Lauren Gilbert
@lgilbert.co
researcher, writer, projects georg. currently: editor, indevelopmentmag.com; writer, laurenpolicy.com.
So I updated Twitter on this, so I should probably put it here as well: all responses will probably be slow. Earlier this month, we discovered my father has a five-inch tumor in his hip. We're waiting on the core biopsy, but the FNA biopsy confirms it is malignant and high-grade.
Nice piece by @wilsonmking.bsky.social on a surprisingly unsolved question: Why are Indian kids so short? (Even more than India's development would imply.) It felt a bit voyeuristic to me though, like reading about myself or something.
The Mystery of Short Indian Children – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world
indevelopmentmag.com
I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known!
Lauren runs In Development Magazine, and the tweet seems earnest - if you're the right person to write this, you can pitch the article at indevelopmentmag.com/pitch/ @lgilbert.co
I'm in @arguablymag.bsky.social today making a case for a positive-sum immigration policy in the UK: www.arguably.uk/p/20-ideas-f...
I have a piece with Niamh O Regan in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social mapping child lead exposure by parliamentary constituency, drawing on modelling by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/he...
Revealed: Britain's lead poisioning legacy could still be affecting children
Hundreds of thousands could be impacted. New mapping highlights the parts of the country most at risk
newstatesman.com
last day to submit pitches to In Development for the time being*: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/call-for-p... *we will probably keep to a cadence of opening pitches once every six months or so. so we'll next open pitches in January.
Call for Pitches
Word count: 2,000-4,000 words
indevelopmentmag.substack.com
I highly recommend having a dyke friend that is vastly better than you at all things DIY. @juliamurdza.bsky.social
📣 Apply to lead research at one of the most important global education foundations: the Prevail Fund. Feel free to reach out if you're interested -- happy to discuss the role. www.prevailfund.org/careers?ashb...
not sure if @mosenkis.bsky.social is a great friend or a terrible one for specifically forwarding me emails about a book I am likely to dislike
immigrants do raise housing prices but they aren't the reason your rent is too damn high new post from me on immigration's effect on housing prices: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/immigratio...
Immigration and House Prices
The rent is too damn high. If there is one thing that young people seem to agree on these days, it is that the rent is too damn high.
laurenpolicy.com
New short blogpost! I wrote a round up of cancer research news from ASCO2026: - Daraxonrasib, the breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug - Big 7-year results of lorlatinib for ALK+ lung cancers – Talazoparib, a prostate cancer drug that cut the risk of progression by half and much more. Read here:
Cancer breakthroughs at ASCO
A What we're reading spotlight
abundanceandgrowth.org
"Inept political and economic strategy has left the UK in a horrendous situation." @alanbeattie.bsky.social on immigration policy dilemmas in advanced economies. www.ft.com/content/c57b...
Governments are scared of tackling the immigration dilemma
Rich economies need workers but their voters don’t like migrants
ft.com
With a link to my recent paper with @lgilbert.co progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Immigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy Forum
The UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss...
progressiveeconomyforum.com
Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf...
How do we get back to a closer relationship with Europe? Clare Short, Peter Holmes, Orla McBreen and Lauren Gilbert giving us the lowdown.
Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop. @lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward. For the Progressive Economy Forum. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Immigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy Forum
The UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss...
progressiveeconomyforum.com
Next, @lgilbert.co and @jdportes.bsky.social on how to escape the UK's immigration doom loop. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...
Immigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy Forum
The UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss...
progressiveeconomyforum.com
btw I will be speaking at the Progressive Economy Forum on Saturday about a paper @jdportes.bsky.social and I wrote, arguing the value of immigration to the British economy
The last piece of the first issue of In Development is out! There are 7.7 million people with opioid use disorder in India. Only 45,000 of them are receiving evidence-based treatment. Akshay Narayanan explains how this happened. indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/cheap-drug...
India's Treatable Crisis: Why 7 Million Opioid Patients Go Without Care
India produces enough buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid addiction, to serve about 450,000 patients each year. It is treating only 45,000. How do we fix this?
indevelopmentmag.substack.com
In advance of migration stats at 9.30, expected to show further fall, a reminder of extent to which migration has boosted the UK labour market recently. The number of non-EU origin migrant employees has increased by more than 2 million (while UK-origin employees have fallen by about 700K). [1/3]
I'm hiring for In Development's first not-me hire. Help shape the future of development journalism; edit pieces that do serious cost-effectiveness analysis AND have jokes. Up to $90k USD, fully remote worldwide. indevelopmentmag.com/jobs/
Jobs – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world
indevelopmentmag.com
They’re called clustered standard errors because they cluster just under beta/1.96 in published studies.
Initially, I wasn't going to cover migration in the first issue of In Development so it wasn't just Lauren's Special Interests, The Magazine but then @charlesjkenny.bsky.social pitched us a piece on emigration, so obviously I published it: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/wheres-my-...
Where’s My Ministry for Emigration?
Emigration As Growth Strategy
indevelopmentmag.substack.com
This week in In Development: Jakarta added ten million new residents in a decade and traffic got *better*. How? Transit, of course. indevelopmentmag.com/jakarta-tran...
Jakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Development
evidence and argument for a developing world
indevelopmentmag.com
Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance
nytimes.com