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Moritz Poll

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Development Economics AP @ Rice University ← Postdoc @ UChicago ← PhD student @Brown_Economics. Previously RA @Princeton/@BusaraCenter ← MPhil @UniofOxford ← BSc @MaastrichtU 🚣🏻‍♀️🤾🏻‍♂️📷🌻 www.moritz-poll.com

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @TCarnap @UniOslo who works on a range of topics including economic geography + use of remote sensing data in developing countries
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is Moritz Poll, previously @Brown_Economics, now a brand-new PhD heading to UChicago @RiceEcon, who works on topics related to poverty, structural transformation, + health and early childhood development
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm running an RCT on an anti-poverty program and I am curious how you think it will go. Methodologically, I am also exploring new ways of conducting mechanism analysis in experiments. Please consider answering this prediction survey: socialscienceprediction.org/predict/r/cc...
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Mechanisms Behind Poverty Graduation Programs
The study explores the mechanisms behind the success of Ultra-Poor Graduation Programs (UPGs), aiming to reduce extreme poverty through a livelihood intervention that bundles monthly cash transfers, g...
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
TFW you wonder when the World Bank might release their 2024 PPP conversion factors because you need them for your job market paper… and then they announce that the next release is just a few days away 🥰
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Sebastião Salgado has passed away 😢 He photographed the Rwandan genocide and so many other humanitarian catastrophes. Without him, the world might have never been able to imagine the horrors of what happened there. Toward the end of his career, he found that he could no longer photograph humans.
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
This is just a quick appreciation post for applied econometricians. I’m writing three papers right now and the methods I use did not yet exist when (or our understanding has dramatically improved since) I started my PhD. Amazingly timely ❤️
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Lukas Hensel @lukashenselecon.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
@moritzpoll.bsky.social now shows preliminary result on whether poverty alleviation should be scaled within or across villages. He finds negative spillovers to treating more households in the same village, households tend to enter the same industry (retail) leading to more competition. #OxCSAE2025
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Keynote at @oxfordcsae.bsky.social #OxCSAE2025 by James Robinson
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Very cool technology evaluated by @berberkramer.bsky.social : Evaluating crop loss for insurance payout with crop/field photos. Encouraging uptake results! ideas.repec.org/p/ags/aaea22...
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See It Grow: A randomized evaluation of digital innovations
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The CSAE Conference has started! Welcome to all of our delegates. #OxCSAE2025
Empty Seminar room at St Catherine's College with TV screen
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Good morning, Oxford
Sunrise in Oxford
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Learned an interesting thing from Leslie Maasdorp @britishintinv.bsky.social about the fundamental rules of development finance: When you set up a development bank like the World Bank, you sign that you will never get the money back that you put in. Pulling out entirely is not a sensible option.
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Back in Oxford for the @oxfordcsae.bsky.social #CSAE2025 Conference 💙
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Moritz Poll @moritzpoll.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excited to see that #EconTwitter has found a new home on #EconSky Curious to see if we can rebuild the magic. I’m Moritz, I work on poverty alleviation programs and rural markets and I’ll be on the academic job market this Fall.
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