A big welcome to our new Associate Editors the Journal of @eeanews.bsky.social academic.oup.com/jeea/pages/E...

New NBER working paper with Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs. I'd never found a review article on this topic that met my needs as a PhD class reading, so we sought to fill this gap. NBER : www.nber.org/papers/w34605 Ungated: seemajayachandran.com/womens_power_JEL.pdf

Merry Christmas to my mates in the USA. THREE academics doing some heavy lifting in the US to protect freedom @mclem.org @aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers.bsky.social

Macro at LSE is hiring predocs for September 2025! Come and work in the best city in the world, on cutting edge macro with Ben Moll, Ricardo Reis, Joe Hazell, Ethan Ilzetzki, and me. Past predocs have gone to places like Harvard, LSE and Northwestern. t.co/2RrUaQl6Pk #econ_ra #EconSky

If this proposal becomes reality, international conferences in the US will become a thing of the past.

I had temporarily suspended all US travel after news emerged of how some fellow Germans and fellow academics were treated at the US border. If this passes, I won't travel to the United States before it is repealed. This saddens me as I miss out on meeting friends and colleagues...

Strategische Unabhängigkeit Europas: 1) Putin-Regime wird 2026 wirtschaftlich kollabieren, wenn Sanktionen erhalten und verschärft werden. 2) Trump-Regime und MAGA werden 2026 elektoral kollabieren. Also: Durchhalten, Waffen liefern, Vermögen verwenden, Schattenflotte lahmlegen.

CFM Director Ricardo Reis congratulates LSE academic Philippe Aghion, at LSE Dept. of Economics breakfast reception, for jointly winning the Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences with Joel Mokyr and Peter Howitt

What does a Nobel Prize on ‘innovation-driven economic growth’ actually reward? A historian’s perspective on how to deal with the Nobel frenzy beatricecherrier.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/w...

"Bob Fogel said to me once: For economics to work without economic history is like an evolutionary biologist without paleontology. You just miss 99.5% of all the species that ever walked on this earth." Joel Mokyr www.youtube.com/live/__0sGvj...

„The decline was most pronounced among first-year graduate students. Illinois Urbana-Champaign has seen a 22% drop and Buffalo, 58%.“ Informative article 👇🏼 about 🇺🇸 int‘l students. 🇪🇺 has much freer speech now - so, welcome - it but should be said that silly admission restrictions exist here, too.

I am really grateful to Cemfi for organizing this workshop and in particular to all the organizers, participants, and attendants. It was a high quality scientific event, full of warmth and fun. It was wonderful to get together with so many good friends

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

Alexander Monge-Naranjo has been researching the role of credit constraints in shaping educational attainment. He sits down with @durlauf.bsky.social to discuss how credit access matters for recent cohorts, whereas family resources were more determinative for earlier groups. Listen → bit.ly/4nOXPxK

I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story. That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.

My book, a labor of love, with 15 years of my own research and the stories of countless women, is out today!! I document why women's time has gotten so squeezed, and then provide actionable, evidence-based strategies on what we can do about it! So many people on here did the research in the book! 🙏

The astronomical new Skill Penalty on US work visas will hobble a core driver of productivity growth in the US economy. “H-1B visas cause innovation, they cause entrepreneurship, they cause more R&D investment,” I told the @wsj.com Very nice and balanced piece by @jdlahart.bsky.social —>

If the UK does not take this good advice, maybe Canada will? Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver are great places for tech hubs - lets compete for them by enabling skilled migration and students.

The 100K H-1B fee is the biggest opportunity for the UK yet to revive economic growth and business dynamism. Now let’s drop those visa fees and NHS surcharges right away to send a clear signal and reap the benefits!

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

"The countries where comedians can't mock the leader on late night TV are not really ones you want to live in." - Chris Hayes

Trump’s reelection was the tipping point. In April, Matthias Doepke sold his house and permanently moved his family to England to teach at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

One of the best features of European cities: parks & public spaces with coffee and basic concessions available inside them. It is *insane* that the US makes this illegal.

Regardless of politics, economists should make clear: we do not condone reckless attacks on our statistical agencies, including by our fellow economists. The staff at these agencies work painstakingly to collect the data our democracy and economy depend on.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, an Univ. of Minnesota expert on infectious disease mRNA vaccines “certainly saved millions of lives,” said Dr. Paul Offit—a vaccine expert at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Germany will be an attractive alternative host country, and will benefit from it -- after a few institutional changes. Curious to see what Länder and what universities will be the first to report increases in non-EU enrolements.

"Go outside” has been quietly replaced with “Go online". ... Kids being raised on screens long for real freedom.” Very much agree with this piece. HT @pascallth.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Very thoughtful thread. My short summary: for now we can continue trust the numbers from BLS. This because agency employees have the integrity to let the public know about potential interference. We might not be able to protect the process, but we will know when it is compromised.

Those direct, short term costs are just the beginning of much more massive and long term damage.

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

Statt die regelbasierte Welthandelsordnung zu verteidigen, schlägt die EU in einen Deal ein, von dem unsicher ist, wie lange er hält, der von den Launen eines Populisten und nicht vom Recht regiert wird und der mit den Regeln der Welthandelsorganisation kaum vereinbar ist. 2/2

“The Trump administration is firing hardworking scientists while employing political appointees whose job it is to lie incessantly to Congress and to the American people,” she said. “The obliteration of ORD will have generational impacts on Americans’ health and safety.”

In the US and elsewhere: research inside gov‘t agencies is a perfect complement for outside research, and it thus serves the taxpayer well. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/c...

The US President has legal authority to set tariffs exclusively in emergencies threatening our national security. What is the grave national security threat from “small countries where we don’t have much trade”? Nothing but a lawless rampage. Those charged with oversight abandon their duty.

Parenting choices, shaped by economic incentives, contribute to social stratification and inequality in society, from Francesco Agostinelli, @mdoepke.bsky.social, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33963

Half as many kids are riding bikes as in the 90s. Of them, only 5% ride "frequently." When I talk about the phone-based childhood, I don't just mean smartphones and social media. We also need to reverse the overprotection of kids in the real world. www.theatlantic.com/family/archi...

This summer she begins her doctoral studies... share.google/mQxN9JE1PiRV...

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

Absolute banger of a review by @economeager.bsky.social in the JEL of "We Are Not Able to Live in the Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance" by Mara Kardas-Nelson www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... Particularly enjoyed this concluding paragraph:

Most books I have read over the years are German novels and biographies from the 1920s and 1930s. To at least come closer, even if you can never really understand it. Here is my top 5. 🧵

More than 450 million Europeans. 29 countries. 1 shared freedom. In 2025, we mark 40 years since the Schengen Agreement was signed. This landmark event has reshaped how over 450 million Europeans live, work and travel.

i honestly will not leave bluesky until there is another microblogging site that doesn't throttle links. it's so beneath my dignity to have to do a big song and dance just to link to a blog post or video or whatever

When archaeologists excavate the social club from Goodfellas

headline construction masterclass

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

"Our great universities are the envy of the world and a crucial national asset. Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy..." -- Jerome Powell

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.