Graduate Applications International Network (GAIN)

📣 This Wednesday: GAIN Information Session Want to learn more about GAIN? Join our online info session on January 21st, at 6pm WAT. Apply here bit.ly/applyGAIN Learn more about GAIN and our curriculum, with alumni sharing their experiences and answering your questions.

📣 Applications are open for the 2026 GAIN program! Information sharing, mentoring and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields. ➡️Apply here: gain-network.net/participants 🗓️Deadline: February 11th Please share widely!

🎓 New GAIN Alumni Spotlight Series post! In this post you can follow @Jennifer_agbo1's graduate school application journey, organized around 8 essential questions. ➡️ Read about how she applied and got admitted to the Yale IDE MA in our GAIN Blog here: bit.ly/GAINalumni-Jen…

📣Open Webinar: Kabir Banerjee Predoctoral Fellowship Join us for an info-packed webinar hosted by GAIN to learn how to make your application stand out, hear directly from program leaders, and get your questions answered. ➡️ Sign up: bit.ly/KB_Webinar

‼️Last chance to register as a GAIN Mentor 2025/26! ➡️ Register here: bit.ly/GAINMentors 🗓️ Deadline: TODAY, July 21st

🚨Registrations to become a GAIN mentor are now open! GAIN mentors are assigned to help guide a mentee one-on-one through the entire graduate application cycle in economics or related fields. ➡️Register here: bit.ly/GAINMentors 🗓️Deadline: July 21st Please share widely!

GAIN co-founder @OdhiamboFrank_O explains: 🔸What is @GAIN_Network_? 🔸How does it support student applications? 🔸Who can apply? 📺Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=Jb_CrF… This video includes 2024 dates, the 2025 deadline is 16 February 2025.

📣 TOMORROW: GAIN Information Session Want to find out more about GAIN? Join our online information session tomorrow, January 29th, at 6 pm WAT. Sign up form at the bottom of this page: gain-network.net/participants

📣 Applications are open for the 2025 GAIN program! Information sharing, mentoring and financial support for African students interested in graduate school in economics and related fields. ➡️ Apply here: gain-network.net/participants 🗓️ Deadline: February 16th Please share widely!

✨ GAIN Blog: Spotlight on GAIN Mentor-Mentee Relationship In this episode of our spotlight series, we feature the inspiring mentor-mentee relationship between @_afunmilayo and @leightjessica! Read about their experiences on our GAIN Blog here: bit.ly/GAINmentoringe…

Only 2 weeks left to apply for funding as part of your submission for the CSAE Conference 2025, #OxCSAE2025! Deadline: 31 July 2024 csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-conferenc… "If it were not for the funding, I wouldn't have been [at the CSAE Conference]," Muine Samahiya (@unam_na)

Update to previous job post! Please apply to a year-long RA position with me, @DrNathanNunn (UBC) @awaambraseck (HBS) and Jacob Moscona (MIT). Project on culture and institutions in SSA using ethnographic data. Deadline 7/11/24. Thank you! @econ_ra employment.ucsd.edu/research-assis…

IPA is still accepting proposals for impact evaluations and related research on displaced livelihoods in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Didn’t submit an Expression of Interest? No problem. Full proposals are due Jul 26. More info: bit.ly/ipadlifunding

Join us at the Impact Evaluation Faculty Retooling Workshop, held by the AERC In collaboration with the University of North Carolina and the @AIRInforms, from July 1-6, 2024, in Nairobi, Kenya. Read More: bit.ly/3W3Rm5R #WeareAERC #AERCImpact

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: NON-ACADEMIC STAFF INTRODUCTION African School of Economics (ASE) Nigeria is a newly established conventional university in Abuja (with additional campuses in Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Owerri), offering several undergraduate and postgraduate degree

Considering applying for an econ PhD? The student-led Duke, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford Economics Mentoring Program (EMP) helps students from underrepresented groups connect with a grad student mentor. Applications are open until July 22nd! Learn more at: economicsmentoringprogram.com

My research centre is again inviting applications for residency fellowships of 6-12 months in Munich. If you are post-doc or higher, Humanities or Social Sciences, and your work relates to globalisation processes and their tensions, consider applying! hsozkult.de/grant/id/stip-…

Travel funding available! ✈️ J-PAL's Governance Initiative (GI) encourages LMIC-based PIs to apply to the #NEUDC2024 Call for Papers by July 15. GI will consider accepted LMIC-based PIs for limited travel funding. Submit here ⬇️ cssh.northeastern.edu/gap/neudc-2024/

Looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE). Two-year DRC- and Berkeley-based predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/predoc… One-year DRC-based research intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… @econ_ra

I'm still looking for about 15-16 PhD students or postdocs in econ or related fields at universities based in LMICs who would like feedback on a JMP (or advanced paper)! Have an excess of mentors, which is awesome. Sign up here! Spread the word! forms.gle/CDRGzsrfhKCMWM…