valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.

Rare sighting in the latest JDE #econtwitter #econsky: a paper about Somalia! Brar et al. show that an intervention targeting gender norms shifts support for gender-equitable norms + aspirations; novel lab-in-the-field evidence of enhanced ability to withstand peer pressure

This chart documents one of humanity’s greatest achievements, in my view. We just lived through the fastest population growth in human history. It would have been impressive if food supplies had merely kept pace — but on every continent, they grew even faster than the population.

Brilliant little online tool: Spin the globe and see what your life would have been like had you gotten a different draw in the place-of-birth lottery h/t @leightjessica.bsky.social on LinkedIn

Percentage of self-sufficiency by country for specific food groups Source: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

JPL is one of NASA's major science and climate centers—home to the Mars rovers and 1000s of people. Firefighters held back the flames at JPL’s gates, but many of our coworkers lost their homes. Here’s a thread of their public GoFundMes if you can share & support however possible:

Empowering women starts with engaging everyone. 🫂 Our recent GIL policy brief summarizes the evidence on engaging men for women's economic empowerment. openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/pub... #GenderEquality #WomenEmpowerment #SocialChange #EconSky #AfricaGIL @rajdevbrar.bsky.social

An interesting way to help people visualize what a ruin used to be.

🚨Job Alert!🚨 We're looking for a creative & technically strong economist to lead experimental research on women’s access to capital & entrepreneurship support in Ethiopia (and beyond). Join us at the Africa GIL team! Pls share! Details ⬇️ worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersi... #EconSky #EconJobs 🧵

Excited to see my JMP in the World Bank DIME Blog today! tinyurl.com/3aa5w7bc Many studies show short-run effects of agricultural shocks on violent conflict. My JMP asks: what about the long-run? I find that desert locust swarm exposure persistently s conflict over the next 14 yrs. A 🧵 1/13

This chart gives an overview of 3.4 million years of accelerating technological change. → We live at a time when the world can change dramatically within our lifetime. From my article on the history and future of technology: ourworldindata.org/technology-l...

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023 climatelabbook.substack.com/p/mapping-ch...