LEAP has two candidates on the economics job market: Gabriel Brown and Tim Ngalande. Gabriel is a postdoctoral fellow whose job-market paper on Bible translations in Africa combines an extraordinary new dataset on missions, language and infrastructure with state-of-the-art identification to show how vernacular codification shaped colonial investment and long-run education and health. Tim has just submitted a PhD that builds new twentieth-century data for South African mining and manufacturing and uses growth accounting, structural modelling and quasi-experimental evidence to quantify how apartheid’s labour and transport institutions misallocated talent and imposed large productivity costs.