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Great research deserves great feedback. Excited to share a new AI tool delivers publication-relevant feedback with no coding, prompting, or setup required. Eligible: Econ PhD students + faculty up to 5 years post-PhD. Access here: lse.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @profalucas.bsky.social

Friends of @udelaware.bsky.social Economics Department, today is #IHeartUDDay. Please consider donating to support our UD economics students. givingday.udel.edu/giving-day/1... Our current and future students appreciate you!

I Heart UD Giving Day | April 29, 2026

Blue Hens are the Heart of UD!

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Folks are writing about malaria again! Some bonus reading on previous eradication campaigns (by me): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Malaria Eradication and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Paraguay and Sri Lanka

(April 2010) - Mid-twentieth century malaria eradication campaigns largely eliminated malaria from Paraguay and Sri Lanka. Using these interventions as quasi-experiments, I estimate malaria's effect o...

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VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🆕 Malaria is not just a health crisis, it is an economic crisis Today on VoxDev, Minki Kim (Economics department, University of Mannheim.) discusses how eradicating malaria could deliver much larger economic gains in sub-Saharan Africa than previously believed: https://ow.ly/JWuR50YrINw

Thank you ‪@voxdev.bsky.social‬ for featuring our work!

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A large-scale conditional cash transfer programme in Chile increased earnings, reduced ethnic inequality, and improved children’s learning outcomes across two generations. Read today's article to learn more:

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

Thrilled that "When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System" with @willafriedman.bsky.social and #KehindeAjayi is in the January 2026 #EconomicJournal. It's an "Editor's Choice," FREE to download, and easy to cite. :) academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...

Congratulations to @udelaware.bsky.social Economics PhD alum #MuhammadUsmanTaj (now at #MidlandsTechnicalCollege) for winning the 2025 #AmericanEconomicAssociation Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty!

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up. Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

Job posting: Assistant Professor in @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. "a social scientist whose research addresses the policy, legal, and/or economic dimensions of contemporary ocean resource use." Apply! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

New @nber.org working paper by my @udelaware.bsky.social colleague #MariaRosalesRueda and other nifty folks.

John Holbein@johnholbein1.bsky.social · 8mo ago

WIC reduces birth weight disparities between black and white babies. www.nber.org/papers/w34521

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

#IVoted If you have not voted, not too late to join the democracy/cool sticker club! Vote!

Election Day! Vote. Vote. Vote. All elections are consequential!

UDelaware Economics PhD student @anxhelabeluli.com spent the summer as an intern at Amazon. lerner.udel.edu/seeing-oppor...

My Summer Internship: Anxhela Beluli

Anxhela Beluli, economics Ph.D. student, spent her summer as an Economist Ph.D. Intern at Amazon.

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Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!

New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38! (Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department) (* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨 Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow. Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀! #EconSky

Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography. Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me). careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.

Tatyana Deryugina@tderyugina.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are * 51% of population * 29% of House of Representatives * 26% of Senate * 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments

Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2 I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around. When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile

Adrienne Lucas@profalucas.bsky.social · last yr.

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra. Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!

Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.

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