Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

Join us in-person (if you’re in DC) or online, it should be fun!

🎉First post here I had the privilege of moderating a fantastic @aaea-economics.bsky.social webinar today on using social media for professional visibility 🌾💻 If you missed the live session, you can catch the full recording on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0fM...

Why/how should multiple hypothesis testing be done differently in empirical work? We give an economic foundation trading off research costs and incentives with implications for empirical practice. New paper by Viviano, Wüthrich, and Niehaus: www.restud.com/a-model-of-m... #REStud #EconSky

Yikes! The knock on effects of climate change seem quite bad… The upside of this is that increasing agricultural productivity, and adaptation to a changing climate, can reduce deforestation pressures… Let’s slow climate change and increase agricultural productivity!

@jeffbloem.bsky.social, Noah Wexler, and I got a Little Lebowski Achievement Award for our 2024 article on the front-door criterion. Joking aside, this is very nice. It took a while (and many submissions and iterations of the paper) to get this published.

New WB Policy Research Working Paper: “Shaken, but Not Deterred : Acute Stressors and the Formation of Hope and Aspirations among Tertiary-Educated Youth in Myanmar in the Aftermath of the 2025 Earthquake” - check it out!

Recently accepted by #QJE: “The Future in Mind: Aspirations and Long-Term Outcomes in Rural Ethiopia,” by Bernard, Dercon (@gamblingondev.bsky.social), Orkin, Schinaia, and Taffesse (@astaffesse.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

🆕 African agriculture's underappreciated supply side Today on VoxDevTalks, @hopecm.bsky.social (UIUC) discusses how understanding the risks, incentives, and constraints faced by agro-dealers is essential for sustained productivity gains: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Excited to share a new R package: 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁 🌡️ `heat` makes it easier to work with climate or other gridded data in applied research, providing a comprehensive + optimized set of tools to compute environmental exposures for admin boundaries or points from gridded/point data. github.com/echolab-stan...

What would it cost to end extreme poverty? "We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year." "The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

Evidence from the same context + the same team (now adding @JeffBloem) that while depression ⬆️ among women in the perinatal period in S Africa, exposure to the grant during the perinatal period eliminates this increased risk www.dropbox.com/scl/...

🆕 Intensification or expansion? A new approach to measuring agricultural change Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social (@ifpri.org) & Clark Lundberg (San Diego State University) discuss the impact of agricultural technology adoption on deforestation in Nigeria: voxdev.org/topic/agricu...

Icymi. . .@ifpri is on fire in the latest issue of JDE (well, soon-to-be the Jan 2026 issue of JDE) with six separate papers from 7 different researchers

Anyone who has studied development economics has learned about the structural transformation of national economies that occurs amid the development process. The traditional narrative emphasizes intersectoral labour reallocation out of agriculture and into manufacturing and services.

🆕 #Blog Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption 🖋️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social. 🔗 Read the full story here: on.cgiar.org/4oR3GUA @cgiar.org

New on the @ifpri.org blog today: “Nature’s ‘double dividend’ from agricultural technology adoption” www.ifpri.org/blog/natures...

The #WEFIDEV #webinar series is back this fall! We are looking for *preliminary or early-stage work* in #Finance and #Development to be presented We also aim to have a session devoted to job candidates in finance and development on the market this fall Submit: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New on the Engendering data blog: “Sources of bias when measuring women’s empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected settings: a story of four case studies” gender.cgiar.org/news/sources...

In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services

Really excited to have this paper published in the JDE! Available online today, blog post and more coming soon… “Agricultural technology adoption and deforestation: Evidence from a randomized control trial” co-authored with Clark Lundberg www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Literally joined this platform (finally) to share this AEDE blog. If you are not heartbroken at the scale of child suffering in Gaza, you are not paying attention. Call your federal rep — at the very least. u.osu.edu/aede/2025/07...

Now available online at JESA: “Survey ordering and the measurement of welfare” with Wahed Rahman and Marc Bellemare #openaccess link here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We summarized our findings on how farmer-herder conflict influences the labor allocation of agricultural households in this @voxdev.bsky.social piece. Here is a link to a longer thread on the paper, recently published in the JDE: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

🆕 How climate-induced conflict is shaping rural Nigeria Today on VoxDev, @jeffbloem.bsky.social @ifpri.org, Amy Damon (Macalester College), David Francis (World Bank), Harrison Mitchell @ucsandiego.bsky.social show how repeated exposure to violence shifts labour patterns: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

🆕 🗞️ Income aspirations and migration: Evidence from rural #Tajikistan 🖊️ By @jeffbloem.bsky.social, Isabel Lambrecht, and Kamiljon Akromov. 🖱️ Learn more here: doi.org/10.1177/0197... @cgiar.org

It's blog week around here. Here's a piece on work with @kateambler.bsky.social @jeffbloem.bsky.social @mehrabbakhtiar.bsky.social & Eduardo Maruyama on financial innovation in agrifood systems, part of the new @ifpri.org series on Financing Food Systems Transformation www.ifpri.org/blog/four-le...

Happy to see this paper finally published and available online today! More things coming soon that build on this project, so stay tuned… with co-authors Saweda Liverpool-Tasie, Andrew Dillon, and Serge Adjognon www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New paper just out today: “Income Aspirations and Migration: Evidence From Rural Tajikistan” with Isabel Lambrecht and Kamiljon Akromov journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Did you know that your siblings can influence whether you vote? Well, because of our new working paper you do! @mike-bloem.bsky.social, @jonisaacsmith.bsky.social, sam imlay

Five actions to prevent the devastating long-term effects of malnutrition www.cgdev.org/blog/malnutr... from @eeshani.bsky.social @cgdev.org

Really excited to have our paper “Herder-related violence, labor allocation, and the gendered response of agricultural households” published in the JDE!!

Migrating to new economic opportunities in cities, rural Indian families don't mechanize, they downsize their farms. Their neighbors produce more as land and crops markets adjust, from @raamadhok.bsky.social, Noack, Mushfiq Mobarak, and Deschenes https://www.nber.org/papers/w33854

How to design studies that scale up? 🤔 Michael Kremer (@devinnovationlab.bsky.social) presented this today at @ifpri.org: Among early projects at former USAID DIV, those that scaled successfully were usually: 💲 Cheaper: unit cost <$3USD 🚷 Did NOT sell to consumers 💻 Evaluated by RCT

The 2025 Global Food Policy Report published by @ifpri.org is out today! Check it out here: cgspace.cgiar.org/items/f4fbb6...

In the most recent issue of @restatjournal.bsky.social (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (Kaspar Wuthrich and @karthik-econ.bsky.social) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A 🧵 below:

First post on Bluesky as a new user! Excited to connect with peers here. Thrilled to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is published in Science—and it’s on the cover! Huge congrats to my amazing co-authors. Proud to be part of this work!

How different researcher decisions, data cleaning, research design, and interpretations of a policy question, affect variation in estimated treatment effects, from Huntington-Klein, Portner, McCarthy, and The Many Economists Collaborative on Researcher Variation https://www.nber.org/papers/w33729

Very cool to see this paper (my former JMP!) forthcoming at one of my favorite journals!

🚨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

The lesson of the "China shock" isn't actually about trade. It's about how hard it is for workers and communities to adapt to rapid economic changes. Now Trump is trying to reshape the global economy overnight, with potentially devastating consequences. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...

A remedial education program in India worked well when teachers were given strict implementation guidelines. It worked just as well when teachers had discretion to adapt. www.nber.org/papers/w33242 by Beg, @annefitz13.bsky.social, @jkerwin.bsky.social, @profalucas.bsky.social, & @kwrahman.com

Can find a link to our new paper on network based value chain surveys here (w @jeffbloem.bsky.social @kateambler.bsky.social and others)

Now out in Food Policy: “The unmet financial needs of intermediary firms within agri-food value chains in Uganda and Bangladesh” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

After a long wait, the working paper for the Many-Economists Project: The Sources of Researcher Variation in Economics. We had 146 teams perform the same research three times, each time with less freedom. What source of freedom leads to different choices and results? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"every $1,000 investment in paid parental leave would generate $7,275 - $29,406 in present discounted net social benefits" www.nationalaffairs.com/blog/detail/...