New CSWEP newsletter focused on visibility in the economics profession: Christine Exley on self-promotion, Olga Stoddard on professional visibility, Corinne Low on public scholarship and how to write and publish a trade press book, Khoa Vu on social media and its professional uses.

The webinar overview of the coming #EconJobMarket is now posted to the AEA website. It contains info about trends in the # of jobs, recent # of applications/interviews/flyouts/offers, and placement outcomes, as well as advice. #EconSky www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...

Some professional news, as the saying goes, from our junior partner Olivier Simard-Casanova!

With J. Orozco (a brilliant graduate student at @fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social). 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...

Reducing access to abortions ... - increases families' economic hardship, - increases families' debt, - increases income inequality, - increases housing insecurity, and - increases financially motivated crime rates.

It was such a pleasure to join @cinchessen.bsky.social/ @uvabatten.bsky.social at the invitation of @ckronenberg.bsky.social to present this prize and to meet Ashish and all the conference participants

Beyond thrill to receive the @standarderror.bsky.social best paper prize for our novel effort to improve adolescent psychosocial health through parental relationship interventions

2025 Workshop successfully concluded with nice sessions, a great keynote by Kosali and the best paper prize. Thanks to @sebastiantt.bsky.social for hosting and Arnold Ventures for making it possible. Safe travels to everyone.

Many thanks to the organizers @ckronenberg.bsky.social & @sebastiantt.bsky.social of @cinchessen.bsky.social and @uvabatten.bsky.social for hosting!

Read more about their work and our prize here: tinyurl.com/2b8hcd5j

🏆 We have our winner of the 2nd Standard Error Best Paper Prize at #EMHW25: “Spousal Relationship & Adolescent Psychosocial Health” by @sedai.bsky.social et al. Their RCT finds that couples' counseling for parents boosts girls’ confidence, schooling & mothers’ mental health. tinyurl.com/2b8hcd5j

It’s time for me to go back to Nancy #TASKSVII2025 was an excellent conference Even if I’m not per see a labor economist, I’m leaving with ideas, especially methodological And cherry on the cake, Belval also is an interesting place Thank you @liser-lm.bsky.social for the organization!

Very excited to be representing Standard Error this weekend at the @cinchessen.bsky.social/ @uvabatten.bsky.social Economics of Mental Health Workshop (#EMHW25), where Molly Schnell is delivering an opening keynote on (agonisingly) the mental health effects of school shootings on kids in the US

We are attending the TASKS VII Conference organized by @liser.lu on “The Economic Impacts of AI on Work and Labor Markets” today and tomorrow in Belval, Luxembourg You can follow the live thread by our partner @o.simardcasanova.net here:

Very happy to see my review of the racial residential segregation literature with John Parman in the latest issue of Journal of Economic Literature @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A busy week for our partners! @o.simardcasanova.net will travel to Luxembourg to represent us at the TASKS VII Conference organized by @liser.lu, and @sameyler.bsky.social will present our 2nd Best Paper Prize at the CINCH 2025 Mental Health Economics Workshop at @uvabatten.bsky.social. Stay tuned!

I will attend the TASKS VII Conference organized by @liser.lu in Belval (Luxembourg) on the 11th and 12th of September 2025 On top of being of interest for my research, I will also represent @standarderror.bsky.social Please say hi if you also attend it! liser.lu/fr/events/TASKSVII2025

🔥 Call for papers for EPSS 2026 in Belfast: migration, forced displacement, mobility, borders, asylum, diaspora, and other migration-related topics. Excited to co-chair the Migration Politics section with @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social. Submit proposals by Nov 7! #EPSS2026

Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722 Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

I’m pretty excited today that the paper that received our inaugural Best Paper Prize at Standard Error earlier this year has won another recognition from an impressive collection of institutional partners

We are obviously biased, but we firmly believe that this second award is very much deserved! Congratulations to Artur

🏅 Double award for @arturobminski.com (PSE - @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social ) for his Job Market Paper. Best Paper Prize (‪ @standarderror.bsky.social ) + Young Economist Best Presentation Award ( @cepr.org - @unibo.it - UniCredit Foundation - Marco Fanno Association )! shorturl.at/p81GH

Developing an index to measure the productivity losses of gender-based misallocation. Across countries, over time, and across local labor markets, misallocation is substantial, from Goldberg, Gottlieb, Lall, Mehta, Peters, and Lakshmi Ratan https://www.nber.org/papers/w34142

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: - It’s ‘voilà,’ not ‘wallah!’ - It’s ‘a lot,’ not ‘alot.’ - It’s ‘further ado,’ not ‘farther adieu.’ - It’s ‘flesh out,’ not ‘flush out.’ - It’s ‘sneak peek,’ not ‘sneak peak.’ No worries if not!!!

I am looking for a postdoc to join my ERC StG project DIVREP to work on global, quantitative analyses of fertility and reproductive behaviour. The post is based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oxford. Let me know if you have any questions. More details below👇

UK-based colleagues: here’s an opportunity to pay it forward and gain a lot of insight into how funding decisions are made - by making them

The Fall seminar season is upon us. Advertise yours on the Economics Virtual Seminar Calendar. ideas.repec.org/v/ #RePEc #EconSky

I strongly endorse this feed, it’s so useful that it has become my second-most used feed #EconSky

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @teremolin @DepartamentoFAE who works on topics including education, health + social protection

Why Inequalities Persist: Parties’ (Non)Responses to Economic Inequality, 1970–2020 new paper in APSR. How do parties react to inqeuality levels and changes to these levels?

Are you giving your research papers a last big push before the new term starts? Book your spot with one of our editors today! To book your edit, you can: - Email [email protected] - Submit a request here: stderr-editors.com/booking-re... - Ask your department if it has a subscription

My new @science.org editorial on the role of scientists in defending democracy is out today. As authoritarianism takes hold in the US, we must fight for the democratic principles that enable a free society and scientists have a key role. I hope you'll join us. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🚨🚨- PHD OPPORTUNITY - 🚨🚨 I am excited to open a PhD position! How does rising inequality reshape media and democratic politics? If you are curious to answer this question, apply by September 15! You will be working with me and Luana Russo in beautiful Maastricht! Details at: tinyurl.com/mpzfk5me

Must-read 🧵 on a recent contribution in the causal inference literature

This is quite interesting, suggesting that less (gender) equal nations have higher rates of cross gender friendships

Only a few more weeks for junior researchers to submit a paper for the new award from the Sciences Po Department of Economics in honour of Ghazala Azmat. #EconSky

Grad programs often don't teach folks how to write good reviewer reports. Here are some resources: 1. @brendannyhan.bsky.social review checklist: thepoliticalmethodologist.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/tpm_... 2. "How to Write an Effective Referee Report": aeaweb.org/articles?id=... What else?

Are you giving your research papers a last big push before the new term starts? Book your spot with one of our editors today! To book your edit, you can: - Email [email protected] - Submit a request here: stderr-editors.com/booking-re... - Ask your department if it has a subscription

Are you giving your research papers a last big push before the new term starts? Book your spot with one of our editors today!

Forthcoming in the AER: "Distinguishing Causes of Neighborhood Racial Change: A Nearest Neighbor Design" by Patrick Bayer, Marcus Casey, W. Ben McCartney, John Orellana-Li, and Calvin Zhang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @raamadhok at U Minnesota who works on topics related to environment + development

Are you giving your research papers a last big push before the new term starts? Book your spot with one of our editors today!

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development www.isid.ac.in/~acegd/acegd... It's a great conference, I'm on the program committee and hoping to attend this year

Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵 New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social! Piece: immresearch.org/publications... 1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls Majority arrested have no criminal conviction

Do you know someone who is interested in a doctoral program? The AEFP Pre-Doctoral Diversity Fellowship program is a great opportunity to learn more about doctoral programs in the fields of education finance and policy. Learn more: aefpweb.org/pre-doc_...

me, reading my second draft that’s still not working

📄New study by @waights.bsky.social ( @humboldtuni.bsky.social & @diw.de ) shows that lower parental leave payments for high-earning mothers can lead to more equality in household incomes—with effects lasting at least nine years after birth. Read more 🔗 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/about-us/new...

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @monira_smf @AUG_SPH @AUG_University who works on topics related to gender + health, both in the the developing world + in the U.S.

Our work with David Bernal and Gustavo García on job spatial mismatch in Medellín has been published in the Journal of Transport Geography! authors.elsevier.com/c/1lUrz3RpEO...

15th Annual International Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries - December 11 & 12. Submit your paper by September 15 at: 🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org @oecd-ocde.bsky.social @cepii-paris.bsky.social @pse.bsky.social @liser-cb.bsky.social . Feel free to share!