Job market series 2024 Wrap-up

This year was the 14^th year of our tradition of posting blogs written by PhD students on the job market summarizing their job market papers. We received 61 submissions for our blog your job market paper series, close to last year’s record of 65. These submissions came from 37 different universities, and were based on work in 26 different countries as well as several regional studies. India was once again the most common setting for these job market papers, with 13, well ahead of Brazil, with 5. 30% were based on RCTs, 27% on DiD, with then a range of IVs, RDDs, structural models, descriptive work, and other approaches.

We have found the quality of initial submissions has continued to improve, and we had a very hard job choosing which ones to publish.  We ended up choosing 26 to publish, but could have easily taken a dozen or so more – we just ran out of calendar days to publish them all before we felt they were getting too late for the job market. Fortunately the Cornell Economics that Really Matters blog ran its own series, and collaborated with us to run some of these additional posts, along with some they directly received. They have so far posted 14 posts in their job market series and have a couple more scheduled – I highly recommend checking them out.

In case you missed any of ours, and to make it easy to find these all in one place in the future, here is the full list of posts we published this year:

1.      What is the relationship between evaluation findings and policy spending? Guest post by Michelle Rao

2.      Affirmative action for women in STEM: Closing gaps or creating new ones? Guest post by Ritika Gupta

3.      Rooting out poverty: The socioeconomic co-benefits of large-scale tree planting. Guest post by Jeffrey Pagel

4.      Who benefits from deforestation for infrastructure in India? Guest post by Sayantan (Sunny) Mitra

5.      Are uncertain urban labor markets deterring internal migration? Evidence from a field experiment in Kenya: Guest post by Gwyneth Miner

6.      Boosting Self-Efficacy to Improve Investments in Training. Guest Post by Sarah Frohnweiler

7.      Unlocking Digital Potential: The Double-Edged Sword of Observability in Technology Adoption: Guest post by Deivy Houeix

8.      Can social media alleviate search and trust frictions in international imports? Guest post by Edward Wiles

9.      Can Weakened Unions Fuel Formal Work? Lessons from Brazil's Labor Reform. Guest post by Nikita Kohli

10.  Motivating Schools to Succeed: Insights from the Oscars of Education. Guest post by Casemiro Campos.

11.  What Labor Market Power Teaches Us About the Allocation of Labor in Sub-Saharan Africa. Guest Post by Samuel Marshall

12.  Wage work, what is it good for? Labor market dynamics in urban Ghana: Guest post by Peter Deffebach

13.  School discussions reshape perceptions of masculinity norms. Guest Post by Ieda Matavelli

14.  The promise and limits of perspective-taking. Guest Post by Sana Khan

15.  Breaking the Cycle of Violence: How Female Leaders Curb Armed Conflict. Guest post by Francisco Eslava

16.  To pair or not to pair isolated students with more popular peers? Trade-offs in deskmate plans for socio-emotional growth. Guest post by Palaash Bhargava

17.  When is agricultural mechanization most effective for development? Guest post by Steven Brownstone

18.  Winners and losers in the gig economy: What delivery platforms mean for workers. Guest post by Pascuel Plotkin

19.  Unpacking the impact of NGOs on development. Guest post by Sarah Shaukat

20.  Uncounted: how survey implementation methods miss 3 million annual cases of intimate partner violence worldwide. Guest post by Katherine Theiss

21.  Finding strength in numbers: Improving women's job search through coordinated travel in urban India. Guest post by Rolly Kapoor

22.  Bridging the caste divide: How financial inclusion drives social inclusion. Guest post by Rikhia Bhukta

23.  How Information Transforms Climate Adaptation Through Different Subsidies. Guest post by Yunyu Shu

24.  Divided We Ride: The Costs of Segmented Minibus Services in Johannesburg, South Africa. Guest post by Oluchi Mbonu

25.  When sharing is not caring: Knowledge Hoarding as a Barrier to Agricultural Innovation. Guest post by Luisa Cefala.

26.  Let the Cream Rise to the Top: Digital Traceability and Quality Upgrading in Kenyan Dairy Value Chain. Guest post by Guanghong Xu.