News&Events

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Luca Attanasio's Legacy: The role of humanitarian action in Africa

Organized with Bocconi and in collaboration with Bocconi Students for Diplomacy and International Cooperation Association.  

27/04/2022
LEAP thanks all participants to the Workshop on Networks and Development

LEAP thanks all organizers and participants to the first Workshop on Networks and Development, held on 21-22 April at Univerità di Napoli Federico II. 

 

 

 

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Workshop on Networks and Development

The program for the event held on 21-22 April in Naples.

30/03/2022
Project "Market Access and Quality Upgrading: Evidence from four Field Experiments" forthcoming on AER

Congratulation to our affiliate Selene Ghisolfi and her coauthors for the publication! 

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Nobody meets you empty-handed

An event to discuss the difficult work of helping children in a fragile environment, whose talents and grace are crushed by unfair life situations.

21/02/2022
LEAP Conference Call for Paper

We invite submissions from interested researchers on a broad range of topics in development economics, including (but not limited to): human capital; firms and entrepreneurship; agriculture; labor; migration; social norms; gender; political economics; behavioral economics.

17/02/2022
LEAP project: "The effects of working while in school" forthcoming on AEJ: Applied

Congratulations to our affiliates Thomas Le Barbanchon and Diego Ubfal and their coauthor Federico Araya for the publication. 

14/02/2022
School, Pandemic and Resilience

The video recording of the event "School, Pandemic and Resilience" is now available.

07/02/2022
LEAP Student Grants 2022

LEAP invites affiliated students to submit proposals for research projects on poverty and development issues through the "LEAP Student Grant" project. EXTENDED DEADLINE: March 31, 2022.

25/01/2022
School, Pandemic and Resilience

LEAP is pleased to announce the upcoming event: SCHOOL, PANDEMIC AND RESILIENCE, to discuss the challenges the pandemic has posed to the Italian schooling systems and potential solutions.