During the 2025-2026 academic year, RPDE is hosting a new set of visiting scholars, bringing a wide range of interests and expertise into the halls of JRR, Princeton’s economics building. We’ll be tal...

During the 2025-2026 academic year, RPDE is hosting a new set of visiting scholars, bringing a wide range of interests and expertise into the halls of JRR, Princeton’s economics building. We’ll be tal...

(Forthcoming Article) - We examine women’s household power in low- and middle-income countries, synthesizing theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence on its measurement, determinants, and consequ...

The Weiss Fund Fellowship provides supplementary financial support for exceptional job market PhD candidates accepting positions in Weiss Fund-eligible countries and doing work aligned with the Weiss ...

When a nonprofit wins a major government contract or foundation grant, it’s cause for celebration. These wins reflect hard work and organizational strength. Yet beneath the success lies a subtle, ofte...

What has economic research taught us about women’s power in the household?

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Princeton SPIA DC recently convened ambassadors and senior diplomats from across the African continent for its Diplomatic Corps Dinner Series, featuring RPDE Professor Pascaline Dupas. See below for h...

During the 2025-2026 academic year, RPDE is hosting a new set of visiting scholars, bringing a wide range of interests and expertise into the halls of JRR, Princeton’s economics building. We’ll be tal...

RPDE – Predoctoral Fellows / Research Specialists2025-2026 Hiring CycleOverviewBased in Princeton’s School of Public & International Affairs, in collaboration with and housed in the Department of Econ...

Note: This interview is the third in our series interviewing RPDE’s visitors. See the first with visiting faculty Eric Verhoogen here and the second with visiting postdoc Miguel Ortiz here.Before we w...

Note: This interview is the second in our series interviewing RPDE’s visitors. See the first with Eric Verhoogen here. Check back for our third with Jessica Goldberg soon.Before we welcome in an excit...

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 📢 Professors Seema Jayachandran, Rebecca Dizon-Ross and Isabelle Cohen, as well as predoc researcher Fiker Girma Negash, are looking for a Senior Field Research Associate to join o...

Summer has meant a lot of changes here at RPDE. As with everyone at Princeton, it has meant bracing for summer heat and saying goodbye to graduating students and those leaving for summer. At RPDE in p...

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Gang behavior has been a highly salient policy topic in 2025. The economics of gangs, however, is not what first comes to mind for most when they think of economics as a discipline, or gangs as instit...

The move threatens to paralyze the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps to offset high utility bills for roughly 6.2 million people nationwide.

American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.