Very excited to be traveling to @insead.bsky.social today for the 2026 SIOE Conference. While looking forward to the academic exchanges, I look with concern at the wildfires in the area that destroy nature and threaten people's livelihoods. Grateful to everyone who put their lives at risk.

So incredibly proud of my new colleague, Carmela Accettura, for winning the Best Paper Award on Gender Economics from the Unicredit Foundation. Her job market paper is really great, it's fully deserved! Congratulazioni, Carmela! www.unicreditfoundation.org/en/news-and-...

Since we might be hiring this fall... This is today's walk to my office...

One of our job market candidates at Tilburg University had an offer withdrawn very late by the institution's rector because Tilburg is not ranked in the top 200 in the QS ranking. All of this after they assured our candidate that the rector's approval would be a formality... This is frustrating...

The second 2026 Bristol Applied Economics Meeting is on the Economics of Migration. We have an amazing program ahead of us. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk. Program: www.baem.info/Program_MIG_...

Welcome to day 2! @david-schindler.de shows that sexual violence committed by Moroccan soldiers in Italy during WWII triggered a far-right shift after the recent arrival of immigrants from Syria/MENA. Mechanism: selective recall of collective memory. Paper: david-schindler.de/workingpaper...

What a lovely and sunny Spring day to visit @wzb.bsky.social and present joint work with @rghidoni.bsky.social. Very excited for the day!

First they threaten the University to switch all undergraduate programs to Dutch. And when universities appease by abandoning some English language programs they do a 180... Turncoats... I have no other words...

I guess it was just a question of time until someone created a grant writing bot. Unsure how I feel about this.

🚨🚨 Job alert 🚨🚨 Postdoc in Economic History at Tilburg University Come work with me as a postdoc in the beautiful Netherlands. The position is for 3 years, with very low teaching, and you'll have plenty of time to develop your own research agenda. econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

A new paper by George Borjas—who served this past year in the Trump White House designing some of its anti-immigration policies—claims to display evidence of ideological bias among researchers who study immigration. doi.org/10.1126/scia... 🧵 Thread—>

In 2019 Trump’s former Russia adviser Fiona Hill testified to the intelligence committee that there had been moves towards a secret agreement where Trump would take Venezuelan and in exchange Russia would be given free reign to take Ukraine impeachmentpapers.dp.la/Text/body13_...

Utrecht University abolishes its English language bachelor's program in economics and replaces it with a Dutch one. They told staff (~30% international) the week before Christmas. Layoffs seem likely now. Unwarranted lobotomy is the only word I can find for it... dub.uu.nl/en/news/econ...

Economics programme in shock after sudden cancellation of English-taught track

The Bachelor's programme in Economics & Business Economics will only be offered in Dutch from 2029 onwards, the Executive Board announced on Tuesday. The news came as a complete surprise to the econom...

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Good luck to all the candidates and recruiters this week!

EEA@eeanews.bsky.social · 8mo ago

#EJME online interviews week! 🍀 Best of luck to all candidates as your work & ideas take centre stage 📚 🤝 Warm wishes to recruiters for a successful and rewarding hiring season Let’s keep EJME respectful, collaborative & inspiring Competitive yet cooperative @david-schindler.de @resmedia.bsky.social

Devastating news from Brown University. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. The fact that this was an economics class makes it feel closer to home.

Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 8mo ago

2 dead, 9 wounded in shooting at Brown University; suspect still at large - Ocean State Media [with information reportedly on the classroom where it happend, not yet confirmed] www.oceanstatemedia.org/news-and-cul...

I had temporarily suspended all US travel after news emerged of how some fellow Germans and fellow academics were treated at the US border. If this passes, I won't travel to the United States before it is repealed. This saddens me as I miss out on meeting friends and colleagues...

Kim Lane Scheppele@kimlanelaw.bsky.social · 8mo ago

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Quick and decisive action by the AEA. Commendable!

AEA Information@aeainformation.bsky.social · 8mo ago

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social It's bad! paulgp.com/2025/11/24/j...

This data matches my observations regarding ads posted on EconJobMarket.org. The market this year will be very difficult for many candidates.

John Cawley@johncawley.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New data on the #EconJobMarket as of Nov 2. Based on total # of job listings on JOE, this year continues to be even weaker (by 11%) than during COVID (2020). 1/many #EconSky

I had great fun presenting some recent work with @rghidoni.bsky.social here at @tudresden.bsky.social! Amazing room filled with amazing people and great feedback!

🗣️(self) nominations for editorship of JEEA now open. Fields of expertise sort in this search include: Labour Economics, Economics of Gender, Family economics & Health Economics. Candidates should be available to start receiving manuscripts from early 2026. ℹ️ www.eeassoc.org/news/nominat...

Join us to learn everything about the signaling mechanism! Important for both candidates and recruiting committees!

EEA@eeanews.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢Candidates & recruiters invited to join @david-schindler.de for a Q&A session on EJME signalling mechanism 🗓️Friday, Nov 7 @ 15:30 CET ℹ️& pre-registration: europeanjobmarketofeconomists.org/workshops @resmedia.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social #EconSky #EconJMP

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

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A long way to go for 🇪🇺 in academia - but worth it. Informative PBS clip on the situation in the US👇🏼

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social · 9mo ago

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

It's Election Day and polling stations are set up on campus. I hope that sanity prevails this time in this insane world and the Netherlands gets a government the country deserves: one that invests in education and innovation.

Congrats to Elias Papaioannou on being elected by EEA members Vice President 2026 Congrats also @florinbilbiie.bsky.social Julia Cagé, Pierre Dubois, Patricia Funk, Luis Garicano, Libertad González, Dorothea Kübler, Jan Stuhler & Séverine Toussaert on being elected to Council. .

Some authors have contacted AEA editors about an unexpected loss of data access that affects their ability to respond to an R&R. If this affects you, please explain the circumstances in your cover letter. Or reach out to the coeditor if you need guidance before resubmitting. @aeajournals.bsky.social

Wow. This is the paper I have been waiting for. Mobile apps are brain rot, with meaningfully bad economic consequences for those who overuse them.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

I just received an email informing us about safety measures to take when traveling. Five years ago, I would not have imagined seeing these countries named together: "Countries classified as high risk in terms of knowledge security are: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and the United States."