Why Has in-Work Poverty Risen in Britain? New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of #Economics & #Statistics by Jonathan Cribb, Tom Waters & Xiaowei Xu. 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #employment #housing #micro-simulation #poverty #redistribution

🚨 Call for #papers 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society of the #Economics of the #Household (SEHO). It will take place in Pavia on 3–4 June 2026 and is organized by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pavia. seho2026.unipv.it

The RES Professional Development & Education Committee is on the lookout for a new Chair and several committee members. Apply by Monday 27 October: 

 Committee Chair: bit.ly/43uJr5R 
 Committee Member: bit.ly/49gOeLO

The survey is still open!

🚨 Call for #papers 🚨 Don't forget to submit your paper for the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Society of the #Economics of the #Household (SEHO). It will take place in Pavia on 3–4 June 2026 and is organized by the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Pavia. seho2026.unipv.it

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The US Administration has mounted an unprecedented and unpopular attack on high skill immigration. It’s working. The world’s best and brightest are starting to understand that the US government considers them an infection. www.economist.com/science-and-...

One of my favorite traditions is now underway: for the 15th straight year, the Development Impact blog launches a call for PhD students in development economics to blog their job market paper - submissions due 8pm EST on Wednesday November 5: blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

📣 The @resmedia.bsky.social Linked Data Campaign 📣 🗓️ Closes 5:00pm, Wed 15 Oct 2025 Improving access & usability of UK linked data & economic statistics. Economists, your input matters: Spend 5 minutes on this short survey. 🔗 Survey: www.surveymonkey.com/r/5DBXJH2 #OpenData #EvidenceBasedPolicy

Announcement of The 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel www.youtube.com/watch?v=EajZ... #NobelPrize #Economics

Among the drivers for this improvement was in Research Quality, in which we were ranked 52nd. We also scored highly for International Outlook (68th in the world), which measures the environment and attitude towards international students, staff, and research. news.exeter.ac.uk/university/r...

Call for papers for a World Bank Economic Review special issue on migration and development: we are doing a special issue that builds on a recent conference, but with submissions open also for non-conference papers. Short papers in the AER insights type format also welcome. Deadline November 30.

New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics: "Crime Prevention Through Private Actors: Evidence From a Policy Change at a Large UK Supermarket Chain" (by Nils Braakmann & Wednesday Croft) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The ‘Professor of Uncertainty’ on AI www.chicagobooth.edu/review/podca...

In today's blog, I discuss 3 ways for international migration to be part of a structural transformation policy: 1) as an industry itself; 2) training people abroad in the skills to develop a new industry at home; and 3) through immigration (eg Start-up Chile) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

New in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics: "Should We Fight Poverty or Reduce Its Harm? How the Language of Moral Foundations Theory Affects Donations to Poverty-Relief Charities" (by R. Andrew Luccasen III & M. Kathleen Thomas) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

'Over the last 16 years, it’s really been the greatest privilege to lead this remarkable institution.’ UofG Principal @uofgvc.bsky.social shares a message ahead of his retirement next week.    ‌‌Anton reflects on his time at UofG and thanks the community for all their hard work and support.

Come hear what Larry Katz, Xavier D'Haultfoeuille, Kei Hirano, Francesca Molinari, and Andres Santos think about publishing econometrics in general interest journals! Tomorrow's Chamberlain Seminar: 12pm ET

Short video of our 2023 @j-humanresources.bsky.social article: in-utero exposure to #HurricaneCatarina harmed infant health, especially for babies of young mothers, underscoring the need for support to vulnerable pregnant women. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3eR... 🔗 jhr.uwpress.org/content/58/3...

Small actions can shift culture and foster respectful, inclusive environments. The @resmedia.bsky.social Active Bystander initiative is a great reminder of how each of us can make a difference.

📢 Join our next Active Bystander Training for economists! 🗓️ 18 Nov 2025 | 09:30–11:00 | Online Learn tools for safe, effective intervention & fostering an inclusive profession. 👉 Register: [email protected] 🔗 bit.ly/466tIur #Economics #EDI #EconSky

Welcome to @exeter.ac.uk! 🎉 Wishing all new students an amazing start to the year!

Despite having completed 90% of the manuscript, I was never able to defend my PhD It's definitely unexpected, but I'm thrilled to announce that I have restarted working on a PhD You can read about what happened and my plans on my newsletter: o.simardcasanova.net/p/8e29c3... #EconSky

New #openaccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics & Statistics: "The Unexpected Side Effects of Lockdowns on Those Barely Inside and Outside of Lockdown Areas" (by Izumi Yokoyama, Reo Takaku, Kaichi Kusada, Takahiro Tabuchi, Takeo Fujiwara) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

1./ At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why? We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance. docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf

It was a pleasure to deliver the invited talk at the 4th APHEC Workshop in beautiful Genova: "Disrupting Violence, Protecting Lives: Non-Fatal Strangulation Laws and Intimate Partner Homicides" Many thanks for the kind invitation!

New #OpenAccess article in the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics: "Do Teachers' Labour Contracts Matter?" (by @ainoaaparicio.bsky.social and Roberto Quaranta) 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨🚨📵📵 This Sunday, every phone in the UK will be sent an emergency alert test that sets off a loud siren notification, even if your phone is on silent. This could cause a risk for women experiencing domestic abuse. #Refuge #DomesticAbuse #SafePhone #SilentPhone #IPV www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch2i...

I had the opportunity of teaching a class on social-science-genomics 🧬📈 with a focus on gene-environment interplay at the summer school Applied Health Econometrics and Health Policy at the uni of Bergamo. Here the slides that I used (any feedback welcome!) drive.google.com/file/d/1IeQq...

The Census Tree is turning 2! 🎂🎉Our links allow researchers to follow people through the 1850-1940 US censuses. To celebrate, I'll be featuring a paper each day that uses the Census Tree in its empirical work. If you have a paper you think I should know about, contact us at censustree.org/contact👇

At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. cc: @uofebusiness.bsky.social @iza.org

1./ At last! 🎉 After years in the making, my paper with Manuel Fernandez & @marcogn.bsky.social is out as an IZA Discussion Paper. We ask: Can better streets boost property tax compliance? 🚧💰 If so, why? We answer this with an RCT in Mexico + a model of tax compliance. docs.iza.org/dp18082.pdf

And nice NPR coverage today of our research in Kenya! www.npr.org/sections/goa...

🆕 How skin tone still shapes inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Today on VoxDev, @billywoom.bsky.social (@pse.bsky.social) presents evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggesting that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Econ PhDs who will be on the #EconJobMarket: Next Tues Aug 19 at 1pm ET is a NABE (‪@nabe-econ.bsky.social)‬ Career Week panel on "Industry, Government, or Academia? Choosing Your Path in Applied Economics" Register here 👉 www.nabe.com/NABE/Events/...

Did another small chatGPT experiment #econtwitter #econsky (h/t @thekenyadian): for a recent referee report I had to do [importantly, this was not in economics], I read the paper + made my notes; and then also asked ChatGPT for a referee report + compared

En el interior de la casa de siete pisos de Jeffrey Epstein en Manhattan, el delincuente sexual recibía a la élite, mostraba fotos con presidentes y exhibía una primera edición de “Lolita”, según fotos y cartas previamente inéditas. nyti.ms/4fqxiUl

🚨 The July 2025 #RESNewsletter is out now! Inside: 📝 Letter from RES President 📊 RES Conference recap 🇩🇪 Farewell from Michael Burda 👤 Profile: Sir Christopher Pissarides 📚 & more! 🔗 #RESMembers can read here: bit.ly/45qDyqK #Economics #EconSky

Nobel prize winner George Akerlof (my former colleague) on the firing of statistics officials: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

This week's links are the last for a while before we take a break for a month: cash transfers and jobs, representation and relevance in development econ, garment manufacturing and poverty, and more.. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

1/ New article with Alejandro Robinson-Cortes and @ye-yuan.bsky.social @uofebusiness.bsky.social: "A Quantitative Review of Matching Papers in Economics: Evolution, Diversity, and Gender" Forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. 🧵

For those without access, here is a gift link to the NYTimes article on the sad state of the economics job market www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/b...

🚨 New Paper Alert "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" By NOVAFRICA Scientific Directors & NovaSBE Professors @catiabatista.bsky.social and #PedroCVicente in print in The Review of Economics and Statistics @restatjournal.bsky.social 📄 doi.org/10.1162/rest...

🆕 @iza.org DP with Dércio de Assis, @arpitaghosh.bsky.social and Sonia Oreffice. Laws criminalizing non-fatal strangulation cut intimate partner homicide rates for both men and women. Legal reforms save lives. 🔗 docs.iza.org/dp18006.pdf #Econ #Policy #IPH #NFS #IPV @uofebusiness.bsky.social

Lucy Bronze on how she decided to blast her penalty down the middle (and score). “Statistically it’s risky for the goal keeper to stand still… so yeah, I love maths”.