Discussions of "brain drain" often neglect the many channel by which emigration can boost human capital in origin countries. I find this figure wonderfully enlightening. Theoharides at #ABCDE2025. Here's a recent overview of the work in Science: johanneshaushofer.com/publications....

Interested in using intermediate outcomes to better understand causal mechanisms and predict long-term impacts of interventions? Join Prof. Chetty and Prof. Kosuke Imai at the NBER Methods lectures: 📅 Thursday, 7/24, 3 pm 📍 Cambridge, MA for NBER SI attendees, or virtually ⬇️

Migrants from Britain to the United States in the 19th century brought American innovations back to the old country. @gaiadossi.bsky.social @dcoluccia.bsky.social In CentrePiece magazine Editor: @helen-ward1.bsky.social http://cep.lse.ac.uk...

A very insightful Stone Centre public lecture and Q&A on the effects of higher education on #inequality. Huge thanks to Susan @dynarski.bsky.social , @gavin-kelly.bsky.social, Bethan Staton and all involved. Stay tuned for a link to the full video.

Latest paper on comparing intergenerational mobility of the kids of migrants with kids of locals in 15 countries. It has a very long author list so I feel like a real scientist at last. www.iza.org/publications...

✨✨Important Updates!✨✨ 2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham 🎵Amazing Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet 🗺️Where: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 📆When: 16-17 June Submit by March 15 ➡️shorturl.at/TZqG0

Including under-represented groups in population genomics data could reduce inequalities in genetics-based clinical care and personalized medicine https://go.nature.com/4aZmx9i

When asked to draw a scientist, school-age kids in the United States are increasingly sketching women, according to a study from 2018. Read more on #WomenInScienceDay: https://scim.ag/4hOUuvx

US data from 1900-1970 shows people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are under-represented in academia, more so than in other high-skilled occupations. R Abramitzky, L Greska, S Pérez @ucdavis.bsky.social, J Price, C Schwarz, F Waldinger @econmunich.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

ESG is the most polarizing nonwage amenity across multiple sociodemographic groups, with the strongest preferences observed among highly educated, white, and politically liberal individuals... ... in Brazil. www.nber.org/papers/w33455

🚨 Hiring: Research Assistant 🚨 Join Christiane Szerman for exciting research on labour market inequality! 🔍 Role: Data analysis, STATA, Python/R 📍 London-based graduate student 💰 £23.23/hr | ⏳ 7 hrs/week | 📅 Start: Feb/March 2025 📝 Apply by 22 Feb: cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/a...

Return innovation: The knowledge spillovers of the British migration to the United States, 1870-1940 By Davide M. Coluccia and Gaia Dossi Read at: ow.ly/okn150UOFWp

Who benefits from prediction technologies? The usual great and helpful stuff from @mattsclancy.bsky.social. Dropping this straight into my course reading! mattsclancy.substack.com/p/do-predict...

The NIH diversity supplement pages have all been pulled down. What is a diversity supplement and why should the public care? A diversity supplement is funding to help diversify the research workforce. You may be wondering, “so what?”. Let me explain. www.nigms.nih.gov/Pages/PageNo...

Partisanship is a helluva drug, inflation-expectations edition (from Torsten Slok)

Apply by 6-Feb: NBER Innovation Research Boot Camp, July 11-17 With support from Open Philanthropy: - classes: Pierre Azoulay, Kevin Bryan, Ina Ganguli, Ben Jones, Chad Jones, Kyle Myers, and me - panel: Matt Clancy, Dylan Matthews, Caleb Watney - keynotes: Glenn Hubbard & Ronnie Chatterji

📢 Call for papers 📢 2nd workshop in Labour economics at Nottingham GEP June 17-18, 2025 Keynotes: Josh Angrist and Alexandra Roulet Small workshop, great opportunity for feedback! Submit by March 1st👇 More info & submission: t.ly/e4dtL #EconSky #EconConf

Reminder that I’m collecting innovation job market papers! Will try to send this post late this week, so still have a few days if you want to be included.

Ooh, this could be useful for economics of science presentations too 🧪