Céline Zipfel

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We'll be hosting the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) at @linneuni in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16-17, 2026. Keynote speakers: @HjortJ & Rohini Somanathan 🤩 Submit your papers here (deadline February 28): axacoair.se/go?py3X14W0

Had a great time hanging out and presenting mine, @jmerilainen & @celine_zipfel's joint work at ASWEDE this year 🥳

In 2011 I was the only Development Economics at the dept at Stockholm School of Economics. Today we’re a growing devo family – and we just celebrated two new publications 🎉 Feeling proud, grateful & a little teary-eyed ❤️ #SSE #devoecon

Early Childhood Education is central to India’s NEP and global edu goals. In a new paper at @EJ_RES (bit.ly/4gOtoVV),w/ @pt_berg @marome1, we show private ECE (Nursery/KG) outperform public options, explain 60% of SES gap. In primary school, NO private premium.

Takeaway: Technological change is not only an economic phenomenon, but also a political one. The milking machine helped bring more women into local government, showing that labor-saving tech can broaden political voice. #EconHistory #Gender #Development @misum_sse @EconomicsSSE

These shifts boosted both the supply of women willing and able to run for office, and the demand from parties and voters open to supporting them.

New working paper 📄 "Engines of Empowerment: Cattle Tending, The Milking Machine and Women in Politics," with @babaforslund & @jmerilainen👉 swopec.hhs.se/hamisu/papers/… @EconomicsSSE @misum_sse How a gender-biased, labor-saving technology reshaped local politics in rural Finland:

Why? The machine shifted a previously female-only task to men, blurring gendered work boundaries. Combined with time savings and broader rural economic change, this put women in a stronger position to take up new economic and civic opportunities.

📊 Key finding: In places where milking machines spread, more women entered local councils. A 1 SD increase in adoption explains ~10% of the overall rise in female representation between 1950–72.

@KNBStats collaborated with @StatsSweden and @Oxford_CSAE to build capacity in R. Click on the link to understand the basics of R training knbs.or.ke/photos/ @Planning_Ke @KenyaGovernors @StrathU @DiscoverJKUAT @ONS @AfDB_Group @ECA_OFFICIAL @jumuiya @Data4SDGs @UNStats

It's been a while since I did a standard lit review thread, but here's one for #econsky #econtwitter about an important literature that's been growing recently: the effect of supply- and demand-side interventions on fertility in LMICs

The Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics is looking to hire to RAs. Read more and apply here: hhs.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…. @econ_ra