James Allen IV
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James Allen IV
@jealleniv.bsky.social
Development Economist. Associate Research Fellow at
@IFPRI. PhD @UMichEcon, MS @MSUAFRE, BA @almacollege. RPCV Mali. All opinions are my own.

Personal Website: www.jamesalleniv.com
Bailey Palmer (UC Berkeley) combines women’s worker productivity data and WTP for childcare, transportation and preferred pay schemes to show that such amenities attract lower-productivity applicants, but offering contract choice can raise employment, welfare, and firm profit.
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Amen Jalal
amenjalal.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@amenjalal.bsky.social (LSE) analyzes millions of job applications in Pakistan and documents that high-paying firms often omit salaries in ads driving women to apply elsewhere, but a field experiment finds that mandating transparent posting of salary sharply boosts women’s job applications.
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Xuan Li (Boston Univ), not his JMP but still JM candidate, leverages China’s randomized exam-center assignments to show that off-site testing lowers scores and college admission rates, primarily due to unfamiliar environments, widening gaps for disadvantaged students.
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@ivankimt.bsky.social (Bocconi) uses micro-data from six African countries to show that delayed or false rainy-season onsets cut yields and consumption, disproportionately hurt vulnerable farmers, and highlight the value of better short-range weather forecasts.
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Molly Doruska (Cornell) studies small firms in flood-prone Dakar using an RCT and finds that vouchers spur defensive investments, but that only group coordination reduces flood losses for the average firm, as uncoordinated individual-firm investments generate harmful spillovers!
November 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Le Rossignol, Etienne, Sara Lowes, and Eduardo Montero. Fallow lengths and the structure of property rights. No. w32226. National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024.

emontero23.github.io/emwebsite/fallowing_property_rights.pdf
emontero23.github.io
November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM