Welcome @rbluhm.bsky.social We’re excited to introduce Prof. Richard Bluhm, Ph.D. as a new network member. His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, development and political economics, and urban and regional economics. 🏠 www.richard-bluhm.com 🔎 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne...

📢 Kicking off today: @rbluhm.bsky.social joins us as a guest researcher from November 3rd to 11th! His research interests lie at the intersection of macroeconomics, development and political economics, and urban and regional economics. 📈 🔍 www.richard-bluhm.com 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/gu...

We are very happy to welcome @fsberger.bsky.social and @jyusof.bsky.social to our Political Economy of Global Development Lab @unistuttgart.bsky.social l 🥳💪 Stay tuned for exciting research in political economy by Felix and on inequality and fairness by Jeffrey @pegdev.bsky.social

🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky

IPUMS@ipums.bsky.social · last yr.

Users of the Demographic and Health Surveys, please take the United Nations Statistics Division DHS impact survey (form.jotform.com/250913880478...) regarding recent cuts. Replies inform future planning and advocacy. All responses are confidential and presented only in aggregate.

Good day to remember that a US President has no inherent power over tariffs whatsoever. It’s not like war powers or pardons. It’s entirely delegated by Congress to deal with emergencies. GOP Congress cld modify that law tonight and bring this to a screeching halt.

JAMA: "We are committed to working with authors to publish in accordance with the highest standards for scientific and editorial integrity. We will act flexibly, where appropriate, to ensure that censoring efforts will not silence the integrity of the scientific process"

JAMA@jama.com · last yr.

In a new Editorial, JAMA editors, JAMA Network Editors in Chief, and JAMA editorial leadership address the recent executive orders that have impacted the scientific process and reaffirm their commitment to scientific and editorial integrity. ja.ma/4b5LsIt

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

If you considered posting something critical of the Trump regime but then decided against due to fear for retaliation, then you are no longer living in a democracy.

Nice to see this in print in The Journal of Urban Economics. How do official Chinese-funded infrastructure projects diffuse economic activity in developing countries? The strongest effects are in least-developed regions and near cities. 1/2 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of economic activity within subnational regions across a …

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From our AEA cttee on the job market, here's the December update on the status of the job mkt for PhD economists of the 2024-25 cycle. A thread with graphs follows... #EconJobMarket #EconSky @aeainformation.bsky.social @aeacswep.bsky.social @joelistings.bsky.social 1/9

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Super cool that someone has actually estimated the environmental benefits of OPEC: about a trillion per decade! www.nber.org/papers/w3311...

The “I’m too cool for Bluesky and need all my Twitter followers for ego validation” crowd are a pretty shameful bunch.

Graham Cluley@grahamcluley.com · 2y ago

Researchers say Twitter changed its algorithm to promote posts from Elon Musk and Republicans in the run-up to the election. "The date at which (the spike) in engagement occurs coincides with Elon Musk's formal endorsement of Donald Trump on 13th July 2024." eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

I’m sure others have already observed this but it’s hilarious that an efficiency commission requires two co-chairs

This estimate, per WaPo, sure makes it look like voters under 30 and Gen Xers didn't shift to Trump so much as just not show up for Harris, full stop.

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2y ago

Been wondering about this: the story of the 2024 election may be that, despite evidence of Dem enthusiasm and initial excitement about turnout, the voters Harris ultimately needed to get across the finish line may've just…stayed home. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

🚨JOB OPPORTUNITIES 🚨 We are looking for an assistant professor (fixed-term) and PostDocs (1-2 yrs) for our new Political Economy of Global Development Lab. AP job Posting here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... and, 1-2 years post doc, www.ivr.uni-stuttgart.de/dokumente/Po... Please share widely!

Patriarchy means men don’t get to choose what they want either. "Men’s low share of care work does not necessarily reflect their preferences. When jobs grant greater freedoms, men choose to care for their kids." from @draliceevans.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/dralicee...

Alice Evans@draliceevans.bsky.social · 3y ago

When men can work flexibly, they do more childcare, & this increases women's earnings. 2 new papers show gender divisions of labour dont reflect inherent preferences, but can change with tech! draliceevans.substack.com/p/job-flexib...

Monash Economics is hiring 👇 econjobmarket.org/positions/9878 "Monash is located in metropolitan Melbourne, a vibrant multi-cultural city of 5 million people. Melbourne is consistently rated by The Economist as among the world's most liveable cities."

Some news: I have joined the Board of Reviewing Editors (BoRE) at Science. Part of the remit is to encourage more high-quality economics submissions. So here’s a long-ish thread on why, what, and how you should submit to Science, as well as some details on the editorial process 1/n

Reminds me of this paper looking at NZ “that the greater the difference between the value of a discipline's outside opportunities and its New Zealand academic salary, the weaker its research performance in New Zealand universities” www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence from Academia

In most countries, academic pay is independent of discipline, thus ignoring differences in labor market opportunities. Using some unique data from a comprehensive research assessment exercise undertak...

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Blue skies in Melbourne ❤️ Monash Economics 🇦🇺 is hiring this season. Job ad coming soon. #Melbourne Botanical Garden with CBD skyline.

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