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Manuel Santos Silva
@m-santos-silva.bsky.social
Junior Prof. Economics of Latin America @ Freie Universität Berlin https://www.lai.fu-berlin.de/en/homepages/Santos-Silva/index.html
Looking forward to have you at FU, Kamila @cyganrehm.bsky.social!
🗓️ Thursday, July 16: We are very happy to welcome @cyganrehm.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. She will present her work on „The Long Shadow: The Health Effects of Lost In-School Instruction Across the Life Cycle“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin #EconSky
Today I have put up my 10th annual look at development journals, which works with journal editors to put together statistics on submission numbers, acceptance rates, review times, and more. This is the post that takes me the most time to do each year blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...
The State of Development Journals 2026: More than 16,000 submissions, over 1,000 published papers, and more details.
blogs.worldbank.org
Big thanks to all participants of the 4th FUB Internal PhD Workshop in Applied Micro. @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social. Co-organized with @danzernatalia.bsky.social, @steinhardt.bsky.social, @janmarcus.de. Lots of exciting research projects! 👏👏
Delighted to see our work with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social, @lucastella.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social on overcrowding in Germany published open access in @houspoldebate.bsky.social Crowding among families and migrants, empty rooms elsewhere: a story of unequal space. doi.org/10.1080/105114
Here is a short Perspective on the article in case you don't want to read the full paper: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
When aid stops
How aid ends may matter as much as what aid does while it is there
science.org
With the start of the new semester, the Research Seminar in Economics returns!🎉 Every Thursday, guest speakers will share their latest research on various topics. Pieter Bakx will open the seminar by presenting his research on „Physician prescribing style and the economic cost of health shocks“
Apply and join us for this year’s @NovaSBE PhD Summer School in Development Economics!
📢 2026 @novafrica.bsky.social #NovaSBE PhD Summer School "Practical issues in designing and analyzing field experiments" Taught by #DavidMcKenzie (WorldBank) 📅 June 22–24 👉 Apply by March 31 Learn more: url-shortener.me/B4DA #NOVAFRICA2026 Conference: tinyurl.com/uzc7dyc8
This map overlays Germany over northern Brazil. Germany is tiny (1:24 is the ratio and not 7:1 as many Germans might think 😉 ). Source: buff.ly/nDHOKv7
Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!
🚨Conference Announcement Join the @mecila.bsky.social Centre Conference 2025, 11–13 Dec at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. 🔗Register: mecila.net/en/mecila-berlin-conference-2025 @calascenter.bsky.social, @miasa-ug.bsky.social, MECAM, @giga-hamburg.de, Humanities Centre: Futures of Sustainability.
I talked to @cnn.com about a great achievement for Brazilian democracy, as Jair Bolsonaro starts serving his sentence for trying to overturn an election. www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/a...
Bolsonaro tested Brazil’s democracy. Its Supreme Court stepped in | CNN
Brazilian democracy has spent the past three years in a near-permanent state of tension – a full-body clench against an ex-president who refused to accept defeat. On Saturday morning, those muscles ti...
cnn.com
Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network! This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.
Next week, with the Progressive Politics Research Network, we are going to publish 8 new research briefs on the politics of housing. While housing has become a huge grievance across Europe, it is often absent from progressive parties‘ agendas. Our group of experts discusses different aspects of this
📢 Call for Applications: 2026 PhD Program Opportunities across four different PhD tracks: 🔹 PhD in Economics 🔹 PhD in Accounting 🔹 PhD in Finance 🔹 PhD in Management ❗ Application Deadline: January 15, 2026 More information👇 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-program/... #phdcallforapplications
🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming our new tenure-track Assistant Professor @philippbach.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social In his talk, Philipp gave an inspiring overview of his work in the field of #CausalMachineLearning: method development, software tools, and applications.
The new semester is here, and so is the Research Seminar in Economics! 🎉 Every Thursday, a guest speaker will share their latest research on various topics. We are starting tomorrow with Oleg Nivievskyi; he will talk about his research on „Impact of Tax Incentives on Industry Performance and Growth“
I really enjoyed joining the "Our Long Walk" podcast to discuss my research on migration in Africa and its role in structural transformation and development — among other migration & development topics. Plus, an AI-generated music of my research findings! 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/4jOb...
What returns when talent leaves? with economist Catia Batista
open.spotify.com
My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...
Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed
nytimes.com
I continue to be struck by the degree of heterogeneity in development economics courses! This is from coding "over 200 courses in 56 developing countries and the United States." documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/6... from @dmckenzie.bsky.social & Paffhausen
Together with @lennartkaplan.bsky.social, we are looking for a student assistant to support our @3dseminar.bsky.social. This is a great opportunity to get in touch with influential researchers and practitioners working in the field of development from around the globe. See below for more details.
Dear students, We are currently advertizing an interesting student assistant position. If you are a pro-active communicator and are interested in the exchange between development research and practice, please consider applying for this position. More info on the 3D seminar: www.3dseminar.net
Replication Games @i4replication.bsky.social coming to Berlin! @janmarcus.de Register here. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...
🦇😢 Throwback 1970: Am 26. Juni tritt die noch nicht so berühmte Heavy-Metal-Band #BlackSabbath mit ihrem Frontmann Ozzy Osbourne im ausverkauften Audimax im Henry-Ford-Bau auf. Anschließend tun sie das, wofür Rockbands gefürchtet waren: Sie verwüsten ihre Garderobe. #RIPOzzy tinyurl.com/25a9qw5g
Deadline July 21st! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...
JF-WiMi_JFKI_Soziologie_E
fu-berlin.de
I am starting to look for a PhD student in (comparative) political economy, historical or computational sociology starting in October (4 years, 65%) at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. Check out the announcement here: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Excited to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de this thursday for a talk on migrant integration in our Research Seminar in Economics at @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social - happening at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ! #EconSky #EconConf #Migration #Integration
🗓️ Thursday, June 5: We are very happy to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . She will present her work on „The (Ir)Relevance of Institutional Proliferation: Evidence from Foreigners’ Advisory Councils“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs,” by Corradini, Lagos, and Sharma: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Collective Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs*
Abstract. We study the role of unions in improving workplaces for women. Starting in 2015, Brazil’s largest trade union federation made women central to it
doi.org
🗓️ Thursday, June 12: We are very happy to have Andrés César at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Vietnam’s Industrial Automation: Drivers and Impacts on the Labor Market“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin
South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)