Our next online talk is on Monday, 3 Nov 2025. 💥Leah Boustan💥 (Princeton) will present "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries". This is a joint work with many co-authors (👇). Visit our webpage to learn more sites.google.com/view/polecon...

NEW - Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women - https://cup.org/48U2YAk "Our findings highlight that women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians." - Mona Morgan-Collins & @valerueda.bsky.social #OpenAccess

Excellent papers and excellent weather in Lund for the #WEHC2025. Looking forward to more!

These attacks on Harvard have a flavour of Orbán’s slashing of the CEU. Nauseating.

Continuando con la semana de anuncios... 🎙️ ¡Nuevo episodio de Capital y Trabajo! Conversamos con @valerueda.bsky.social sobre Billy Elliot. Hablamos de desigualdad regional, desindustrialización y roles de género en una película tan conocida como cargada de temas. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

This seminar is in a few minutes. Learn about crisis bargaining in international relations, surplus extraction, and... salami-slicing.

Public investment in the UK has lagged behind average OECD levels for over two decades. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/iPgoNzv

"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Fact: Migrants have an average positive impact on the economy. Cutting immigration is costly. It will make it *harder* to revert austerity, create growth, and reduce inequality. Wasn’t that the government’s goal? Starmer’s new rhetoric is based on lies. Excellent explainer here :

En el tercer episodio conversaremos sobre desigualdades regionales, desindustrializacion y roles de genero junto con @valerueda.bsky.social a proposito de "Billy Elliot".

🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨 Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia" Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history Deadline: April 15

Deadline today!

Submit before this Monday!

Don’t forget to submit your papers before next Monday!

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

"Opposition to identity politics is often built not by the culturally and ethnically diverse working class who benefit but by lower-ability economic elites who feel that their advantage is under threat."

Congratulations @boesevanessa.bsky.social from @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social, @valerueda.bsky.social

It's happened to me for the first time. A number of students complained about having to read 1 full book for the semester. Am I antiquated in feeling this is a problem? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

On Monday, you are cordially invited to this timely talk by Arianna Ornaghi ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Don’t miss the deadline for submitting your papers! Submit before Sunday March 25th

And here is the link to the seminar on Monday 3pm UK time: mailchi.mp/e9c8659a3242...

⚠️CALL FOR PAPERS⚠️ NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics When: May 13-14 Submit before March 25 Where: Nottingham UK Confirmed: Oriana Bandiera, Ernesto Dal Bò, Garance Génicot & Mathias Thoenig sway.cloud.microsoft/jISSEa24z948... #EconSky

📢Exciting News Alert!  Calling all female researchers in Political Economics! Join our network of Women in Political Economics 🖥️ Website: sites.google.com/view/women-i...

Our next talk is on Monday, 27 Nov 2023 Margherita Negri (St Andrews) presents "The Political Economy of Open vs Closed Borders: Theory and Evidence on the Role of Electoral Rules", with Matteo Gamalerio and Massimo Morelli

WP Alert 🚨 We show that the Women's Suffrage Movement increased women's political participation. We leverage the 1913 Pilgrimage for the Vote and show that women exposed to this nationwide march increased their registration to elections. 🧵1/3 Get here: cepr.org/publications...

Hey #EconSky, check out Cristina's JMP! Sur uses unique survey data to estimate the Phillips Curve across sectors. Extremely topical now that #inflation is back. #JMP #EconJM

The much anticipated new biography of Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns is out; her recent op-ed highlights “a long history of women who have worked, often quietly and without proper recognition, to shape the field” of economics. #econsky #historians #skystorians

Per Capita Cheese Consumption by Country, 2022/23

Hi, time for me to get active on #EconSky I am an economist at the research institute VIVE in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and at Uni of Bristol 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. I work on topics in education, health, and gender. To introduce myself I will live-tweet from a research project. It will be a slow thread. [1/n]

Our next seminar is by Julia Cagé (Sciences Po Paris). Julia will talk about "The Far-Right donation gap". Joint work with Moritz Hengel and Yuchen Huang. We meet on Monday, 13 Nov 2023, at 3 pm UK time. More details at sites.google.com/view/polecon...

Fascinating- especially the effect of exact specification of the objective function.

Don't miss the PolEconUK webinar today!

Hello Free World. ☮️ Thanks @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social for the invite.

My recent paper in Economic Journal: In the Econ job market men and women are recommended differently: letters for women stress hard work, those for men more likely highlight brilliance. This affects job placement. Link to Paper: t.co/HUieaMuERd With Giovanni Facchini and Markus Eberhardt