Johannes Haushofer
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Economist @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Founder @malengo.org and @busaracenter.bsky.social. Also @stockholm-uni.bsky.social & @econmpi.bsky.social. johanneshaushofer.com
🗣️ Published today in @aeajournals.bsky.social. Ethan Lewis and I use a visa lottery, as a nationwide randomized experiment, to test the effects of foreign labor on US firms and workers. doi.org/10.1257/app.... A concise summary from @nber.org —> www.nber.org/digest/20221...
Publishing null results *is* hard. Thrilled to finally see this paper with @danielnposner.bsky.social and @dougparkerson.bsky.social investigating the impact of bottom-up accountability on healthcare outcomes in print in the JOP. Thread 👇 doi.org/10.1086/736577
See www.nber.org/data-appendi... for a reply from BBBGH that we hope others find as useful as we did, thank you BBBGH team for laying out the heterogeneity issue so eloquently and clearly. We agree!
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.
⏳DUE TOMORROW!⏳ Calling all liberal arts college development economists: Submit your best work to LACDev at Wesleyan by May 18! 🔥 #EconSky #EconConf #LACDev #Wesleyan
Lexi Schubert@schubertlexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago🍂 We're thrilled to host LACDev 2026 at Wesleyan on Sep 18-19! 🍂 LACDev is a wonderful community of development economists at Liberal Arts Colleges. We meet annually to discuss our latest research and to explore teaching trends in our field. Come join us! #EconSky #EconConf #LACDev
For your weekend entertainment, here are some impressions from a trip in a small airplane from Germany to the US last summer! I first did this in the other direction five years ago. My friend John came along again this time — he's a very experienced pilot, and of late also a world record holder!
The second 2026 Bristol Applied Economics Meeting is on the Economics of Migration. We have an amazing program ahead of us. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk. Program: www.baem.info/Program_MIG_...
Congratulations to my awesome friend and former colleague @martinmattsson.bsky.social on winning the David Dollar Memorial Prize for this great paper! www.enterprisesurveys.org/en/david-dol...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
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The Nazis stopped Jewish doctors from practising, so thousands of them left the country (my great grandfather was one of them). So many left that this was a good natural experiment for estimating the causal effect of losing doctors on infant mortality (& thousands died)
New RCT: What happens when citizens experience incarceration firsthand? With Arto Arman, @andreasbeerli.bsky.social, and @aljoshahenkel.bsky.social Working paper: www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...
Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭@econ.uzh.ch · 6mo agoImagine 48 hours in jail. Would it change how you see prison, or criminal justice itself? A new study by researchers from the University of Zurich and @kofeth.bsky.social at @ethz.ch shows that firsthand incarceration can directly shift public opinion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo0F...
Team "Elsevier Highlights Subversion" strikes again! Best one yet! @deankarlan.bsky.social, Monica Lambon-Quayefio, Utsav Manjeer, @christopher-udry.bsky.social
Johannes Haushofer@johanneshaushofer.com · last yr.Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
📢 Predoc Opportunity I'm hiring a full-time predoc to work with me at UC Berkeley, supporting my research on labor economics, the economics of education, and public policy. jesse-rothstein.com/rothstein_pr... Please pass on to anyone who might be interested. #econsky #econ_ra
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Jasmin Tendo Mpoza is a very special Malengo student: it turned out her high school degree was ineligible for university admission in Germany, and so she got a new one, remotely and studying by herself in Uganda. She is now getting a BA in International Business at Hochschule Anhalt, Germany.
Malengo@malengo.org · 6mo agoIntroducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 5: Please meet Jasmin Tendo Mpoza, who is a Malengo Uganda–University Scholar studying International Business at Hochschule Anhalt, Germany. youtu.be/PPGo3tYfLBI
Social science folks: Have AI-powered phone surveys reached the useful stage yet? I found this paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.20140 from this company 60decibels.com, but it's still missing a rigorous test. This is potentially useful too: www.usesimple.ai Who has looked into this? Thanks for any hints!
Please apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
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We're hiring a research associate and a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.
Gläder mig åt att regeringen med migrationsminister Forssell i spetsen prioriterar talangattraktion inom universitetsvärlden. Frågan är helt avgörande för kompetensförsörjningen inom universitet och högskola – och i förlängningen för Sveriges ställning som innovationsledare och kunskapsnation. 🧵/1
Sverige jagar akademiska topptalanger i USA
NEW YORK. Trump-administrationens press på amerikanska lärosäten har fått många forskare att överväga en flytt och en rad tunga namn har redan lämnat.
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Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation" by Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation
(Forthcoming Article) - We investigate whether removing a previously-obtained criminal record improves employment outcomes. We estimate the causal impact of criminal record remediation laws that have ...
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I continue to be inspired by our amazing Malengo students — here is another conversation, this time with Kiltan Karbous, a Sudanese refugee from Uganda, who is studying Physics in Leipzig.
Malengo@malengo.org · 7mo agoIntroducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 4: Please meet Kiltan Karbous, who is a Malengo Uganda–University Scholar studying studying Physics at the University of Leipzig, Germany. youtu.be/qCyAzhzNjNM
New cool fellowship from the Weiss Fund for junior researchers in LMICs: weissfund.uchicago.edu/weiss-fund-j...
Weiss Fellowship for Junior Researchers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries - Weiss Fund
The Weiss Fund Fellowship provides supplementary financial support for exceptional job market PhD candidates accepting positions in Weiss Fund-eligible countries and doing work aligned with the Weiss ...
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💡Combining an aspirations workshop with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women gain greater control over household resources and reduced intimate partner violence, new research by Associate Professor Kate Orkin shows. Find out more👇
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 7mo ago🆕 When do cash transfers empower women? Today on VoxDev, Mahreen Mahmud (University of Exeter), Kate Orkin (Blavatnik School of Government) & Emma Riley (University of Michigan) discuss how an aspirations workshop paired with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women: https://ow.ly/51YC50XSkZH
I wanted to give an end-of-year shout out to @ourworldindata.org, who we recently gave a three-year, $3m general support grant (short 🧵)
Forthcoming in the AER: "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" by Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development
(Forthcoming Article) - We study how international migrant income prospects affect long-run development in origin areas. We leverage the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis exchange rate shocks in a shift-sha...
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Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 3: Please meet Ratif Ssemujju, who is a Malengo Uganda–University Scholar studying Management and Data Science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. youtu.be/dbpN5gwdj9s
Malengo Scholar Profiles: Ratif Ssemujju, Uganda–Germany University Scholar
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My new essay is out in Nature: how can we learn the economic impact of AI in time? A few ideas for social science, including forward-looking experiments and piloting new institutions. rdcu.be/eUPN2
AI is transforming the economy — understanding its impact requires both data and imagination | Nature
Controlled studies capture only a fraction of the effects of artificial intelligence. Economists should work with social scientists to find innovative ways to fully grasp this fast-moving field. Controlled studies capture only a fraction of the effects of artificial intelligence. Economists should work with social scientists to find innovative ways to fully grasp this fast-moving field.
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Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
