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Romain Wacziarg @romainwacziarg.bsky.social · Sep 4

The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · Aug 28

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Aug 28

One of the main benefits of doing a US PhD is the extra time you get, that's one of the big reasons I advised my students to apply for US programmes. We offer a four year degree here, there'd be no advantage over us. The US is euthanising its massive advantage in research for no good reason.

Oren Samet @osamet.bsky.social · Aug 28

I know there's a lot happening today, but this is sneaking in under the radar. This proposed new rule would absolutely crush foreign PhD students, potentially making it impossible for them to enroll with any certainty of their ability to finish www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 12

The employment rate of non-EU born migrants exceeded that of the UK-born for the first time on record.

Confirms other evidence that recent migrants (even if they did not arrive on work visas) are very likely to be working/have high employment rates.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Aug 8

The White House is taking new steps to undermine every international student at our universities.

It has approved a new rule restricting student visas to 4 years max. That's not long enough for PhD students, or about half of undergrads, to finish their degree.

Likely to enter force within days.

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Nadja Dwenger @nadjadwenger.bsky.social · Jun 25

Thanks to all for participating in our joint workshop on #PublicAdministration and #StateCapacity @unihohenheim.bsky.social. Frederico Finan from @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social and @hjortj.bsky.social from @ucl.ac.uk gave great keynote lectures.

Group picture, Workshop Public Administration and State Capacity University of Hohenheim

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Jonas Hjort @hjortj.bsky.social · Jun 24

Congrats also to (also trailblazing!) @adamkapor.bsky.social and to @princetonecon.bsky.social on wise decisions. inside.princeton.edu/community-ne...

Board approves 6 faculty promotions

ProfessorWyatt A. Lloyd, computer science; Mengdi Wang, electrical and computer engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning.Associate ProfessorGerman S. Gieczewski, politics; Adam K...

inside.princeton.edu

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Jonas Hjort @hjortj.bsky.social · Jun 24

Trailblazer and economist extraordinaire Mica Sviatschi just got tenure at Princeton! Mica didn’t need much guidance and I bet Miguel Urquiola wisely undid much of my rookie attempts at it, but I’m very proud of the first PhD student I properly co-advised (and the other awesome PhD advisees since)

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · Jun 15

I will take this as an excuse to plug that excellent careful work on the economics of fertility patterns in sub Saharan Africa has been done by researchers like (my past PhD student) Celine Zipfel, paper here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3v897...

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Jonas Hjort @hjortj.bsky.social · Apr 29

We at @ucleconomics.bsky.social have extended the application deadline to our MA degrees by a week (until May 8th)--all nationalities warmly welcome!

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Apr 28

American students turn to UK as Trump takes aim at US universities

https://www.ft.com/content/ebb2b7e7-5dea-47a2-8386-f12eda692c0f

American students turn to UK as Trump takes aim at US universities

Searches for British courses surge following US president’s assault on Ivy League institutions, data shows

www.ft.com

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Romain Wacziarg @romainwacziarg.bsky.social · Apr 25

I'm honored to present the April 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 outstanding papers. @jeeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Mar 27

Five years

3 million deaths

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study

Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV

www.theguardian.com

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Feb 27

“Pepfar has saved more than 26 million lives and prevented roughly 1,000 babies a day from being born with the HIV virus”

Superb piece on how cuts to USAID will affect the world’s poorest, focusing on HIV

on.ft.com/3QX1HhP

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Romain Wacziarg @romainwacziarg.bsky.social · Feb 27

Very glad to present the February 2025 issue of the JEEA - featuring 10 papers from some of the world's best economists, in a wide range of fields. academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...
@jeeanews.bsky.social

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Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · Feb 21

i just made the mistake of reading the comments on a NYT article on foreign aid.

My god, some people are just way too dumb to understand how lucky they are to have been born in a rich country. Not better or more deserving, just lucky. It's so simple and obvious.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Feb 13

foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around.

Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception.

marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

Consequences of suspending U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

marketdesigner.blogspot.com

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Feb 12

🆕 How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being? 🔊

Today on VoxDevTalks, Eyal Frank (University of Chicago) discusses how the real-world impacts of biodiversity loss can be quantified: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

The economics of ecosystems: How nature and economies interact

How does the loss of biodiversity impact economies and human well-being?

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Jeremy Konyndyk @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social · Feb 6

Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · Feb 3

Civil service was designed to protect government employees from political retaliation. That’s not working so well lately… #econsky
marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/civi...

Civil service in the United States, RIP (1883-2025)

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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · Jan 29

Count us out. www.ft.com/content/176c...

Big majority of Greenlanders do not want to be part of US, poll finds

Survey is first to be done since Trump revived his interest in buying Arctic island

www.ft.com

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · Jan 26

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jan 12

1/12. Lots of engagement with this Walmart research post. I wanted to follow up on one of the themes I noticed in reactions. This will be a longer thread than I usually write, but I want to weave together a few related points on science (and communication about it), public engagement, and policy.

Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jan 12

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being."

Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart:

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Walmart Effect

New research suggests that the company makes the communities it operates in poorer—even taking into account its famous low prices.

www.theatlantic.com

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Jonas Hjort @hjortj.bsky.social · Jan 10

Anders, du som er gammel og klok: når de norske politikerne, Aftenposten osv går all-in på denne stupide og ofte ganske rasistiske anti-woke tidsånden, er det ektefølt? Mener de det på ordentlig eller er det fordi de tror det vinner velgere og selger aviser? Tilbud eller etterspørsel?

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Anders Kjelsrud @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social · Jan 7

**New working paper**

How does the under-representation of females in Economics affect the career trajectory of female Ph.D. students?

Sahar Parsa and I look at this in a new working paper by exploring sabbatical leaves taken by female professors at top-50 US Econ departments.

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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · Dec 29

About 20 years ago I interviewed Carter regarding development and Africa and the (amazing) work of the Carter Center. He was talking about US farm subsidies and the malign effect on developing country farmers. So naturally I asked him why he hadn't addressed ag subsidies when he was president. 1/n

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Dec 29

BREAKING: Jimmy Carter has died at 100, AJC reports. www.ajc.com/news/former-...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, 100, dies

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at home in Georgia.

www.ajc.com

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