I'm really enjoying the 2026 Midwest International Economic Development Conference at the #UniversityofWisconsin! It's my second year at #MWIEDC, and I continue to be impressed by the quality and relevance of the research. This is the view from the current session!

Flowers from this morning's dog walk.

Another summary of fascinating research in This Week in Social Science. These posts are always succinct and well written. TWISS #54: Apple of your (mind's) eye open.substack.com/pub/twisswee...

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Long read but GREAT @brookings.edu policy analysis by @econsarahreber.bsky.social and my grad school compatriot Sarah Turner. Excellent teaching resource on policy analysis, the complexity of well-intentioned policies, and importance of administration. Courts too! www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

I enjoyed this @voxdev.bsky.social podcast on today's dog walk. It is a mini master class in the evolution of rigor in evidence, using the contact hypothesis as a case study. It ends with a meta-analysis based just on pre-registered experiments. Great for teaching! open.spotify.com/episode/4xrF...

Rest in peace Robert Mueller.

Daffodils!

Easy to read summary of very interesting research by @egap.bsky.social researcher Chris Grady. TWISS #49: The Paradox of Self-Interest open.substack.com/pub/twisswee...

That amusement when you're told to bring your presentation on a thumb drive and you search your office frantically for one, to see that the only file on the drive you find is dated 2011. Time flies!

⏰ REMINDER: Applications for AREN's Local Network Leads program are open through March 16. This program trains researchers & research professionals in #Africa to become #openscience leaders who can establish a community of practice at their institution. Learn more & apply:

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

A big thanks to @justinwolfers.bsky.social, Joshua Hill, and MacMillan Learning for a great webinar today on "AI won't replace econ professors, but it will change the way we teach." I left a little less scared of AI and much more curious about what I can create!

There's something very special about Harrison Ford and Michael J. Fox sharing the screen.

I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.

Cross posting from LinkedIn where I introduce and comment on a great post by #PaulWeisenfeld in the @modernizeaid.bsky.social blog, in which Paul explains the challenges US State has for staffing humanitarian and development programming. www.linkedin.com/posts/annett...

Oren Cass uses serious economics to trash finance in the NYT cepr.net/publications... Why don't all economists?

There, there…

I just listened to the @voxeu.org podcast with #GiancarloCorsetti about this research. Great insights and evidence about what is going on with the dollar exchange rate right now. #econsky cepr.org/voxeu/column...

REMINDER: Our West Africa Hub is hosting a Learning Days workshop at CERAP this June 🌍 We welcome applicants from Africa-based researchers & evaluation professionals from university, government, & civil society orgs. Apply by: Feb 27, 2026 Learn more: buff.ly/9l0bdig

New blog post summarizing my and coauthors' recent #systematicreview of the comparative effectiveness of #locallyleddevelopment approaches. Post includes additional analysis of agency-related outcomes as reported in the included studies. Journal article in comments. www.linkedin.com/pulse/limite...

I recommend that everyone read this new essay by Dario Amodei, CEO of @anthropic.com. It is sobering, especially as I think about what the future holds for my 20 yo daughter. I appreciate Amodei's transparency, which he says is the first defense. www.darioamodei.com/essay/the-ad...?

Thank you @dktrdr.bsky.social and Eddy Malesky for invite to be discussant for "Major Challenges in Development" panel at the upcoming @egap.bsky.social meeting at #Duke! Fab panel includes @nataliasbueno.bsky.social, @melinaplatas.bsky.social, & Eddy and co-discussant @danielnposner.bsky.social.

Winter weather is set to impact many states in the U.S. this weekend. If you do lose power, there are right and wrong ways to handle it. Here are six important tips from the experts.

Nice article about the Government of Bangladesh program together with @ifad.org and @iom.int to promote the use of #remittances for financing investment in start-ups. I'd love to see a formal evaluation of this program! www.newagebd.net/post/opinion...

Interesting @restatjournal.bsky.social article by #ScottOrr & #MokhtarTabari - they use data on energy share of product lines to decompose prodctvty growth into 6 margins and use total Chinese exports as instrument for Indian imports to show competition leads to innovation voxdev.org/topic/firms/...

New post by @timhirschelburns.bsky.social of @gdp-center.bsky.social re IMF-WB Debt Sustainability Framework for LICs. "LIC DSF...must correct anti-investment bias...account for ...climate risks & benefits of climate investments and ensure...a pathway to meeting...needs." www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/01/...

Great article by Jeff Kearns in #IMF's #Finance&Development magazine about using available data for nowcasting in low-income countries. Kearns interviews Domenico Giannone, one of the originators of nowcasting for economics, who is now at #JohnsHopkins. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

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Hello from 3ie’s official @bsky.app account! We’re on a mission to improve lives in low- and middle-income countries through high-quality, policy-relevant evidence. Follow us for updates on our work to support evidence-informed decision-making! Learn more: www.3ieimpact.org

Wherein @gamblingondev.bsky.social quotes the Spice Girls and uses game theory to help researchers think about how to be more policy influential. Great @voxdev.bsky.social read with useful links. voxdev.org/topic/educat...

If you want scholarly publishing to be more aligned with scholarly values, then try out Lifecycle Journal. If you embrace transparency, then you can do your research in the Lifecycle Journal without risking publishing in the existing system if you later decide to do so. A🧵 lifecyclejournal.org

Breaking News: A judge found that Elon Musk’s effort to shutter USAID most likely violated the Constitution, and ordered its operations partially restored.

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Check out USAID’s Agriculture ties to by state drive.google.com/drive/mobile...

Many useful links this week. Thanks @dmckenzie.bsky.social! I've bookmarked the @aeainformation.bsky.social lecture series.

Great @voxdev.bsky.social post by @johnlist.bsky.social with concrete recommendations for addressing the pilot-to-scale challenges in int'l development during research. I wrote about these pilot-to-scale challenges for #3ie in 2016 here: www.3ieimpact.org/blogs/pitfal...

Three cheers for the @aeainformation.bsky.social report and recommendations for social media use! It is entirely appropriate for a voluntary professional association to have behavioral codes of conduct. And great to see the shout out for #econsky!

Why is #Onions the only dog on Bluesky? The cats are fine, but we need more dogs.

Few people even know about this; when people are asked in surveys how child mortality has changed the majority says it has stagnated or increased. If you consider that many don't know about humanity's biggest achievement, then it's not surprising that many are so pessimistic about our future.

Them: Isn't five hours to get from Rockville to Dupont (to drop dog) to Dulles for your flight excessively cautious? Me: Don't judge Kid during dog drop: I left my ID in Rockville. Me: *Smug look* (and massive relief)

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

#econsky #econjmp #econ #jmp I am on the #econjobmarket this year! My JMP focuses specifically on second-generation migrant girls. How does education policy impact them as they grow up in a highly egalitarian society, yet within families that have migrated from more gender-traditional origins? 🧵👇

View from today's conference -- 11th floor Willard Office Building. Thanks #IndianaUniversity #TobiasCenter at the #HamiltonLugarSchool for a thought provoking conference on #Localization and #MERL.

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Disrupt ageism -- great, short video! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv0F...

New post today from my #FHI360 colleague Chris Odell highlighting the great discussion at the Global Evidence Summit #GES about the use of #AI in #evidencereview. researchforevidence.fhi360.org/need-explore...

A sad way to start the day. :-(

Lots of AEA Initiatives for Diversity and Inclusion have deadlines soon - a thread - #EconSky 1/n