News&Events

LEAP PhD Student Erick Baumgartner reports on the recent LEAP Coffee Seminar with Ashish Shenoy

We are pleased to announce that the Econometric Society has elected our Scientific Director Eliana La Ferrara as Second Vice-President. She will presumably become First Vice-President in 2023 and President in 2024.

LEAP invites students to submit proposals for research projects on poverty and development issues through the "LEAP Student Grant" project. 

We support interesting ideas and well-designed projects or part of a project (pilot). The grant request can be up to 4000 euros.

This appointment of our LEAP Development Coffee Seminar will feature a presentation from Ashish Shenoy, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, on his paper on a large-scale migration loan program that offers a short-term low-interest migration loan to hundreds of thousands of landless rural workers during the agricultural lean season in northern Bangladesh. 

The Roberto Franceschi Foundation, which promotes scientific research in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of social pathologies and forms of social exclusion, is awarding a research grant of 6,000 Euros (before taxes) to finance the collection of an original data set for the realization of their Master of Science or PhD research thesis in the field of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of social pathologies and forms of social exclusion, in line with the Foundation's mission.

The Economics of Environment and Energy Programme (EEE), International Growth Centre (IGC) and Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID) within the LSE Economics Department will convene an Environment Week at the LSE from 20-23 September 2022.

LSE is soliciting papers from PhD students and faculty in all areas of the economics of environment and energy. The deadline is 18 July and authors will be notified (at latest) by 19 August.

The program of the LEAP Conference 2022, which took place between the 27th and the 28th of June, and which saw the participation of the Nobel-prize winning scholars Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee,  is now available.

We are looking for an Associate director of Policy to join our team. The contract is for 3 years (subject to a yearly performance review) . A Master’s degree in economics, statistics, public policy or a closely related field that includes significant training in economics and statistics or quantitative methods of program evaluation is required. Ph.D in related subjects is a plus. Social, quantitative skills and a good knowledge of English are required. Start date: by October 1. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

We are looking for a Senior Research Associate to join our team. The contract is for 12 months. The Senior Research Associate will work in close collaboration with LEAP’s Executive and Scientific Directors, LEAP faculty and affiliated students. A Master’s degree in economics or statistics is required. Social, quantitative skills and a good knowledge of English are required (Italian and(or French preferable). Start date: 01/09/2022. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for an interview.

Conflict, Social Cohesion, and Development

Salma Mousa (Yale University) and Dominic Rohner (University of Lausanne and CEPR)

 5-8 September 2022
Castello di Gargonza, Tuscany, Italy