🚨 How much does the #frontline #workforce matter in #early #childhood #programmes at scale? Our new research on England’s national Family Nurse Partnership shows: a lot. 🧵👇

Dear development economists: stop writing a ton of extra stuff in your PAP, and just tell me what analyses you are going to run

This was a nice one

Don't forget to submit to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics, deadline tomorrow!

The whole speech is worth watching. #Carney www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 We'll be hosting the 24th Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE) in Växjö, Sweden, on June 16-17, 2026. Keynote speakers: @hjortj.bsky.social & Rohini Somanathan 🤩 Submit your papers here (deadline February 28): axacoair.se/go?py3X14W0

So proud to have @voxdev.bsky.social highlight our work on how EMRs have saved lives in Malawian HIV clinics -- efficiency improving measures are even more important given drastic funding cuts to foreign aid and HIV treatment

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Congratulations, Pope Leo!

Have to say I am pretty proud of Canada today. Looks like the right wing populist is going to lose in his own riding

"I'm going to govern in econometrics" is a winning campaign slogan for the ages.

google translate has gotten so much worse lately, e.g. changing the meaning of emails to the point that I reply completely differently (and wrongly)... is this AI hallucinations? Anyone else seeing this?

So far Canadian and American maple syrup are still the same price (or maybe Canadian used to be cheaper?)

Basic household items under lock and key at Target (America)

🆕 People think it’s easy to contract HIV. That might not be a good thing. Today on VoxDev, @jkerwin.bsky.social (@uwnews.bsky.social) discusses how providing information on actual (often lower) HIV transmission rates helped curb risky sexual behaviours in Malawi: voxdev.org/topic/health...

Time to remind ourselves of some observations about how trade appears to help stabilize alliances and prevent international conflict www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/mat...

Five years 3 million deaths www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

First run of the spring and I was overtaken by a Norwegian dad with a kid in the stroller and another kid in a carrier on his back

"We can heal the sick and save children’s lives, all inexpensively... We properly honor a firefighter who saves a single child, but three cheers for us as taxpayers for rescuing millions of children around the world from AIDS, starvation and disease. That is, until January." -- Nick Kristof

My 4yo bingeing With Love Meghan on Netflix. "What's she gonna make next??? We don't know!"

Would ya look at that

They're really putting the FFS into tariffs is what they're doing

Trudeau rn

Is Canada the only country standing up to Trump or what

So many organizations I’ve had the privilege of working with received termination letters from USAID this week. Here’s an estimate of how many lives may be lost as a result, in South Africa alone: >500k additional deaths, >500k new infections doi.org/10.7326/ANNA...

More efficient than any DOGE idea yet

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Last chance -- extended abstracts are fine! Hope to see you in Oslo #econsky #NCDE2025

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Reminder to send your papers to the Nordic Conference in Development Econ. Oslo is beautiful in summertime, we will swim in the fjord! (and talk research of course) #econsky

Will repeat this forever, but if there's a US foreign policy program that deserves unambiguous support from a global health/humanitarian/economic/political/every angle you can think of perspective, it's PEPFAR. Sharing the economists letter of support here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Econsky

The boy who cried tariffs

Every movie about a female “CEO” is like I always talk about how I'm very busy but all you see me doing is botox and therapy and posing for photos and making kids lunches and being fit and wearing heels

"Our politics revolve around the idea that scarce resources mean keeping people out. We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people." - @polgreen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...

A blog on the PEPFAR pause. I hope Secretary Rubio protects the legacy he helped build. www.cgdev.org/blog/legacy-...

Here we go #EconSky #EconConf 📢 Proud to announce our #IIPF2025 congress Call for Papers. Let's meet at USIU Nairobi in August 2025! Submit your paper by Feb 15, 2025. A bunch of links with more info available at iipf.org/cng.htm

New research alert! Our study investigates the effectiveness of human-only, AI-assisted, and AI-led teams in assessing the reproducibility of quantitative social science research. We've got some surprising findings!

We are hiring! Come join @abicadams, Kristiina Huttunen, Martti Kaila, Ning Zhang and me for a 3-year postdoc. You will work on a series of exciting projects (co-authored with use)while developing your own research. Please reach out with any questions. Job ad: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

"Anyone can be the majority. It just depends how you draw the line." This quote is from Say Nothing, a very good tv show 10/10

Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025. Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo). No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025. Link below:

Wow this paper

My first Charlemagne of 2025: Why Canada should join the EU. It has space and resources, Europe has people. Let's deal. (OK fine maybe we should just work towards a closer relationship of like-minded countries, especially in the age of Trump.) www.economist.com/europe/2025/...

My colleagues are using ChatGPT to source data and plot analyses for them. I'm literally reviewing papers written this way. Meanwhile....

wikipedia is an absolute miracle, if it didn't exist people would say it was impossible

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

Rich countries spend 60 times as much on healthcare per person than poor countries

Using the results shown below and others, we estimate that couples in Germany act as if they value women's earnings at 48 cents on the Euro, compared to men's earnings. In Sweden, it's 80 cents on the Euro. Full paper here: bit.ly/MTO-T

1.5 year Norwegian integration update: we bought single duvets and we go into the cold pool after sauna. We do not yet eat caviar from a toothpaste tube

PhD students in Sweden are civil servants, with a decent 12-month salary and full benefits (including retirement savings, effectively unlimited sick leave, and ~14 months of paid parental leave per child). Teaching opportunities are available to those who want them.