
Cristina Clerici JMP: "Information, Expectations and Preferences: Occupational Choices of Young Adults in Uganda" Website: cristinaclerici.com
Dominik Biesalski
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@dmnkbiesalski
JPO @ILO. PhD in economics from @IIES_Sthlm. Previously @WorldBank, @HarvardEcon, @econ_uzh and @sciencespo.

Cristina Clerici JMP: "Information, Expectations and Preferences: Occupational Choices of Young Adults in Uganda" Website: cristinaclerici.com

Helping refugees integrate into the labour market Today on VoxDev, @fra_loiacono @EBRD & @Marijo_Silva_V @JPAL @MaastrichtU outline evidence from #Uganda that working with a refugee increases firms' likelihood of hiring more refugees by adjusting beliefs: voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…











That basic intuition, that choices which vary in directness or transparency can reveal our hidden motives, shows up in several literatures and many papers. To give a taster, here are six more examples.






IIES researchers @TessaBold and Jakob Svensson @Stockholm_Uni together with IIES alumna @SeleneGhisolfi @LEAPdevelopment @Unibocconi & Frances Nsonzi @Makerere to publish research in the American Economic Review @AEAjournals. More info: bit.ly/3qPP4bD

Congratulations to the 16 #PhD students and young scholars who this week developed and presented their new collaborative #research projects at the PEDL and @NYUADDevLab Matchmaking Workshop in Abu Dhabi. We can't wait to see these projects further develop. #EconTwitter







I've been in touch with several German universities which have expressed interest in admitting students displaced from Ukraine. If you're a displaced student, you can register your interest via this form, and I will share it with the universities: forms.gle/S2f4QURoVJWaM1…

Stockholm is home to one of Europe's most innovative groups of development economists, amongst them also our PhD students! Here are two of them during field work in Uganda, @fra_loiacono and @dmnkbiesalski.