1. AI Agents to Support Migrant Career Choices

  • AI-powered reskilling platforms matching migrants’ prior education with emerging job markets.
  • Language-learning agents using adaptive dialogue systems to accelerate local language proficiency.
  • AI career coaching that simulates labor market entry strategies for migrants.
  • Cross-country credential equivalence AI agents that automate recognition of foreign degrees.
  • Predictive analytics to identify integration risks and propose tailored support for vulnerable migrants.
  • Looking for coauthors: expertise in migration economics or labor policy.

2. AI for Low-Connectivity Education

  • Edge-based LLM compression for AI tutoring in remote rural schools.
  • Offline AI agents combining solar-powered hardware with local content databases.
  • Decentralized AI learning pods: community centers hosting AI tutors accessible without internet.
  • Adaptive learning AI that uses minimal data to personalize content under tight connectivity constraints.
  • AI-driven creation of culturally relevant textbooks and simulations for indigenous communities.
  • Looking for coauthors: educational technologists, network engineers.

3. Natural Resources as a Blessing

  • “Green corridors” financed by extractive revenues: biodiversity restoration after oil booms.
  • Longitudinal studies of how sovereign wealth funds affect human capital formation.
  • Machine learning models predicting which resource-rich regions are most likely to escape the resource curse.
  • Mapping supply chain transitions from oil extraction to forestry, agriculture, or renewables.
  • Studying successful local governance arrangements that transform resource windfalls into education infrastructure.
  • Looking for coauthors: resource economists, environmental scientists.

4. AI in Tax and Financial Education

  • AI tutors simplifying complex tax systems for small business owners in developing economies.
  • Adaptive financial literacy modules using AI chat agents for vulnerable youth populations.
  • Evaluating long-run effects of AI-assisted financial literacy interventions on household resilience.
  • Deployment of offline AI financial coaches in underserved banking regions.
  • Looking for coauthors: behavioral economists, fintech researchers.

5. Gender and Classroom Dynamics

  • Using AI to simulate peer effects under different gender compositions in classrooms.
  • Dynamic models of gender-based career expectations in STEM fields.
  • AI-based mentoring programs reducing gender gaps in educational aspirations.
  • Large-scale experiments introducing AI role models in classrooms.
  • Looking for coauthors: sociologists, gender studies scholars.

6. RCTs and Experimental Designs

  • RCT measuring AI tutors’ ability to reduce learning gaps in post-conflict regions.
  • Quasi-experimental designs comparing resource-funded educational programs vs traditional aid.
  • Multi-arm RCTs testing blended learning in remote schools using low-cost AI devices.
  • Studying the impact of AI-powered formative assessments on student engagement and retention.
  • Looking for coauthors: experimental economists, education policy researchers.

7. Random Early-Stage Ideas

  • AI tools detecting early signs of school dropout via passive data collection (attendance, performance, behavioral cues).
  • Agent-based models simulating long-term labor market dynamics under rapid AI adoption.
  • Studying psychological effects of AI companionship on isolated student populations.
  • The role of AI in improving trust between migrant communities and host country institutions.
  • Impact of AI-enhanced governance transparency on resource allocation and educational equity.
  • Looking for coauthors: computational social scientists, psychologists.