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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 2h

It's striking to see what's happening in MN, having recently read Paul Collier's "Exodus." Collier's gripe w/ immigration is that it erodes a society's "mutual regard." MN is showing multiethnic, mutual regard in spades.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 20h

Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!

It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 2h

Nice report by @wwhglobaled.bsky.social on the returns to increasing foundational learning worldwide. Requires lots of assumptions, but a worthwhile exercise to pivot from schooling quantity measures to learning.

The final result is eyepopping -- +$196 trillion to global GDP!

What Works Hub for Global Education @wwhglobaled.bsky.social · 3h

📢 A first-of-its-kind global analysis reveals massive economic, fiscal & human development returns from ensuring children can read by age 10.

Learn how universal #FoundationalLearning narrows global inequalities as it raises prosperity ➡️ buff.ly/xIy4MEd

Achieving universal foundational learning could increase global GDP by $196 trillion over 20 years - What Works Hub for Global Education

This study models the global impacts of universal foundational learning on economic growth, education, employment, health & gender equality.

www.wwhge.org

What Works Hub for Global Education @wwhglobaled.bsky.social · 3h

📢 A first-of-its-kind global analysis reveals massive economic, fiscal & human development returns from ensuring children can read by age 10.

Learn how universal #FoundationalLearning narrows global inequalities as it raises prosperity ➡️ buff.ly/xIy4MEd

Achieving universal foundational learning could increase global GDP by $196 trillion over 20 years - What Works Hub for Global Education

This study models the global impacts of universal foundational learning on economic growth, education, employment, health & gender equality.

www.wwhge.org

Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 19h

Noem: the paid protestors in Minnesota.

Minnesota:

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

Sub-zero resistance: Minnesotans standing tall against ICE.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20h

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 20h

Many Americans are terrible neighbors to each other, and that is why MN is striking everyone as extraordinary activism... when they are telling us that it is not. They're good neighbors!

It's no wonder that "being a shitty neighbor" is the hallmark of our domestic politics and our foreign policy.

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 1d

At the airport ...

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 1d

Too soon

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 2d

Take my class (if you are a @ubuffalo.bsky.social student)!

Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in exploring the causes of economic growth and development and the relationship between economic growth and income disparity?

Join us for our #Spring2026 session of Economic Development (ECO 416)!

#UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social

Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 2d

Interested in exploring the causes of economic growth and development and the relationship between economic growth and income disparity?

Join us for our #Spring2026 session of Economic Development (ECO 416)!

#UBuffalo @ubartsandsciences.bsky.social

AEFP @aefpweb.bsky.social · 2d

We’re excited to announce Innovation Day, sponsored by Arnold Ventures! This interactive event brings policymakers, practitioners & researchers together for meaningful, evidence-based conversations led by experts. Learn more & apply by January 30, 2026: aefpweb.org/innovati...

Center for Effective Global Action @cega-uc.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Call for speakers!

The 2026 MeasureDev conference will gather experts to explore how rapid changes in technology and computational methods are shaping empirical research.

Applications for speakers are now open until January 30. Apply today!

🔗: go.cega.org/measuredev-2026

MeasureDev 2026: Open Science in the Age of AI: Balancing Privacy and Transparency

Over the past decade, social scientists and technologists have made significant advancements in transparency and reproducibility: from data and code sharing to pre-analysis plans and replication...

go.cega.org

Matt Rutledge @rutledgematt.bsky.social · 3d

Hey #econsky: are you a researcher who secretly prefers your side teaching gig? Or is tenure looking like a reach because you “teach too much”? Or a liberal arts prof who’d prefer a big city with a larger pool of impressive, thoughtful students? Come be a Boston College PoP! 1/x

View of Boston College's Gasson Hall and Lower Campus facing toward Boston's skyline

Johannes Haushofer @johanneshaushofer.com · 3d

New cool fellowship from the Weiss Fund for junior researchers in LMICs: weissfund.uchicago.edu/weiss-fund-j...

Weiss Fellowship for Junior Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Weiss Fund

The Weiss Fund Fellowship provides supplementary financial support for exceptional job market PhD candidates accepting positions in Weiss Fund-eligible countries and doing work aligned with the Weiss ...

weissfund.uchicago.edu

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 3d

Wow what an honor!
Authors: now you know who to be mad at.

The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 3d

🏆Congratulations @toddpugatch.bsky.social !
Thank you for your excellent work reviewing for the JHR in 2025.

Excellence in Reviewing 2025 Todd Pugatch

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 3d

A buddy in MN shared a drawing a classmate of his kid made. They've been making thank you notes for parents who have volunteered to carpool them to school so their own parents don't have to risk waiting out by the bus stop.

thank you for helping my friends come to school

The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 3d

🏆Congratulations @toddpugatch.bsky.social !
Thank you for your excellent work reviewing for the JHR in 2025.

NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 4d

🎉 New article in the Review of Economics and Statistics!

Sibling Spillovers and Free Schooling

Congratulations to NOVAFRICA NovaSBE Prof @wsandholtz.bsky.social!

Using data from Tanzania, the paper shows Free Secondary Education reversed negative sibling spillovers in enrollment.

bit.ly/4jH4Tva

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 4d

Dang, we are in a bleak timeline. Meanwhile, my neighbor is using his snowblower to clear the sidewalk in front of my house, just out of kindness. A small ray of light in a very dark time.

Andrés Barrios-Fernández @andresbafer.bsky.social · 4d

🚨📢 Call for papers - IV Workshop on Economics of Education, Valle Nevado 🇨🇱⛷️

📅 August 18-21
📍Valle Nevado, Chile

Keynotes by Josh Goodman (
@buwheelock.bsky.social ) and Chris Neilson (Yale)

Submit by March 6 👇
bit.ly/49QSsd3

@joshua-goodman.com @christopherneilson.bsky.social

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 4d

Used to think this would change when my kids understood time. Now they do, but when they realize we're ahead on morning routine, they waste time so that we still end up rushing out the door. It's an immutable law of the universe.

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 4d

How In-School Supervised Ed-Tech Support Produces Massive Learning Gains: A Khan Academy Field Experiment in India www.nber.org/papers/w34683

"randomly selected treatment schools received lab-in-charges to ensure high-fidelity implementation...Math achievement rose by half a SD over 31 weeks"

How In-School Supervised Ed-Tech Support Produces Massive Learning Gains: A Khan Academy Field Experiment in India

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 4d

Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides!
We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on International Migration is out now!

Senior Editor Dean Yang & Co-Editors Catia Batista, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Caroline Theoharides review research on international migration.

Read & download here: https://ow.ly/qXx950XWAar

Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 4d

There is still time to sign up for one of our 400-level courses for the #Spring2026 semester, #UBuffalo!

Check out one of our financial economics electives: Financial Economics (ECO 426) and Practicum in Financial Economics II (ECO 489)!

More info: pub.hub.buffalo.edu

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 5d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience – Evidence from School Parents in Brazil" by Guilherme Lichand, Nina Cunha, Ricardo A. Madeira, and Eric Bettinger. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

When the Effects of Informational Interventions Are Driven by Salience – Evidence from School Parents in Brazil

(Forthcoming Article) - Do informational interventions work because they lead subjects to merely update beliefs in the right direction or, to a large extent, because they increase the salience of the ...

www.aeaweb.org

Jacobs Foundation @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Applications are open!

This is an opportunity for evidence intermediaries to help test and shape an early-stage evidence repository, supporting policy- and practice-relevant education decision-making.

🛎️ Book a 15-minute slot with the help desk 🔗 www.wwhge.org/what-we-do/i...

Economics | University at Buffalo @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social · 5d

There is still time to sign up for one of our 400-level courses for the #Spring2026 semester, #UBuffalo!

Check out one of our econometrics electives: Time Series Analysis and Forecasting (ECO 461) and Big Data and Application of Machine Learning in Economics (ECO 485)!

Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 6d

Hesitating very much to put this on the internet, but: any suggestions for guides for exploring Claude code for applied micro analysis (these days I mostly work on RCTs); primarily in R; not a current Github user (I'm open to changing); AND step-by-step from very beginning

Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 7d

Playoff gameday in Buffalo! My dog Taco is ready.

NBER @nber.org · 9d

A 3-week training program for secondary school students modeled after western business schools generated a return on investment of incremental business earnings 20 times program costs, from Laura Chioda, Paul Gertler, David Contreras-Loya, and Dana R. Carney www.nber.org/papers/w34637

Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 9d

All are welcome to the launch talk for the new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Co-authored with @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social , Caroline Theoharides.
Wed 14 Jan, 9 am US eastern.

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 13d

📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration.

Register➡️ https://ow.ly/y5n150XRWT9

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