First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵

Studies have shown that the conditions that caused the 1976 heat wave would likely lead to a comparable event being 3°C hotter today. And before anyone chimes in saying that's not much, the last ice age was only 6°C cooler than pre-industrial global temperatures! 8/

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization” Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition. My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.

Suddenly, amidst the constant tirades against their costliness, UK universities again have a use value....

Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

One of the best papers I've read in a while!

It is the policy of the United States to accelerate the warming of the earth and the natural disasters that will accompany it, a legacy that will outlive everyone involved.

Very interesting work!

🚨Rare and exciting opportunity 🚨 We're looking to hire an exceptional economist to work on fiscal policy at the IFS. We don't do this often. It's a chance to shape, carry out and communicate research on some of the highest-profile topics in UK economic policy. [1/4]

📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference London | 15–16 June 2026 We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies. Submit by 13 Feb 2026. 🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK

"...women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings... lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues..." pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight www.cityam.com/the-british-...

📢 Call for Papers: Structural Microeconometrics Workshop at the @bsebarcelona.bsky.social Summer Forum 📍 Barcelona | 🗓️ June 11-12 2026 Join @anamoremaldo.bsky.social, Joan Llull and me together with our keynote speaker Jeremy Lise! 👉 events.bse.eu/live/files/5...

Very happy that our paper "Accelerating Birth Timing to Access Cash Transfers? Evidence from Households in Extreme Poverty" is now published in the Journal of Health Economics! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New post! There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost. Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...

A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...

Are you on the academic job market with a paper about crime or criminal justice policy? Please send me your JMP! [email protected]

Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451

🚨Economics students! People who know or teach economics students!🚨 The IFS offers summer internships each year. Many of our permanent staff started with one of these. On Monday we're holding an online event to provide more info. Please do come/share. ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-r...

Come and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO! Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.

Come work with me! Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance. By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in. Econ advert below: jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Would you take better care of your health today if you knew you’d be richer in retirement? We study Chile’s 1981 pension reform with a fuzzy Regression Kink Design on linked admin + household panel data. Answer: yes. Preventive care rises (healthy behaviours modestly), and old-age mortality falls.

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Sarah Fritz, Lorenzo Incoronato, and Catherine van der List document substantial fiscal waste in the context of the EU Cohesion Policy in Italy. 🧵

Announcing Generation New Era: the first UK-wide birth cohort study in 25 years. It will study 30,000 children born in 2026 across the four nations of the UK. Watch out for upcoming opportunities for researchers and other stakeholders to engage with the study team via @clscohorts.bsky.social

thinking once again about how the central, pivotal performance on which PJ's LOTR trilogy turns is Ian McKellan's, because if we believe Gandalf is real we will believe the entire story, but at the same time the central performance of Fellowship as a standalone film is Sean Bean's

Excited about a forthcoming roundtable on my book and @brankomilan.bsky.social's this fall (November 4) at @stoneeconucl.bsky.social. Discussants include @johncassidysays.bsky.social, @annastansbury.bsky.social, Helen Thompson, and Beatrice Cherrier. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/dgv3e...

There is a real disconnect between media outlets putting together live coverage of A-level results and celebrating those going to university whilst also ignoring the decimation of the higher education sector and the impact that, over time, this will have on the experience of most of these students.

We are looking for a postdoc to work on exciting RCTs circling around scaling up mentoring interventions, starting in July 2026 💪🏻🚀 Amazing team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social & the perfect place to thrive with ifo, @cesifo.org + @econmunich.bsky.social 🫶🏻🌟 Please share widely 🙏🙏 Link below 👇

Our new Wimbledon Champion!

Walking on campus, I was just thinking how hard it is to be a grad student. It was by far the hardest thing I have done professionally, and there were many days (and nights!) when I was certain I would never come up with a job market paper (or, any paper, really). Grad students, hang in there!🤗

This is one of my favourite studies of the last few years. Totally worth reading!

I am happy to share a 3-year postdoc opening. My fantastic colleagues @kailirimfeld.bsky.social and Dan Anderberg recently won a grant to work on youth mental health at the intersection of psychology, genetics, and education. It is open to economics PhDs, among other fields. #EconSky #econ_ra

Italians abroad voting on June 8-9: reminder that you’ve got to send your ballots to your relevant consular office no later than *today* as they need to arrive by the p.m. of June 5 to be counted. Sent mine last week. Join us ❤️

Honestly reading this just made my day.

In this new paper joint with @ondineberland.bsky.social, featured in The Guardian, we show that : -women in France emit 26% less CO₂ than men from food & transpor - the gap isn’t just down to biology or labor market differences. Thread will follow, see full paper here: www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminst...

Delighted to be at @rockwoolfonden.dk in Copenhagen today, giving a seminar on peer effects in education. Looking forward to a day of great interactions. And Copenhagen is always such a treat. Thank you @mikkelmertz.bsky.social for the invitation!

I interviewed an awesome pre-doc candidate who we don't have a position for--is anyone still looking for a candidate who'd like me to pass her info along? Computer Science / Econ major, 3.95 GPA from top school, 4 years of comp sci work experience and now wants to prep for an Econ PhD.

Trump has just hung the "now open for business sign", saying he'll do specific (tariff) favors for specific companies. CEOs will see massive gains from lobbying, and huge costs from criticizing the White House. It's an effective way to suppress criticism. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/b...

To reiterate: We are hiring the following: 1) Prof (Chair) in Applied Micro, 2) Reader/Senior Lecture (Assoc Professor) in Applied Econ, 3) 4 Lecturers (Asst Professors), any field. Ads: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK740/p... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMK745/s... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMM015/l... #EconSky

EVENT: Our researchers will present their analysis of the Chancellor's announcements tomorrow (Thurs 27 March at 10:30am) at an online webinar. 🗓️ Sign up here:

More proof that “Make America Healthy Again” agenda — which blamed poor health outcomes on things like enviro toxins, rather than healthcare access — was a lie EPA research office that safeguards public health eliminating 50-75% of its 1,500 or so chemists, toxicologists, biologists, & other experts

Badenoch is to end the UK's bipartisan consensus on climate policy. She is ditching a rare achievement of the Tories' time in government, the 2019 law to make the Paris Agreement's net zero target legally binding. Here are three reasons why Badenoch is wrong: .../1 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Our paper on disruptive peers in Ecuador is now available as a IDB working paper! publications.iadb.org/en/disruptio... #econsky

Our paper on disruptive peers in Ecuador is now available as a IDB working paper! publications.iadb.org/en/disruptio... #econsky

If you're an academic job market candidate studying causal questions related to crime/CJ policy, and you're still looking for a job for next year, could you email me? I'm trying to keep track/would love to help if I can.

Okay, this is not the usual content I post on here, but Mayhem by Lady Gaga is such a fabulous album, I want to scream it from the rooftops

📢 Call for papers: 📢 @cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education (co-organized with Rick Hanushek) 5-6 Sept 2025, Munich Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social 👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202... Submission deadline: 18 May 2025 Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Our Department has launched a call for Expression of Interest to apply for the Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship. Please send us your best applications! vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

🚨 A call for Expressions of Interest to apply for the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowships to join the Econ Department at the University of Essex. #econsky #econtwitter vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...