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We're the Centre for the Study of African Economies, a research centre at the University of Oxford. We focus on improving economic and social conditions in developing countries.

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@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:50 AM

We've got a special joint seminar on Tuesday 13 October with the Applied Micro & Political Economy folk @oxfordecondept.bsky.social.

Join us for this seminar with Leonard Wantchekon (Princeton Univeristy), 14:45 - 16:00, in person. Skills Lab, Manor Road Building. events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:50 AM

📣The CSAE Lunchtime Seminars schedule is up!
We've got an exciting line up this term.

📆Join us at 12:30 every Wednesday in the Skills Lab of the Manor Road Building, Oxford.

www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

CSAE Lunchtime Seminars poster for MT26
@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 8:38 AM

NEW @voxdev.bsky.social article by our Open PEA team on 'Can Nepal depoliticise its civil service?' 👇

@voxdev.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 11:05 AMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

🚨 Thinking a PhD in Economics?

International Development Economics Association is hosting a two-part webinar series for students and early-career researchers considering graduate study in economics and related disciplines.

Register➡️ https://idea.devecon.org/career-skills.html

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:28 PM

Applying for PhD programmes in economics in Europe?

@j-pal.bsky.social are running a webinar for African students planning to apply.

🗓 13 Oct, 4-5:30 GMT+2

Sign up here 👇
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 3:24 PM

🥳 Celebrating 1 year of our Open Political Economy Analysis Programme @blavatnikschool.bsky.social!

Getting politics out of the shadows & into the mainstream of growth & development.

Take a look at what they've achieved so far 👇

openpea.csae.ox.ac.uk

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:34 AM

🎥Sangama: Film Screening & Q&A with Director Sunanda Bhat

📆Tues, 13 Oct, 4.30-6.30pm
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social

A behind-the-scenes look at how a powerful people’s movement mobilizes voters nationwide to challenge the ruling party during the Indian Election-2024.
www.pmb.ox.ac.uk/event/film-s...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 29, 2026, 11:00 AM

🎉 20 years of the CSAE Visiting Fellowships Scheme

We spoke to the first visiting fellows, Rosemary Atieno & Afeikhena Jerome, who discuss the long-term impact the fellowship had on their careers, research, & contributions to African policymaking & scholarship.
www.csae.ox.ac.uk/twenty-years...

@blavatnikschool.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 12:11 PMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

🌟 Applications are now open for the Master of Public Policy, MSc in Public Policy Research and DPhil in Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. Apply by 2 December 2026 👇
https://ow.ly/7vCP50ZNo1V

@theigc.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 12:13 PMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

🏙️ What does it take to build cities that work?

Join leading researchers and city leaders for a special Masterclass marking 10 years of Cities that Work. Explore evidence on housing, transport, governance and more.

📅 19 Oct | 13:00–14:30
🔗 Register: https://bit.ly/4yNQDaB

@cepr.orgSep 23, 2026, 8:04 AMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

📢 #CallForPapers - 2027 WEFIDEV - RFS - CEPR Conference
📆6-8 May 2027 |📍 Milan, Italy
⌛Deadline: 15 November 2026
Theoretical and empirical submissions on financial markets in low and middle-income countries are invited.
ow.ly/nwon50ZQ2Ty

To promote research on issues in this important area, the WEFIDEV network in Finance and Development, the CEPR, and the Review of Financial Studies will convene a research conference on finance and development. 
The conference will be held in person on May 6th through 8th in Milan, Italy and will be hosted at the SDA Bocconi School of Management at Bocconi University. This will be the third annual conference in finance and development featuring a dual submission option with the RFS.

We invite the submission of empirical – both experimental and non-experimental – as well as theoretical work on financial markets in low and middle-income countries. We encourage submissions from early-career scholars including PhD students, and underrepresented groups.

The program will be organised by RFS Executive Editor Tarun Ramadorai of LSE, Imperial College Business School and CEPR, RFS Editor Viral Acharya of New York University and CEPR, and program chairs Giorgia Barboni, Kim Fe Cramer, Sean Higgins, and Nicola Limodio, along with the programme committee.
@voxdev.bsky.socialSep 8, 2026, 9:58 AMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

🆕How decision fatigue undermines diversity in grant-making

Today on VoxDev w/ Girum Abebe (International Finance Corporation), dr siân brooke (University of Amsterdam), Tom Gole, Simon Quinn (Imperial Business School) & Tom Schwantje (Bocconi University): https://ow.ly/1HcT50ZKwIm

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 10:46 AM

Read the full article 'An agenda for implementation science in education’ published in @science.org 👇

✒️@noamangrist.bsky.social, @gamblingondev.bsky.social & coauthors @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @wwhglobaled.bsky.social y.social

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 16, 2026, 10:46 AM

How can we move from knowing what works in education to making it work at scale?

CSAE researchers & co-authors from the @wwhglobaled.bsky.social set out a new research agenda for implementation science in global education in this article published in @science.org

www.csae.ox.ac.uk/articles/shi...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 12:48 PM

🔹@noamangrist.bsky.social, Implementation science & implementation measurement (15th, 9:20 BST)
🔹Sharnic Djaker, Measuring & accounting for implementation (15th 09:45 BST)
🔹Jenn Opare-Kumi, Evaluation at scale, with research from Ghana & Sierra Leone (16th, 09:15 BST)
www.wwhge.org/events/2026-...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 12:48 PM

How can rigorous evidence help us understand what works, how it works, & how to make it work at scale?

CSAE researchers will contribute to this conversation at #WWHGEConf26 this week. @wwhglobaled.bsky.social

📅 15–16 Sept
📍 Oxford & online
💻Still time to register online
🔗 buff.ly/eB1V5dc

@wwhglobaled.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 8:04 AMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

🛎️ 📖 New paper published in Science !

@science.org publishes ‘An agenda for implementation science in education’, a new research agenda led by @wwhglobaled.bsky.social's Academic leadership Team.

📍Explore the paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@noamangrist.bsky.socialSep 11, 2026, 7:15 AMReposted by @oxfordcsae.bsky.social

✨Our research agenda on implementation science is now published in @science.org! This is the next frontier to ensure "what works" actually works at scale when delivered by govts + is implemented with high fidelity @wwhglobaled.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 12:58 PM

Soft skills are widely believed to matter for labour market success, but two questions remain central to their use in active labor-market policy: are they malleable beyond childhood, & can training in these skills improve employment outcomes?

Read the CSAE paper:
ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...

@oxfordcsae.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 12:58 PM

⭐NEW CSAE Working Paper 'Soft Skills & Youth Employment: Experimental Evidence from Bangladesh'

✒️Mahreen Khan @oxmartinschool.bsky.social & @imansen.bsky.social

www.csae.ox.ac.uk/working-papers

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