Excited to announce the 2nd edition of the CREST Urban Workshop! 🔥 @mateomoglia.bsky.social and I invite you Dec 10–11, 2026 at CREST, bringing together PhD students in urban and spatial econ and related fields. We are delighted to have the great Gabriel Loumeau giving the keynote!
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he/him, PhD Student @warwickecon interested in History, Political Economy, and Spatial Economics https://immanuelfeld.github.io/
Looking forward to presenting at #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week! @klingelt.bsky.social and I hand-collected 10,000+ campaign posters in Berlin and use automated image analysis to study placement and content strategies across parties THU, 5:10–6:50pm, Brookfield (Hilton) @epssnet.bsky.social
Looking forward to presenting ongoing work on how growing up amid rapid deindustrialization shaped support for Brexit at CES in Dublin and #EPSS2026 in Belfast this week: CES: Tuesday, June 16, 9-10:30am, O'Connor Building - L1.20 EPSS: Thursday, June 18, 3:20-5pm, Meeting Room 3b (ICC)
🧵 New working paper out today: "Measuring the Regional Economic Cost of Brexit: Evidence as of 2026" with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social @trfetzer.com & Shizhuo Wang Here's what the data say about who paid the price in these 10 years from the referendum 1/…
Works in Progress is hosting an event in Berlin! "Housing and transport policy in Europe" on May 19th Looks like a very cool lineup 👀 luma.com/bdc8as5a
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We’re excited to invite you to a special Works in Progress event in Berlin, marking the opening of Stripe’s new Berlin office at Hallesches Ufer 40. Located at…
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#econsky TOMORROW (22 Apr): Final session of the 12th AYEW - Public Economics Workshop! Join us at 7pm AEST/ 10am BST and listen to Dyah (ANU), @martakorczak.bsky.social (EUI_EU), @immanuelfeld.bsky.social & Kyle (@warwickecon.bsky.social) Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
2026 Haavelmo Prize for "Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression" by Müller & Watson (ECMA 2024) 🎉🎉🎉 We have Stata code and a practitioners guide for you 👉 pauldavidboll.com/research/pub... Stata Journal Now working on "How much should we trust regressions using cross-sectional spatial data?"
Testing and Correcting for Spatial Unit Roots in Regression Analysis
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We've published a new @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social 'how to' guide on understanding local GVA, productivity, and income: whatworksgrowth.org/resource-lib...
‘How to’ guide - Understanding local economic performance: GVA, productivity, and income - What Works Growth
GVA, productivity, and income are all ways of measuring local economic performance. This briefing will help local policymakers understand how to think about the GVA, productivity, and income performan...
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Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - The Making of the National Archive: The First Century of the Public Record Office
Project opportunity - AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) - The Making of the National Archive: The First Century of the Public Record Office at the University of Leeds
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New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...
📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...
Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
The agglomeration elasticity may be larger than widely believed (if we account for capitalization in commercial floor space prices). And the first micro-geographic commercial rent index for Germany!!! 😎 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social DP: opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f... Data: github.com/Ahlfeldt/AHS...
Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum 📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026 Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF). ⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
One year RA post at @poid-lse.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... working with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social
Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag von @monika-schnitzer.com zum Jahresgutachten des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social bei uns an der @unileipzig.bsky.social!
Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - submission deadline in two weeks #healtheconomics
Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - submission deadline in two weeks
From: Essen Health Conference Subject: Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 Dear colleague, This is a friendly reminder that the submission deadline for the Essen Health Conference 2026 is in two weeks! We invite full paper submissions in the fields of health, education and labour economics. We are excited to announce an excellent line-up of keynote speakers: Melanie Wasserman (UCLA Anderson School of Management) and Stephanie von Hinke (University of Bristol) [...]
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There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...
🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:
Research fellow (m/f/d) in the field of “contentious politics/political violence/autocratic politics” - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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It was a real pleasure to co-organize the first CREST Urban and Spatial PhD workshop last week, together with the great @mateomoglia.bsky.social Including a fantastic set of young researchers and an amazing and inspiring keynote presentation by Clara Santamaria. I hope this was not the last one!
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
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So deserved, congrats @aaherrerab.bsky.social ! 🥳
Congratulations to Andrea Herrera @aaherrerab.bsky.social (LSE) & Zane Kashner @zkashner.bsky.social (Stanford), who shared the student prize at our North American #UEA2025 meeting in Montréal. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/awa... Read their papers: aaherrerab.github.io & www.zanekashner.com
We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!
🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇
What a fabulous 2025 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social www.bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld.bsky.social , all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...
🚨 Applications to our PhD program starting January 2026 close on July 31 🗓️ Fully funded scholarship for a 1 year Master’s coursework + 3.5 year research in our School. A 🧵 on our PhD program and school. (1/7) Program and application info 👇 www.unsw.edu.au/business/stu...
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics | AGSM - UNSW Sydney
The UNSW Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics will focus your research in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, econometrics and applied economic analysis.
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The study has N=54 split in three groups. It basically has no power to detect the effects it seeks to detect. I’m all for pre-published media engagement but this is not enough to get it outside of your own lab environment. time.com/7295195/ai-c...
ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.
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This app and the associated development is in line with the "village economy". In many cities with healthy hyper-local social media communities (think: street, development level), sharing of property items is already very common.
We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...
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