Just like what Thatcher famously said, "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Map of international graduate student and faculty targeted for deportation for their political speech. The only solution is organized resistance. Join your union and other political organizations that are fighting this.

X users in Turkey migrate to Bluesky amid censorship bianet.org/haber/x-user...

The great Turkish transition from X is beginning in the wake of Elon banning opposition accounts

Avukatlar gününüz kutlu olsun Selçuk Kozağaçlı, Can Atalay, Selahattin Demirtaş.

Identifying and exploring the diversity and growth of green jobs blogs.worldbank.org/en/investinp...

Submit for the 2025 edition of the International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE) from 2 to 4 July 2025 in Paris, France. Information can be found on the conference website: icde2025.sciencesconf.org Researchers are invited to submit papers by 9 February 2025.

Our research on "The Signaling Value of Government Action: The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders" is out as an NBER Working Paper. A short tread: www.nber.org/papers/w3316...

How influential are government actions in shaping societal behaviours? @gunesasik.bsky.social &Naci Mocan’s new study suggest: quite! They show that Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention led to 70 more female murders, especially by intimate partners, per year. www.nber.org/papers/w3316...

I am very happy to announce that our paper, "Impact of Graduating with Honours on Entry Wages of Economics Majors" is now out at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... a small thread on our findings:

Econometrics Thread (#EconSky) Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions. +

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

Very happy that our paper on the impact of employment subsidies in Turkey is listed among the four winning papers of World Bank's 2023 ECA Academy Award! www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...

This is a very interesting paper, it rocked my priors: www.nber.org/papers/w3175...

My first entry in bsky: Claudia Goldin gets the Nobel. Soo happy!