Super excited about this - please apply and share widely!

Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · 3mo ago

📢 #CallForPapers - 1st Women in International Trade (WIT) European Conference 📆30 Sep - 2 Oct |📍Gerzensee ⌛Deadline: 17 May Organisers: @estherboler.bsky.social, K Erhardt, @martinamagli.bsky.social, @martasantamaria.bsky.social Partners: @kiel.institute & CAGE Warwick ow.ly/Z88A50YUwUc #EconSky

1. In the wake on Mamdani’s win, we’ll see a lot more far right anti-urban sentiment. Here’s a thread on its roots and evolution. The idea that the city is evil and corrupt, and the countryside innocent and pure, goes back a long way: to Theocritus in Alexandria, and to the Old Testament. 🧵

I’m beginning to think the passage of time has washed away that raw understanding of 1914-45 that protected us from lurching back to madness

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Katie Lam tries to explain to the Sunday Times how her grandparents experience under Nazism informs her view that the postwar institutions forged after the horrors of war, dictatorship & the holicaust won't now work in our times - because "they assume everyone would want to be nice to each other"

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment

With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

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Take a picture of yourself at the No Kings rally. Print it. Put it in a frame. Your grandchildren will speak about you for generations to come. You took a stand against fascism. You stood up for democracy. 

Attention IO job market candidates: Sometimes speakers in the CMA's external economics seminar series have to cancel at relatively short notice. We would love for these slots to go to JMCs to present their job market paper. Drop me a message if you are interested or share with those who might be.

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

Dana Goodyear’s home burned in the L.A. fires. In a new essay, she writes about the disaster and its aftermath. nyer.cm/VNSpo99

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

A clever new study "confirms that the country’s tax code is regressive, not progressive, at the very top," @annielowrey.bsky.social reports. American billionaires "pay lower tax rates than many middle-class professionals":

How the Richest People in America Avoid Paying Taxes

A clever new paper puts concrete numbers to the taxes paid by members of the Forbes 400.

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When I got tenure, I decided to use it start a new research agenda, studying US science in the 20th century, how it became dominant, what held it back, and what we can do better. Here's the first pub (with Scott Kim).

Econometrica@ecmaeditors.bsky.social · last yr.

Analyzing scientists' biographies during the baby boom, we find that mothers have a unique life cycle pattern of productivity. Children reduce the productivity of mothers but not fathers, with important implications for promotions and participation. buff.ly/39WbYRH

This is a low point for our country. Congress just passed a bill that shreds the safety net, fuels mass deportations, and gives $100K+ annual tax breaks to the ultra-rich—while adding nearly $4 trillion to the debt. My full statement: www.epi.org/press/epi-pr...

EPI president Heidi Shierholz denounces passage of GOP budget bill

Congress just passed one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. The Republican budget will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, and shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax break...

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Congress is poised to pass one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. It will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income. 1/

Fog nets turn Chile’s Atacama Desert into a salad bowl. In Chañaral, growers are using mesh 'fog catchers' to harvest up to 1,400 litres of water daily from coastal mist, enough to raise lettuce and lemon trees in the planet’s driest desert. buff.ly/gWc9srr #ShareGoodNewsToo

I feel seen

Per Engzell@pengzell.bsky.social · last yr.

Being a social scientist means holding two truths at once: 1. This is all deeply complicated 2. I have to submit something by Tuesday

The New Global Economy: Trade Wars and De-dollarisation? Submissions deadline: 1 July 2025 Conference dates: 27-28 September 2025 Location: Cambridge UK

Centre for Economic Policy Research@cepr.org · last yr.

#CallforPapers for the conference 'The New Global Economy: Trade Wars & De-dollarisation?' Deadline: 1 July Organisers: @meredith-crowley.bsky.social @uniofcam.bsky.social , Lu Han @bankofcanada.ca, Dmitry Mukhin , Ben Tomlin @bankofcanada.ca More and submit your paper cepr.org/events/new-g...

In a new @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social policy brief, @johnspringford.bsky.social‬ finds that many foreign workers needed for net zero will not meet the UK's new higher salary and skills thresholds for visas. Read here: buff.ly/E9eFpiH

Could not disagree more with this conclusion. One retailer’s transport emission is hardly a comprehensive measure of the climate effect of trade (or lack thereof).

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last yr.

[One beneficiary of trade war? Climate.] (Reuters) - Shein's carbon emissions from transporting products climbed 13.7% in 2024, the online fast-fashion retailer's sustainability report showed on Friday, and its 2023 transport emissions were 18% higher than previously reported after a recalculation.

We're hiring a postdoc in labor economics at IAB Nuremberg! Join @ineshelmecon.bsky.social, @jnimczik.bsky.social & me on a project about gig work. 🗓️ Start: 1 Oct 25 💶 Salary ≥ €5200/month
 🌱 Possibility to apply for tenure track program Apply here until 17 June: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

💥Research Assistant Positions💥 1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

Javier Flórez (@pseud0safari.bsky.social), Mario Larch, Sebastien Bradley, and I are very happy share the update of the most disaggregated dataset of consistently constructed international and domestic trade flows -- GRANTPA. So, let’s estimate GRAVITY with GRANTPA. ideas.repec.org/p/drx/wpaper...

DOE cancels $3.7 billion in demonstration projects aimed at cutting emissions — a couple big carbon capture demos, but also cement, glass, iron, chemicals projects. Calpine and Exxon Mobil were hit, as were startups like Sublime and Brimstone. (Full list in story.) www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/c...

Energy Dept. Cancels $3.7 Billion for New Technologies to Lower Emissions

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Imagine a world where governments believed universities, research and innovation were central, even vital, for growth?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.

'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3

I had to read this several times as “prioritise growth” and “hit universities over the head” are so mutually contradictory

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · last yr.

'Universities will be lucky to avoid being “completely hit over the head” in the UK government’s upcoming spending review as ministers look set to prioritise plans for growth – which could eat into core research funding – and save higher education reform for a later date.' 1/3

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life. Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

With the exception of the Department of Health and Social Care and the Home Office, departments already have smaller budgets than before austerity. Read more ⤵️ buff.ly/RTk1uYz