Le 23 mars, nous accueillerons @lucaschancel.bsky.social à l'Unamur pour la présentation de son ouvrage Energie et Inégalités. Nous vous attendons nombreux ! Infos et inscriptions: events.unamur.be/event/337/ov... @econunamur.bsky.social
Guilhem Cassan
@guilhemcassan.bsky.social
Economist @UNamur. Development/Political econ/Identity and Gender in economics/Shameless self promotion. CEPR/CAGE/EUDN/CEPREMAP https://perso.unamur.be/~gcassan/
We are hiring ! We are looking for a profile in environmental economics, preferably also doing development economics. The deadline for applying in January 4th.
We're hiring! 📢 We are opening a full-time assistant professor position in economics with a demonstrated interest in environmental economics. Please share widely! 🔗https://jobs.unamur.be/emploi.2025-12-02.1636013715 #EconSky #EconJobMarket @GuilhemCassan
Congratulations to Jean Marie Baland for winning the Ernest-John Solvay Prize in Social Sciences. This award highlights the excellence of his research and the research quality at the Center for Research in Economic Development, Economics department, Namur. @econunamur.bsky.social
I love how this pictures suggests that economists see themselves as ballet dancers in suits !
📢 #Econsky Hiring? Meet EJME 25/26 Job Market Candidates! Our Candidate Directory facilitates successful matching of candidates & recruiters. 400 profiles active so far. ℹ️https://europeanjobmarketofeconomists.org/candidates @resmedia.bsky.social @eayeconomists.bsky.social @ecqe.bsky.social
Start of the school year for undergrad students @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and master students in our joint Master @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and UCLouvain. I wish you the best, and will do all I can to be of help as new head of the econ departement in Namur.
🆕 How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India Today on VoxDev, @guilhemcassan.bsky.social (Université de Namur), Lakshmi Iyer (@ndecon.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social) & Rinchan Ali Mirza (@kent.ac.uk) discuss the expansion of voting rights in India: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India
Voting rights alone did not transform political participation or competition in India, but they did shift government priorities in favour of the newly enfranchised voters.
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Yesterday, the students of our class "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" presented their posters under a wonderful sun ! Congratulations to all students for their wonderful work, and to the winners of the best poster prize !
Only a few days left to hand in your application for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics! 👉A great opportunity for graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers to further develop their skills through an intensive training course. cepr.org/events/twent... #EconSky
Twenty-Fourth Summer School in International and Development Economics: Geo-economics, Natural Resources, and Development
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📢 #CallForApplications : Twenty-Fourth Summer School in International and #Development #Economics: Geoeconomics, Natural Resources, and Development Deadline: 9 May More information and send your application here: cepr.org/events/twent... #EconSky #EconPhD
Thanks @jan_eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social for such a great presentation of your book "the Great Paradox" ! What a chance to have you for the closing lecture of our new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" taught with @ammapanin.bsky.social !
The Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship application is starting soon. Reach out if you're interested in joining UNamur's dynamic economics department! For details, visit marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p.... Connect with us on @econunamur.bsky.social @econunamur @UNamur
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary…
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Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa. Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award
Looking forward to the 2nd session of our new methods seminar orgniazed with our colleagues from the Political Science department ! Sign up here to get the updates: marketing.egoi.page/1e2e84ny/sig... @EconUNamur @UNamur @JeremyDodeigne @Nelsonlrsantos
Methods Seminar
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Delighted to welcome michaelheseltine.bsky.social next week to the Methods Seminar at Unamur! He'll present his latest work and delve into NLP techniques and LLMs. Stay updated on future sessions: marketing.egoi.page/1e2e84ny/sig... Join us this week—on site or online! 👇
Given the current political news, this may not be top of mind, but my co-authors and I are looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in the DRC that study the role of state capacity in economic development. 1-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...
Predoctoral Field-Based Research Associate (One Year) – Democratic Republic of Congo, UC Berkeley | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Our paper (joint with Lakshmi Iyer and @RinchanMirza ) on the consequences of enfranchisement in colonial India is out in the Journal of Economic History. See below the podcast in which my friend and co-author Lakshmi Iyer @nd_econ @BIGLabND presents it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India - Volume 85 Issue 1
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Looking forward to it !
@htetthihazaw.bsky.social will present early work on colonial legislatures and franchise expansion on Thursday in the virtual workshop in HPE! @guilhemcassan.bsky.social will discuss. Let me know if you want to attend and are not yet on our email list.
I am looking forward to the papers measuring if there is a pet penalty. My (quite depressive) guess: much more gender balanced than the child penalty.
Cats or babies? 🐈🏆🇰🇷
Un bouclier fiscal qui serait un bouclier pour l'équité, ça change !
Le bouclier anti-exil n'existe pas encore mais il pourrait voir le jour très simplement, car sa faisabilité technique est claire: Depuis 2018 il existe un échange automatique de données bancaires, permettant de taxer les milliardaires exilés en Suisse ou dans d'autres paradis
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
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The US has a weakness: its groveling, highly internationalized oligarchy Why is it a weakness? Because it’s a tiny number of people, who rely, for their wealth, on accessing foreign markets—thus giving foreign countries sizable power on them It’s now time to use that power 6/x
📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky
📢 Call for papers 📢 Submit your paper to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics Where and when: Oslo, June 17-18 Submission deadline: Feb 28 Keynotes: Eliana la Ferrara and Kalle Moene www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...
Nordic Conference in Development Economics - NCDE 2025
Welcome to the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics.
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Looking forward to our 2025 seminar series in the economics departement of UNamur !
This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
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We look forward to seeing you at the EUDN Development Economics conference that we organize @EconUNamur @UNamur ! Please find the program below:
"Imagine all the people... paying their taxes." Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers https://buff.ly/3VXkA6S
Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers
The IRS has collected $1.3 billion from high-wealth tax dodgers since last fall, the agency says, crediting spending that has ramped up collection enforcement through President Joe Biden's signature…
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