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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📢 Call for Papers: Y-RISE 2026 Annual Conference 📢 Dec 17–19, Grand Cayman. Focus: scaling effective policy interventions in global development, with an emphasis on implementation & pilot-to-scale challenges. 📅 Deadline: Sept 15 📄 Full CFP: bit.ly/4wvuUSZ 👉 Submit here: forms.gle/3BihwyP72Ag9...

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[Public] Y-RISE Annual Conference: Call for Papers

The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) requests paper submissions for the 2026 Conference on the complexities of scaling up policy interventions in global development. Confer...

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Congratulations to Y-RISE affiliate @p-lopezpena.bsky.social on receiving the 2026 Smith New Researcher Achievement Award! This award is a testament to her seminal research in development economics and the significant impact her work has generated. We are proud to have her in the Y-RISE community!

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

The forum was held at UWI Cave Hill in Barbados. Highlights: 🔹Rural-urban wage & service gaps suggest internal migration solutions. 🔹International migration yields high returns, but wellbeing costs can offset gains. 🔹"Triple win" opportunities exist—yet go unused due to solvable market failures.

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Y-RISE faculty director @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social presented a keynote at the 2026 @voxlacea.bsky.social/RIDGE Forum on migration organized by @anamibanez.bsky.social at IDB and @sandrarozo.bsky.social at the World Bank titled “Should We Encourage Migration Through Policy Interventions?”

Mushfiq Mobarak presenting his slides at the forum

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Y-RISE Spring newsletter coming soon 🌍 We’re sharing the latest news and research findings from our affiliate network. Subscribe to get it straight to your inbox: 🔗 subscribe.yale.edu/browse?searc... #Econ #GlobalDev #Policy

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

What happens when 40+ researchers and policy makers get together in sunny #Jamaica to talk all things scale? Cutting edge research, timely policy discussions and...fun. 1/6

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Can free school meals change lives? In Colombia, Fabio Sánchez shows that the expansion of a nationwide school meal programme lowered dropout rates, raised graduation and university attendance, and delivered some of the largest long-term returns ever found for a social policy.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides! We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

How do we connect millions of young people ready to work in Asia with countries like Japan that need workers? Meet Princess. Her story shows what's possible when we get skilled migration right. Read more from @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social. www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...

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Princess’s journey and the promise of skilled migration

When I first met Princess, she was sitting cross-legged on the floor of a tiny concrete room in Davao City on Mindanao island in southern Philippines, her notebook open to a page covered in neat rows ...

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: 19th International Conference on Migration & Development Seoul, Korea; April 16-17, 2026 Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 8, 2026 See yrise.yale.edu for submission details. Link to submit papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"There’s just this big challenge of going from a 2,000-person research study to a 100,000-person program that exists in the world." Elie Hassenfeld talks about the Y-RISE origin story (tl;dr why don't interventions scale?), among other things.

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Y-RISE @yalerise.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Hello world! CALL FOR PAPERS - Annual Y-RISE Conference, Feb 2026. Deadline: Nov 14, 2025. We welcome papers related to complexities of scaling policy interventions. See our website here for more details yrise.yale.edu Submit papers here forms.gle/WbTnxPr5S5fX... @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

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Call for Papers: Y-RISE Annual Conference 2026. NEW deadline Nov 14, 2025....

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