Hello @ideadevecon.bsky.social community! We'd like to hear from you about what IDEA should be! How can we help you in your work? How can we promote development economics research around the world? Join us for one of three regional listening sessions, Aug 4, 6, or 11. Cheers!

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · last wk.

What do YOU want IDEA to become? 🗣️ Join a regional listening session to share your suggestions on IDEA's direction and activities and network with development economists in your area and research interests. Register at idea.devecon.org.

Join us for the first @ideadevecon.bsky.social online activities! Our first Research Seminar, featuring Dilip Mookherjee (Boston U.) on Aug 5. And our regional listening sessions on Aug 4, 6, or 11. To register, go to our website or see the link in the first reply below. See you soon!

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 2w ago

IDEA is just getting started. Coming up: an inaugural IDEA Research Seminar featuring Dilip Mookherjee and regional listening sessions to hear directly from members. More details and registration at idea.devecon.org 🌍

If you're a development economist, join @ideadevecon.bsky.social! In particular, students and early-career scholars. Share this with anyone you know who should be part of the community!👇

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 2w ago

IDEA grew to 3,800+ by word of mouth — and there are colleagues who haven't heard yet. We especially want to reach PhD students and early-career researchers, and economists across the Global South. Know someone who belongs here? Send them to idea.devecon.org. Every introduction helps. 🌍

This why @ideadevecon.bsky.social matters… We put scholars in the Global South at the center of what we do! If you know development economists who haven’t signed up yet, encourage them to join…

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 3w ago

What makes IDEA distinctive is who's in it. 40% of our members are based in low- and middle-income countries — from Nigeria and Kenya to Pakistan, the Philippines, Colombia, and beyond. A professional home built for development economists everywhere. idea.devecon.org/community.html 🌍

Proud of the community taking shape at @ideadevecon.bsky.social — 3,700+ development economists from 134 countries in only 3 weeks! 🌍

International Development Economics Association@ideadevecon.bsky.social · 3w ago

Three weeks ago, IDEA opened its doors to development economists everywhere. The response has been extraordinary: 3,700+ scholars from 134 countries have joined the community. See who's taking shape — where we are, where we work: idea.devecon.org/community.html 🌍

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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@owenozier.bsky.social, IDEA North America Rep., captured the IDEA Board in one video... Representing all six world regions. This is what we mean by a global community. Really excited to be working with Owen on the Board! Watch, then join us: idea.devecon.org 🌍

International Development Economics Association

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.

idea.devecon.org

Owen Ozier@owenozier.bsky.social · last mo.

Introducing IDEA - the International Development Economics Association. Come join! Here's a message from the idea.devecon.org board, with @deanyang.bsky.social @ashani.bsky.social @farahsaid.bsky.social @evedmonds.bsky.social @ebeam.bsky.social @paolofalco.bsky.social @willafriedman.bsky.social

Meet the people building IDEA! Our elected Board spans six continents... development economists giving the field its first global, open professional home. This is what a global community looks like! Join us: idea.devecon.org @ideadevecon.bsky.social

IDEA's regional reps are coming online — and Oceania is in great hands. Ashani Amarasinghe @ashani.bsky.social brings the energy and the vision. Development economists anywhere in the world, this is your invitation: idea.devecon.org 🌏

International Development Economics Association

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.

idea.devecon.org

Ashani Amarasinghe@ashani.bsky.social · last mo.

Super excited to be part of @ideadevecon.bsky.social as the Oceania Rep! Development economists in any part of the world, join us at idea.devecon.org Lots of good things, planned by the best, to look forward to 🤩

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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A real vote of confidence: @cega-uc.bsky.social is backing IDEA. Their CIDR work, elevating scholars in low- and middle-income countries, is exactly the mission IDEA exists to serve. This is what the field looks like when we build things together! 🌍

Center for Effective Global Action@cega-uc.bsky.social · last mo.

🌍 Announcing IDEA — the International Development Economics Association CEGA is proud to support @ideadevecon.bsky.social, the first global professional association of development economists, open to all, with a particular focus on scholars in low- and middle-income countries.

"A long time coming." @farahsaid.bsky.social nails it 🌍 The first global, open, democratically governed home for development economists... and South Asia's voice is central to it. Proud to have her helping lead. Join us: idea.devecon.org

International Development Economics Association

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.

idea.devecon.org

Farah Said@farahsaid.bsky.social · last mo.

Thrilled to be a part of IDEA; the first global, open, and democratically governed professional association for development economists. A long time coming. Join us!

When @willafriedman says "come join," listen 🌍 She's helping lead career development at IDEA... a global, open community for development economists at every stage. idea.devecon.org

International Development Economics Association

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.

idea.devecon.org

Willa Friedman@willafriedman.bsky.social · last mo.

Development economists: come join!

@ebeam.bsky.social gets right to the heart of it: IDEA is for everyone in development economics... researchers, practitioners, students, every career stage, every country. 🌍 Proud to have her helping lead it. Join us at idea.devecon.org

International Development Economics Association

IDEA is a global professional association advancing inclusive, rigorous research in development economics.

idea.devecon.org

Emily Beam@ebeam.bsky.social · last mo.

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!

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 🌍

Congratulations to Thomas Lloyd @thomaslloyd.bsky.social on his @umich.edu PhD! Thomas will be an assistant professor at Emlyon Business School! Very proud to have been his committee chair... Check out his exciting work: thomaslloyd.me

Submit your development economics papers to the BREAD Mexico conference! Submission deadline is Jun 19. Conference is Oct 23-24 at ITAM in Mexico City. bread-mexico-2026.github.io

BREAD Mexico 2026 — Conference on Development Economics

ITAM, Mexico City · October 23–24, 2026. Submission deadline: June 19, 2026.

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Thrilled to see this out. Credit to @tomanbarsbai.com who led the charge. The dictator-game mechanism check is the part I'd flag for skeptics -- it's the family photo, not the gift, doing the work. Final published version: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil...

Toman Barsbai@tomanbarsbai.com · 3mo ago

1/ Could more empathy improve working conditions? In a study with the Philippine government, we find that a family photo, shared with the employer, can reduce mistreatment of migrant domestic workers. Out now in the JPE Micro.

Congratulations to Al Fertig @al-fertig.bsky.social on his @umich.edu economics PhD! Al will be an assistant professor at @unm.edu Department of Economics! Very proud to have been his committee chair... Check out his exciting work: alexanderfertig.com

Congratulations to my stellar PhD student @al-fertig.bsky.social ! Best of luck as you start as an Assistant Professor at the @unm.edu Department of Economics!

UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When does the internet empower people to push back against authoritarian regimes, and when does it become a tool that those regimes can use against them? @deanyang.bsky.social: "What I love about Al's research is that it asks hard human questions." @al-fertig.bsky.social #EconSky

Thanks @um-psc.bsky.social for highlighting our paper in JPE Micro... Establishing common humanity improves relations between migrant workers and employers in Saudi Arabia and Hong Kong. w/ @tomanbarsbai.com @andreassteinmayr.net @vojtabartos.bsky.social, E. Tiongson, V. Licuanan

UM Population Studies Center@um-psc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Could sharing a family photo with an employer make workplace mistreatment less likely to occur? @deanyang.bsky.social et al found small, humanizing gestures reduced mistreatment among Filipino domestic workers working overseas. @umfordschool.bsky.social #EconSky myumi.ch/E79Ep

Grateful to @umisr.bsky.social for highlighting our new AER paper. The big finding: migration doesn't drain the home economy — it builds it up.

Institute for Social Research (ISR) - University of Michigan@umisr.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Read more about how International migration drives long-run economic development back home: myumi.ch/n1MkR

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

New @voxdev.bsky.social piece on our Ramayan paper! The Ramayan TV show in 1987-88 strengthened Hindu religious identity, contributing to the rise of the BJP in India. Thanks to awesome collaborators @pbrimble.bsky.social, @resuf.bsky.social, @akhila-kovvuri.bsky.social, and Alessandro Saia!

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🆕 The Sunday morning broadcast that changed Indian democracy Dean Yang (University of Michigan), Alessandro Saia (University of Bologna), @akhila-kovvuri.bsky.social (Stanford University), Resuf Ahmed & Paul Brimble discuss how a TV broadcast strengthened Hindu identity: https://ow.ly/Fple50Yosha

Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides! We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on International Migration is out now! Senior Editor Dean Yang & Co-Editors Catia Batista, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Caroline Theoharides review research on international migration. Read & download here: https://ow.ly/qXx950XWAar

All are welcome to the launch talk for the new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Co-authored with @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social , Caroline Theoharides. Wed 14 Jan, 9 am US eastern.

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development. At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration. Register➡️ https://ow.ly/y5n150XRWT9

U. Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability (SEAS) is hiring an Asst/Assoc Professor in Global Environmental Policy! Strong fit for environmental/development economists interested in policy & interdisciplinary work. Review begins Nov 1. Details: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #EconSky

Registration is open for this fall's BREAD/ @theigc.bsky.social virtual development econ Ph.D. course on Social Protection! Organizers Rema Hanna (Harvard) and Ben Olken (MIT) are giving the intro lecture on Sep 16. An all-star lineup -- highly recommended! www.theigc.org/events/bread... #EconSky

BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course on social protection 2025

Join the BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course 2025 to deepen your understanding of social protection challenges and policies.

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Check out the great interview with @talknormal.co.uk on @voxdev.bsky.social with my co-authors @catiabatista.bsky.social and Caroline Theoharides on our "brain gain vs. brain drain" paper!

Catia Batista@catiabatista.bsky.social · last yr.

Thank you @talknormal.co.uk for a great conversation on the @voxdev.bsky.social podcast together with #CarolineTheoharides on our recent @science.org article. The "brain drain" is only part of the story—skilled migration can benefit origin countries too. 🎧 voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Nice piece by @sanpages.bsky.social in @nadaesgratis.bsky.social (in Spanish) on our Ramayan paper (with @resuf.bsky.social, @pbrimble.bsky.social, Alessandro Saia & Akhila Kovvuri)! #Econsky #Ramayan

Santiago Sanchez-Pages@sanpages.eurosky.social · last yr.

📺 ¿Puede una serie de TV cambiar la identidad de todo un país? En @nadaesgratis.bsky.social hablo de un fascinante estudio de @deanyang.bsky.social y coautores que demuestra las pantallas no solo reflejan identidades sino que tambien las construyen. nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san...