📣 REMINDER - Call for Papers: The Economics of Migration Junior Workshop 💡 The event aims to provide an opportunity to junior researchers on #migration #economics to present and meet in-person. 📅 May 26-27, 2026 at @uc3meconomics.bsky.social ⏳ Submit by Feb 1st. 🔗 economig2026.sciencesconf.org

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

Hard to beat this discussant slide by force-of-nature @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social after I spoke at the IMF last Friday

A national extension programme in Uganda raised farmers’ expectations and adoption of oilseed crops – revealing how beliefs, not just knowledge, drive agricultural transformation. Read today's article to learn more:

🆕 How information shapes farmers’ expectations and adoption in Uganda Today on VoxDev, Jacopo Bonan (Milan), Harounan Kazianga (Oklahoma State) & Mariapia Mendola (Milano-Bicocca) discuss a national extension programme in Uganda: https://ow.ly/9ZwG50XlBQg

Innovation is at the center of economic growth. Congratulations to three who’ve taught us so much. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/econo...

This is a crucial point. Still relatively few economists are explicitly trained on this point, and too many econ papers show it.

Heading home after a great conference in Luxembourg! Many thanks to the organizers and the inspiring keynote speakers @marimendola.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social Don't miss it next year!

What a lovely event with so many outstanding scholars!! There is beauty everywhere..if you only look (cit.)❣️🌷💛 #centrodagliano #unimb

Well there it is. I received this yesterday. Data paid for and owned by the US public, now impounded and inaccessible—illegally, arbitrarily, indefinitely. Anyone seeking ‘efficiency’ would at most seek an alternative data host. Anyone seeking to suppress academic speech would… do this.

📌Call for applications out! 👀👀 Summer School on "Geo-economics, Natural Resources and Development" on Sept 2-5 in Tuscany, with the great Mathias Thoenig & Mathieu Couttenier!! Deadline: May 9 cepr.org/events/twent... #EconConf #cepr #centrodagliano

Many of the world's best and brightest young people once came to study in the United States, fueling our global innovation powerhouse. They now know that if they come, they can be seized by secret police off the street, at any moment—without charges, trial, or appeal, with absolute discretion.

What the fuck

"Tariffs alone will not reduce the trade deficit or restore manufacturing jobs." "Even worse, tariff threats distract us from the true sources of America's social problems and the policies that could help." My @piie.com colleague, and top authority, Maury Obstfeld in @financialtimes.com —>

Hi #econbluesky community! Excited to announce our Workshop on "Discrimination, Social Inclusion, and Development" at #MilanoBicocca on April 3-4, 2025! Check out our amazing lineup of speakers and join us if you're in or around Milan—the workshop is free! More info here: tinyurl.com/yeydfrbu

Hi #econbluesky community! Excited to announce our Workshop on "Discrimination, Social Inclusion, and Development" at #MilanoBicocca on April 3-4, 2025! Check out our amazing lineup of speakers and join us if you're in or around Milan—the workshop is free! More info here: tinyurl.com/yeydfrbu

📣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...

10 days left to apply to the next edition of the "Firms, Labor Markets, and Development" Workshop to be held in Bari, Italy, on 20-21 June. Keynote speaker: Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale) Info: steg.cepr.org/events/firms... @micheledimaio.bsky.social @marimendola.bsky.social @fscoamodio.bsky.social

This is an illegal action by the US Administration. USAID is Congressionally mandated as an independent agency. It is not a small office of the State Department. Those now choosing to ignore their duty to our laws, whether Conservative or Liberal, will miss them when they have lost meaning.

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

📢 4th Workshop on #Gender & #Economics 🗓️ May 22-23, 2025 at @uni.lu in #Luxembourg 🗣️ With keynotes from @marimendola.bsky.social & @essobecker.bsky.social 💪 Selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Demographic Economics. ⏳ Submit via 📩 to [email protected] before 15/03/25

I'm honored to be elected to the editorial board of my favorite academic journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives. And excited to work with so many people I deeply admire at @aeajournals.bsky.social —> www.aeaweb.org/journals/jep... #EconSky cc @piie.com

9/ 🚀 The takeaway? This “light-touch” program proves that it is possible to address stereotypes and group differences head-on while fostering both understanding and cohesion. It’s a model that could scale to other groups or countries facing similar challenges. 🌍

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

💡NEW Working Paper OUT!📌 w/ S.Giunti, A.Guariso & I.Solmone 🔥How can we counter anti-immigrant attitudes?🔥 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... A short educational program in Italy offers a promising answer. Here’s what we learned from a randomized intervention with teenagers 1/ 🧵

2. Supporting economic growth abroad won’t reduce immigration, it will probably increase it. Conventional wisdom in policy circles is that investing in and promoting development will reduce migration. @mclem.org & @marimendola.bsky.social show that this is wrong: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on migration economics! Check it out: go.bsky.app/39gHy57 Feel free to nominate yourself or others to add to the list!

In 10 weeks begins a vast expulsion of US immigrants—with and without lawful immigration status. Native workers can expect fewer jobs and higher inflation. I talked with the phenomenal @soumayakeynes.bsky.social of the @financialtimes.com for this 30min podcast —> www.ft.com/content/b35b...

📚The CSAE’s #JournalofAfricanEconomies August 24 issue includes: 'Nutritional and Schooling Impact of a Social Protection Program in Ethiopia: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure’ ✒️@marimendola.bsky.social & Mengesha Yayo 📚https://doi.org/10.1093/jae/ejad016

Great research on #migration by @mclem.org and @marimendola.bsky.social showing that increased income in low and middle income countries is correlated with an increase in likelihood to migrate.

VoxDev on our paper studying self-selection of migrants worldwide- with the super🌟 @mclem.org People whose labour has higher returns at home are more likely to migrate. Why? Migration from developing countries is a costly human capital investment (!) 👇👇

Are typical emigrants from poor countries the least productive workers, or the most productive? Since 1987, economic theory has far exceeded evidence. Textbook models have gone largely untested #EconSky The brilliant @marimendola.bsky.social & I address this gap on @voxdev.bsky.social @cepr.org —>

🆕Who migrates from developing countries? In today's article, @mclem.org & @marimendola.bsky.social discuss their research measuring the relationship between income & migration from data on 99 countries and the policy implications: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ #EconSky @marimendola.bsky.social use unprecendented global microdata to question a widely-accepted idea among researchers—and the public—about who migrates from developing countries. Open access for limited time—> authors.elsevier.com/c/1jh8R15DRG...

😱2 days left to submit your paper to the next Firms, Labor Markets, and Development workshop! Keynote speaker: Paula Bustos (CEMFI) Join us on June 28-29 in Siracusa, Sicily!!! Co-organizers @fscoamodio.bsky.social @marco_sanfilippo @michele_dimaio Submit👉 shorturl.at/dyFIN Deadline March 20!!

Immigration is looming larger in the campaign, partly because it's becoming harder for Republicans to run against Biden on the economy. But there's a strong case that immigration has been a key part of Biden's economic success 1/

Apply to this amazing conference with @mclem.org and Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes as keynote speakers, and a panel with @dmckenzie.bsky.social and @claireadida.bsky.social! I learned so much from so many experts on migration last Spring, and I hope to be able to attend again next year!

27 years from now, one in four people on earth will be African. Are today’s institutions apt for that world? If not, the moment to start building new ones is now.