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William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5mo ago

in a compromise solution, I believe we should make logit regression illegal

Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum 📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026 Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF). ⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

This is a hard year for the job market. Dev economists: check out this available funding *if you’re open to be based in an LMIC* It could supplement your salary + provide research funds. Lots of research active hubs in Asia, Africa, LAC that would love to affiliate excellent global talent!

Becker Friedman Institute for Economics@beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 Weiss Fellowship for Junior Researchers: Job market PhD candidates planning to work in low- and middle-income countries can apply for up to 3 years of supplemental funding. 🗓️ Applications review starting Jan 15, 2026 — early applications prioritized. Apply here: https://ow.ly/6yHi50XTbEF

Watch the Nobel Lecture in Economics live from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and the Royal Academy of the Sciences: www.kva.se/en/event/the... The lecture begins at 2:30 CET today December 8th #econsky

The Nobel Lectures 2025 - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien

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📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now! Senior Editor @singhabhi.bsky.social & Co-Editors @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @iies.su.se & Philip Oreopoulos, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...

Education Technology

Policy Priorities for EdTech in LMICsAvoid hardware-first approaches. These have consistently failed and are expensive.Prioritise interventions with strong evidence of cost-effective impact:Personalis...

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I have a new VoxDev Lit launching this week on education technology👇 This area has lots of froth, but also some very promising evidence on tech use (on teaching, assessments, information) across K-12. Pulling this together was fun (with Phil Oreopoulos and @lnavarrosola.bsky.social ).

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 9mo ago

📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning. At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology. Register➡️ cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Some amazing jobs here! Our science and global health R&D team works on funding breakthroughs for neglected, high mortality/morbidity diseases and does a ton of great and interesting work -- see job links in Jacob's thread!

jacobtref.bsky.social@jacobtref.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨 Hiring scientists to help give away money 🚨 At Open Philanthropy, we have given away $600M in biomedical research since 2016. Now, we're expanding the team to do more. We're hiring: * Up to 3 Senior Program Associates * Program Officer in strep A Remote OK, salaries in links! (Thread below)

Painful as a finance prof

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

Come work with me! Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance. By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in. Econ advert below: jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Position at The Department of Economics

Description and QualificationThe Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) seeks candidates for one tenure-track assistant professor po...

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📢 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

Our new paper in EJ shows facts I've been curious about for ages. I'm biased but, IMO, these results are important. Most of all, though, this paper was fun to write --- coauthors who worked well together, steady progress, and referees who were demanding but made the paper SO much better!

Mauricio Romero @marome1.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Early Childhood Education is central to India’s NEP and global edu goals. Our(@petterberg.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social) new paper at EJ (@resmedia.bsky.social ky.social, bit.ly/4gOtoVV), shows private ECE outperform public options, explaining 60% of the SES gap. In primary, NO private premium.

I remember meeting Karthik & @singhabhi.bsky.social w/ the Mindspark/EI team when I was working at Global Innovation Fund back in 2017—and being blown away by how they were designing for impact @ scale from day 1. A stellar example of academics + do-ers partnering for scale 🚀📈👇

Abhijeet Singh@singhabhi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

Really cool result here -- edtech intervention using personalized adaptive learning in RCT in India reduces mismatch between students and the (overly ambitious) curriculum

Abhijeet Singh@singhabhi.bsky.social · 11mo ago

A key new result, enabled by multi-year RCT: PAL significantly reduced mismatch between students and curriculum over time as seen in the pivot over time in the Figure below: 8/16

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩 This will be so exciting!!!🥳 🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025 @raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

Jeremy Berg@jeremymberg.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

This would also be devastating for current US Econ PhD programs. Nobody finishes in 4 years, even 5 is rare! It would be strange if US unis were forced to move to the old UK/France model (separate Masters + 3y PhD) now when finally the top end of European programs finally converged to 5y programs…

Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen

I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

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I'm very excited to be in Nairobi again -- the last time was 15 years ago! I'll be busy with a conference Wed-Fri (which looks great): iipf.org/cng.htm But I have spare time over the weekend. What should I go and check out? Any friends still in Nairobi, please DM!

🪅DHS (not that one) Program website active again, and accepting requests for data access dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N... (via @ipums.bsky.social )

Independent reliable statistics are crucial in all modern democracies — and under attack in many parts of the world…

COPAFS@copafs.bsky.social · last yr.

AEA Statement on Dismissal of BLS Comm. "The independence of the federal statistical agencies is essential to the proper functioning of a modern economy. Accurate, timely, and impartial statistics are the foundation upon which households, businesses, and policymakers make critical decisions."

Stefan Zweig on borders is almost too much to bear

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

Nordic design — winning since the Palaeolithic Age!

Andrea Matranga@andreamatranga.bsky.social · last yr.

This might be the prettiest stone axe ever made. Fiskumoksa, found in Norway

This is a very neat demonstration of how subtitling promotes English language acquisition (compared to dubbing). I wonder what the net effects of Netflix etc is for future cohorts. You can watch in any language, subtitle *anything* and it’s always much nicer than dubbing. But it’s voluntary…

Ludger Woessmann@woessmann.bsky.social · last yr.

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

USAID has spent $2 billion supporting vaccines through GAVI. In research, published in AEJ:Economic Policy, Kartini Shastry and I find GAVI saved 1.5 million lives at a low cost of $9,000 per child saved. See the writeup of our research in VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Effective health aid: Evidence from Gavi’s vaccine programme

Coordinated health aid for vaccination has increased coverage rates and saved the lives of children around the world.

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This thread about applying for ERC Starting Grants is super useful. Checks out 100% with my experience. Heck, now I wish I’d just spoken to Konrad before applying myself — took me ages to figure this stuff out at the time!

Konrad Burchardi@konradburchardi.bsky.social · last yr.

In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.

Ooh, I don’t like this either.What I don’t know: How much of my reaction comes from: 1) being a Masters student in the UK in 2007-08, or 2) broader Econ training/work in the ~17 years since I suspect 1 is a lot stronger than 2 (never worked on finance/macro, altho exposed to many folks ofc)

Duncan Weldon@duncanweldon.bsky.social · last yr.

Very mixed feelings about this. on.ft.com/43ormH2 Return of 100% mortgage gathers pace as lenders target first-time buyers