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Rocco Zizzamia

@roccozizzamia.bsky.social
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Postdoc at CSAE, Oxford University. roccozizzamia.github.io

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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🌍 Happening now at #NOVAFRICA2026 Conference in Economic Development: Urbanization Session! @roccozizzamia.bsky.social from @ox.ac.uk presenting "Adaptation to Climate Change in Cyclone-Prone Bangladesh: The Role of Social Protection and Migration". #NOVAFRICA2026 #DevelopmentEconomics #NovaSBE
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Noam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
📣 We're hiring a postdoc to join us on education research projects at Oxford @oxfordecondept.bsky.social @oxfordcsae.bsky.social. Join me @gamblingondev.bsky.social @roccozizzamia.bsky.social on multiple exciting projects! Applications due June 7th. www.economics.ox.ac.uk/csae-postdoc...
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CSAE Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Deadline: Sunday, 7 June, 2026
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
🆕 How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective Emily Beam, Lasse Brune, Stefan Dercon, Dean Karlan, Ashley Pople, Christopher Udry & Rocco Zizzamia voxdev.org/topic/social-protection/…
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Scaling poverty alleviation: How group coaching makes graduation programmes more cost-effective
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost.
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Emily Beam @ebeam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Thanks for highlighting our work on the promise of group coaching programs! Lower cost + similar effects = easier scaling! www.nber.org/papers/w34309 @roccozizzamia.bsky.social @deankarlan.bsky.social @lassebrune.bsky.social
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Group versus Individual Coaching for Rural Social Protection Programs: Evidence from Uganda, Philippines, and Bangladesh
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Group coaching in multi-faceted poverty alleviation programmes delivers the same results as individual coaching – at much lower cost. Article by the CSAE's @gamblingondev.bsky.social, @roccozizzamia.bsky.social & Ashley Pople @odid-qeh.bsky.social (@ebeam.bsky.social @christopher-udry.bsky.social)
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Rocco Zizzamia @roccozizzamia.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📢 Join our team at @oxfordcsae.bsky.social! @gamblingondev.bsky.social and I are looking for an RA to contribute to a range of exciting projects focusing on innovations in social protection responses to extreme weather events. Deadline 19/08. Please share!
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Rocco Zizzamia @roccozizzamia.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
My recent paper on the role of repeated rejection in job search, now available as a CSAE WP.
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Rocco Zizzamia @roccozizzamia.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Deadline coming up (6 April) for the @isdcberlin.bsky.social Fragile Lives conference in September! @tilmanbrueck.bsky.social
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop 📆30 September – 1 October 2025 Fragile Lives 2025 & the 21st HiCN Annual Workshop will review the role of gender & institutions in the formation, functioning & impacts of fragility, insecurity, conflict & emergency.
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Call for Papers: Fragile Lives 2025 HiCN Workshop – ISDC
30 September - 1 October 2025 Berlin, Germany Every year, Fragile Lives convenes international experts from academia, policy, and practice on the use of rigorou
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Rocco Zizzamia @roccozizzamia.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Nan Sandi (www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/nan-sandi) presenting now at #OxCSAE2025. In a field experiment with 1,024 farmers in Thailand, offering a capital rental subsidy reduces crop residue burning by 29%, cutting air pollution at just $1.42/ton of CO₂ averted 🚜🔥 Fantastic paper. @oxfordcsae.bsky.social
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Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below
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Josh Budlender @joshbudlender.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Come attend the 2024 SALDRU December Workshop! 12-13 December, School of Economics, U of Cape Town. We've got a great list of speakers, and v pleased the keynote will be Dennis Egger (@eggerdennis.bsky.social) presenting "Slack & Economic Development". All welcome! RSVP: forms.gle/cwdPjw7iEjqa...
A flyer advertising the 2024 SALDRU December Workshop: Frontiers in Applied Economics for Developing Countries. The flyer contains an abbreviated programme. The full programme in machine-readable format is available on the SALDRU website here: https://www.saldru.uct.ac.za/2024/11/21/saldru-december-workshop-2024-programme/
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Stefan Dercon @gamblingondev.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We are growing, we are hiring - 6 new positions in development economics One Ass. Professor Three Post-Docs One Pre-doc One Research Manager www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
📣We're #hiring for a range of research roles at the CSAE. Join us & work with @eggerdennis.bsky.social, @gamblingondev.bsky.social, Noam Angrist & the whole CSAE team on development across the globe. ⏰Apply by 15 Jan ℹ️Find out more: www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies #EconSky #researchjobs #econ_ra
we're hiring graphic with list of roles. Includes CSAE logo and red box with application deadline: 15 Jan 2025
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Wim @wimlouw.com · 18/01/2024
J-PAL Africa is looking for a Senior Research Manager to lead and build J-PAL Africa's research team (JHB RSA 🇿🇦) An exciting opportunity in dev economics, running randomized evaluations, and working with remarkable people: jobs.uct.ac.za/job/Cape-Tow...
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Senior Research Manager
Senior Research Manager
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