🚨 New version of our WP 🚨 (w/ Michela Limardi & @avolle.bsky.social). 🔎 Climate regulation doesn’t crowd out NGOs—it mobilizes them. Activism rises & persists, esp. in weaker enforcement contexts. Grateful to @cerdi.bsky.social colleagues for seminar feedback 🙏 🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276v4

🚨 New version of our WP! 🚨 @sophiehatte.bsky.social (@cergic.bsky.social), @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and I (@cerdi.bsky.social) highlight the powerful role of digital access in shaping democratic outcomes and promoting gender equality. 📄 Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Look for bold new ideas 🔥📈💪🏼🤓

#Econsky That was a great workshop on Political Economy at @ox.ac.uk - @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, jointly organized with @iast.fr - @tse-fr.eu and @sciencespo.bsky.social No cheaptalking, the quality was high! Grateful for this life/scientific event 🙏🏼

Another successful scientific event at @cerdi.bsky.social. A place to be for economists 🙌🏼📈🔥

CERDI@cerdi.bsky.social · last yr.

🌍 2025 #MigrationEconomics Junior Workshop just concluded. 🎯 Goal: give PhD & young researchers an opportunity to share their work in an inspiring space. Thanks to the participants & keynotes for sharing thoughtful discussions ✨ 🏷️ #DevEcon @ucauvergne.bsky.social @cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

#Econsky Citing someone guilty of sexual misconduct? Here is "creeps", an Overleaf package developed by my colleague Alistair Cameron at @cerdi.bsky.social. It detects authors in your bibtex registered in the Academic Sexual Misconduct Database. Link here: alistaircameron.github.io/packages/

📣 New WP in #economics 📄 “Climate Regulation & Civil Society Activism” By M. Limardi, @jordanloper.bsky.social & @avolle.bsky.social 🏷️ Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) shows that public #climateregulation amplifies #activism rather than crowding it out. 👉 t.ly/c-f1d #Research #NGOs

We have a new DP. It's actually more a tool than a paper. The Robustness Dashboard provides an at-a-glance visual summary of robustness analysis, distinguishing between confirmatory and negative robustness tests. @i4replication.bsky.social 1/3 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Will different researchers converge on similar findings when analyzing the same data?[...] scientists, especially those working with the complexities of human societies and behavior, should exercise humility and strive to better account for the uncertainty in their work.

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty | PNAS

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in ...

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The past really sticks. Even after 4 generations, your great-grandfather’s economic status still largely shapes your own. 👉 33% persistence across time for whites 👉 But racial inequality is the key driver The American Dream? More inherited than we thought. www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Source: xkcd.com/3101/

Thanks! It started by chatting with Anke 15y ago (!) on how governments may negotiate treaties not because of spillovers, but to tie hands of future governments => (a) coalitions can be larger (b) we provide a unique theory of "conventions" (c) the Paris Agreement won't unravel even if US withdraws🙂

Journal of Public Economics@jpube.bsky.social · last yr.

Paper shows that political incumbents may want to sign treaties that tie the hands of their successors. Thus, by offering commitment, a treaty can exploit domestic time inconsistency problems. The theory predicts that countries may want to remain in the Paris Agreement even if the US withdraws.

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Reviewer 2, while pointing out a typo in our manuscript, made a typo.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties" By @bardharstad.bsky.social & Anke Kessler www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Now up: the 9th in my annual series of efforts to put together data on development journals: rankings, number of papers submitted (over 12,000 last year across 12 journals), number published (937), acceptance rates, time to review, open access stats, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New

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New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances. danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

Not from me, but aligned with me

What are some examples of win-wins in development? When do businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others?

Oliver Hanney@olihanney.bsky.social · last yr.

Win-win policies: Examples from economic research I've highlighted when businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others. Read on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/win-wi...

Join us for the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Programme on African Governance event 'Time to Reset: Ending the Self-Deception in Africa-Europe Relations' 🗓️ 12 June, 5pm BST 🗣️ Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town) w/ Ricardo Soares de Oliveira 💻 Hybrid

'Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe…

REGISTRATION To attend in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please scroll down to the registration form and enter your details To watch live online on…

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Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

National Elections Database

The National Elections Database provides detailed national election results for parliamentary and presidential elections worldwide from 1789 to 2023. The version 1.0 of this dataset was first built to...

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Vincent Pons@vinpons.bsky.social · last yr.

We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

The AEA Reporting Lockbox enables AEA members not yet ready to file a formal complaint to log circumstances or conduct by other members that may violate the AEA’s policy against harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Learn more at aeaweb.org/about-aea/re.... #econsky

The longer I spend in academia, the deeper is my belief that opportunity hoarding by elites is real and so much worse than normal folks realize.

Every persistence study be like…

Two blog posts for you. One more recent by @olihanney.bsky.social here: voxdev.org/topic/import...

Important null results in development economics

Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

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🚨 #EconSky Updated WP 🚨 First empirical evidence that public environmental regulation can stimulate climate activism from civil society. This finding highlights an often-overlooked indirect effect of regulation in the fight against climate change. 📄 Paper link: drive.google.com/file/d/1TIzN...

Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦@jordanloper.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 New Working Paper 🚨 🌍 We (w/ Michela Limardi & @akerlof.bsky.social) show that climate regulation amplifies NGO activism, especially where the state is weak 📈 Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) 🎯 A new take on public-private complementarities in climate governance 🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

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

Cultural homophily is persistent, pervasive, and consequential, even in superstar multinational teams of high-skill people with common objectives, doing well defined, interactive, not particularly culture intensive tasks. pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... Oh, we use football data. #EconSky

Indeed, my experience is a very low level of engagement, despite posting mostly academic stuff to an academic audience

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · last yr.

Yikes, I didn’t realize that BlueSky activity has been declining steadily over time. bsky.jazco.dev/stats