining RCT+structural model. Potential implications for COVID-recovery in LICs. Video summary: Paper:

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Anna Vitali

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2 years

Excited my have my JMP featured on this blog! ❓Why do firms selling similar products cluster together within cities? 👉I combine new data from Uganda & a structural model to study how firms' location choices are driven by the search behavior of imperfectly informed consumers

David McKenzie

@dmckenzie001

2 years

Why do so many small firms in developing countries selling the same product locate next to one another? The first in our job market series this year has @anni_vitali explaining agglomeration and the role of information frictions

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

How do active labor market policies affect the job search behavior and long run employment outcomes of labor market entrants? 🚨 New WP with @orianabandiera , Robin Burgess, @bassi_vittorio , @munshisulaiman , @ImranRasul3 👉 Link: 🧵 👇 1/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

1 year

Incredibly excited to go on tour with this amazing group of people ✈️✈️✈️

Lukas Nord

@LksNord

1 year

Looking forward to "touring" the US this fall in fantastic company! @chiaraina @tim_ederer @VirginiaMinni @anni_vitali : See you in Houston/St. Louis/Providence. Thanks for the invite to @RevEconStudies @Brown_Economics @STLFedResearch @WUSTL @RiceEcon .✈️

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

Thank you @jenniferdoleac for sharing my JMP. Excited to be part of this amazing group of young scholars! 🧵 to follow soon.

Jennifer Doleac

@jenniferdoleac

2 years

Anna Vitali JMP: "Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda" Website:

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

Thank you, Imran! @livia_alfonsi and I started our journey together in Uganda, not knowing much about anything. I am proud of us!

Imran Rasul

@ImranRasul3

2 years

. #EconTwitter : I have two great students on the job mkt: @livia_alfonsi (labor + devo) @anni_vitali (urban + devo) You can read about their research on the @wb_research blog. Both will go far: now is your chance to recruit them!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

8 months

Amazing week, amazing people ❤️

Lukas Nord

@LksNord

8 months

Spent a fantastic week „on tour“ with the amazing @chiaraina @anni_vitali @VirginiaMinni and @tim_ederer . I learned something new every time they presented. Best artistic summary comes from @chiaraina — and yes, that is an Armadillo!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

Excited and humbled to be presenting my JMP at this amazing event. Looking forward to it!

Imran Rasul

@ImranRasul3

2 years

IGC Conference on Firms, Trade & Development A new model for the post covid world: conference simultaneously hosted by @StanfordKingCtr & @LSEEcon , Nov 3rd and 4th 2022 Register here: @PEDL_CEPR @The_IGC @cepr_org

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

7 months

Looking forward to this!

CEPR

@cepr_org

7 months

📆 22 Nov. @ 15:00 BST In the next CEPR VIOS Seminar Series session, @anni_vitali @DartmouthEcon will present the paper "Consumer Search & Firm Location: Theory & Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda". Discussant: Matthijs Wildenbeest @uarizona ✍️

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

In Uganda, schools are reopening today after being closed for almost 2 years. Like in many other low-income countries, consequences are devastating and go way beyond learning loss

Charles Onyango-Obbo

@cobbo3

2 years

Uganda's National Planning Authority estimated that 30% of all the country's learners wouldn’t go back to school today due to teenage pregnancies, early marriages, and child labour.

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

There’s nothing like home-made seminar series with friends. Best combination of friendly advice and exchange of ideas. Anger is only allowed in the post-seminar boxing session #bloomingdev @SylvanRH @JohnSpray0 @lpreonas

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

We had a chat with @timsvengali about our work on job search in Uganda!

UCL Economics

@EconUCL

3 years

🎧 Listen to the latest @vox_dev podcast featuring @ImranRasul3 and @anni_vitali "Looking for work: Evidence from the Ugandan labour market"

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

@economeager I also got it, but am pretty sure it was the British way of telling people to stop calling NHS to know when they can get the vaccine... love it!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

11 months

@ImranRasul3 @EricVerhoogen @EconUCL @ucl Thank you @ImranRasul3 ! And thanks to my very very kind examiners :) Looking forward to the next chapter!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Amazing cohort of people: check them out!

UCL Economics

@EconUCL

3 years

🚩 It's job market season and we're delighted to share with you our PhD candidates for this year! We'll be highlighting each of our 2021 job market candidates separately but in the meantime you can see all of our candidates on our website:

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

A must-read paper

Econometrica

@ecmaEditors

2 years

How do small firms in low income countries manage to adopt technology? Even if each firm is too small to buy large machines, a thick rental market allows them to achieve scale collectively and mechanize production @PorzioTommaso @bassi_vittorio @RitwikaSen

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

We gratefully acknowledge financial support from @MastercardFdn @PEDL_CEPR @The_IGC @IGC_Uganda and our implementing partner @BRACworld - this project would not have been possible without them! Photo credit to @livia_alfonsi

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Extremely proud of my friend @Marijo_Silva_V (and happy the Development Impact Blog finally changed logo)

David McKenzie

@dmckenzie001

3 years

The Development Impact Blog turns 10: we celebrate with a new logo photo taken by the wonderful photographer @Marijo_Silva_V

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

If you want to know more:

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

@Marijo_Silva_V @SylvanRH I feel neglected here!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@mayara_pfs Thank you so much Mayara!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

What have we learnt? 1️⃣ The potential for labor market entrants to be exuberant or discouraged both matter for long run outcomes through search behavior 2️⃣ Because job assistance impacts beliefs and search strategies, it can have persistent effects on employment 16/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

8 months

@tim_ederer And a birthday…

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

However, relative to those only offered vocational training, those also offered job assistance do worse 📚➕🧑‍🔧 👉 they are less likely, and work less time in regular jobs 👉 end up at worse quality firms 👉 have lower earnings 👉 experience longer unemployment spells 14/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

❓What happens to workers’ beliefs and job search? 👫 offered vocational training (without job assistance) become more optimistic, search more intensively, and direct their search towards higher quality firms relative to Controls 9/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

In low-income countries, large cohorts of young people transition into the labor market each year. They are subject to: 1️⃣skills mismatch 2️⃣credit constraints 3️⃣information frictions ‼️hard for them to secure regular employment in “good jobs” 2/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

🙋 Do these changes in search behavior caused by active labor market policies have persistent effects? ❕we answer this question by looking at participants’ labor market outcomes 5 years after the interventions ❕and the answer is YES 12/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@livia_alfonsi @ImranRasul3 Lol

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@btshapir @jenniferdoleac Thank you! This is so kind of you

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

❓What are workers’ expectations from the intervention? ✏️ At baseline youth are overly optimistic about job offer arrival rate (see 👇) ✏️ Over time, the beliefs of untrained workers converge towards the truth, while vocationally trained youth become even more optimistic 5/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Amazing work by an amazing photographer and economist ❤️

Mariajose Silva-Vargas

@Marijo_Silva_V

3 years

The perfect excuse to share more pictures! #EconPhotographyTwitter (thanks @KhoaVuUmn ) Here some of my favorite photos, mostly in Uganda and Bolivia, and some stories related to them. The first one, Fishermen on Ssese Islands in Uganda /1.

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

1 year

@fscoamodio That is so kind of you - thank you! I am really happy to hear you liked my work :)

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

For policy makers ➡️ implications for the design and targeting of job assistance: 🔴 trying to debias skilled 👫 even through light touch interventions can backfire and lead to discouragement 🟢 unskilled 👫 might instead be able to access credit to finance self-employment 17/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

❓What exactly is job assistance in our experiment? Workers’ details are passed on to high-wage firms offering regular employment in one of the training sectors, who can decide whether or not to invite the worker for an interview 4/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

4 years

@econinbricks @Enrico_Miglino

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Relative to controls, this offered vocational training 📚 👉 are more likely to be employed 👉 to transition from casual into regular work 👉 to be employed in good sectors 👉 and end up in better jobs and better firms 13/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Can active labor market policies relax these constraints and change young workers’ employment trajectories? We look at 3 types of interventions: 📚 Vocational Training 📚➕🧑‍🔧 Vocational Training combined with job assistance 🧑‍🔧 Job Assistance only 3/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

But ✔️ labor market entrants are not well informed and ✔️ given that there is no market substitute for it, and that it is implemented by a reputable NGO ( @BRACworld ), the job assistance intervention is very salient for workers 8/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@jhmaccuish Congrats Jamie this is amazing!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

11 months

@ShahrukhWani @ImranRasul3 @EricVerhoogen @EconUCL @ucl Thank you!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

‼️Lack of call-backs is driven by lack of vacancies and not by worker characteristics ➡️ fully informed workers should not update their beliefs in response to the intervention 7/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@alison_andrew1 Thank you, Alison! You are too nice!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

9 years

@ciarles http://t.co/FL6EGwz55Z

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Workers only offered job assistance 🧑‍🔧 👉 are more likely to enter self-employment, in line with their short-run borrowing behavior 15/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

This leads to very different shocks from the job assistance intervention for trained and untrained workers: 🔴 Among vocational trainees: actual call-back rate=16% vs. prior=30% 🟢 Among untrained: actual call-back rate=18% vs. prior=20% 6/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@proflog Thank you so much!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@ashtari_elena Grazie Elena!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

1 year

@VirginiaMinni @ChicagoBooth @LSEEcon @orianabandiera @johnvanreenen @profnavaashraf Bravissima Virgi!!! 😊

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

Relative to 👫 only offered vocational training, workers also offered job assistance: 🔴 revise down their beliefs over job offer arrival rate and distribution of expected earnings 🔴 search less intensively 🔴 search over lower quality firms 10/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

2 years

@Marijo_Silva_V Massive congrats! ❤️❤️

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

4 years

@ImranRasul3 I feel extremely lucky to have had the chance of working with you and the team on this project. Each step in this process has taught me how hard and how rewarding research is. Thank you!

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

3 years

👫 only offered job assistance - relative to controls - react to the confirmation of their poor job prospects by borrowing small amounts of 💵, with the stated purpose of using it to set-up in self-employment 11/

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Anna Vitali

@anni_vitali

1 year

@khalifa_suzanna @ScPoEcon @PrincetonEcon @amseaixmars Congrats Suzanna!!! 🤩

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