Rocco Zizzamia

Rocco Zizzamia

Session Log: Website + CV refresh (new projects, prune stale, education bio)

Session Log: Website + CV refresh (new projects, prune stale, education bio)

Date: 2026-07-29 Plan: ~/.claude/plans/rippling-booping-feigenbaum.md (approved)

Goal

Bring roccozizzamia.github.io and the CV up to date: reflect six active projects, prune stale work-in-progress entries, and rewrite the bio to foreground education work and the new Blavatnik School of Government appointment (Senior Research Fellow, from Sept 2026).

Key context / decisions (confirmed with user)

  • Affiliations: From Sept 2026, Senior Research Fellow at Blavatnik School of Governance; remains Lecturer in Quantitative Methods (ODID). No longer Research Fellow at Economics — converts to associate member of CSAE / Dept. of Economics.
  • Bio: foreground education (learning during climate crises, threshold dynamics in learning, labour-market returns to schooling) alongside social protection / climate.
  • New projects added to site (and CV where missing):
    • Learning Traps? Threshold dynamics in education — Philippines/ConnectEd (Angrist, Cullen). [site]
    • The Labour Market Returns to Schooling: Compulsory Schooling Reforms in Africa (Angrist, Djaker, Rodriguez). [site + CV]
    • Fiscal Savings from Anticipatory Action (Matta, Andrée; for IDB & UN-OCHA). [site + CV]
  • Pruned from WIP: Pakistan ultra-poor graduation (Iqbal, Nawaz); Welfare-Risk portfolio (Matta). Moved: Group vs Individual Coaching → Publications (forthcoming, AER: Insights).
  • Fixed: micronarratives coauthor “Bhattachargee” → “Bhattacharjee”.
  • Source of truth: CV is an R Markdown file (CV/rocco-zizzamia-cv.Rmd) rendered via stevetemplates::cv; rendered PDF is copied to _pages/rocco-zizzamia-cv.pdf.

Rationale / rejected alternatives

  • Considered spawning Explore/Plan subagents (plan-mode default) — skipped: full context already gathered by direct reads; agents would only re-derive.
  • Considered harmonizing the CREST title mismatch (site vs CV) — deferred; both valid, left as-is.
  • Ordering WIP education-first is a deliberate signal of the research shift (user request).

Flags

  • quality_reports/ is tracked and NOT excluded in _config.yml — currently publicly deployable. Surface to user; offer to add to Jekyll exclude.
  • New WIP abstracts are Claude-drafted summaries (no formal abstracts existed for the schooling/Philippines papers) — user to review wording.

Incremental notes

  • Implemented all 5 file changes: about.md (bio), workinprogress.md (rewrite: +3, −2, move coaching out, spelling fix, education-first reorder), publications.md (coaching added, forthcoming), CV/rocco-zizzamia-cv.Rmd (appointments + WIP), and re-rendered PDF → _pages/rocco-zizzamia-cv.pdf.
  • CV rendered cleanly via rmarkdown::render (exit 0; only benign LaTeX/microtype warnings). pdftotext confirmed Blavatnik/Lecturer/Associate Member + all three new projects present; Welfare-Risk removed.
  • Self-review fix: the schooling project’s country list includes North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia), so changed “sub-Saharan Africa” → “Africa” in the WIP abstract and bio to match the confirmed title (“…Reforms in Africa”) and avoid overclaim.
  • Minor proofreading in carried-over text: “multifacteted”→”multifaceted”, “Philippenes”→”Philippines”, “f ield”→”field”.
  • Toolchain note: local bundle exec jekyll build blocked by a pre-existing bundler-version mismatch (system Ruby 2.6 wants bundler 2.4.13; Homebrew Ruby 3.3.4 has no Jekyll gems). Not caused by these edits. Verified instead: YAML front matter intact on all pages, <details>/<summary> balanced (WIP 6/6, pubs 9/9), grep checks all pass. GitHub Pages builds server-side on push.
  • Status: COMPLETE (not committed — awaiting user).