📢 Just accepted in #JAERE! 📢 "Parameter recovery using remotely sensed variables" by Jonathan Proctor, Tamma Carleton, and Sandy Sum @sandysum.bsky.social. 📎 Read it here: buff.ly/Qo9Jeeu 📈📉 #Econsky

📅 Mentoring Programme: November 2026 – July 2027 ⏰ Applications close: 14 September 🔗 Apply via the link! form.jotform.com/262114506070...

🚨 CORRIGENDUM ALERT 🚨 A decade after Star Wars: The Empirics Strike Back was published in AEJ: Applied, we've just published an official corrigendum with the AEA. This is a love story. 🧵

1/5 AEA journals have run a pilot using Refine, and author reactions were overwhelmingly positive: >90% favored incorporating Refine into the editorial process. Think of Refine not as a referee, but as a detailed technical proofreader. @aeajournals.bsky.social #EconSky

U.S. Mint Unveils Series Of Gold Coins Commemorating President’s Extramarital Affairs https://theonion.com/u-s-mint-unveils-series-of-gold-coins-commemorating-presidents-extramarital-affairs/

📢 We are hiring 📢 Please spread the word: We are hiring a 🧑‍🎓 Postdoc (up to 6 years, non-tenure track) at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! Come join our team as junior faculty: www.ifo.de/en/job-offer... Application deadline: July 22

🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...

Two days in, 2,671 development economists from 126 countries have joined @ideadevecon.bsky.social! @owenozier.bsky.social lays out why development economics needed a global home. Now on the @cgdev.org blog. Read it, then add your name: idea.devecon.org 🌍 www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu...

Introducing IDEA—the International Development Economics Association

Labor economists have the Society of Labor Economists. Health economists have the International Health Economics Association. Economic historians have the Economic History Association. What about deve...

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📊 For 25 years, #Spain appeared to have a #demographic mystery: too many boys, too few girls. A new IZA Discussion Paper by Manuel Bagues & @carmenvillaecon.bsky.social reveals that Spain’s so-called “missing women” never went missing at all. #DataQuality 🔗 Learn more: www.iza.org/news/solving...

I'm THRILLED to be a part of the @ideadevecon.bsky.social International Development Economics Association as a board member. We're building a global home for development economists (researchers, practitioners, everyone!) Join us at idea.devecon.org for updates!

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Welcome to IDEA!

IDEA on the World Bank's Development Impact blog. Board member Owen Ozier introduces the association — why development economics needs a global professional home, and what IDEA is building. Read it, then join us: idea.devecon.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Introducing IDEA – the International Development Economics Association

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Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

Welcome to IDEA!

Why do development economists finally need an association of their own? IDEA Board member Owen Ozier makes the case for @ideadevecon.bsky.social on the World Bank's Development Impact blog — development's most-read blog. Read it, then join us! blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Introducing IDEA – the International Development Economics Association

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📣 Kick off of the LISER Policy Lab 'Workshop and Policy Roundtable: Designing a Competitive Luxembourg: #Housing, #Mobility, and Talent for the Future' 🗣️ André Gröger (andregroeger.bsky.social) of @liser-cb.bsky.social welcomes scholars, stakeholders & researchers. ℹ️ www.liser.lu/events/Polic...

📢 Registrations are open for the workshop: Families, Welfare Policies and Child Human Capital 📅 26 May 2026 in #Luxembourg 🗣️ Keynote lecture by Prof. Isabelle Brocas of @usc.edu on decision-making & #childdevelopment. ⌛ Register by May 21 (12PM) 🔗 Event info: www.liser.lu/events/2026-... 1/2

📢 The LISER Policy Lab team is pleased to share a new Policy Brief " #Refugees and work: time to rethink integration in #Luxembourg" by H. Brücker, F. Docquier & @martinfs23.bsky.social Shifting focus from linguistic & civic integration towards labour market #integration 🔗 liser.lu/news/Policy-...

Call for proposals: $10,000 seed grants for research about religion in the U.S. https://www.ssrc.org/programs/religion-and-the-public-sphere/innovation-in-religion-and-spirituality-seed-grants/ Great opportunity!

Innovation in Religion and Spirituality Seed Grants

The Religion and the Public Sphere program at the Social Science Research Council aims to foster research on the wider implications of new forms of religious and spiritual life. This program is offered with the support of the Luce Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Templeton World Charity Foundation.

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📢 Registrations are open for the Sixth OECD-IZA@LISER @iza.org Workshop on #WorkingTime 🤝 A new online workshop will focus on working time policies in #OECD countries, fostering dialogue b/t researchers, policymakers & experts. 📅7 May 2026: 14h-17h15 CET 🔗 Event info: www.liser.lu/events/Sixth...

🚨 U Melbourne flagship McKenzie Postdoc - 3 years fully funded, no teaching - 25K research budget - fame and prestige EOI closing 7 May, need to have a supervisor (email/DM me with Qs!) sites.research.unimelb.edu.au/research-fun...

Did a series of videos with Markus Brunnermeier on Claude Code (more to come) Video 1: Getting Started with CC open.substack.com/pub/paulgp/p...

Getting Started with Claude Code: A Researcher’s Setup Guide

Video 1 in a series on Claude Code

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EconReporter@econreporter.bsky.social · 7mo ago

@paulgp.com teaches Claude Code for Economists

The transition to IZA@LISER is moving forward! We’ve rebranded iza.org and wol.iza.org to reflect our new home. 🏠 We’re also back to publishing IZA Discussion Papers and will be ramping up our media activities shortly. Thanks for staying with us -- more research updates coming your way soon! 📈

Urban and Trade juniors 🚨 @foxecon.bsky.social and I are organizing a few thematic sessions at the SEAs in November this year. If you've finished your PhD in the last 1-2 years, send submissions us; we'll let you if it themes. Deadline: 🗓️ Friday May 27 ❗️ southerneconomic.org/conference/c...

2026 Call for Papers and Session Proposals

2026 Call for Papers Southern Economic Association®96th Annual Meeting November 21-23, 2026Marriott Marquis HoustonHouston, TX Call for Papers and Session Proposals The Call for Papers and Ses…

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📢 Call for Papers | ReCIPE 🗓 Deadline: 31 March 2026 ReCIPE is pleased to collaborate with Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) for their Annual Conference on 6-7 November in Paris! 🔗 The call for papers is here: grp.cepr.org/events/esoc-... #EconSky

Video of my talk about this chapter at the STEG 2026 Conference in Nairobi is here (from 1:56.00 to 2:52.30): www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEDi... I also discuss my new paper with Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, and Siddharth Sharma on learning spillovers in Bangladesh: www.columbia.edu/%7Eev2124/re...

STEG Annual Conference 2026 Friday 9th January - Part 2

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Eric Verhoogen@ericverhoogen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

New paper!

📢 Job opportunities 🔹 LISER is currently recruiting 2 Pre-Doctoral Researchers (f/m) to join the @erc.europa.eu-project “Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries” #RUSTDEC, under the leadership of Dr. @andregroeger.bsky.social ⏳ Deadline: 15/03/2026 🔗 jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

📢 11th DENeB PhD Workshop 📢 taking place on April 17, 2026, in Berlin, hosted at @isdcberlin.bsky.social We’re excited to welcome Karlijn Morsink as our keynote speaker! Sponsored by @Geo_X_ 🔗 Apply by February 27, 2026 ⬇️ Links in the comments! ⬇️