Today, the University of Delaware Board of Trustees unanimously voted to appoint Laura A. Carlson as the institution’s 29th president, effective Jan. 1, 2026. Read the full announcement: brnw.ch/21wYdv0

Woke up yesterday with a paper being accepted - great way to start the day! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving

📢 Now hiring predoc Research Associates for the BIG Lab! 🔬Collaborate on development research projects with Notre Dame faculty! Deadline: 12/31/25 ✍ Learn more and apply: buff.ly/BjAcByg #econ #predoc

We have completed another semi-regular update of our featured faculty publications wall in the department. This go-round, we are highlighting publications from Taryn Dinkelman @taryndinkelman.bsky.social; Lakshmi Iyer + grad student @colesonweir.bsky.social; @cmatthes.bsky.social; and Davin Raiha.

Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social and graduate student Haley Wilbert (@hwilbert.bsky.social on the mkt) have a new publication in Explorations in Economic History, "Breakthroughs in Historical Record Linking Using Genealogy Data: The Census Tree Project." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Register Now! Registration for the BIG Forum at Notre Dame closes September 12 - this Friday. We will have keynotes by Dean Karlan, Ted Miguel and Pete Klenow and great sessions looking at development through the lenses of micro, macro and political economy. buff.ly/XjHrEai

Looking forward to the great line up of speakers next month. Register below!

🚨 New working paper 🚨 With Lakshmi Iyer and Susan Ostermann. We examine whether there was political influence in India's redistricting process, and how this affects the probability politicians recontest their seat 1/4 Paper Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1boGg...

Thrilled our paper "The Colonial Legacy in India: How Persistent are the Effects of Historical Institutions?" is forthcoming at the JDE. We examine how historical institutions continue to shape development today. Colonial legacies can dissipate through targeted public policy. 1/6

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The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...

What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

Excited to see Lakshmi and my work cited in Simon Johnson’s Nobel Lecture this past week! Great way to end the semester. Link to clip of Johnson's lecture: youtube.com/clip/Ugkxu2-... @ndecon.bsky.social @biglabnd.bsky.social

One more for the inequality researchers. Writing a book and looking to read research/work from scholars thinking deeply on the topic of socioeconomic inequality. Please reply if you'd like to be added. Viewing this as a really convenient bibliography (thanks @bsky.app): go.bsky.app/L6iReaW

I keep adding development economists to this starter pack. If you haven't looked in a while there should be lots of new people. #econsky #devecon If this is all new to you, there's also a part 1 on my bio. Let me know if I should add you, a friend, a job market candidate, etc. go.bsky.app/2RbAeCP

Presented at the Legacies Workshop in Trondheim hosted by @ntnu-iss.bsky.social . Great presentations and work on the long-run effects of historical institutions. Thoroughly enjoyed my time in Norway!

I am putting together a starter pack with researchers working on the Economic History of Africa. Let me know if you’d like to be included! go.bsky.app/EmGLkbT

I made a quick starter pack on scholars working/having worked on historical political economy (wide definition). go.bsky.app/Hz9LmgL (please make [self]suggestions to improve the starter pack)

Had a great time presenting at #NEUDC2024 last week. I presented my research showing the negative effects of colonial institutions can be overcome through targeted public policy and government investment

🚨 New working paper 🚨 I study the impact of banning female genital cutting (FGC) on women’s educational attainment in Benin. Highlighting the results in this thread: 1/5 Paper Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1CYY2...

🚨 New working paper 🚨 with Lakshmi Iyer (@ndecon.bsky.social). We study the persistence of effects of historical institutions in India. Highlighting the results in this thread: 1/3 Paper Link: www.iza.org/publications...

I’ve loved being part of the Census Tree project!! New NBER working paper out today demonstrates some of the great findings available in this rich dataset!

Last night, our grad students had an international potluck dinner. Looks like they had a good time.

UDelaware Biden School of Public Policy is hiring 2 assistant/associate TT economists: 1) applied micro (public policy/public sector) careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... 2) political economy careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job... Come hang out with me and #DeanAmySchwartz (and other cool folks!) at UD!

First conference in the books. Had a great experience presenting my research on the effects of banning FGC at the IAES conference in Philly this weekend! @ndecon.bsky.social

Hi #EconSky. Just made the move from Econ Twitter so I wanted to introduce myself. I’m a 2nd year PhD student at Notre Dame. My research interests are in development economics, political economy, and applied microeconomics broadly. Looking forward to connecting with everyone on here!