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[email protected] that's amazing. thanks so much!
hive minds - I am looking for recommendations for good papers that use "big data" in innovative ways to measure or predict migration. Thanks!
In collaboration with Winrock, we are seeking to hire a survey firm in Bangladesh. The selected firm would carry out surveys as part of a State Department funded RCT testing ways to reduce human trafficking vulnerabilities in areas that are highly affected by the changing climate. The RFP can be found at
https://hotjobs.bdjobs.com/jobs/winrock/winrock249.htm. Please share far and wide with your networks.
Please share widely:
PDRI/DevLab@Penn invites applications for its predoctoral fellowship program. The program seeks to provide hands-on research experience to early career researchers and expand the representation of researchers from low and lower-middle income countries in international development research.
For more info, see https://pdri-devlab.upenn.edu/about-us/capacity-building-initiatives-and-fellowships/
Predoctoral research program – PDRI – DevLab
Devastated to hear about the tragic death of Francisco Cantu, a brilliant scholar, a loving husband to Lucero and loving father to Sol. Francisco was one-in-a-kind human being. My deepest condolences to his family and to Houston's public policy school.
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"if you come for the king you best not miss" (Omar Little, The Wire)
if you indict the king, you better have the goods on him. an acquittal would be a huge blow to the rule of law.
One of my pet peeves is when academic journals place a large list of requirements (e.g., figures' formatting; endnotes instead of foortnotes) as a condition for sending a submission to review. Many of these requirements place unnecessary burden on authors.
@mcopelov Pompeo may also want to have a chat with Josh Hawley who twitted yesteday against continuing the military support for Ukraine.
Happy to update that my paper with Yang-Yang Zhou and Shuning Ge "Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash" was published today for first-view at World Development. Link at
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X23000219#s0080