Laura Derksen
@lauraderksen.bsky.social
🇨🇦 development and health economist at the Frisch Centre in Oslo
The largest cause of deforestation is, and has been, the expansion of farmland. But the production of which products, in particular, has been driving this in recent decades? A recent study, published in Nature Food by Chandrakant Singh and Martin Persson, answered this question.
Emily Wilson: It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth.
I take comfort from believing there is an alternate timeline where Cory Doctorow is the visionary tech entrepreneur leading the world into the future and where The Odyssey was directed by Denis Villeneuve
Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍
🚨 How much does the #frontline #workforce matter in #early #childhood #programmes at scale? Our new research on England’s national Family Nurse Partnership shows: a lot. 🧵👇
Dear development economists: stop writing a ton of extra stuff in your PAP, and just tell me what analyses you are going to run
Don't forget to submit to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics, deadline tomorrow!
Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University@linnaeus-econ.bsky.social · 7mo ago🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We'll be hosting the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16-17, 2026. Keynote speakers: @hjortj.bsky.social & Rohini Somanathan 🤩 Submit your papers here (deadline February 28): axacoair.se/go?py3X14W0
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We'll be hosting the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16-17, 2026. Keynote speakers: @hjortj.bsky.social & Rohini Somanathan 🤩 Submit your papers here (deadline February 28): axacoair.se/go?py3X14W0
So proud to have @voxdev.bsky.social highlight our work on how EMRs have saved lives in Malawian HIV clinics -- efficiency improving measures are even more important given drastic funding cuts to foreign aid and HIV treatment
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 11mo ago🆕 Electronic medical records save lives Today on VoxDev, @lauraderksen.bsky.social (Frischsenteret), Anita McGahan (@utoronto.ca) & Leandro Pongeluppe (The Wharton School) discuss the impact of electronic medical record systems in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon
Have to say I am pretty proud of Canada today. Looks like the right wing populist is going to lose in his own riding
"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.
google translate has gotten so much worse lately, e.g. changing the meaning of emails to the point that I reply completely differently (and wrongly)... is this AI hallucinations? Anyone else seeing this?
So far Canadian and American maple syrup are still the same price (or maybe Canadian used to be cheaper?)
Basic household items under lock and key at Target (America)
🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing. Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...
People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing.
Despite the high HIV prevalence in Malawi, individuals do not seem to adjust their behaviour to avoid infection—this may be due to the perceived transmission risk being so high that people become fata...
voxdev.org
Time to remind ourselves of some observations about how trade appears to help stabilize alliances and prevent international conflict www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mat...
Matthew O. Jackson: Can Trade Prevent War?
gsb.stanford.edu
Five years 3 million deaths www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Aid cuts predicted to cause 2.9 million more HIV-related deaths by 2030 – study
Reductions to overseas budgets by US, UK and EU countries will have ‘devastating consequences’, say researchers in modelling published in the Lancet HIV
theguardian.com
First run of the spring and I was overtaken by a Norwegian dad with a kid in the stroller and another kid in a carrier on his back
"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article)
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
nytimes.com
My 4yo bingeing With Love Meghan on Netflix. "What's she gonna make next??? We don't know!"
They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing
Leslie Picker@lesliepicker.bsky.social · last yr.They're really putting the "if" in tariff
Is Canada the only country standing up to Trump or what
