Call for papers: Culture and Economic Policy 👩‍🏫🧑‍🏫 How does culture shape the effects of policy? And how do policies, in turn, reshape cultural norms and beliefs? We invite submissions for a one-day, in-person workshop at STIAS in Stellenbosch, South Africa, on 9 November 2026.

Je découvre que l’Ifop utilise des échantillons créés par IA pour "booster" des échantillons de sondage trop petits. L’Ifop a donc créé des profs synthétiques pour répondre à ses enquêtes...

On peut le dire clairement maintenant : nous nous dirigeons vers l’un des événements thermiques les plus spectaculaires jamais observés en France tout mois confondus, totalement hors du champ statistique de ce qui a été connu jusqu’à présent en mai. C’est absolument délirant : 1/6

The USAID shutdown was followed by a sharp increase in violence in African regions that relied most on USAID funding. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... @dominic-rohner.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social @jingrong-rosa.bsky.social @pse.bsky.social @cnrsshs.bsky.social @science.org

Le salaire en fin de carrière des enseignants actuels est désormais inférieur au salaire en début de carrière des enseignants de 1980 (relativement au salaire minimum).

Le 29 avril 2026, le streamer IShowSpeed arrive en Guadeloupe avec un drapeau aux fleurs de lys sur son t-shirt. En plein live, des locaux lui rappellent l'histoire de ce symbole. Article de Kassandra Césaire https://f.mtr.cool/dbcjvcspnr

📌 Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – Democracy in Africa A major new ERC Synergy Grant (€9.9M, 2026–2032) is funding one of the largest empirical studies ever conducted on political parties and democracy in Africa Read more here: theeconomicmisfit.com/2026/05/04/p...

UK and EU to start formal talks on Ukraine loan scheme ft.trib.al/rkGVPCN

For perspective, in the 1850s, the total value of enslaved people in the United States was $3 billion. That was: - more than the value of all the farmland in the South • 3x the value of all the manufacturing and railroads in the North combined • the largest financial asset in the entire US economy

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Our paper "Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict" (w @paulschaudt.bsky.social ) is now out in the QJE! We show that Kenya's IBLI program strongly reduces drought-induced conflict between pastoralists and farmers. doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Levels of sickness like nobody's ever seen before.

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Is there a benevolent German speaker out there who could help me decipher a map legend? I’m looking at an old map of Cameroon (“Pflanzungsgesellschaft Süd-Kamerun – Besitzungen, Versuchsstellen”), and parts of the legend are really hard to read / possibly distorted.

Ce mauvais parfum des années 1930 www.nouvelobs.com/politique/20...

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ASREC Europe Venice 🇮🇹 Fri/Sat 25/26 Sep 2026 co-organized with @valerueda.bsky.social 3 keynotes: Mara Squicciarini 🎉 @saumjha.bsky.social 🎉 Joel Mokyr 🎉 Submit here by 30 April 👉 forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵

Hungary: two weeks out from the next national parliament election, Péter Magyar's centre-right TISZA-EPP leads in our polling average with 49%. Viktor Orbán's governing right-wing Fidesz/KDNP-PfE polls in second place with 41%. See more: https://europeelects.eu/hungary

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In the spotlight: @yajnagovind.bsky.social giving a presentation on "Racial Inequality in France" #MigrationForum2026 #MigrationResearch #Economics

La réalité des OQTF est bien éloignée de ce que veut nous faire croire l'extrême droite. La situation de Natali Saralidze en témoigne : lycéenne brillante, elle est menacée d'expulsion alors que sa vie est en France. Je lui adresse tout mon soutien.

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

J'ai fait un outil pour visualiser les transferts de communes entre nuances politiques, en pondérant chaque ville par son nombre d'inscrit. Pour le tester : theo.delemazure.fr/municipales/

Europe in the Indian Ocean. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Happy to see our paper "The Church as Arbiter" with @cboix.bsky.social now available online at @thejop.bsky.social. Here 👇 A Thread

My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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On the rooftop of the largest Russian compound in Vienna, dubbed “Russencity”, the frequency with which dishes are repositioned suggests they are being used to target multiple satellites. On the eve of the Munich Security Conference last month, for example, one of the biggest dishes was reoriented.

‪ 🌳 Do you want to contribute to research on how humans perceive forests? Take this quick, anonymous 10-min survey 🌲 👉 www.biodiful.org#/forest This will help us explore how people experience forest biodiversity! Please share on 🦋 & tag @biodiful.bsky.social to reach more participants 🙏💚 🌐🌍🦤🦑🪴🍁🧪

New @nber.org WP out from Bocar Ba today. I edited several rounds on this paper and remain so impressed that while lots of economists have frozen or relabeled their research agendas related to racial equity, Bocar has held steady. He's brave and I'm proud to be his editor www.nber.org/papers/w34933

CEPR Upcoming Conference NOVAFRICA is proud to co-host the #2026CEPREconomySymposium will take place on March 20–21 at @NovaSBE , Lisbon, Portugal. Scholars from leading institutions will discuss key topics in political economy. Information here: tinyurl.com/2rwpy7mh

Meanwhile, Spain's massive investment in renewables is paying dividends now: with prices for Spanish industry and consumers low and stable compared with other European economies. www.ft.com/content/ac77...

Four years of fire—and Ukraine is still standing. From Zmiinyi Island to today, the message hasn’t changed. Thank you to everyone helping shield Ukraine's sky and save lives. Donate to air defence via @u24.gov.ua

🆕 Africa as a success story: Political organisation in pre-colonial Africa Today on VoxDev, Soeren Henn (University of Wisconsin-Madison) & James Robinson (Harris School of Public Policy) provide an alternate view of Africa's history: https://ow.ly/G89C50YkUmp

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📣📆 We are happy to announce our 2-day Summer school on Organizations in Developing Countries that will take place on June 24-25th. We will welcome two great keynotes: Manuel GARCÍA-SANTANA (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and @ericverhoogen.bsky.social (Columbia University).

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/...

📊How religiously diverse is your country? 🇸🇬Singapore is the most religiously diverse country in the world, according to a new Pew Research Center study on religious diversity in 201 countries and territories. This study measures how evenly a country’s population is distributed among seven groups.

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

Apply to present your work at the @novafrica.bsky.social PhD Workshop on Development Economics. Organized by the fantastic Econ PhD students at Nova SBE!

Join us at CERGIC ! 💼 We offer a 𝘁𝘄𝗼-𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 in Applied Economics and Earth Observation Data. The position will start on September 1st, 2026. The successful candidate will be based at Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon. For more information: www.cergic-lyon.fr/postdoctoral...

Research associate: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Research intern: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/field-based-research-intern-democratic-republic-congo-job-105468

📣 Call for Papers | Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies We are pleased to announce the Riederau Workshop on People’s Understanding of and Support for Economic Policies, taking place 8–10 September 2026 in Riederau am Ammersee (Germany).

💬 «On lui demande de justifier de revenus, mais il n’a pas le droit de travailler» Tengiz Dalakishvili, lutteur médaillé d'origine géorgienne qui anime un club de sport à Nantes, est sous le coup d’une OQTF ➡️ https://l.leparisien.fr/zHa9

🚨Call for application for the ENS Lyon Summer School in Empirical Research Methods 🚨 The event is hosted by the cergic.bsky.social from June 30 to July 2, 2026. Audience: PhD students in economics 📅 Deadline: 1 March 2026 #Econsky #Economics

📣 REMINDER - Call for Papers: The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop 💡 The event aims to provide an opportunity to junior researchers on #migration #economics to present and meet in-person. 📅 May 26-27, 2026 at @uc3meconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by Feb 1st. 🔗 economig2026.sciencesconf.org