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Valerie Mueller
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Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU
Work on climate change impacts, focusing on human mobility
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon
Non-resident fellow at IFPRI
Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6 .. more

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Gema Zamarro @gzamarro.bsky.social · 18h
The joke of the week in my causal inference methods course this week 😂

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 20h
What do you need?

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 22h
Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/
Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school
A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...
www.nbcnews.com

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 2d
Oh yeah. Gotta wait a week. Celebrate and then have feelings later.

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 2d
It’s also limited if it proves my mechanism but I can’t rule out 10 other mechanisms

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 2d
🆕 Why firms under-promote women – and how experimentation can fix it

Today on VoxDev, Rocco Macchiavello (LSE), @amenzelecon.bsky.social (Padova), @atonurabbani.bsky.social (Dhaka) & Chris Woodruff (Oxford) discuss correcting beliefs on female managers in Bangladesh: voxdev.org/topic/labour...
Why firms under-promote women – and how experimentation can fix it
In Bangladesh’s garment sector, firms often under-promote women because of biased beliefs and distorted learning about women’s managerial ability. However, temporary, low-risk trials can correct these...
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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 2d
We have untrained ourselves of interrogating the core problems of border migration because we have allowed the media di divest from good reporting from the front.

We only get to this conversation when tragedies like this happen, but it is not enough.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4RXS9...

Reposted by Luisa N. Borrell, Valerie Mueller, Amy W. Ando

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 2d
Nice explainer for anyone curious about how exactly the shingles vaccine can protect against dementia.
open.substack.com/pub/profbuba... #idsky #episky #medsky #neurosky
How The Shingles Vaccine Protects Against Dementia
The mechanisms behind varicella zoster virus-induced dementia pathology
open.substack.com

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 2d
❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 2d
I wrote a song for our immigrant neighbors here in Minnesota.

Pardon my rusty guitar skills—it’s been over 10 years since I wrote my last song, but this moment called for music.

youtube.com/shorts/B7Csu...
In a Minnesota Winter by Heather Randell
YouTube video by Heather Randell
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 3d
The native workforces of today's wealthiest countries are rapidly disappearing due to fertility that is low and very unlikely to rise—ever, and certainly not in time to make a difference.

The brilliant Lant Pritchett spells out the implications for migration policy:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces
(Winter 2026) - Falling fertility and improved mortality create a powerful and inexorable demographic arithmetic of ageing in the coming decades around the world, with three patterns. The richest coun...
www.aeaweb.org

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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · 3d
The Bolzano Applied Microeconomics #Workshop will be held at the #Bolzano Campus of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano @unibz.bsky.social, Italy on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2026. Deadline for submissions: February 15th inomics.com/conference/b...
Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop | INOMICS
The Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be held at the Bolzano Campus of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2026. 
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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 3d
New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

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Tanisha Fazal @tanishafazal.bsky.social · 3d
Folks, Minnesota keeps going, including with work on climate change/environment. Please apply to the IonE postdoc - they are definitely interested in social scientists! sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione...
Overview
IonE Postdoctoral Fellowship Overview
sites.google.com

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Marcus C Sarofim @marcusmarcusrc.bsky.social · 3d
Some good news (though it is ridiculous that Congress needed to step in) (also, the Heritage Foundation makes it clear, once again, that they don’t understand how externalities justify government action) www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...
Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump's EPA tried to end it
The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.
www.npr.org

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Catia Batista @catiabatista.bsky.social · 4d
Apply to present your work at the @novafrica.bsky.social PhD Workshop on Development Economics.

Organized by the fantastic Econ PhD students at Nova SBE!
novafrica.bsky.social NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 4d
📢 Call for papers now open for the 4th @NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Development Economics

📍 Nova SBE (Lisbon, PT) | 📅 June 17, 2026

This is a pre-conference event ahead of the #NOVAFRICA2026 Conference.

📝 Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

🔗 bit.ly/4qPvWHy

#DevEcon #EconResearch

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Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d
This is why we can't keep staff in our department.

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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 4d
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs"
We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large
Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6

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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 4d
📢 Call for papers now open for the 4th @NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Development Economics

📍 Nova SBE (Lisbon, PT) | 📅 June 17, 2026

This is a pre-conference event ahead of the #NOVAFRICA2026 Conference.

📝 Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

🔗 bit.ly/4qPvWHy

#DevEcon #EconResearch

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AERE @aereorg.bsky.social · 4d
🆕📢Ahead-of-print in #REEP📢
"Can We Get the Lead Out? Updates to the Lead and Copper Rule for Public Drinking Water" by Michelle Marcus ( @michellemmarcus.bsky.social ).
🔗 Read it here: buff.ly/fTbPa5m
📈📉 #Econsky

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 4d
⌛3 weeks left to submit a paper for the summer conference of the CEPR Research Policy Network: The Economics of Longevity and Ageing.
#EconSky #CallForPapers
cepr.org Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · Dec 3
📢 #CallForPapers - The Economics of Longevity and Ageing
9-11 July 2026 | University of Cambridge
Deadline: 27 February 2026
Organisers: Martin Ellison @oxfordecondept.bsky.social, Tiernan Evans @eitoxford.bsky.social, Eric French
cepr.org/events/econo...
#EconSky

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Eren Arbatli @erenarbatli.bsky.social · 4d
📣 Call for Papers – 3rd Development Economics Workshop (DEW 2026)

📍 Durham University Business School, UK | 🗓 9–10 June 2026

🎤 Keynote: Prof. Oded Galor (founder of Unified Growth Theory and author of the Journey of Humanity)

#DevelopmentEconomics #CallForPapers #AcademicConference
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 4d
🚨Our new paper led by Dr. @zialyle.bsky.social looked at how climate change poses risks to US drinking water utilities & if their bonds disclose these risks to investors. Utilities serving 67 million people have high risks, but 36% of their bonds don't mention climate: www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Climate change risk index and municipal bond disclosures of United States drinking water utilities - Communications Earth & Environment
67 million customers across the US rely on drinking water utilities that face higher climate risk than accounted for, which exposes major gaps in climate adaptation and resilience planning, suggests a...
www.nature.com

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Martha Bailey @marthajbailey.bsky.social · 4d
I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2026 - July 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org

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Marcus C Sarofim @marcusmarcusrc.bsky.social · 4d
The 3rd in my Endangerment Series: this time I look at the frustratingly bad and repetitive attacks on the science: thesaraphreport.substack.com/p/a-groundho...
A Groundhog Day carousel of bad climate science
EPA Climate Science: Attack and Counterattack
thesaraphreport.substack.com

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Duke Sanford @dukesanford.bsky.social · 4d
Duke Sanford seeks to hire the inaugural Rosen Family Professor of the Practice, who will also serve as the Director of Sanford’s Polis: Center for Politics.

Applications submitted by Feb. 25 will be guaranteed full consideration.

Job announcement: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31604
Exterior of the Sanford Building on Duke's campus.

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NBER @nber.org · 4d
Documenting trends in joint exposure to environmental stressors for 168 US cities finds persistent, yet narrowing, multi-exposure gaps, from Glenn Sheriff, Danae Hernandez-Cortes, TC Chakraborty, and Theresa DeConcini www.nber.org/papers/w34739

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Erika Wise @wiseclimate.bsky.social · 5d
New paper in ERL led by Feng Wang evaluating gridded daily climate products. Interesting results include: 1) how day-shifting affects the records; 2) Pierce vs Livneh precip data (a surprise!); and 3) differences don’t really matter for tree growth modeling. doi.org/10.1088/1748...
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling
Evaluation of daily gridded climate products using in situ FLUXNET data and tree growth modeling, Wang, Feng, Wise, Erika K, Anchukaitis, Kevin J, Chang, Qing, Dannenberg, Matthew P
doi.org

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 5d
It's become fashionable to talk about how a warming planet will see more cold-air outbreaks because of changes to the "polar vortex".

But here's the thing: It's not actually happening.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/fact-check...
Fact check: Climate change is not making extreme cold more common
Sometimes it just gets cold
www.theclimatebrink.com

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Brett Christophers @brettchristophers.bsky.social · 5d
We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology.

Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography - Uppsala University
2 PhD student positions in Human Geography, Department of Human Geography, Uppsala University
www.uu.se