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Alex Armand

@ARMANDalex

Economist | Associate Professor @NovaSBE | Also at @cepr_org @iza_bonn @TheIFS @novafrica | PhD @EconUCL | From Aosta, Italy 🏔🏔🏔🏔

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JEEA@JEEA_NewsAug 21
Check out the August 2026 issue (24,4) of @JEEA_News Journal of @EEANews @OUPAcademic Teaching materials available: eeassoc.org/teaching-materia… academic.oup.com/jeea/issue
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New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21450 On the Political Economy of Urbanization: Experimental Evidence from Mozambique @ARMANDalex @NovaSBE @TheIFS, Frederica Mendonça @NovaSBE @novafrica, Wayne Sandholtz @NovaSBE @CESifoGroup @iza_bonn, @pedrocvicente @NovaSBE @novafrica ow.ly/gYH450YW6xc #CEPR_DE #EconTwitter
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@cepr_org21 Nov 2025
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20852 The Family According to the State: Modernization Ideals and Fertility Decline Alex Armand @ARMANDalex, Marion Richard, & Yannik Schenk @NovaSBE ow.ly/QWaA50XvG03 #CEPR_DE #EconTwitter
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica13 Aug 2025
🚨 New in the Journal of Development Economics: Can wage subsidies break the cycle of long-term unemployment? By @NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE Professor @ARMANDalex with @carneiro_econ #FrancescoTagliati @YimingXia1 A large-scale RCT puts it to the test and the results are striking!🧵
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VoxDev@vox_dev18 Jul 2025
🆕 Can governments promote long-term employment through wage subsidies? Lessons from North Macedonia Today on VoxDev w/ @ARMANDalex (@NovaSBE), @carneiro_econ (@EconUCL), Federico Tagliati (@BancoDeEspana) & Yiming Xia (@SWUFE1925): voxdev.org/topic/labour-mark…
Can governments promote long-term employment through wage subsidies? Lessons from North Macedonia

Can governments promote long-term employment through wage subsidies? Lessons from North Macedonia

A government-led programme in North Macedonia combined wage subsidies with matching services to decrease long-term unemployment among vulnerable jobseekers. Experimental evidence indicates that the...

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NOVAFRICA@novafrica15 Jul 2025
📢 Call for Papers: #CEPR Political Economy Symposium 2026 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Sep 2025 |📍Lisbon,@NovaSBE @cepr_org invites submissions on political economy topics—development, conflict, inequality, & more. Limited slots for high-impact discussion. Apply: ow.ly/bPfT50Wof2t
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica24 Apr 2025
👏Thank you for joining us at the @cepr_org Development Economics Symposium 2025, joint with @NovaSBE @NOVAFRICA @ERC_Research ! We had an incredible two days filled with thoughtful discussions and amazing research on development economics. See you at future NOVAFRICA events!
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica24 Apr 2025
🎉 Finally! session 6 is about to kick off at #CEPRNovaSBE2025! Chaired by @ARMANDalex (@NovaSBE & @NOVAFRICA) 👇 Follow the papers in this thread:
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica23 Apr 2025
🎉 It’s here! The @cepr_org Development Economics Annual Symposium 2025, hosted jointly with @NovaSBE @NOVAFRICA @ERC_Research is happening today in Carcavelos. We’ll be live-tweeting throughout the day — stay tuned for real-time updates, insights, and highlights. #EconDev
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica23 Apr 2025
SESSION 2 now live at #CEPRNovaSBE2025! (Thread) 📍Room D-115 Chaired by @DeserrannoErika (@Bocconi, @NorthwesternU & @CEPR) This session dives into public service delivery and healthcare systems across India and beyond. 👇 Follow the papers in this thread:
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NOVAFRICA@novafrica23 Apr 2025
🎊 SESSION 1 kicking off at #CEPRNova2025! (A thread) Chaired by @ARMANDalex (@NovaSBE & @NOVAFRICA), we kick off the day with exciting papers on bureaucracies, trading networks, and tax compliance in Uganda and Senegal. 👇 Follow the papers in this thread:
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🎓 Mini-course on Subjective Expectations in Economics 🎓 📅 For PhD students | June 8, 2025 📍 Nova SBE, Lisbon Gain insights on this rapidly growing area & stay for the 8th workshop on Subjective Expectations 🔗 Apply now: forms.office.com/e/XWj0ZBKZs…
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One-year post-doc position in the Economics of Crime at the University of Turin, Italy @EconomicsUnito. @CollegioCA Flexible starting date, deadline in one week! PhD needed. Email me if you have any questions. bandi.mur.gov.it/bandi.php/p…
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A sudden shift in the narrative of the 1940s children’s radio programme 'The Adventures of #Superman' promoted racial tolerance & advanced civil rights in the post-WWII United States, @voxeu cepr.org/voxeu/columns/media…
From media narratives to racial equality: How Superman helped to pave the ground for Civil Rights

From media narratives to racial equality: How Superman helped to pave the ground for Civil Rights

Changing deep-rooted attitudes about race is a formidable challenge. Racist stereotypes often endure for decades or even centuries. But can narratives in popular media such as television, cinema, and...

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@voxeu21 Aug 2024
From #media narratives to racial #equality: How Superman helped to pave the ground for Civil Rights @ARMANDalex, @atwellpaul, @j_fgomes, Giuseppe Musillo @TilburgU, Yannik Schenk @LIDAM_UCLouvain ow.ly/ZC1950SWFwn
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“In 1946 amid persistent racial divisions, popular radio series Adventures of Superman launched Operation Intolerance, a sequence of new episodes promoting equality, rejecting racial discrimination and exposing the KKK’s bigotry. We find lasting impacts…” dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4883…
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Raúl Bajo@raulbajob30 Apr 2024
My wonderful colleague Jaime Millán is organizing the following event: II Spanish Workshop in Development Economics Pamplona, Oct 24-25 @ncid_unav @ICS_unav @unav Keynote speakers: @SeiraEnrique (Michigan State) & @DaveEvansPhD (@the_IDB) Submission deadline: June 16 RT plz!
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🚨JOB ALERT🚨 I am looking for a #Predoc to work w/ me + interdisc team on the large-scale experim evaluation of a #workforce-empowerment intervention via #technology in a nationwide home-visiting programme in #Ecuador 🇪🇨 @econ_ra ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search…
UCL – University College London

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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NOVAFRICA@novafrica12 Jan 2024
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 2024 @NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development @NovaSBE on June 27-28 Submit your paper by Feb 15: bit.ly/3Hffiff Keynotes: Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ David McKenzie @dmckenzie001 Chris Udry @chrisudry #NOVAFRICA2024 #EconTwitter
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STICERD@STICERD_LSE21 Nov 2023
New #develolpmenteconomics paper by @ARMANDalex, @AugsburgBritta, @BancalariA and @STICERD_LSE's @maitreesh on 'Public service delivery, exclusion and externalities: Theory and experimental evidence from India' sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLI…
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