#RefugeeAllStars

[13MSP #ConventionOnClusterMunitions] Lao PDR, Iraq & others stated clearance, risk education or victim assistance had to be reduced or stopped.
@hi-federation.bsky.social & @banclusterbombs.bsky.social call on states to ensure funding for all affected States to achieve clearance of cluster munition

The 13th meeting of the Convention on Cluster Munitions starts today in Geneva: www.clusterconvention.org/13msp-int/

The Legacies of War project does a great job at explaining why these meetings matter: www.legaciesofwar.org

But, what do we know about the economics of humanitarian demining?

Very useful discussion on the perils of using micro/cross-sectional parameter estimates in inferring the aggregate effects of policies/shocks. This is pervasive in Economics, yet the two effects can even have the opposite signs. (Example in next post.) voxdev.org/topic/method...

Man United, doing their bit to raise the spirits of a nation. Well done Grimsby!

Nice summary of an important macro-dev paper on India's 'regulatory cholesterol' - another must-read for policymakers by Shoumitro Chatterjee et al.

Very nice illustration of relational inequality.

Admittedly painful to read after recently declining an invitation to attend an old school friend's 3-day long birthday celebrations on an Indonesian island 💸

In a chaotic, ever-changing world, a stoic hero continues to stand undaunted in the same position (15th with negative goal difference) as last season. 🫣

Attributing low innovation to brain-drain/migration is like blaming your TV remote for world events.

Alternate headline: Indian IT giants getting better at helping clients actually generate value using gen-AI

100 trillion $ question: who will eat more of the pie over the long term - the parent firms who build AI (like automobiles) or those who build with AI as an input (like electricity)?

Sobering episode for anyone trying to join the dots to identify macro-risks slowly yet steadily building up over the horizon.

Ideal to suppress the pain of a challenging summer hike/ride.

Light-hearted, instinctive response to yet another thought piece (second of this summer) pondering the state of an entire field of inquiry without acknowledging the power dynamics that shape it 😉

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWa-...

"Natural experiments, high stakes, ..., observability of strategies, incentives, actions and consequences, large datasets, exogenous rule changes, distinct social effects, and no Hawthorne effects. These and other desirable attributes for empirical work are found in sports settings."

Baller review.

Happy birthday 🇨🇭 - you are often abstruse, equally generous as you are insular, yet always beautiful. Beyond Alpine beauty & market liberalism, you are a shining political exemplar with centuries of distributed executive power, universal education & politically engaged citizenry.

shorturl.at/JKmjo

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.

Evocative essay on the public vs personal legacies of violence.

Can not help but contrast European experience with others who walked into an 'authoritarian trap,' at least in part driven by demand for protection from future violence. But which instead extends both public and private trauma.

Happy Chungking Express day to those who observe

Deeply insightful podcast with Martin Wolf and @baldwinre.bsky.social, inducing strong feelings of déjà vu for Richard's graduate micro/trade lectures.

podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast/t...