Dear DEV members:
We are hope you all well in these challenging times. We wanted to write
with a number of announcements:
First, congratulations and welcome to all the new DEV program members. We
are delighted to welcome Marcela Alsan and Kaivan Munshi as new DEV
Research Associates, and Natalie Bau, Gabriel Kreindler, Sara Lowes,
Natalia Rigol, Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra, Mica Sviatschi, and David Yang as
new Faculty Research Fellows. We look forward to seeing all of you at our
future meetings!
Second, congratulations to Sam Bazzi on being awarded an NSF CAREER grant.
Excellent news!
Third, a few updates on the DEV Summer Institute:
* As you saw in the email from Jim Poterba, the NBER Summer Institute will
be remote this year. While the exact times are being finalized, we expect
to hold the DEV meeting Monday and Tuesday July 20-21, from approximately
12:30 pm to 5 pm ET. Please mark your calendars!! The program will be
forthcoming in early June.
* Due to the unusual situation, we are including in the DEV SI program a
special one-hour 'lighting-round' which will feature a number of very short
(5-10 minute!) presentations of COVID-19 related development research. To
be included, we'd ask that your project have results ready to present, not
just a design.
To be considered for this COVID lightning round, please submit an extended
abstract summarizing the project and results (up to 500 words) by *Monday June
29, 2020, at 5pm eastern time. *We will review these rapidly and try to
announce the selected papers for the lighting round within a week or so
after that. The link for submissions is here:
http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=DEVcov.
Feel free to pass on this call for special proposals.
Finally, thank you to the terrific response to the FRF-RA office hours
requests! Thank you to everyone who volunteered to participate in these
'virtual meetups'.
Thanks to all of you, and we look forward to seeing you all (virtually) in
July.
Best
Ben and Seema
--
Benjamin Olken
Professor of Economics
MIT Department of Economics
The Morris and Sophie Chang Building
50 Memorial Drive, E52-542
Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Ph: 617-253-6833
Web: web.mit.edu/bolken
Received on Fri May 08 2020 - 14:52:34 EDT
