Yang Xun/荀杨
@yangxun_96Committed dilettante in economics. Postdoc @warwickecon. PhD @CEMFInews.
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The 2025 meeting of the LACEA @voxlacea will take place in November 2025 in beautiful Recife, Brazil at the UFPE @pimes_em I am sure local organizers @Brenorsampaio and @rflcostalima will pull off an unforgettable conference and I am happy to chair the program committee 🇧🇷
We have three positions open this year, focusing on mid- or advanced career researchers! Feel free to reach out in case you have any questions about the research environment at CEMFI and life in Madrid (short answer - it's awesome!)
CEMFI invites applications to fill up to three positions at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor level cemfi.es/all_news_blog_…
A new India-China fact (to me): The Chinese state prioritized primary education over secondary/tertiary, while the Indian state did the opposite. Chinese primary enrollment rate passed India in 1950, secondary 1975, and tertiary only in 2000!
📢#CallForPapers CEPR and @NovaSBE will jointly organise a #conference on #Development #Economics to take place in Lisbon, Portugal from 23-24 April 2025. Submissions now open! 📆Deadline: 24 November 2024 More details and submit here: ow.ly/Vi4950TQAzZ
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”…
Forthcoming in the AER: "In Harm’s Way? Infrastructure Investments And the Persistence of Coastal Cities" by Clare Balboni. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Social Signaling and Childhood Immunization: A Field Experiment in Sierra Leone,” by Anne Karing (@AnneKaring): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Dynamics of Abusive Relationships,” by Adams (@abicadams), Huttunen (@KristiinaHuttu2), Nix (@EmilyNix100), and Zhang (@ningzhang0927): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
I defended my PhD last week🥳! Huge thanks to the thesis committee members, my advisor @manolo_arellano, my former advisor @monicambravo, my PhD committee @cauedobbin @yarinefawaz, and so many others who helped along the way!
Congratulations to Yang Xun for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Pedro Mira, Gianmarco León-Ciliotta (@Gianmarco_LeonC) and Irma Clots (@irmaclots) for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Yang’s advisor Manuel Arellano (@manolo_arellano)
Forthcoming in the AER: "Polity Size and Local Government Performance: Evidence from India" by Veda Narasimhan and Jeffrey Weaver. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
Getting ready for the @nberpubs Summer Institute. This is the Political Economy program 2024 (July 16-17) nber.org/conferences/si… An excellent selection by the organizers. You can watch it live streaming youtube.com/nbervideos
Now forthcoming at JPE! Newest version: dropbox.com/scl/fo/595zr6t…
Counterpoint: complex laws may actually be better laws. More elaborate state laws boost economic growth. Why? They mean more careful consideration & rules for key edge cases, rather than writing shorter, but broader, laws that lump everything together. research-collection.ethz.ch/bitstream/hand…
TOMORROW (1 May): AYEW Development Economics Workshop! Join us at 11:00am BST to listen to @AndualemAW (@UniMC), Axel Eizmendi Larrinaga (@TuftsEconomics) and @yangxun_96 (@CEMFInews) Sign up for Zoom details: monash.edu/business/impac…
Forthcoming in the AER: "Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age" by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
UChicago @BeckerFriedman is hosting the Midwest International Economic Development Conference this year. Over 100 scholars will give papers and we have some amazing keynotes and lunch talks scheduled. Register (price includes meals) and see full program here:…
How does corruption shape talent allocation across public and private sectors? JMC @yangxun_96 finds finds high academic achieving students in Brazil shy away from public-sector-oriented majors and public-sector careers after anti-corruption audits yangxun.org
Fascinating work!
🆕 Do NGOs undermine government capacity? Today on VoxDev, @DeserrannoErika @NUEconomics, Aisha Nansamba @BRACworld, and Nancy Qian @KelloggSchool outline evidence from health services in Uganda. Read here: voxdev.org/topic/health-e…
Last weekend, 130+ development economists presented new research about more than 40 countries on myriad topics. Here’s a micro-summary of every study presented at the North East Universities Development Consortium annual conference. cgdev.org/blog/whats-lat… by @Almedina1Music & me
In #NEUDC2023 #CIDDevelopmentPerspectives "The Economics of Mental Health in the Developing World," Gautam Rao presented on the prevalence of mental health disorders in developed and developing countries, and discussed inexpensive, scalable interventions.
Very happy to have been included in this group of fantastic papers on bureaucracy & development at #NEUDC2023 hosted by @HarvardCID, other than the positive surprise at seeing the schedule that I already know all the other presenters/coauthors :)
#NEUDC2023 session Political Economy: Bureaucracy focused on bureaucratic turnover, private returns to bureaucratic appointments, corruption, and trade. Chaired by Jaya Wen. 🖇️Read their papers: bit.ly/3MtVOGM
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