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Jonathan Weigel @JonathanWeigel

Assistant professor @BerkeleyHaas. Development, political economy, PF-dev.

Joined April 2013
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Anja Benshaul-Tolonen@TolonenAnja
21 Oct 2025
Join our team as a Postdoctoral Scholar, Mining and Local Development in Zambia Apply here: cega.submittable.com/submit/…

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Jonathan Weigel@JonathanWeigel
21 Mar 2025
Looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE)! 2-year predoc RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers… 1-year predoc RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers… 1-year intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @econ_ra
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Eva Davoine@EvaDavoine
23 Feb 2025
🚨New working paper🚨 “The Political Costs of Taxation” with @EnguehardJoseph & @IgorKol52824963 When a state has low capacity and legitimacy, attempts to enforce unfair taxation can fuel social conflict! Some key findings: 🧵 1/10
International Tax Observatory@taxobservatory
20 Feb 2025
Our recent WP explores the political consequences of enforcing the salt tax in early modern #France 🇫🇷 The authors examine how stricter enforcement of this tax, which varied across regions, led to conflicts between taxpayers and the state. Read here: taxobservatory.eu/publicatio…
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VoxDev@vox_dev
27 Oct 2024
Can we use experiments to understand institutions? In this week's episode of VoxDevTalks, Michael Callen @LSEEcon & @JonathanWeigel @BerkeleyHaas spoke to @timsvengali about the rise of experimental tools to measure institutional change: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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VoxDev@vox_dev
23 Oct 2024
🆕 Can we use experiments to understand institutions? In this week's episode of VoxDevTalks, Michael Callen @LSEEcon & @JonathanWeigel @BerkeleyHaas speak to @timsvengali about the rise of experimental tools to measure institutional change: voxdev.org/topic/institution…
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Augustin Bergeron@ABergeron_econ
13 Oct 2024
🚨Exciting Opportunity! 🚨We're looking for a Predoc RA Intern to join projects on state capacity and economic development in the DRC Apply now if you're passionate about Dev/PF/PE! 👉 Research Associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers… 👉 Research Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers…

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Looking for Predoc RA intern to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE)! DRC-based research associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers… DRC-based research intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @econ_ra

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Projects with @ABergeron_econ, @DinaPomeranz, @gabezt, @DrMarinaNgoma, Binta Zahra Diop, James Robinson, Joana Naritomi, Sam Kapon, and others
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Looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in DRC studying the role of state capacity in economic development (Dev/PF/PE). Two-year DRC- and Berkeley-based predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers… One-year DRC-based research intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @econ_ra

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Guo Xu@guoxu_econ
30 Apr 2024
Hi everyone, I am looking to hire a pre-doc to work on topics in political economy and economic history. Please RT and share with anyone who might be interested! More details below - apply here: careerspub.universityofcalif… @econ_ra
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Jonathan Weigel@JonathanWeigel
21 Mar 2024
Come work with us! Looking for French-speaking RAs for research projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development. Predoctoral RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers… RA: povertyactionlab.org/careers… Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @econ_ra

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Nick Tsivanidis@NTsivanidis
15 Apr 2024
🚨 Full-Time Pre-doc Position at UC Berkeley🚨 Want to get your hands dirty with big data, economic modeling and empirical work across projects in low- and middle-income countries? Come work for me as a full-time predoc based at Berkeley Haas.
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Econometrica@ecmaEditors
6 Apr 2024
According to a field experiment in DR Congo, property tax rates are above the revenue-maximizing rate. The government could increase revenue by (i) lowering tax rates or (ii) investing in enforcement capacity, which shifts up the revenue-maximizing rate econometricsociety.org/publi…
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NBER
@nberpubs
22 Dec 2023
RA review of literature that examines changes to institutions, consists of real-time studies of plausible critical junctures, and exploits field experiments, from Michael Callen, @jonathanweigel, and Noam Yuchtman nber.org/papers/w31964
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Justine Knebelmann@JustineKneb
14 Nov 2023
🚨Excited to present my JMP! "Discretion versus Algorithms: Bureaucrats and Tax Equity in Senegal" drive.google.com/file/d/1EAP… #EconTwitter #EconJobMarket 🧵[1/11]
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Augustin Bergeron@ABergeron_econ
25 Oct 2023
🚨Join our research team in Kananga, DRC!🚨 We are looking to hire up to two French-speaking research interns to work on DEV and PE projects studying the role of state capacity in economic development. More information here: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @predoc_org @econ_ra

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Jonathan Weigel@JonathanWeigel
25 Oct 2023
Join our research team! Looking for French-speaking research intern to work on projects in DRC in Dev/PE/PF space with focus on role of state capacity in economic development. More here: povertyactionlab.org/careers… @econ_ra

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