Assistant professor @BerkeleyHaas. Development, political economy, PF-dev.
Berkeley, CA
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🆕 No taxation without administration: What makes tax authorities work 📢
Today on VoxDevTalks w/ @timsvengali, Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School) & @JonathanWeigel (@BerkeleyHaas) discuss why tax administration design matters for revenue: voxdev.org/topic/public-econ…
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Join our team as a Postdoctoral Scholar, Mining and Local Development in Zambia
Apply here:
cega.submittable.com/submit/…
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Looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE)!
2-year predoc RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
1-year predoc RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
1-year intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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🚨New working paper🚨
“The Political Costs of Taxation” with
@EnguehardJoseph & @IgorKol52824963
When a state has low capacity and legitimacy, attempts to enforce unfair taxation can fuel social conflict!
Some key findings:
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Our recent WP explores the political consequences of enforcing the salt tax in early modern #France 🇫🇷
The authors examine how stricter enforcement of this tax, which varied across regions, led to conflicts between taxpayers and the state.
Read here: taxobservatory.eu/publicatio…
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Can we use experiments to understand institutions?
In this week's episode of VoxDevTalks, Michael Callen @LSEEcon & @JonathanWeigel @BerkeleyHaas spoke to @timsvengali about the rise of experimental tools to measure institutional change:
voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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🆕 Can we use experiments to understand institutions?
In this week's episode of VoxDevTalks, Michael Callen @LSEEcon & @JonathanWeigel @BerkeleyHaas speak to @timsvengali about the rise of experimental tools to measure institutional change:
voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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🚨Exciting Opportunity! 🚨We're looking for a Predoc RA + Intern to join projects on state capacity and economic development in the DRC
Apply now if you're passionate about Dev/PF/PE!
👉 Research Associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
👉 Research Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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Looking for Predoc RA + intern to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE)!
DRC-based research associate:
povertyactionlab.org/careers…
DRC-based research intern:
povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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Projects with @ABergeron_econ, @DinaPomeranz, @gabezt, @DrMarinaNgoma, Binta Zahra Diop, James Robinson, Joana Naritomi, Sam Kapon, and others
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Looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE).
Two-year DRC- and Berkeley-based predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
One-year DRC-based research intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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Hi everyone, I am looking to hire a pre-doc to work on topics in political economy and economic history. Please RT and share with anyone who might be interested! More details below - apply here: careerspub.universityofcalif… @econ_ra
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Come work with us! Looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development.
Predoctoral RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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🚨 Full-Time Pre-doc Position at UC Berkeley🚨
Want to get your hands dirty with big data, economic modeling and empirical work across projects in low- and middle-income countries?
Come work for me as a full-time predoc based at Berkeley Haas.
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According to a field experiment in DR Congo, property tax rates are above the revenue-maximizing rate. The government could increase revenue by (i) lowering tax rates or (ii) investing in enforcement capacity, which shifts up the revenue-maximizing rate econometricsociety.org/publi…
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RA review of literature that examines changes to institutions, consists of real-time studies of plausible critical junctures, and exploits field experiments, from Michael Callen, @jonathanweigel, and Noam Yuchtman nber.org/papers/w31964
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🚨Excited to present my JMP! "Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal"
drive.google.com/file/d/1EAP…
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🚨Join our research team in Kananga, DRC!🚨
We are looking to hire up to two French-speaking research interns to work on DEV and PE projects studying the role of state capacity in economic development.
More information here: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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Join our research team! Looking for French-speaking research intern to work on projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development.
More here: povertyactionlab.org/careers…
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