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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 27d

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

www.nytimes.com

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · 27d

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created.

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Aug 27

Congrats Nadine, very important and timely work!

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Aug 26

A big thank-you to my colleagues at FJP for their outstanding work in organizing this series and driving the conversation on using evidence to shape better public policies

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Aug 26

This lecture marked the kick-off of a series of events on evidence-informed policymaking, funded by the British Academy and developed in partnership with the João Pinheiro Foundation.

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering a lecture to the State Minister of Planning of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We discussed key lessons from the UK’s system of policy evaluations and how these insights can help strengthen evaluation practices in Brazil.

Picture of attendants at lecture at FJP.

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Sandy Black @econsandy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

mailchi.mp/sole-jole/so...

SOLE 2026 Submissions Open

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Jul 31

Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.

Trump signs order increasing Brazil tariff to 50 percent

President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order raising tariffs on imports from Brazil to 50 percent, escalating his fight with the largest South American economy. The order Trump signed dec…

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Matthew A Kraft @matthewakraft.com · Jul 17

In 2022, as I was tucking my then 7-year-old son into bed he said to me in a sleepy haze

"Dad, global warming is bad. What are we going to do?"

This❓from out of the blue ROCKED me

I've spent the last several years searching for an answer

Let me tell you about that journey & where I've landed

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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · Jul 14

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

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Tom Sasse @tomsasse.bsky.social · Jun 27

We are hiring for a paid six-month internship on The Economist’s Britain desk. Please share!
economist.com/britain/2025...

Paid internship on The Economist’s Britain desk

An opportunity to write for The Economist

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · Jun 23

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.

It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

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Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social · Jun 23

I'd love to fund studies of interventions that reduce real-time pollution exposure, in the US, on outcomes related to violence and criminal behavior.

(There is strong evidence that such exposure increases violence in real time; the next question is how much interventions can mitigate this effect.)

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · Jun 11

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

#EconSky #AcademicSky

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jun 4

🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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Martin Friedrich @martinfriedrich.bsky.social · Jun 2

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work.

🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25
💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month 
🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program

Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

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DIW Berlin @diw.de · May 26

„Deutschland braucht kein unsinniges Lamentieren über fehlende Leistungsbereitschaft von jungen Menschen“, sagt DIW-Präsident @mfratzscher.bsky.social. Ihm zufolge habe der Arbeitsmarkt noch jede Menge ungenutztes Potenzial.
Zur Kolumne: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... / via @zeit.de

DIW Berlin: Überstunden und gestrichene Feiertage helfen nicht weiter

Deutschland muss mehr arbeiten, fordern Wirtschaft und Politik. Die Abschaffung eines Feiertags wäre Symbolpolitik – und übersieht das wahre Potenzial des Landes. Das Gerücht, wir Deutschen seien fau...

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Gabriella Conti @gabriconti.bsky.social · May 22

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!!

🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked.

💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy.

Ready for the launch! 🚀

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · May 22

NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.

Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.

THREAD on our new ‪@nuffieldfoundation.org‬-funded report:

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Chart shows the effects of Sure Start on academic achievements by age, SEN support by age, probability of hospitalisation by age and criminal behaviour up to age 16.

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · May 10

Star pianist Igor Levit informs the German film awards audience that Margot #Friedländer has passed away.

“She was a miracle.” His impromptu speech is worth watching if you understand German. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVt...

Igor Levit über Margot Friedländer beim Deutschen Filmpreis 2025 -

YouTube video by Rederei FM

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · May 9

When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...

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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · Apr 29

Quite the quote.

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Apr 24

Cool graph. If you had asked me, I would not have correctly predicted that the slope was steepest for Latin America

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Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner @koppensteiner.bsky.social · Mar 10

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

Richard Blundell @richardblundell.bsky.social · Mar 9

The Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review (LACIR), a review inspired by the UK IFS Deaton Review of Inequalities on Latin America's persistent high inequality, has had its first major output published as a supplement in Oxford Open Economics.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies @theifs.bsky.social · Mar 7

This week the Latin American and Caribbean Inequality Review has published a supplement in Oxford Open Economics!

IFS' @richardblundell.bsky.social, Sonya Krutikova, @bancalaria.bsky.social & @papiteide.bsky.social have contributed chapters to the review.

📗Find out more:

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Birgitta Rabe @rabe-b.bsky.social · Feb 21

📣📣📣Job Alert 📣📣📣

Come work with me on children’s health and human capital!

@iseressex.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

🗓️2 year Post-Doc, start Oct 2025
📝Apply by 23 March
🔗More info: tinyurl.com/y54tuds3, or contact me.

Join us at Essex! Please share 👋

Job profile

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · Feb 18

Fantastic short clip in response to nativist remarks by CDU leader Merz, stating the well-documented but oft-ignored fact that women are much more likely to get assaulted by their partner at home than by (immigrant) strangers outside of the home.

DennisKBerlin @denniskberlin.bsky.social · Feb 18

So ist es.

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