Missed our session “How Does Religion Affect Development?" moderated by Sarah Langlotz and Lennart Kaplan. Catch the speakers’ key messages. 👇

Notre nouvelle Note du @caeeco.bsky.social avec @vinpons.bsky.social 👇 @crestumr.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social @ippofficial.bsky.social

Conseil d'analyse économique@caeeco.bsky.social · last mo.

🔵 “Face à l’essoufflement démocratique, réformer les institutions” — c’est l’objet de la nouvelle Note du CAE signée par Boyer Pierre et Vincent Pons. ▶️ Lire la Note : cae-eco.fr/face-a-lesso... #CAE #Economie #Institutions #Réformes

Chaque nouvelle candidature réduit les chances de battre le RN. Ma dernière chronique pour @lesechosfr.bsky.social 👇👇

How can we measure the state of democracy around the world? Measuring democracy is challenging. It has many dimensions, and researchers assess them in different ways. No single source of data captures the full picture, so we present data from several of them.

The mother of all inequality disputes. (All data are in PPPs and on per capita basis; all measures are in Ginis.) Unweighted international inequality (aka Concept 1 ineq) is inequality of all countries' GDPs per capita (as simple as that). It has been going down, but slowly, over the past 30y,

EU member states with the most restrictive fiscal policy stance stance in 2026 (i.e. fiscal consolidation) according to the European Commission: Romania, France, Belgium, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Austria.

"Rien qu’en cessant d’écrire « s’il vous plaît » ou « merci » à ChatGPT, on économiserait 98 gigawattheures d’énergie par an."👇 www.standaard.be/bundle/ds/en...

L’ONU alerte sur le revers de l’IA : elle dévore l’électricité, l’eau et les terres | DS en français jeudi 4 juin

Le développement de l’intelligence artificielle (IA) exigera des quantités gigantesques d’électricité, dont la production rejette du CO₂ dans l’atmosphère. Mais l’IA consomme aussi énormément d’eau et mobilise de vastes surfaces, avertit l’ONU dans un nouveau rapport.

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🚨 L'IPP et la @drees-sante-social.bsky.social recrutent un·e post doctorant·e sur le sujet des aidants 📆 Date limite de candidature le 14 juin ▶️ Consulter l'offre de poste et les modalités de candidature : www.ipp.eu/wp-content/u...

How much do countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers? Most countries reduce income inequality through taxes and transfers — taxing higher incomes more, and redistributing through benefits like pensions, unemployment support, and family allowances.

What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.

Postdoc alert! Fellow in Public Policy at the LSE School of Public Policy. Up to 3 years, a great job in a tight market. Needs to be able to support teaching on our MPP program, but political scientists could definitely do this (make your case!) www.jobs.lse.ac.uk

📊 Data update: How many people live in poverty around the world, and how has that changed over the last decades? The World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP) is one of the primary tools we have for answering these questions.

The global number of people without electricity has halved since 2000, but it has increased in Sub-Saharan Africa— Most people in the world would think very little before flicking on the lights, charging a mobile phone or turning on a laptop to read this.

Hunger levels have increased across Africa over the last decade— In every region of Africa, hunger is more prevalent than a decade ago. The chart shows the increase in the share of the population that is undernourished, comparing 2014 and 2024 (the most recent year available).

It’s a common misconception that life expectancy has increased only because fewer children die. Historical mortality records show that adults today also live much longer than adults in the past.

Nature research paper: Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research go.nature.com/3QdKP93

Reproducibility and robustness of economics and political science research - Nature

Robustness checks and reproduction of analyses with existing and updated data based on 110 articles in economics and political science journals with data and code-sharing requirements found high levels of robustness and reproducibility and determined that robustness was not dependent on author characteristics or data availability.

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Stand Up for Science appelle toutes celles et tous ceux qui défendent les sciences comme biens communs à manifester le jeudi 26 mars 2026. A Paris, le cortège partira de Jussieu à 16h pour rejoindre le Panthéon en passant par la rue des Ecoles, le boulevard Saint Michel et la rue Soufflot.

Outside rich countries, widespread informal work means unemployment rates are low— (This Data Insight was written by @eortizospina.bsky.social.) Last year, three-quarters of the world’s countries had unemployment rates below 10%, according to data from the International Labour Organization.

📊 Data update: How much do people trust their government? How does this vary across countries, and how has it changed over time? To help answer these questions, the OECD publishes data on trust in government across 47 countries, drawing on the Gallup World Poll.

A fascinating result on social cohesion: closing bars leads to more votes for the far right, whereas opening them has the opposite effect (in #France). www.cepremap.fr/2026/01/quan...

Happy to see our paper "The Church as Arbiter" with @cboix.bsky.social now available online at @thejop.bsky.social. Here 👇 A Thread

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 5mo ago

Being unemployed isn’t the same as not having a job — at least when it comes to labor statistics. The map shows unemployment rates around the world in 2025. Let’s see what this number captures — and what it doesn’t 🧵

Was the global decline of extreme poverty only due to China? The share of the world population living in extreme poverty has never declined as rapidly as in the past three decades.

Marco Rubio just flew to Budapest to deliver a speech in which he provided a full endorsement of Viktor Orbán in the upcoming Hungarian elections. Here is the letter he signed in 2019 warning about Hungary's "downward democratic trajectory" under Orbán h/t Carrick Ryan

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Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 6mo ago

📊 Explore updated data on global development from the World Bank— How are countries around the world developing — in terms of their economies, infrastructure, technology, energy use, healthcare, education, food production, and much more?

Nice essay by Carlos Chavez on the history and development of causal inference carloschavezp29.substack.com/p/on-causality

On Causality

A History of How Economics Learned to Think About Cause and Effect

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We rarely think of economics as scandalous, but maybe we should. Sam Bowles, in conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social & Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, argues that a core assumption in the field impedes moral reasoning about wealth redistribution. Watch "Why Economic Inequalities Endure"→ bit.ly/3Yj4F3B

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

📊 Data update: Explore updated data on social spending by governments— How much are different countries spending on social programs like housing, unemployment, benefits for the sick and elderly, and more?

Our paper with Robin Rampaer and David Raymaekers, on how earthquakes and time preference, is out in the Journal of Development Studies. It illustrates the externalities of research & teaching, as it began with Robin's Ma dissertation at @ulbruxelles.bsky.social. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

One-Minute Earthquake, Years of Patience: Evidence from Mexico on the Effect of Earthquake Exposure on Time Preference

Using a survey of nearly 20,000 Mexican residents matched with various earthquakes, we observe evidence that people affected by an earthquake report a lower discount rate, implying a greater level ...

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