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07/10/2016
PEDL Announces the Opening of Round 21 of ERGs
The deadline for the 21st ERG round is 5pm GMT on October 31, 2016.
07/09/2016
BREAD/CEPR/PODER Conference on Development Economics
The conference will be hosted by Università Bocconi in Milan on Friday 30 September and Saturday 1 October, 2016.
01/09/2016
LEAP Executive Director and co-author receive Etta Chiuri Prize
LEAP's Executive Director, Lucia Corno and co-author, Alessandra Voena, received the Etta Chiuri Prize for their paper "Selling daughters: age of marriage, income shocks and the bride price tradition".
15/07/2016
Research Officer Position at CEPR/PEDL
CEPR is searching for a full-time Research Officer to be based in London. Application deadline: July 24th 2016.
01/07/2016
LEAP's Inauguration
LEAP was inaugurated on June 22nd, 2016. Our distinguished speakers included Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT.
18/05/2016
LEAP's Inauguration, June 22 2016
Join us for the Inauguration of LEAP on June 22nd 2016 at 3 p.m. in Room AS03, Via Röntgen 1.
05/05/2016
2016 NEUDC Conference
MIT will be hosting the 2016 NEUDC (Northeast Universities Development Consortium) Conference on November 5th and 6th 2016.
05/05/2016
Scientific Director of LEAP receives ERC Grant
Eliana La Ferrara receives ERC grant to study aspirations, social norms and development.
05/05/2016
2016 Summer School in International Development Economics
6-9 September 2016 in Gargnano (BS) Italy. This event is organized by Centro Studi Luca d’Agliano, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), DEMM - University of Milan, DEMS - University of Milan Bicocca and the Vilfredo Pareto Doctoral Program in Economics of the University of Turin.