⏳DUE TOMORROW!⏳ Calling all liberal arts college development economists: Submit your best work to LACDev at Wesleyan by May 18! 🔥 #EconSky #EconConf #LACDev #Wesleyan

Lexi Schubert@schubertlexi.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🍂 We're thrilled to host LACDev 2026 at Wesleyan on Sep 18-19! 🍂 LACDev is a wonderful community of development economists at Liberal Arts Colleges. We meet annually to discuss our latest research and to explore teaching trends in our field. Come join us! #EconSky #EconConf #LACDev

🍂 We're thrilled to host LACDev 2026 at Wesleyan on Sep 18-19! 🍂 LACDev is a wonderful community of development economists at Liberal Arts Colleges. We meet annually to discuss our latest research and to explore teaching trends in our field. Come join us! #EconSky #EconConf #LACDev

Excited to see my job market paper on "Self-Detrimental Avoidance of Rest" (with Jenny Wang) featured in @faznet.bsky.social! Fun to be deep in field work, forgetting about anything but the current project...and then waking up to an email from my parents with the link. www.faz.net/aktuell/karr...

Stress im Job: Der Wert von Pausen wird unterschätzt

Pausen sind wichtig, das ist bekannt. Dennoch verzichten viele an stressigen Tagen darauf. Und schaden sich damit selbst, wie eine Studie zeigt.

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🚨 Evidence alert: RCT from a @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social / @ox.ac.uk team found that unconditional cash xfers led to 48% ⬇️ infant deaths in Kenya. 🧢 off to team behind this study: Michael Walker, @tedmiguel.bsky.social, Dennis Egger, Nick Shankar, and Grady Killeen. go.cega.org/cashimpacts A 🧵

Cash Transfers Dramatically Cut Infant Mortality in Kenya, New Research Finds

Berkeley, CA (18 Aug. 2025) — With the global development community facing financial upheaval, global development goals increasingly out of reach, and the need for aid greater than ever, new...

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🆕 What role can (should) economists play in shaping the future of AI? 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, David Yanagizawa-Drott (@econ.uzh.ch) discusses how economists should think about the future of AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD7-...

🎉 Congratulations to @jyusof.bsky.social who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: «Understanding Inequality and Redistribution: The Role of Perceptions and Preferences»! 🇩🇪 He will pursue a position as an assistant professor at the @unistuttgart.bsky.social

Congrats Gabriele!

Department of Economics @Universität Zürich 🇨🇭@econ.uzh.ch · last yr.

🎉 Congratulations to Gabriele Patete who has successfully defended his PhD Thesis: “The Economics of a Cap on the Profit-to-cost Ratio of firms”. Gabriele will join the University of Balearic Islands, uib.cat, in Palma de Maiorca as an Assistant Professor of Macroeconomics.

Extremely grateful for the opportunity and the outstanding support from the @ubscenter.uzh.ch and @econ.uzh.ch on this academic journey!

Economics. For Society.@ubscenter.uzh.ch · last yr.

Former UBS Center Scholarship holder @schubertlexi.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations! Lexi will join @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Economics after a post-doc at @cega-uc.bsky.social. #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch

Former UBS Center Scholarship holder @schubertlexi.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD Thesis. Congratulations! Lexi will join @wesleyanuniversity.bsky.social as an Assistant Professor of Economics after a post-doc at @cega-uc.bsky.social. #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch

Join us for an unique and inspiring event with the newly awarded @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @dacemoglumit.bsky.social of @mitofficial.bsky.social on January 29, 6pm, at @uzh-en.bsky.social. Register now → www.ubscenter.uzh.ch/en/news_even... #EconomicsForSociety #UZH #shareUBS @econ.uzh.ch

Recent policy proposals for universal access with automatic enrollment could increase participation by 19 percentage points in the lowest income quintile over ten years, from Motohiro Yogo, Andrew Whitten, and Natalie Cox https://www.nber.org/papers/w33256

Very excited to see this in print soon!

The Quarterly Journal of Economics@qjeharvard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Do Financial Concerns Make Workers Less Productive,” by Kaur, Mullainathan (@sendhil.bsky.social), Oh, and Schilbach (@fschilbach.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

My economist husband spent the last couple days, jubilantly stating “Saturday the holidays begin! Vacation starts! No more work!” This morning he woke up excited: “no work today!!” He is now making slides for an intro trade class that doesn’t exist “for fun! This isn’t work!!”

Basic science is necessary for applied science, example #1000000

Derek Thompson@dkthomp.bsky.social · 2y ago

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

I would even add: please shamelessly promote your work One terrific thing I enjoyed on old Twitter was discovering new papers Trust me, you will have an audience if you share your work on Bluesky

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 2y ago

No need to apologize for promoting your work here. Who better to tell us about it? Who knows it sooner or better?

🚀 I'm on the job market! Curious how digital tech boosts productivity but still faces adoption barriers? Digital payments are powerful tools, yet data observability can be a double-edged sword—enhancing efficiency but deterring workers fearing tracking. My takeaways on @WorldBank blog! 🙂👇 #EconJMP

David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's #econjmp by @deivyhoueix.bsky.social conducts 2 RCTs with the intro of mobile payments to taxis in Senegal, showing how making payments observable to the owner can induce more effort from the driver, change the contract structure, but also impact adoption blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Thanks for including my JMP! With @deivyhoueix.bsky.social, we run an RCT studying search costs, adverse selection, and moral hazard between firms and suppliers in a large international import market. More detail available in the paper, including model and estimation! tinyurl.com/4acf2uwm

David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's #econjmp post is by @edwardwiles.bsky.social who conducts an experiment in Senegal with importers to show how Whatsapp groups can overcome search and trust frictions, with reviews that build trust and punish bad behavior helping form lasting trade blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

Very disappointed in the slow growth of new starter packs being created every day. How do we expect more progress if only 300 starter packs are created every day.

Take a break to check out the fantastic work by my student on the market @schubertlexi.bsky.social! In Lexi’s experiment, the vast majority of people prefer not to take breaks even though breaks pay for themselves. Misperceived returns to breaks play a key role in this decision.

Lexi Schubert@schubertlexi.bsky.social · 2y ago

#JMP Alert #EconTwitter Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t. lexischubert.github.io/uploads/Schu...

#JMP Alert #EconTwitter Restful activities can boost productivity, allowing you to earn more by working less. But do people get this trade-off right? In my JMP, we show they don’t. lexischubert.github.io/uploads/Schu...