"Spain's self-inflicted migration crisis" by the brilliant and trenchant Hein de Haas A concise and exposition of why border crises, a product of policy, happen and will continue to happen —>

Spain’s self-inflicted migration crisis

What really drives migration from Morocco

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“.. after another employee said he was quitting the company over concerns that AI labs are ‘gambling with our lives.’” @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2026/09/09/a...

Randomized cash transfers have negative psychological spillovers on non-recipients, targeted transfers don't, from Travis Baseler, @gazeaud.bsky.social, and Erik Snowberg www.nber.org/papers/w35681

What happens to the non-recipients of cash and asset transfer programs? In a new NBER working paper with Travis Baseler and Erik Snowberg, we find meaningful negative psychological spillovers, mediated by the allocation mechanism (within-village randomization vs. targeting).

👀 Cette étude implique notamment Jules Gazeaud (@gazeaud.bsky.social), chargé de recherche CNRS au Centre d'études et de recherches sur le développement international @cerdi.bsky.social

CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales@cnrsshs.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Questions sensibles, réponses biaisées ? 🔎 Consommation de drogues, violence conjugale, fraude fiscale : les #enquêtes s’intéressent souvent à des #comportements que les répondants ont tendance à dissimuler. Une méthode simple et peu coûteuse pour y remédier : le bulletin secret. 👉 urls.fr/dtp57P

Questions sensibles, réponses biaisées ? 🔎 Consommation de drogues, violence conjugale, fraude fiscale : les #enquêtes s’intéressent souvent à des #comportements que les répondants ont tendance à dissimuler. Une méthode simple et peu coûteuse pour y remédier : le bulletin secret. 👉 urls.fr/dtp57P

Questions sensibles, réponses biaisées ? Le bulletin secret, une méthode innovante pour améliorer la qualité des données d’enquête

Consommation de drogues, violence conjugale, fraude fiscale : les enquêtes s’intéressent souvent à des comportements sensibles que les répondants ont te

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New working paper with Amol Singh Raswan and Chris Udry: "The Sisyphean Pursuit of Evidence for Poverty Traps." A central idea in development economics is that poverty can trap people. We went looking for the cleanest evidence. Here's what we found – and didn't.

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Our paper on the measurement of sensitive outcomes is forthcoming in AER: Insights!

AEA Journals@aeajournals.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Measuring Sensitive Outcomes through Ballot-Bag Surveys" by Bruno Crépon, Ahmed Elsayed, and Jules Gazeaud.

Thrilled to share our new paper! A simple info app improved immigrant integration in Portugal AND transmitted democratic norms to Cape Verde with political spillovers strongest in areas with lower far-right support. With the amazing @catiabatista.bsky.social, #LaraBohnet & @gazeaud.bsky.social

NOVAFRICA@novafrica.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🌟 New @novafrica.bsky.social Working Paper! "From Destination to Origin: Experimental Evidence on the International Spillovers of Migrant Integration" By @catiabatista.bsky.social #NovaSBE #LaraBohnet #NYU @gazeaud.bsky.social #CNRS & @juliaseither.bsky.social #UofC 🔗 tinyurl.com/627brza4

🆕 Free online course on private enterprise, productivity & economic growth by STEG & PEDL (@cepr.org) Through 14 lectures, you can learn from leading researchers on one of the central questions of economic development, how to increase productivity. Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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—>

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

🆕 Climate change and rural livelihoods: How extreme heat drives international migration from El Salvador Today on VoxDev w/ Ana María Ibáñez (IDB), Juliana Quigua (UCL), Jimena Romero (Stockholm University) & Andrea Velasquez (CU Denver): https://ow.ly/zc5S50XqokT

Climate change and rural livelihoods: How extreme heat drives international migration from El Salvador

In El Salvador, extreme heat lowers agricultural productivity and rural incomes, pushing farmers – especially those with strong migrant networks – to use international migration as a climate adaptation strategy.

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this post inspired me to ask the free GPT model "what are the most important econometrics papers about "weak identification" published since 2000?" i will post the results i got below

Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 12mo ago

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward? A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

New Substack post: the Nobel Prize goes to an economic historian and two economists of growth trying to answer the question, where do new technologies come from? someunpleasant.substack.com/p/growing-th...

Growing the Field

What is the 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics about?

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Thought about scientific consensus recently? We have a new DP @i4replication.bsky.social that probes into the famous replication debate between Acemoglu, Johnson & Robinson (AJR) and Albouy - and how experts assess this debate. We find that they disagree. 1/8 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

this wonderful paper uses our R package, baggr, for Bayesian evidence aggregation! Give it a look :) !!

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture Today on VoxDev, Pauline Castaing (World Bank) & @gazeaud.bsky.social (@cerdi.bsky.social) discuss the impact of index insurance on smallholder productivity in developing countries: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

In today's blog, I discuss 3 ways for international migration to be part of a structural transformation policy: 1) as an industry itself; 2) training people abroad in the skills to develop a new industry at home; and 3) through immigration (eg Start-up Chile) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

International Migration as a Structural Transformation Policy

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🆕 Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture Today on VoxDev, Pauline Castaing (World Bank) & @gazeaud.bsky.social (@cerdi.bsky.social) discuss the impact of index insurance on smallholder productivity in developing countries: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture

Index insurance can help smallholder farmers take on more productive risks, but its impacts remain modest, uncertain, and highly context dependent.

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Interested in agricultural insurance, meta-analysis, and external validity? Read my VoxDev blog with Pauline Castaing, based on an article published earlier this year in the JDE. voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Does index insurance work? Insights from eight experiments in agriculture

Index insurance can help smallholder farmers take on more productive risks, but its impacts remain modest, uncertain, and highly context dependent.

voxdev.org

I am teaching a PhD seminar this fall which attempts to put a decision-theoretic lens (or lenses) on research design. So e.g., statistical decision theory, eliciting beliefs & preferences, and rational benchmarks. Here's a draft syllabus docs.google.com/document/d/1... What's missing?

syllabus Research Design PhD 15.838 2025

15.838 RESEARCH SEMINAR IN MARKETINGResearch Design: Decision-Theoretic Perspectives MIT Sloan School of Management Fall 2025 Tuesdays 9am – 12 noon E62-346 Instructor Dean Eckles eckles@ TA ...

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Dean Eckles@eckles.bsky.social · last yr.

What are your favorite connections between decision theory and experimental design? (both broadly considered) I'll share some of the connections I've made later.

How to get honest answers to sensitive survey questions? Our WP introduces the ballot-bag, a new method that is both precise and unbiased, improving on existing approaches such as list experiments. Joint work with Bruno Crépon and Ahmed Elsayed. #econsky www.iza.org/publications...

Israel has normalised killing journalists, like it normalised killing medical workers, like it normalised destroying hospitals and schools, like it normalised killing the equivalent of a classroom of children per day. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

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I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza

Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

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Israeli political scientist Lihi Ben Shitrit: "The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear." forward.com/opinion/7598...

As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here's what changed my mind

The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?

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My practical tips for designing, implementing, and analyzing powerful experiments. In today's blog I summarize a new paper I've written for a special issue on power calculations. A key message is that it does not make sense to talk of “the” power of an experiment. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

My practical tips for designing and analyzing powerful experiments

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I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social: