Registration for our Firms, Trade & Development conference w/@theigc.bsky.social is open! Including: @matteo-ruzzante.bsky.social, @amenjalal.bsky.social, @raamadhok.bsky.social, @tommasoporzio.bsky.social, @isaacahimbisibwe.bsky.social, @chatibbasri.bsky.social egc.yale.edu/events/2026/...

Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2026

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Registration is now open for the Firms, Trade, & Development Conference 2026! 📍Yale + virtual 📅10-11 September 2026 Join leading researchers for two days of discussions on firms, trade, development, & this year's new climate & environment session. theigc.org/events/firms...

Firms, Trade, and Development Conference 2026

Attend the Firms, Trade, and Development conference at Yale University on September 10–11, 2026, hosted by IGC and Yale EGC, in person or online.

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From affiliate Leah Platt Boustan, along with Abramitzky, Gulek & Hainmueller: “...we find that H-1B exposure raised incomes for natives and pre-existing immigrants, with gains concentrated in non-STEM occupations.” www.nber.org/papers/w35560

Marginal Revolution@marginalrev.blogsky.venki.dev · 2d ago

The economics of H-1B immigration - Marginal REVOLUTION

Affiliate @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social on how one of the deadliest disasters in history led to independence for Bangladesh, and what leaders can learn about responding to climate-caused crises. (Paper link in replies)

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last wk.

🆕 The birth of Bangladesh: How the Bhola cyclone fostered revolution 📢 Today on Economics Unpacked, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (@yalesom.bsky.social @yaleeconomics.bsky.social) explores the role of the 1970 Bhola cyclone in shaping Bangladesh's independence: www.youtube.com/watch?v=r03M...

🆕 How rebel governance helped build inclusive democracy in Nepal Today on VoxDev w/ Bhishma K. Bhusal, Michael Callen (LSE), Rohini Pande (Yale Department of Economics), Soledad Artiz Prillaman (Stanford), Deepak Singhania (IIT Gandhinagar) & Apurva Subedi: https://ow.ly/ZTGq50Zneu3

How rebel governance helped build an inclusive democracy in Nepal

Parallel governance institutions built by Maoist rebels during Nepal's civil war led to lasting improvements in political participation among historically excluded groups, more representative candidate selection across parties, and greater local government capacity.

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In a new working paper, Patrick Agte, Daniel R. Morales, PhD, EGC affiliate Christopher Neilson, Sebastián Otero & Gautam Rao ask what factors influence a national scale-up of an effective program in the Dominican Republic.

NBER@nber.org · 2mo ago

Testing what gets bureaucrats to implement mandated programs. Incentives, evidence, support: zero effect. Reminder phone calls: +20 percentage points. Attention matters, from Patrick Agte, Daniel R. Morales, Christopher Neilson, Sebastián Otero, and Gautam Rao www.nber.org/papers/w35291

Come work with us & Yale Inclusion Economics (please share with interested colleagues!): US-based: Predoc in dev & experimental econ: ie.yale.edu/opportunitie... Kenya-based: Predoc RA: ie.yale.edu/opportunitie... Postdoctoral Research Scientist: egc.yale.edu/opportunitie...

In 1974, during a global hunger crisis, farmer-turned-economist Robert Evenson returned to @yaleeconomics.bsky.social, where he spent the next 30 years using the tools of empirical economics to better understand how to feed the world. egc.yale.edu/news/260603/... Featuring @agnesq.bsky.social (👇)

🎉Congratulations to the Class of 2026, here’s a little about our graduates and what they’re doing next! egc.yale.edu/news/260518/...

EGC Celebrates the Class of 2026, their achievements and future plans

A diverse group of students passionate about international development – Economics PhDs, IDE masters students, and our own Postgraduate Associates and Interns – are moving on. The Economic Growth Cent...

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📢 Call for Papers Join us for the Firms, Trade, & Development conference at Yale Uni (10–11 Sept 2026), co-hosted by the IGC & @yaleegc.bsky.social. We welcome submissions on firms, trade & development — w/ special focus on climate, energy & environment. www.theigc.org/call-papers-...

Call for papers: IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development 2026

Join leading economists at the IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development, held at Yale University on 10-11 September 2026.

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New! Researchers Kexin Feng and Pablo Valenzuela-Casasempere are using the tools of economic history to understand how governments can spur technological innovation and boost employment. egc.yale.edu/research/kex...

Kexin Feng and Pablo Valenzuela Casasempere on using economic history to inform current policy

EGC postdocs Kexin Feng and Pablo Valenzuela Casasempere combine historical and economic methods to research how economies evolve across time and space.

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Doug Irwin of @dartmouthecon.bsky.social recently gave EGC’s Kuznets Memorial Lecture. He showed how a wave of southern hemisphere countries opened up to trade in a decade (~1985-1995), and suggested that the reason had to do with foreign exchange reserves. Video: egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

👏 Congratulations to Professor Leah Boustan on her election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, class of 2026! egc.yale.edu/news/leah-bo...

Leah Boustan Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The Director of the Program in Economic History studies labor markets and immigration

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📸 Douglas Irwin delivered the 35th Simon Kuznets Memorial Lecture earlier this year, sharing insights from a career studying economic history and trade policy.

📰: 𝑮𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑳𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒆 Over the past five years EGC has deepened our work and strengthened our institutional base. Our mission remains unchanged, but we are now better equipped to interpret and assist in a rapidly evolving global economy, whatever challenges the next horizon may bring.

"This paper focuses on a set of domestic distortions that give rise to a phenomenon that is pervasive in developing economies: informality." NEW in Econometrica, by Rafael Dix-Carneiro, Pinelopi Goldberg, Costas Meghir, and Gabriel Ulyssea: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/...

Jesús Fernández-Villaverde of @upenn.edu presenting his paper on the interplay between trade, consumption, public opinion and lobbying at today's Kuznets Mini-Conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History www.nber.org/papers/w34672

At the Kuznets Mini-Conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates & Econ History @rjuhasz.bsky.social walks through the semiconductor value chain, presenting her paper (with Goldberg, @nathanlane.bsky.social, Lo Forte & Thurk) on industrial policy in the sector www.rjuhasz.com/research/Sem...

After yesterday's packed Kuznets lecture by Dartmouth's Doug Irwin (at the 250th anniversary of the publication of The Wealth Of Nations), he and Yale's Penny Goldberg kick of today's Kuznetz mini-conference on Trade Reform, Exchange Rates, and Economic History. egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

Ahead of giving the 35th annual Kuznets Memorial Lecture, Dartmouth’s Doug Irwin spoke with Yale International and Development Econ Master’s students about international trade and finance. Join us today online or in person for his public lecture: egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

This Thursday, Douglas Irwin (Dartmouth College) will present the 35th Kuznets Memorial Lecture on trade policy and exchange rate reform. Join us March 26 at 4pm ET, in person or online, for @yaleegc.bsky.social's annual event: egc.yale.edu/events/simon...

We’re pleased to see our conversation with Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli about their gender research in the Dev Impact links, & congrats to @dmckenzie.bsky.social himself on his business training research being part of the Economist’s firm growth research primer (also in the links).

David McKenzie@dmckenzie.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This week's links include new guidance on industrial policy and a great Taiwan example, the South African jobs problem, how economists should and are using AI, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Recent Kuznets visitors Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli discuss their research on gender in development, how their backgrounds growing up in India & Brazil inform their research, and what it takes for research to make change in the world. egc.yale.edu/news/260316/...

In Conversation: Girija Borker & Ieda Matavelli on gender, education, and labor

Two researchers discuss how gender norms and constraints can limit economic opportunities and outcomes – and how policy can respond.

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ACES is pleased to accept applications for its 2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy, August 12-14 in Kathmandu, Nepal. Details and application instructions available here: conta.cc/4l2ox5I Application deadline April 15.

2026 ACES Summer School in Political Economy - Call for Applications

Email from Association of Comparative Economics Studies     APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN 5th ACES Summer School in Political Economy August 12-14, 2026 | Kathmandu, Nepal   The Association for Comparative Ec

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What barriers impede future progress in poverty reduction, and where will future growth in lower-income countries come from? NEW in @nber.org, by Pascaline Dupas, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, & Rohini Pande: www.nber.org/papers/w34943

For #IWD2026, Yale researchers offer valuable perspectives on women’s economic empowerment around the world, from household dynamics to labor force participation, economic growth, and more: egc.yale.edu/news/260306/...

Yale researchers offer new insight into the role of women in economic development

More than fifty years after the U.N.’s establishment of International Women’s Day, what progress have women made? Where should we go from here? Rohini Pande, Pinelopi (Penny) Koujianou Goldberg, and o...

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We welcomed researchers to Yale for our first Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice. Our recap summarizes the latest insights from experimental methods into the mechanisms behind—and potential solutions to—discrimination and prejudice: egc.yale.edu/news/260302/...

Event Recap: Experimental Economics Workshop on Discrimination and Prejudice

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🆕 Carbon offsets are broken. Economists know how to fix them. In this episode of Economics Unpacked, Rohini Pande (@yaleegc.bsky.social) and Daniel Xu (Duke University) the theory and real-world evidence behind carbon offset markets. Watch below ⤵️

📢 📢 Calling all pre-doctoral fellows 📢 📢 The second annual Pre-Doctoral Economics Conference will be hosted by Yale University on Friday, June 5. Please use this link to submit your research by April 6th: tobin.yale.edu/events/2026/...

⚖️ What shapes public support for trade? 🇨🇷 EGC affiliate Diana Van Patten and coauthor Esteban Méndez analyzed a unique Costa Rican referendum to study popular attitudes towards trade, finding that economic factors play a significant role. 📚 Read the research summary: egc.yale.edu/research/wha...

What shapes public support for trade?

EGC affiliate Diana Van Patten and her coauthor analyze a unique Costa Rican referendum to study popular attitudes towards trade, finding that economic factors play a significant role.

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