Thinking about Archbishop Desmond Tutu's statement that he would rather go to hell than a homophobic heaven

🆕 How Ethiopia’s industrial parks drove development Today on VoxDev, Huayu Xu (Peking University), Guangbo Huang & Min Wang outline research on Ethiopia’s industrial parks: https://ow.ly/cgPs50Zjy2A

How Ethiopia’s industrial parks drove development

Ethiopia’s industrial parks have substantially increased local economic activity, household living standards, and women’s empowerment, but the gains stay close to the parks and depend heavily on where parks are built.

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📢 Application reminder! Join us as a Research Assistant / Doctoral Student (f/m/d) – Macro Finance 📅 Start date: 1 October 2026 ⏳ Fixed-term for 1 year (70% position) 📩 Deadline: 3 July 2026 👉 Application: career.safe-frankfurt.de/jobposting/b... #EconSky #MacroFinance #DoctoralStudent

Finally out! Read about our research on the optimal design of severance pay schemes. Using a field experiment after a trade-induced layoff shock in Ethiopia, we show that paying severance as a lump sum reduces reemployment rates relative to paying monthly tranches.

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🆕The benefits of financial support after job loss and why programme design matters more than we think 📢 Today on VoxDev w/ Lukas Hensel (Peking University), François Gerard (UCL) & Stefano Caria (Department of Economics, University of Oxford): https://ow.ly/qFx350Z4Bzy

📆 One week left to apply! We are still looking for excellent PhD students and postdocs to join us at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (HDSC).

Paul Hünermund@p-hunermund.com · 3mo ago

🏁 We’re hiring at the TUM Heilbronn Data Science Center (PhD & Postdoc). Focus: econometrics, innovation policy, and technology management—with a particular interest in the societal and managerial implications of #causalAI. Join a highly interdisciplinary, research-driven environment at TUM. 👇

We're #hiring a CSAE Projects Officer Provide financial & administrative support for the Economic Policy Network & Open Political Economy Anaylysis Programme, & other CSAE projects all at the @blavatnikschool.bsky.social ⏰Deadline: 20 May 2026, 12:00 BST ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

If you teach intro to Econ and would be interested in being part of an RCT on AI homework tutor I have a good lead on funding. Participating faculty will get $500 to $1000. DM me or email sgitter@towson.edu Please repost! Repost and I'll buy you a drink at ASSA 2027 or future conference

10 more days to get the early bird 🐦 discount for our @tinbergeninstitute.bsky.social summer school in development economics!

Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam@economics-vu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Development Economics (June 29 – July 3) by Wendy Janssens, Remco Oostendorp, Peter Lanjouw, Menno Pradhan and @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social More information: Summer School 2026 Development Economics

📢 We are hiring a PhD student @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social! Join the team of @steinhardt.bsky.social and contribute to research in labor economics, migration, political economy & gender economics. 🗓️ Deadline: 13 April Details in the call www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

One advantage of jet lag, it’s easier to get up for an early morning run. #OxCSAE2026

Tune in to learn more about industrial parks and policy in Ethiopia and beyond. #OxCSAE2026

CSAE@oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🎥AND WE'RE LIVE Join us for the CSAE Conference 2026 opening panel 'Made in Africa: An Assessment' with Stefano Caria, Max Duncan, Pramila Krishnan, Arkebe Oqubay and @gamblingondev.bsky.social. #OxCSAE2026 Watch here👇 us02web.zoom.us/j/81884170412

Next up, @Mahreen Kahn @ox.ac.uk on the effects of soft skill training for students in Bangladesh. Skill and employment increase even in the medium term (6-12months), in particular for women. The program was very cost effective at less than 4USD per participant. #OxCSAE2026

Now, @marcjosefwitte.bsky.social @vuamsterdam.bsky.social presents on the direct and indirect impact of a nursing training program for women. The training increases both participants’ and connect individuals’ employment and earning. Spillovers likely emerge due information spillovers. #OxCSAE2026

The next presentation is by Lea Rouanet at the World Bank on whether information on earnings can reduce the gender gap in the impact of TVET training in the Republic of Congo. Short run results show reduced gender gaps but effects dissipate over time as women leave jobs at higher rates. #OxCSAE2026

My first session at #OxCSAE2026 is on female employment. First up is by Nissi Moses @rug.nl on the impact of fast internet on employment rates by gender. She find that access to internet leads aggregate employment to decrease but she observes a narrowing of gender gaps.

So good to be back @oxfordcsae.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk for the 2026 CSAE conference on development economics. I will post on Bluesky about the papers I see over the next days. Stay tuned. #OxCSAE2026

🧵A thread on "AI one-shot papers". This has not been a focus on Bluesky, but on Twitter/X and LinkedIn, there has been a large discussion of the ability to "one-shot" policy evaluation, which David Yanagizawa-Drott has been pursuing in an interesting way: ape.socialcatalystlab.org

Psychology has a whole cottage industry in which people come up with some construct that is essentially "attitudes/beliefs/expectations/feelings about X", and then the central claim is that this construct is a super important determinant of future X outcomes.>

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.

I am not right for it because I am neither smart nor innovative (and possibly also a bit older than 30), but if YOU are, this is a great opportunity. 👇

John Kampfner@johnkampfner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A week to go before deadline (Mar 22) for Young Königswinter in Berlin at end-July. It brings together the smartest, innovative 26-30 years olds from Germany and UK. If you think you're right for it, or someone you know is, then apply quickly. It's a great event ykw.debrige.de/2026/02/20/i...

🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/

Last call for applications. Deadline is on March 15.

Toman Barsbai@tomanbarsbai.com · 6mo ago

📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn) Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team. www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/phd-...

Are you an African national thinking of applying for graduate study in Economics at the University of Oxford? ⏰ Deadline for 2026 entry is 27 Jan 2026 📽️ Watch our webinar round-up video to get expert advice from CSAE professors on how to make the best application. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9j5...

Graduate Study in Economics at Oxford: Scholarship Application Advice from CSAE Professors

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

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Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Causal Inference Meeting in Oxford? Here we go! This year's European Causal Inference Meeting (EuroCIM / @eurocim.bsky.social) will take place in Oxford, UK. What to expect? 1/ #CausalSky #EpiSky #EconSky #MLSky #StatSky

🚨 Deadline on Sunday: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 👇

Ludger Woessmann@woessmann.bsky.social · 10mo ago

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

All three statements are true at the same time—

This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 9mo ago

Fresh dystopian hell from Samsung fridges with ads.

Here me out but have you considered an 8 computer garage lan with Warcraft 3 installed. We can save America one RTS at a time

post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 9mo ago

bar trivia is pretty good, bowling or pool or whatever would also be fine, this is mostly a well-solved problem

Brilliant investigation into Saudi Arabia's discovery that the optimal shape for a city is not a 170-kilometre straight line ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled

Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance

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