📸 What a wonderful evening yesterday to kick off the AFÉPOP 2026 Conference! Thanks to @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social and @marionleturcq.bsky.social, the president of the association, for their warm welcome speeches at the beautiful Hôtel de Ville de Strasbourg 🏛️🥂

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

The 2 day workshop features innovative research on #socioeconomic #inequalities in old age across Europe & beyond, w/ 🔟 academic presentations on #ageing #health #retirement & well-being by an excellent lineup of speakers. cc @mathieulefebvre.bsky.social @yarine.bsky.social @kunlee.bsky.social 1/2

Yesterday afternoon at the @amse-aixmarseille.fr, Prof @chetinicoletti1.bsky.social delivered a keynote on children’s peer influence 👥🧒 The auditorium was full for this insightful talk, introduced by @georgiathebault.bsky.social ! 📸 #AFÉPOP2025

🎥 The recording of the Difference-in-Differences course by Prof. @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social , which I had the pleasure of organizing at @liser.lu , is now online! 📚 12 hours covering everything from the basics to advanced methods. 👉 Watch the course here: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky

🇺🇸 Donald Trump a signé un décret visant à "éliminer" le ministère de l'Education, un projet applaudi par la droite américaine qui a fait des écoles un terrain de lutte contre les idées progressistes. "Nous allons le fermer et le fermer le plus rapidement possible", a déclaré le président américain.

What else? 🤦

« La maladie s’installe, ronge discrètement certaines disciplines, se banalise sans susciter l’indignation publique. En France aussi, il suffira d’une alternance pour que les métastases apparaissent. » www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

Studies across English-speaking countries find a decline in happiness and life satisfaction among young adults over the past decade while older adults show more stable or improving well-being, from Jean Twenge and David G. Blanchflower https://www.nber.org/papers/w33490

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Thread of my own work that has used data from Department of Education and columns that have focused on research funded by them 1/N Inequality in college graduation rates Uses data from Education Longitudinal Study, conducted by Department of Education www.nytimes.com/2015/06/02/u...

Last days to apply to the 2025 Conference in Applied Econometrics using Stata in Marseille. We welcome quality research in applied econometrics from all fields. Keynotes by Barbara Rossi ans Andrew Clark. statafrance2025.sciencesconf.org

⏰🚨Only 5 days left to apply 🚨⏰ Apply here 👇 🔗 afepop2025.sciencesconf.org

AEJ Applied starting the new year with 4 enviro/energy papers 👀

Dear friends and followers, I'm sharing here the Nobel prize acceptance speech I gave on behalf of Simon Johnson, James Robinson and myself. Thank you everybody.

This week I had the great pleasure to be in the PhD comitee of Zexuan Wang at CREM @rennesuniv.bsky.social . Congratulations !

Congratulations to @yujiang_sun for the excellent defence of his PhD at CEEM Montpellier . Great pleasure to be in the comitee.

Why #economics is such a concentrated discipline? This NBER WP looks at 18 major fields: natural sciences, engineering, and #socialsciences. In all the award winners are diffused around the world, except in economics! #EconSky

‘To the extent that measures of inequality in healthcare utilization do not take into account the resources required by the individual to use healthcare inputs, they will present an overly positive picture of inequities’ academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

Very last day to submit your paper and join us in sunny Marseille in may. www.amse-aixmarseille.fr/en/news/2024...

We are thrilled to curate a Special Issue on “Field Experiments to Reduce Inequality” in the European Economic Review! Guest editors: @lergetporer.bsky.social @michelebelot.bsky.social @henninghermes.com @fpeter.bsky.social & @simonwiederhold.bsky.social   Details: tinyurl.com/38hzxdte #EconSky

🚨 Only 2 weeks left to apply for the #AFEPOP2024 Conference! 🚨 🌐 Population Econ: Educ, health, labour, demographics, inequality, housing, gender, discrimination, policy evaluation, etc. 🌟 Keynote by @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social 🗓️ 2 – 3 May 2024 📍Paris area 👉https://afepop2024.sciencesconf.org

Social scientists need to write papers but we generally aren't taught how to actually do that. Here is how I get papers out the door, in 10 straightforward steps. 1/N #econsky #socsky #scisky

📢 Submit your paper to #AFEPOP2024 📢 📣 Less than 3 weeks left to apply! 📍 Join us in the vibrant Paris area on May 2-3, 2024. 🗓️ ⏰ Deadline February 5, 2024! 🗓️ 🌟 Keynote by @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social 📜 More info here: afepop.fr/wp-content/u... 🙏 Spread the word! #CallForPapers #AFEPOP2024

Communiqué de l'AFSE sur le projet de loi relatif à l'immigration voté par le Parlement le 19 décembre 2023

🕰️ 1 month left to send us your best proposals Join us for 🎀🦋 our inaugural conference 🦋🎀 on population economics (gender, household, education, labour, health, etc.) Deadline: February 5 afepop2024.sciencesconf.org

RIP Bob Solow. There will be many well-deserved encomiums: he was a wonderful person as well as a great economist. Here's a story you may not know 1/

Prof Bob Solow has passed away at 99. He was brilliant, charming and totally human. May his memory be a blessing. www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/b...

So excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is now under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My ERC team has created an account where they will share updates of the Stata and R packages they are working on, follow them! bsky.app/profile/erct...

I start a visiting fellowship at LIAS at KULeuven in beautiful Leuven. Look forward to meeting colleagues and work on a very nice project on « principles of a balanced pension reform »

Simon was such an outstanding CEO of IZA. Attracting him to that role was really the best thing that could have happened. Sad to see him go!

Simon Jäger's departure is a major loss for IZA and does not speak well of the organization's vision.

Back in the Alpes. Amazing colors