Less than a week to econ PHD application deadlines at UBC! Come be part of a great program with amazing students!! 👇

I am on the econ job market AY 2025-26! My JMP on tax enforcement and conflict speaks to political economy, public finance, and economic history. Thread below. You can also visit my website: www.enguehard.tf

Joseph is currently on the job market. He is a great co-author (truly fun to work with) and will undoubtedly be a wonderful colleague.

🚨Jobs!🚨 3-year PostDoc positions (aka Research Officers) at @lsegovernment.bsky.social to work with me on the local consequences of border change. Please reach out for questions and apply by Jan 4th to join the team and department: I’d love to hear from you! Job ad: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

DEADLINE IN ONE WEEK: The NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by December 11, 2025! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

PhD Students in Econ (and related fields): Join us at Warwick for a 3 day conference in May 2026! There will be sessions covering all major fields, along with two great keynotes and plenty of time to socialise with peers. We look forward to your submission (deadline: 31/01/2026), more info below.

📢 New #webinar series on #Rules of #Peace! First speaker is #NobelPrize winner James Robinson on 4 Dec at 5pm CET. Jointly organized by Rui Esteves and me, under the umbrella of the Geneva Graduate Institute & CEPR. Register here: cepr.org/events/event...

🚀 Applications now open! Become part of Next-Geo, the first pan-European Junior Research Training Program focusing exclusively on Geoeconomics. We’re recruiting ~10 PhD candidates & early Postdocs in Europe for a 1-year add-on fellowship. All details 👇 @cepr.org @oxfordecondept.bsky.social

ECON CONFERENCE: NBER Race and Stratification Working Group will have its annual meeting Friday, March 27, 2026. @franciscaantman.bsky.social, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. Submit your paper by the December 11, 2025 deadline! @nber.org #Econsky www.nber.org/conferences/...

📢 📢 Call for Papers IV Yale–UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Organized by @Didacqueralt.bsky.social & @Cescamat.bsky.social 🎤 Keynote: Lisa Blaydes (Stanford) 📍 University of Barcelona 🗓 June 29–30, 2026 Submit your papers by Jan 21, 2026: shorturl.at/oZTNy #pleaseRT

Legalizing recreational marijuana reduces suicides among older white Americans.

Paris, le 01 décembre 2025 à 15h00 Cérémonie d’installation à l'Académie des sciences morales et politiques youtube.com/live/PJxyywO...

The European Union had a total fertility rate of 1.38 children per woman in 2023. ec.europa.eu/eurostat/sta...

📢 Don't miss our joint Paris Tax Workshop on December 5th! 🎤 İrem Güçeri ( @blavatnikschool.bsky.social ) & Sébastien Laffitte (THEMA & EUTO) 🕛 12:00–15:00 CET 📍 @pse.bsky.social & zoom 🌐 Language: English Registration: www.taxobservatory.eu/event/paris-...

In today's JMP blog, @hardiahmed.bsky.social uses DiD to show how sharia law reform in Northern Nigeria affected child health and fertility, and how this varies with enforcement intensity. Weak enforcement of child protection laws particularly harmed non-muslims blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

SIOE 2026 at INSEAD Fontainebleau! 13-15 July. Call: www.sioe.org/conference/2...

One week left to submit to the Call for Papers for the World Inequality Conference 2026, which will take place at the Paris School of Economics on June 4–5, 2026. inequalitylab.world/en/event/wor...

Des communautés au #Niger ont engagé auprès de l' #ONU une procédure en réparation pour les crimes commis par la #France en 1899 lors de la conquête coloniale. Le chemin risque d’être très long dans le contexte de rupture entre les deux pays. Par Rob Lemkin 📌 #colonialisme #droitshumains #justice

Does anyone know of a publicly available historical dataset of ADM1 boundaries for African countries? Ideally shapefiles (or GeoJSON) covering all years from 1991 (or 1997) to 2024. GAUL seems closest, but I can’t find older versions. Any leads would be amazing!

Job opportunity! ODID and Linacre College seek applications for an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Development. ⏰ Deadline: 11 December Full information: www.qeh.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/asso...

🚨 POSTDOC POSITION 🚨 Pauline Grosjean, Ieda Matavelli, Ralph De Haas and I are hiring a postdoc for our projects on masculinity in economics. Position is 2 years, at UNSW In Sydney, Australia. Starting Sept 2026. Please reach out with any questions. Apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/12...

📢 Call for papers! The EAYE Annual Meeting welcomes submissions of full papers or extended abstracts (4-8K characters) in all fields of economics 👉 18–20 May '26, University of the Basque Country ⏲️ Submission deadline extended to 28 December 2025!

Looking for a Research Assistant for 3 months. Project on Carbon Colonialism with Guy Pincus and Orlando Roman (@gvagrad.bsky.social). If you’re interested, more details here: etiennelerossignol.wordpress.com/home/open-po...

The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper! www.nber.org/conferences/...

TOMORROW (5 Nov): AYEW Cultural/Economic History Workshop! Join us at 10am GMT/9pm AEDT to listen to @atizz.bsky.social (@eui-eu.bsky.social), Orlando (@gvagrad.bsky.social), Malik (West Virginia Uni), @eoin2319.bsky.social (@lseechist.bsky.social) Sign up for Zoom link: monash.edu/business/imp...

🚬 Au Libéria, les ravages de la drogue Popularisée auprès des enfants soldats pendant la guerre civile, la drogue fait des ravages au sein des populations pauvres. Les consommateurs vivent dans les cimetières, où une mort solitaire les attend. @franceculture.fr www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

We invite early career economists and PhD students to submit their extended abstracts or research papers for consideration for the Irish Postgraduate and Early Career Economics (IPECE) Workshop 2026. See more: buff.ly/ceq1k8U

📢 #CallForPapers - 8th Summer #Conference on Financial Intermediation and Corporate Finance Theoretical and empirical papers are invited. Submit by 6PM GMT, 15 February 2026. cepr.org/events/8th-s... #EconSky #EconConf

Congrats to Elias Papaioannou on being elected by EEA members Vice President 2026 Congrats also @florinbilbiie.bsky.social Julia Cagé, Pierre Dubois, Patricia Funk, Luis Garicano, Libertad González, Dorothea Kübler, Jan Stuhler & Séverine Toussaert on being elected to Council. .

🚨 @andrealanauze.bsky.social & I are organizing the 2nd women & femme-id ppl in enviro econ workshop ♀️🌱📈 #EconTwitter Key dates: submit full paper or long abstract by Dec 3 Workshop: 9-10 April, in Venice, Italy Thx to @cagewarwick.bsky.social for 💰 & @cepr.org for support Link in 🧵 👇

#CallForPapers Women in Economic Theory Conference May 15-16, 2026 @ LSE Interested researchers are invited to submit papers for the conference, with a preference for completed papers. Organisers: M Baccara, G Levy, P Onuchic, A Sanktjohanser Deadline: 14 Dec 2025 cepr.org/events/women... #EconSky

⏳EEA 2026 Management Council Elections close Tuesday, October 21 (23:59:59 CEST) ℹ️on how to vote: www.eeassoc.org

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Digital Distractions with Peer Influence: The Impact of Mobile App Usage on Academic and Labor Market Outcomes,” by Barwick, Chen, Fu, and Li: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

2026 ASREC Conference Orange, CA March 20-21, 2026 Keynote: James Robinson Submission Deadline: November 7 Join us at Chapman for what should be an amazing event! Seeking papers at the intersection of religion/culture & the social sciences Submit proposals here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Breaking news: María Corina Machado has been awarded the prize for ‘keeping the flame of democracy burning amidst a growing darkness’ . The win dashes the hopes of US President Donald Trump. on.ft.com/4ocHAKY

📕 New CERGIC Book 📕 "L'Economie de la violence" by Mathieu Couttenier. 𝐸𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝐿𝑒́𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 Available now ! For more info : www.editions-leonides.fr/livres/lecon...

Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt. ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered. Please apply! Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

Christian missions in colonial Congo weakened kin and ethnic ties, eroded communal values, and durably redirected loyalties toward religious affiliation, from @abergeron.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34262

Claudia Sheinbaum se convierte en la primera mujer en protagonizar el Grito de la Independencia de México. www.rtve.es/noticias/

📢ReCIPE’s first call for Big Research Grants is opening soon! Deadline: 27 October. We’re looking for research proposals exploring the links between conflict and economic growth within ReCIPE research themes and in ReCIPE focus countries. recipe.cepr.org/funding/big-... #EconSky

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨 Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️ In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨 We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

Before-and-after satellite imagery shows multiple large burn scars from the recent major wildfires in Portugal and Spain.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️ x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths. x8 in Zambia x7 in Botswana x6 in Sudan x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia 🧵

#Grenoble 1925, zoos humains & fascination coloniale. L'exposition de la Houille blanche s'est déroulée de mai à oct. 1925, il y a 100 ans, avec un zoo humain Jusqu'à fin septembre, exposition "Zoos humains, l'invention du sauvage" du groupe de recherche ACHAC

9ème jour - La végétation Europe de l'O est complètement desséchée et jaunit. Ce n'est pas que les prairies cette fois-ci. Les tâches brunes autour du Massif Central correspondent aux forêts tandis qu'une épaisse fumée des feux de forêts d'Espagne et Portugal s'étale au dessus de nous. Ambiance. 1/4

Happy to share this great news! For a summary of the paper, read @pgmeon.bsky.social great thread here 👇🏻