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...

A new study from India 🇮🇳shows that children selling goods in markets often master mental arithmetic effortlessly—but the math skills don’t transfer to the classroom. See how the study explores how these learning environments shape different problem-solving abilities:

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

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...

This is an inspiring paper, using a ton of data to answer a super important question. I also really liked the slides docs.google.com/presentation...

As the February 23 election approaches, Germany’s economy is at a crossroads. In this op-ed, Gernot Müller and I explore Germany’s economic stagnation. It is not just about weak demand—it’s a deeper supply-side problem. theconversation.com/german-elect... #EconSky #gdp #numbersday

I like to listen to the Matter of Opinion NYT podcast for a window into what centrist consensus looks like. This week it’s another shocking example of lack of perspective, specifically on the significance of the J6 pardons.

EVENT: Ethnicity gaps in pension participation Thurs 23 Jan 2025 | 2pm – 3pm | Online We present new findings on ethnic gaps in pension participation rates, with Taha Choukhmane, Athina Vlachantoni, @laurenceobrien.bsky.social and Carl Emmerson. Sign up here: ifs.org.uk/events/ethni...

Europe’s Copernicus observation agency confirmed on Friday that 2024 was the hottest year on record. www.ft.com/content/fd91...

this abstract is INSANE

Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

This is a paper I was waiting for!

As someone from Rome, where so much public space is taken up by cars (including in the historic city centre), I feel this in my bones

JMP by Yannis Kastis with @hillaryvipond.bsky.social It's both an immigration paper & an adoption-of-technology paper. I didn’t know this: immigration of Jewish tailors from the Pale was very important in the rise of mass garment production in Victorian England jkastis.github.io/yanniskastis...

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