📣 Call for Papers — BREAD / @ITAM_mx / @AgendaCAF Conference on Development Economics 🇲🇽 ITAM, Mexico City 📅 Oct 23–24, 2026 🗓️ Submission deadline: June 19, 2026 Submit: bread-mexico-2026.github.io#submit 🧵👇

A week ago, I gave the “Recent Developments in the Political Economy of Elections and Democracy” lecture at the 2026 AEA @assameeting.bsky.social ! Video: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Slides: www.vincentpons.org/recent-devel... Thread with the TL;DR of my talk below.

📢 RPDE at Princeton is hiring two Postdoctoral Research Associates for 2026–27. Details below: 👉 One-year term, no teaching load, active research + seminar community. 👉 PhD completion: Sept 2024–Aug 2026. 🔗 Apply via AEA JOE: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.... #Postdoc #EconJobMarket #DevEcon

For econ JM candidates: @princetondevo.bsky.social is hiring for a 1-year postdoc with a start date in summer 2026. The only responsibility is to be an active participant in our Princeton development econ seminars and to continue pursuing your great independent research. Apply by Nov 24.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The undoing of economic sanctions: Evidence from the Russia–Ukraine conflict" By @rfisman.bsky.social, Giovanna Marcolongo, & Meng Wu www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics

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🚨🚨 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 👇

What’s hot in public econ? Here are some of the most popular @jpube.bsky.social papers from the past 90 days. Free to read: www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...

Today in “doing an age-cohort-year decomposition looks simple but actually can be quite confusing.”

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "The environmental costs of political interference: Evidence from power plants in the Amazon" By @franciscocosta.bsky.social, Dimitri Szerman, & Juliano Assunção www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "How in-person conversations shape political polarization: Quasi-experimental evidence from a nationwide initiative" By @ximengfang.bsky.social, Sven Heuser, & Lasse Stoetzer www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

My contribution to this exciting initiative was an "almost entirely successful" robustness replication of López-Moctezuma, Wantchekon, Rubenson, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social, and Pe Lero (AJPS 2022). Thanks to @i4replication.bsky.social for their incredible efforts!