What countries are most represented in development research? #econtwitter #econsky updating my previous (2019-2021) analysis using 5-year sample (2020-2025) from top general-interest journals + JDE - same sample that generates a 30% estimate of RCTs. No big surprises here

Molt content amb la posada en marxa del nou Dual Degree entre la Universitat de Barcelona @ub.edu i Kings’ College @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social a Londres. Tota la informació aquí: www.ub.edu/mipe/#dual 1/7 👇

Master in Institutions and Political Economy | UB

The Master in Institutions and Political Economy (MIPE) is a Social Science research program that combines Political Science, Economics, Economic History.

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Can giving youth & their families better information about the benefits of education change their lives? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @AcostaAminaM & I review interventions in Africa, Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean. Now out in International Journal of Educational Development!

Global food insecurity hasn’t improved much since 2022. But aid has dropped sharply, including in countries with large food-insecure populations. @charlesjkenny.bsky.social argues aid should be better targeted to crises across Africa, South Asia, & Central America: https://go.cgdev.org/3MA5iDB

The Global Collapse in Funding for the Food Insecure

On a planet that is producing more food per person than ever before, it is a moral stain that so many still suffer malnutrition or face the risk of famine. And, if sustained, the recent collapse in gl...

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It was so interesting to visit Prof Mar Grasa’s lab @biologiaub.bsky.social to learn how the hair samples from teens & parents in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study are processed to obtain cortisol, a key stress marker. Stay tuned to learn if the parenting program we tested in 🇬🇭 has impacted stress!

Full house for the first BCN-Dev meeting @ubeconomics.bsky.social! 🎉🎉 Every semester, we’ll bring together economists focusing on low and middle income countries to establish a community and a supportive forum for #earlycareer researchers to present work-in-progress (1/n)

Excited that our comment on focusing research and policies on #inequality from #children’s perspectives has been published @commspsychol.nature.com! Thanks to @kidlab.bsky.social’s Eddie Brummelmann for leading this interdisciplinary effort @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social & @CIFAR for supporting us!

KiDLAB@kidlab.bsky.social · 6mo ago

💰Economic inequality is on the rise, and children will bear its burden. Yet children’s perspectives are rarely considered. We urgently need research to understand economic inequality from children's perspectives. (1/4) rdcu.be/e3Qlb

Exciting news: I'm on the #econjobmarket this year! Thank you so much @lidiafarre.bsky.social for the guidance and support!

Lídia Farré@lidiafarre.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚀 Job Market Candidate @mcsentis.bsky.social is a brilliant scholar on the Economics job market, studying how public policies shape family dynamics. Her JMP shows that mandatory paternity leave persistently reduces severe IPV—mainly by enabling mothers to exit harmful relationships early.

We are delighted to announce our next webinar on: 📆 December 16th at 3pm (CET time). To attend the event, please register using this link: shorturl.at/cxy4Y

📣Hi #EconSky! I am on the job market! 📣 My JMP builds a 20-year panel showing an after-school care reform increased university grad. rates. 🎓 The key: moving children from home 🏠 to care centers 🧑‍🧒‍🧒, where peer interactions shaped preferences and beliefs — not skills🧮. For more: sevinkaytan.com

CEMFI@cemfi.es · 9mo ago

How does after-school childcare affect children's human capital investment? JMC Sevin Kaytan finds that after-school childcare increases university graduation rates by reshaping children's beliefs and preferences through peer interactions in care centers sevinkaytan.com

Gracias Jorge Garcia y @mariahdb.bsky.social por este articulo sobre SPANDE en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social!! 🤩 Nuestros objectivos son: - Fortecer la comunidad de economistas que trabajan en paises a renta baja o mediana - Suportar NGOs o instituciones a evaluar de manera rigorosa sus programas 👇🏾

Nada es Gratis@nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Full house for the third #SPANDE workshop start!! Thanks @mariahdb.bsky.social and Jorge Garcia Hombrados for organising and @fundacionareces.bsky.social for supporting!! See program below 👇🏾

María Hernández-de-Benito@mariahdb.bsky.social · 11mo ago

⭐Excited to share the program of the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics, at @fundacionareces.bsky.social on October 21–22 in Madrid. Co-organized with Jorge Garcia-Hombrados. Check the amazing line-up and stellar keynotes by Sylvie Lambert (PSE) and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (U Chicago)

En Madrid este martes!!! 👇🏾👇🏾

María Hernández-de-Benito@mariahdb.bsky.social · 10mo ago

⭐Este 21 de octubre organizamos en @cunef.bsky.social un taller sobre cooperación al desarrollo basada en evidencia para reflexionar sobre las necesidades de evaluación en la cooperación al desarrollo española y explorar vías de colaboración entre academia y agentes de cooperación. 1/N

go.bsky.app/9mZrrpQ thanks @jfledderjohann.bsky.social to compile this starting pack on #FoodSecurity amd #Nutrition! Here’s the link for anyone who’s interested in joining the conversation! 👇🏾

What an issue!!! So proud of my @ubeconomics.bsky.social @fundacioieb.bsky.social colleagues @matteogamalerio.bsky.social and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela that stroke not one, but TWO articles in this month issue of AEJ:Policy!! 😻

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · last yr.

The August 2025 issue of AEJ: Economic Policy (17, 3) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/812.

I had the chance to join the wonderful “Teachers’ voices” @boldinsights.bsky.social, my very first podcast!! Grateful for the chance to talk about parental education engagement and add my “researcher voice” to the ones of teachers from around the 🌍 Listen here 👇🏾

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · last yr.

🎧What role do families play in children’s learning as they grow into adolescents? Nina Alonso explores in Teachers' Voices, with researcher Elisabetta Aurino, and teachers Shereen Abdullah, Wendy McKenzie, Cheryl McKenzie. boldscience.org/how-teachers...

Since childhood, I always loved the thrill of starting a new notebook 🤓 Today especially excited to start this new one featuring Ghanaian writers that we designed to thank the 2,400 kids participating in our @erc.europa.eu LEAD study! cordis.europa.eu/project/id/1... @poverty-action.bsky.social

After the US, basic science is in danger also in the EU! Let’s raise our voices to protect the autonomy and independence of the @erc.europa.eu! Read our statement below 👇🏾

Association of ERC Grantees@ercgrantees.bsky.social · last yr.

“It is essential to enable scientists to continue delivering their groundbreaking contributions to societal progress. The best way for them to do so is to enhance the autonomy and the funding of the ERC” AERG warns about the dangers for EU research www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

Smallpox declined gradually, until the WHO coordinated the global effort to eradicate it 🧵

This post estimates that proposed USAID cuts will cost almost a million lives www.cgdev.org/blog/millio...

Has anyone archived all the materials that were previously in the DHS website?

Lee Crawfurd@leecrawfurd.bsky.social · last yr.

What's the website that archives all the data from the old USAID website?

Hoy en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social comentamos nuestro estudio con @juditvall.bsky.social y Caoimhe T Rice sobre cómo el acceso a la sanidad pública influye en las denuncias por violencia de género:

Nada es Gratis@nadaesgratis.bsky.social · last yr.

Cuando un recorte sanitario silencia a las víctimas de violencia de género nadaesgratis.es/admin/cuando... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

What happens when countries do NOT invest in #EarlyChildhood 🐣? New paper modeling COSTS OF INACTION: -NOT preventing #malnutrition in countries with high stunting costs 2.8% GDP -NOT running universal #pre-school across Sub-Saharan Africa costs 1.6%GDP www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Apply to this year’s #SPANDE #development economics workshop by June 15! Great, fun and supportive community - this year we are partnering with @fundacionareces.bsky.social which is kindly hosting us in Madrid!! #econsky

I wrote a piece for @sciam.bsky.social about why White parents should be talking to their kids about race and racism. It was so great to work with @megha.bsky.social on this piece! Please share! www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

Why It’s Important to Talk about Race with Children

Children start learning about race and racism as early as preschool. Talking about race early, however difficult, will help them become more antiracist

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Great resource to get a quick overview of new paper/stuff going on in #econsky!!! Thanks @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social to put together this fantastic newsletter!!

Best of Econtwitter newsletter@bestofecontwitter.bsky.social · last yr.

Best of #econtwitter & #econsky - Week of May 4, 2025: good tweets www.bestofecontwitter.com/p/best-of-ec...

I am excited to have joined this unique community of European scientists! Together we can make our voice of researchers heard - which now is more important than ever!! If you have @erc.europa.eu funding, consider joining us, and EVERYONE - stay tuned @ercgrantees.bsky.social for activities 👇🏾

Association of ERC Grantees@ercgrantees.bsky.social · last yr.

As the AERG community @ercgrantees.bsky.social grows, the Board of Directors welcomes four new members. Meet Elisabetta Aurino @bettaaurino.bsky.social (SH, Spain), Dragan Mihailovic (PE, Slovenia), Vikas Trivedi @viktri08.bsky.social (LS, Spain) and Johannes Henn (PE, Germany)

And check out our keynote speakers: Bishnupriya Gupta (Warwick), @climent.bsky.social (Exeter) and Christine Valente (Bristol). 3rd Workshop on Gender Issues and Development 📅 3-4 November 2025 📍University of Reading Submit your paper by July, 2 here: shorturl.at/mUhPs

Jade Siu@jadesiu.bsky.social · last yr.

Join us at the Workshop on Gender Issues and Development (3rd eds) @uor-research.bsky.social , collab w/ @odi.global , EconomiX UMR7235, @uparisnanterre.bsky.social & CY Cergy Paris University Apply by July 2, 2025: shorturl.at/mUhPs

📣 Submit your paper to the 10th Conference in Development Economics organised by SITES. Keynotes: Stefan Dercon (Oxford), Nathalie Picard (Université de Strasbourg) Kevin Urama (AFB) 📅 15-17 September 2025 📍 Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy Apply by 31 May 2025 Link: shorturl.at/unDqU