Devastating news! www.eeassoc.org/news/memoria...

My new @broadstreetblog.bsky.social post on "Religion and Development", building off a recent handbook chapter with @essobecker.bsky.social, @ammapanin.bsky.social, & Steve Pfaff www.broadstreet.blog/p/religion-a...

To those in the US who want to donate $ to #Ukraine, consider these options National Bank of UKR: bank.gov.ua/en/news/all/... Humanitarian aid (tax deductible): Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America: www.kmfoundation.org Kyiv School of Economics: kse.ua/support/dona... Nova Ukraine: novaukraine.org

Our article on the origins of Latin American inequality with Francisco Eslava is now out at Oxford Open Economics academic.oup.com/ooec/article...

I'm hiring RAs to work on data analysis for projects on education, infrastructure, and political economy in Latin America. Spanish/Portuguese language helpful; remote work possible. Please share, and/or apply! Links in next tweet. #econra #econ_ra #EconSky

The 2025 Economic Report of the President is now available. There's a chapter on K12 education! www.whitehouse.gov/cea/written-...

See you in our Political Economy of Global Religions session today at 2:30PM with @nathannunn.bsky.social @saumjha.bsky.social @jaredcrubin.com at #ASSA2025 www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

Recently accepted by #QJE, “When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870,” by Bouscasse (@paulbouscasse.bsky.social), Nakamura, and Steinsson (@jonsteinsson.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to - not publish - have outstanding publication records - introduce more novel scientific concepts - less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards. www.nber.org/papers/w33289

We’re hiring predocs at VSE with a start date of summer 2025. Come work with me on industrial policy and industrialization past and present. Not your thing? A number of my wonderful colleagues are also hiring! Listing is here: economics.ubc.ca/news/pre-doc...

Meet the Vancouver School of Economics 2024/25 PhD job market candidates! View their profiles here: t.co/m9qT8g13jS

A nice post of our UBC-VSE JM candidate Francisco Eslava on gender and violence in Colombia blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

“While I still don’t think Bluesky — or any social media app — will ever fully replace the old Twitter, I get what the excitement is about,” our tech columnist @kevinroose.com writes.