Are we living in an age of constant crisis or are we overusing the word? I track how often news outlets used the words crisis, issue, and challenge. Maybe COVID-19 left a linguistic inertia, where even serious challenges are quickly labelled as crises? More here: open.substack.com/pub/poleconn...

📊 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘃𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 1 year since 2024 election: 👉 Reform UK — 5 MPs, yet ~16× more coverage per MP than Labour. 👉 Lib Dems — 72 MPs, but least coverage per MP of all major leaders. 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 punches far above its weight, while the 𝗟𝗶𝗯 𝗗𝗲𝗺𝘀 are overlooked despite their size.

With record Channel crossings and protests outside asylum hotels this summer, small boat migration is at the centre of UK politics. Accounting for <2 per cent of total migrant inflows, it has an outsized impact on attitudes to #immigration. @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social

With record Channel crossings & protests outside asylum hotels this summer, small boat migration remains the centre of UK politics. Thanks to @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social for featuring our research on how these visible events shape wider public attitudes. Full Paper: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/econ...

Recently, it feels like every news story on UK migration is about small boats. Is our national conversation being shaped more by visibility than scale? Since 2021, small boat arrivals made up less than 1.5% of UK net migration—yet accounted for ~20% of all migration-related media coverage. #EconSky

📢 Google Scholar's 2025 Scholar Metrics are out! h5-index is largest number h such that h articles published in 2020-2024 have at least h citations each. See how Economics journals rank 👇 #EconSky 📊 Rankings: scholar.google.co.uk/citations?vi... 📢 Announcement: scholar.google.com/intl/en/scho...

Migrants will not stop at last hurdle when they have invested so much to reach The English Channel. In @kristeligt-dagblad.dk @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social @fpalondon.bsky.social @ukandeu.bsky.social www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk/udland/aftal...

"For UK policymakers, the key lesson is that controlling the story may matter as much as controlling the border." ✍️ @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social and Shanta Kadam analyse public opinion around small boat crossings and the impact it has on UK politics

Trying to stop migrants at final stage of their long, costly journey across the Channel misses the point. Many spend months and most of their resources just to reach northern France. Deterrence at the last hurdle will not work. The real fix is to reduce the need for such journeys in the first place.

An announcement is expected today from Starmer and Macron about a “one in, one out” migration deal on small boat crossings Read @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social & Shanta Kadam's blog on public opinion and small boat crossings in the UK and the impact it has on UK politics ukandeu.ac.uk/how-small-bo...

As #smallboats dominate the news once again, @goldbergradio.bsky.social hears how the headlines stir up more hatred against ALL migrants. With @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Small Boat crossings is one of the key agenda points on French President's visit to the UK this week. My new research shows that irregular migration in the English channel increases anti-immigration sentiment among the British public even towards legal migration routes. Read more in our blog below:

“.. welfare cuts are felt most strongly by those who are already economically vulnerable and can therefore exacerbate existing inequalities.” Research by @ericmelander.bsky.social and Martina Miotto analyses the impact of the 1834 reforms – the largest welfare cut in British history. buff.ly/5CdCJWw

"Immigration is going to happen anyway. Currently it is being extremely poorly managed..." @zoejardiniere.bsky.social @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social a join @goldbergradio.bsky.social to talk about small boats & migration From @bylinetimes.bsky.social podfollow.com/byline-podca...

Great discussion on latest figures of people crossing the Channel in small boats, & how hostility towards them has us caught in a doom-loop that prevents the sane, humane management of immigration #r4today Thank you @bylinetimespod.bsky.social 😊

Illegal migration tops the political agenda. Trump vows mass deportations. Starmer wants to “Smash the Gangs”. Sunak pledged to “Stop the Boats”. Yet its hidden nature makes it hard to track and harder to study its impact on public attitudes. My new paper digs in. 🧵 #EconSky

"Although they account for a small fraction of total migration....their visibility and symbolic weight give them disproportionate influence over public perception" Media coverage of 'small boat" crossings @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/19/h...

Calling UKRI-funded doctoral students interested in migration! Apply for an internship with the Migration Advisory Committee - deadline 8th Sept www.ukri.org/apply-for-fu...

Applications still open for the 2025 @ubeconomics.bsky.social on "The Political Economy of Immigration." ☀️ 30 June – 4 July, 2025 | Barcelona 📅 Deadline: June 15th Lecturers: @andreassteinmayr.net and @tsurovtseva.bsky.social. More info: www.ub.edu/school-econo... #EconSky #polisky

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "When do voters ‘rally around the flag’? The salience of political messages" By Yatish Arya & @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

Our next seminar is on Monday, 2/June 2025. We welcome 👉Dean Yang👈 (Michigan), who will present "Ancient Epics in the Television Age: Mass Media, Identity, and the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India", joint with @pbrimble.bsky.social, @resuf.bsky.social, Akhila Kovvuri & Alessandro Saia

🎓 LAST CHANCE! Early Bird booking for #RES2025 ends TONIGHT (Fri 16 May)! ⏳ Join us this June in sunny Birmingham for: 🌟 Top keynotes 🤖 AI/ML session 📊 Special sessions from @nuffieldfoundation.org @bankofengland.bsky.social ADR UK & more 🤝 Networking + childcare 🔗 bit.ly/47D8h4y #EconSky #AI

India launched missile strikes into Pakistan, triggering a serious escalation following the #PahalgamTerrorAttack that killed 28 civilians. Our new paper in the @jpube.bsky.social offers a timely lens to understand the political consequences of such events. #econsky 🧵Here:

Programme is out for 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, this year it's in Madrid! 👇👇👇

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me. The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!): sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

#IEBSeminars: Join us tomorrow! "Minority Political Representation and #Immigrant #Integration" 🗣️ @sschneiderstraw.bsky.social  📅 Tuesday 1 ⏰ 2:30pm ℹ️ https://f.mtr.cool/cthovipxdf

We are very happy to start the RFBerlin Migration Forum with Leah Boustan as our first keynote speaker, presenting “Where are the Streets of Gold? Comparing Immigrant Assimilation in the US and Europe”. #MigrationForum

What better way to start using this platform than to tell you about our Visiting Program on Migration 🌐. Every month a migration expert visits LISER for a few days. Among other things, we made short videos about their latest research, check them out here 👇: @liser.lu @liser-cb.bsky.social

Looking forward to the next two days!

Updated OBR migration analysis: Typical migrant only starts receiving more in benefits than they pay in tax at age 92. Lifetime contribution entirely positive. Low-age migrants have a lifetime negative fiscal impact on average. Typical UK resident's impact is neutral or slightly negative.

📣Last call for BÆM 2025! 💥Development Economics (May 6-7), Keynote: @saralowes.bsky.social (UCSD) 💥Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital (May 8-9) Keynote: Michèle Tertilt (Mannheim). Submissions close tomorrow, 28th Feb! More info 👇 bsky.app/profile/paul...

📢 #CallForPapers for the 9th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data #Workshop! Papers using text, audio, images, or other unstructured data are welcome. Organisers: @elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer @pse.bsky.social 📆10/03/25 cepr.org/events/9th-m... #EconSky

Looking forward to discussing Raisa Sherif’s work at the @UCSDGPSIndiaCenter seminar! Join us next week! Registration link below! #econsky

Increased news coverage of immigration in France pushed people with moderate views toward more extreme positions, says @sschneiderstraw.bsky.social of the University of Exeter. We spoke with her about how the media polarizes viewers. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/med...

✨✨Important Updates!✨✨ 2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham 🎵Amazing Keynotes: @schoefer.bsky.social and Alexandra Roulet 🗺️Where: @uniofnottingham.bsky.social 📆When: 16-17 June Submit by March 15 ➡️shorturl.at/TZqG0

#Econsky We are excited to announce the call for papers for the IEB Workshop on Political Economy. 📌 Submission deadline: March 16, 2025 🗣️ Keynote speaker: Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown Unversity) 📅 June 2-3, 2025 📍 Barcelona More information: ieb.ub.edu/event/worksh...

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

🚨🚨🚨 (Don't usually do this kinda thing BUT) BLOOD STOCKS ARE CRITICALLY LOW. If you can, give blood. ❤️ www.blood.co.uk/news-and-cam...

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

Keep your papers coming and join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Development Economics, May 6-7! 📢 Invited talks by the brilliant @saralowes.bsky.social, Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social 📅 Submission deadline: Feb 28. Details here👉http://baem.info

Looking forward to hosting #EconSky in Birmingham. ⏰ Few hours left to submit ⏰

🚨New Working Paper!🚨 Does increase in ethnic minority MPs lead to better representation of minority interests? Using a RDD, we disentangle intrinsic motivations from electoral incentives. Draft here: osf.io/preprints/os... (with William Dinneen, @guygrossman.bsky.social and Stephanie Zonszein)

Happy to share a new working paper "Calculation and Conscience: Motivations for the Substantive Representation of Ethnic Minorities" (with Stepahnie Zonszein, Apurav Bhatia and Will Dinneen). See osf.io/preprints/os...

With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the 3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

Breaking News: Manmohan Singh, a former prime minister of India who helped transform the country’s economy, died at 92.

🚨CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25 Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social) Deadline: 17 Mar '25

🌟Call for Papers!🌟 2nd Labour Workshop in Nottingham Who❓ You and amazing keynote speakers Josh Angrist (MIT) & Alexandra Roulet (INSEAD) When❓ 17-18 June 2025 How❓Apply by 1 March 🏹 Info & submission: t.ly/e4dtL #EconSky #EconConf

The CfP for the #German #Development #Economics (GDE) conference 2025 is out, hosted by #Goethe university in #Frankfurt on June 12-13 (keynote: Lori Beaman). Send us your best development papers: events.gwdg.de/e/gde2025. @heidland.bsky.social @langlotzsarah.bsky.social

And so, our program for 2024 has concluded. POLECONUK Webinars will return in spring 2025. In the meantime, you can watch our past seminars on our website: sites.google.com/view/polecon...

Commons voted for the assisted dying bill, 330-275. Most ethnic minority MPs voted against 55 against (36 Labour, 3 whipless/elected Labour, 4 elected as Independents, 11 Conservatives, 1 LibDem) 31 voted for (24 Labour, 3 Conservatives, 4 LibDems) 3 no vote recorded (Cons [Dep Speaker], 2 Lab)