CSAE Research Podcasts

Feb 11 2025 17 ep. 32 mins 257
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A series of conversations between researchers and collaborators about projects taking place at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford.

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On Track or Not? Projecting the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index

Feb 11 2025 37 mins  
Can we measure whether countries are on track to halve poverty incidence between 2015 and 2030? This research proposes a framework for modelling projections of multidimensional poverty. It uses recently published repeated observations of multidimensional poverty, based on time-consistent indicators, for 75 countries. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: E

Bargaining through Agents: Experimental Evidence from Mexico's Labour Courts

Jan 29 2025 40 mins  
Researchers discuss using field experiments with ongoing cases to analyse sources of dysfunction in Mexico's largest labour court. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

School leadership Training in Malawi

Jan 03 2025 23 mins  
Can student progression test scores improve as a result of a custom-designed school leadership training programme? This episode discusses a custom-made training program for school leaders in Malawi's primary schools. Speakers Salman Asim, World Bank; Ravinder Casley Gera, World Bank; Donna Harris, University of Oxford; Grace Milner, Ministry of Education (Malawi).

O-Ring Production Networks

Nov 06 2024 24 mins  
What is the role of international trade in economic development? Using a rich micro-level dataset from Turkey on a wide range of firms, researchers discuss strong assortative matching of skills in the firms' production networks. What is the role of international trade in economic development? Researchers discuss evidence of strong skill matching in Turkish firms' production network

Cash Transfers and Micro-Enterprise Performance in a Refugee Camp in Kenya

Sep 26 2024 37 mins  
Researchers discuss the business and price effects of a cash transfer programme delivered to 400,000 refugees in Kenya each month in the form of digital money for buying food at licensed shops. There is mounting empirical evidence around the positive and persistent effects of cash-based assistance on direct recipients but there is limited research on the indirect effects of cash-ba

Locked Down and Locked Out: Repurposing Social Assistance in South Africa

Sep 11 2024 40 mins  
Researchers examine how an established social assistance system - not originally designed to support informal workers - can be re-purposed to provide emergency relief to support workers and their household in South Africa. The COVID-19 pandemic presented a particular challenge to countries with high levels of labour market informality. Informal workers and their households were esp

General Equilibrium Effects of Cash Transfers in Kenya (Frisch Medal 2024 Winner)

Aug 27 2024 40 mins  
Winner of the Frisch Medal 2024, this project examines the impact of a one-time cash transfers to over 10,500 poor households across villages in rural Kenya, on the individual households but also the community at large. How large economic stimuli generate individual and aggregate responses is a central question in economics but has not been studied experimentally. Working with the

An Adaptive Targeted Field Experiment: Job Search Assistance for Refugees in Jordan

Feb 22 2024 30 mins  
How can different kinds of policy help refugees and other displaced populations find work? This project focuses on three interventions designed to improve formal employment outcomes for Syrian refugees and local jobseekers in Jordan. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/

Cash Transfer Grants in South Africa during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Work Behind the ESRC Outstanding Public Policy Impact Award 2023

Nov 28 2023 24 mins  
The CSAE's Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact 2023. Stefan Dercon talks to Kate about the work behind the cash grant programme in South Africa during the Covid-19 pandemic that reached an extra 26.2 million people. Stefan Dercon is the CSAE Director and Professor of Economic Policy, University of Oxford, and Kate Orkin is the Associate Professor

AI and Services-led Growth: Evidence from Indian Job Adverts

Aug 30 2023 15 mins  
Online job adverts show that the demand for AI related skills has grown rapidly in countries around the world since 2015. This project examines the demand for AI skills in India's service sector, using a new dataset of online job adverts. Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/uk/