🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Stalin’s forced deportation of educated ‘enemies of the people’ inadvertently concentrated human capital in Gulag towns, fostering inter-generational prosperity and long-term development despite the destructive intent of the repression. Read today's article to learn more:

A new VoxDev piece on our work on enemies of the people. While we ended up writing about how human capital can foster growth, we've learned a lot while working on this about the atrocities authoritarians are capable of... and this makes the current groundwork of the US regime scary as hell...

This. Stop focusing on how to appeal to voters and focus on how to use the justice system and the media to root out racism/populism/authoritarianism.

New Paper 📢📝 "Asylum Seekers, New Businesses, and Job Creation" by @zohalhessami.bsky.social @sebastianschirner.bsky.social & Clara Wobbe Have a look at how asylum seekers affect host-country economies from a supply and demand perspective. 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Russia has become the largest single-country buyer of Ecuadorian bananas, purchasing 1.5 million metric tons during 2024 and the first half of 2025. How is it related to global diversification of cocaine trafficking routes? 🤔

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

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For those interested, here's a thread explaining the paper's core ideas 👇 @aeajournals.bsky.social 1/14

➡️ Are you wondering about the potential effects of the Trump tariffs on China? ➡️ Are you especially interested in the renewable energy sector? 👀 Read on #EconSky 👇

📣 Join us for a new monthly online (Zoom) seminar: Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS). We have a great initial lineup of speakers including @mclem.org, Leah Boustan, Giovanni Peri, and @profzeke.bsky.social. Things kick off Ocotber 9th! Register here: stanford.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

*** NEW RESEARCH ALERT *** How do firms respond in the face of increased restrictions to hiring skilled immigrant workers? [THREAD]

What up Athens! Excited to be here for my sabbatical year, based at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Time for research and sunshine. Come visit!

📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th @afd-france.bsky.social World Bank International Conference on #Migration & #Development 📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social #EconSky #Inequality

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

New WP thread! 🤓 Vietnam's solar panel exports boomed between 2018 and 2022. With my PhD student Meng Yu Ngov, Trang Thu Tran, and Gaurav Nayyar we look at how this industry success can be attributed to attracting FDI and importing parts and components, as well to Chinese subsidy spillovers.👇

🔥 Excited to share our 2025/26 QPE Seminar lineup! Externals welcome. Please get in touch at [email protected] or [email protected]. 📅 Full schedule 👇

(1/10) New paper at PNAS: what predicts Ukrainian refugees’ destination choice? We experimentally study the drivers of location choice in a conjoint design: we find that job opportunities, wages and networks are most important, much more so than welfare benefits.

I remember around 2011 when The Arcade Fire released the video for "the Suburbs", and it had scenes of martial in the US, with children taken away, tanks... I wondered how cd people see such a dystopian future... and here we are...

Today, academics and citizens meet at Petralia, Sicily, to talk about how immigration can help with the challenges rural areas are facing. Moderated by @cubel.bsky.social and with @peppeippedico.bsky.social Claudio Deiana and Elisa Cavasino as speakers.

Our Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD) paper is out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. LP-DiD is a convenient, flexible and computationally fast framework for estimating DiD using simple well-specified regressions.... [1/4]

Very pleased that our local projections dif-in-dif paper is now out in the Journal of Applied Econometrics. Joint with @dgirardi.bsky.social, Jorda, and Taylor. It's a tool that we think many applied economists will find useful (indeed many already have). 🧵

This is the best conference at the intersection of migration economics and development. Always the world's leading work and top researchers, year after year. Submissions due Tuesday July 15—> #EconConf #EconSky

Striking graph in the FT on how migrants drove the Biden boom. Also includes this stat: "60 per cent of the top US-based artificial intelligence companies had at least one immigrant founder" 1/2 on.ft.com/44frdpU

Friendshoring was a thing

The coolest migration conference, in Paris this Fall 👇👇👇

Unbelievable... what is wrong with that Home Office employee writing that letter... And what country has a policy that separates kids from their parents... why can't this UK gov be just a tiny bit decent...

I wrote up a policy brief on a migration workshop I attended for Standard Error last month. There is not a single more important line of social science research for making sense of our times. Read it!

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"Evidence from a National Census" --> Do not, under any circumstances, reveal in the title that your paper is about Canada.

25$ in 1990!?! That's like 60 dollars in today's money 😱🤓

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Geneva 2008

I was delighted to be included last week in the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration at @fundacionareces.bsky.social in Madrid, where I represented @standarderror.bsky.social in presenting the first Standard Error Best Paper Prize to @arturobminski.com

You mean pull a Starmer?

“Is emigration good or bad for the sending country?” This is one of the most common questions I get after presenting evidence on the economic and societal benefits of immigration (for receiving countries). Here’s an excellent and authoritative summary of the literature on that issue. (cont)

Great dinner party at the 6th King's-EBRD workshop on the economics and politics of #migration. Thanks to our hosts in Madrid!

Thrilled to be off to Madrid today to present the first @standarderror.bsky.social Best Paper Prize at the 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration organized by @ebrd.bsky.social, @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social, @fundacionareces.bsky.social, and @uc3m.es 🙌🏼 🙌🏼 🙌🏼

Great second day at the @kingsqpe.bsky.social workshop! Now off to a Lebanese wine bar in Shoreditch!!!

My colleague @mgerver.bsky.social has created this open letter to Keir Starmer opposing the measures announced in last week's Immigration White Paper, on economic, political and moral grounds. Open to all academics/researchers to sign. molliegerver.weebly.com/petition.html

Supernice workshop in Madrid this week!

Cool new data on startups co-founded by immigrant and native-born teams in the US: "Native-migrant startups have larger employment three years after founding, are more likely to secure funding, access larger funding rounds, and achieve more successful exits" www.nber.org/papers/w33804

Great visualization by @data.ft.com showing very uneven Chinese market shares in EVs - close to 5% in France, 6% Germany, 7% UK and <5% in many EU countries - larger than 50% in Brazil Thailand, Mexico Indonesia etc. (smaller markets for EVs) - 0% in the US and Canada

We kick off today! Excited to host this event.

We need to stage an intervention for Starmer.

How can people still use that paper title. How.