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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Happening right now. To us. In America.

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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 New in Econometrica (@ecmaeditors.bsky.social)!

“Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development”

by NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE Prof #NikitaMelnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla & Micaela Sviatschi.

The paper examines how criminal activity shapes labor mobility and development in El Salvador.

🔗 t.co/jF4tEsf8MV

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 17d

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 20d

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

Research Fellowships

Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

www.iast.fr

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Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social · 21d

🏆 Congratulations to @doniakamel.bsky.social (PSE), for the MinE Best Paper Award 2025 ( @eeanews.bsky.social - Hub for Equal Representation ).
👇 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/doni...

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Ted Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social · Aug 18

And nice NPR coverage today of our research in Kenya!

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical

To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

www.npr.org

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · Jul 24

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · Jun 18

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025!

📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here:

editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf...

More details to come!

#NEUDC #NEUDC2025

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · May 31

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · May 29

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · May 29

Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊

📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin

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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · May 27

Congratulations to @frankodhiambo.bsky.social who is defending his PhD dissertation in economics at @ethz.ch today! 🥳🎊🤸🏾‍♂️🧑🏿‍🎓👑🎷

Frank is a co-founder and one of the first alumni of gain-network.net

Thank you Frank for all the leadership you have already provided to the field of economics!

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · May 26

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

www.science.org

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · May 26

www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor

An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

www.wgbh.org

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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · May 2

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program

In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Apr 28

📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.

Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...

briangknight.bsky.social

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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · Apr 25

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.

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Matthias Doepke @mdoepke.bsky.social · Apr 23

30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house.

We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Apr 22

Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan

(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance by inves...

www.aeaweb.org

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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · Apr 22

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Stefanie Stantcheva, Clark Medalist 2025

www.aeaweb.org

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Owen Ozier @owenozier.bsky.social · Apr 21

🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

IPUMS @ipums.bsky.social · Apr 18

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

Questionnaire on the use of the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) data

Please click the link to complete this form.

form.jotform.com

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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to [email protected] and [email protected], subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!

Field Research Intern - UC San Diego Economics | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

www.povertyactionlab.org

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Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · Apr 12

In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.

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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Apr 4

1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · Mar 31

Congrats!!

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · Mar 23

2-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...

1-year intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/rese...

Feel free to share with anyone who might be interested!

Predoctoral Field-Based Research Associate (Two Years) – Democratic Republic of Congo, UC Berkeley | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

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