Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Ben Weidmann, Joseph Vecci, @farahsaid.bsky.social, Sonia Bhalotra, Achyuta Adhvaryu, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, and David Deming introduce and validate a novel approach to measuring management skills. www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Call for two Stephan Klasen Fellowships at the University of Göttingen, for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries. Applications close 16th November 2025. www.uni-goettingen.de/en/632637.html

An underrated reason for the persistence of cousin marriages: high fertility maintains a large supply of cousins. Could (help) explain why Pakistan’s first-cousin marriage rate is 50%!!! versus India and Bangladesh <10%.

Back to teaching or studying economics at university this September? @voxdev.bsky.social has tons of useful resources for university economics courses - I have included some examples in this thread. 1/n

BREAD, G²LM|LIC comes to Lahore this Sept in collaboration with Pathways to Development (path2dev.org)! Apply to join us at LUMS to share your work, with dedicated mentoring for PhD students & junior researchers in South Asia, plus sessions with policymakers. Details below. #EconSky #EconConf

🆕 What type of contracts do microfinance clients prefer? Today on VoxDev, Uzma Afzal (LUMS), Giovanna d’Adda (University of Milan), Marcel Fafchamps (IFS), Simon Quinn (Imperial College) & Farah Said (LUMS) outline their research on Pakistan: voxdev.org/topic/financ...