I met Princess and her family in Davao city in southern Philippines, and wrote about them for a newspaper in Bangladesh, with implications for migration support policies in Bangladesh www.thedailystar.net/news/princes...

CALL FOR PAPERS: 19th International Conference on Migration & Development Seoul, Korea; April 16-17, 2026 Paper Submission Deadline: Feb 8, 2026 See yrise.yale.edu for submission details. Link to submit papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Check out our new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Thanks to co-editors @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, & Caroline Theoharides! We look to working together on this "living literature review" in the years to come...

The old view of skilled emigration as a 'brain drain' has collapsed after a generation of research. Skilled migrants cause innovation, technology transfer, and human capital investment in the countries they leave. The best summary is @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social et al.—> doi.org/10.1126/scie...

All are welcome to the launch talk for the new VoxDevLit on International Migration! Co-authored with @catiabatista.bsky.social, @econgaurav.bsky.social, @dmckenzie.bsky.social, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social , Caroline Theoharides. Wed 14 Jan, 9 am US eastern.

This talk (Wed, Oct 29, 10am US ET) will be livestreamed by the World Bank. Link below. www.worldbank.org/en/events/20...

The Economics Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy are hiring several Pre-Doctoral Fellows starting in Summer 2026. Come join our vibrant program! Learn more and apply here: tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...

📣 UPDATE: Discover the 🆕 Conference Program of the 18th @afd-france.bsky.social World Bank International Conference on #Migration & #Development 📅 Event held Sept. 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 W/ keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social #EconSky #Inequality

Large sample data on patterns of violence by the Myanmar military (alongside civilians, including Buddhist monks) against their Rohingya minority suggest that there are systematic economic and expropriation motives for the forced displacement of the Rohingya. insights.som.yale.edu/insights/eco...

An unusual academic conversation with @sebastiantt.bsky.social and @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social about the mechanics of conducting research with implementing organizations. (Recorded in 2022, so it's a bit dated. Referee 2 wanted a lot of changes before the podcast got published)

Really excited for this week’s episode! We (@ajhollingsworth.bsky.social ) talk with ‪@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social‬ on how to work with large organizations and governments to implement research and policy.

New from David Lagakos‬, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social and Michael Waugh: 'Welfare Effects of Subsidizing Seasonal Migration' Migration experiments in rural Bangladesh offer a unique perspective on the potential benefits and costs of out-migration for rural individuals.

🗣️ @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social: "𝐋𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞" 📶 The EGC affiliate wrote in @financialtimes.com on how mobile phone usage patterns can help to predict poverty and target service delivery in hard to reach places. 📚 Read more: egc.yale.edu/news/250821/...

🆕 How internal migration is reshaping rural India Today on VoxDev, @raamadhok.bsky.social (University of Minnesota), Frederik Noack (UBC), @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (Yale) & Olivier Deschenes (UCSB) discuss the internal migration of agricultural workers in India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

Op-ed by my co-author and friend @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social in the FT today. Gift link: www.ft.com/content/61d0...

🌏 While migrants and their urban destinations are extensively studied, less is known about how their departure transforms the rural economies they leave behind. 📊 In Ideas for India, @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social & coauthors dig deeper. 📚 Read the newest EGC Perspectives article:

For large-scale social benefit programs, algorithms utilizing mobile phone metadata can be a cost-effective method for identifying the poor, from Emily Aiken, Anik Ashraf, Joshua Blumenstock, @guiterasecon.bsky.social, and Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak https://www.nber.org/papers/w33919

A must-read open letter from Fields Medalists working in Switzerland. Cutting annual budgets for education and research is always a short-sighted mistake. Even a bigger mistake now when there is a unique opportunity to attract top global talent from the US. science-under-threat.com

This is a right-wing government with a policy on immigration that is responsive to domestic labor needs. While other countries think about how much we can pay citizens to have babies domestically. www.reuters.com/world/italy-...

it's great to see @carnegiecorp.bsky.social celebrating naturalized citizens' contributions to the United States. Andrew Carnegie was himself an immigrant. www.carnegie.org/news/article...

Migration and Development Conference in Paris. Deadline for paper submission: July 15.

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

📣 Call for papers - 18th International Conference on #Migration and #Development 📅 Event held September 25-26, 2025 in Paris 🤝 With keynote's from: Paula Gobbi, @dmckenzie.bsky.social & @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social ⌛ Submit by July 15, 2025 #EconSky #Poverty #Inequality #Globalization

New @nber.org working paper with emilylaiken.github.io, sites.google.com/view/anikash..., www.jblumenstock.com and @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social: Scalable Targeting of Social Protection: When Do Algorithms Out-Perform Surveys and Community Knowledge? www.nber.org/papers/w33919

📃 A new EGC Discussion Paper by @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (@yaleeconomics.bsky.social) & coauthors examines systems for identifying recipients of benefit transfers and studies how their cost-effectiveness varies with the scale and scope of the program. 📚 Read the paper: egc.yale.edu/research/mob...

insights.som.yale.edu/insights/whe... "The countries that succeed are the ones that are able to create institutions that attract talent from wherever it happens to be born."

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Brain Drain or Brain Gain? @catiabatista.bsky.social @danielhan.bsky.social @deanyang.bsky.social ‪ @econgaurav.bsky.social @dmckenzie.bsky.social @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social Theoharides & @deanyang.bsky.social show w/ the right policies, high-skill emigration can bring new workers into the sector

Join us for the next CSAE Lunchtime Seminar 'Daughters Left Behind: How Trade Liberalization Harms Girls in China when Government Restricts Migration' 🗣️ @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social @yaleegc.bsky.social 📆Wed 28 May, 12:30, Room G, Manor Road Building, Oxford ℹ️https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

Last chance to register for the CSAE/OxCIS seminar today. Unpacking the 2024 Student Revolution in Bangladesh Today (27 May) at 5 pm BST @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social, @yaleegc.bsky.social Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road, Oxford Register by 12 noon: www.oxcis.ac.uk/form/banglad...

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

🚨New @nber.org WP🚨 We use data on 42,000 households in #India to study how the agricultural sector copes w/ labour loss. As #farmers move to cities for higher wages, their left-behind families *don't* substitute with increased capital -- they downsize their farms. (1/2)

💡Why is it so hard to implement a good idea? @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social (EGC, @yaleeconomics.bsky.social @yalesom.bsky.social) on what happens when technically sound solutions meet politics, behavior, unintended consequences. "Lessons from SOM" pod: insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/les... #GlobalDev

Great new @science.org article by the rockstars of development economics looks at the evidence on the impact of skilled emigration on origin countries. TL;DR, it can be positive, but we need a *lot* more work in this area! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Re birthright citizenship: The potential chaos is the point. If there is ambiguity regarding who is a citizen and who isn’t, there is then more pretext for rounding up people for being here “illegally” and then making it hard or impossible to prove their citizenship

Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only two claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent (0.0018%) Meanwhile the new DOGE-implemented system slowed retirement claim processing by 25% www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

The CSAE Lunchtime Seminars are back! Starting on 07 May, we've got a fantastic line-up for you: 🔸Sandra Sequeira, @lseid.bsky.social 🔸Elias Papaioannou, London Business School 🔸 @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social ,Yale 🔸Edward Miguel, UC, Berkeley 🔸Rohini Pande,Yale www.csae.ox.ac.uk/events

📢 Announcing the 2025 Andrew #CarnegieFellows! These 26 fellows have been awarded $200K each to examine the causes of political polarization — and how to reduce it. 🔗 Read more: carnegie.io/4lvr3kC

The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.

this is Mohsen Mahdawi, the green card holder who was just arrested by ICE for rendition at his citizenship interview

harvard.edu homepage repurposed to tell stories of what research produces for humanity. Incredibly powerful. The innovation below builds on UC-Berkeley chemistry research. The US research ecosystem matters. Drive traffic to harvard.edu today. #WeAreHarvard hms.harvard.edu/news/creatin...

🎉We’re honored to host @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social as the next speaker in our #Gender Talks series! He’ll present “The Social Determinants of #GenderGaps Among the High-Skilled, and Policy Implications” 📅 THU 10 April⏰11:00 🚩 Villa La Fonte Register here 👇 www.eui.eu/events?id=57... #labourmarket

Just received this from Yale. It would be useful for students to have a tutorial on what they are allowed to say, and what they're not allowed to say.

Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University) discusses the barriers to regular migration and what intermediaries and governments can do about it: @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social youtu.be/pOPDsV70p2c?...

With UC-Berkeley legends Alain de Janvry and Betty Sadoulet (and future legend Kelsey Jack)

Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

Guess what country this is

Happening today: New Frontiers in Economic Development lecture series with Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social

wrote an op-ed in our local paper drawing attention to the effects of USAID cuts on Illinois businesses TL;DR it's bad!! How USAID funding cuts hurt Illinois www.news-gazette.com/opinion/gues...