Apply and join us for this year’s @NovaSBE PhD Summer School in Development Economics!

This map overlays Germany over northern Brazil. Germany is tiny (1:24 is the ratio and not 7:1 as many Germans might think 😉 ). Source: buff.ly/nDHOKv7

📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America. 9-10 July 2026 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky

Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!

🚨Conference Announcement Join the @mecila.bsky.social Centre Conference 2025, 11–13 Dec at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. 🔗Register: mecila.net/en/mecila-berlin-conference-2025 @calascenter.bsky.social, @miasa-ug.bsky.social, MECAM, @giga-hamburg.de, Humanities Centre: Futures of Sustainability.

I talked to @cnn.com about a great achievement for Brazilian democracy, as Jair Bolsonaro starts serving his sentence for trying to overturn an election. www.cnn.com/2025/11/25/a...

Happy to share that our research brief on housing space inequality in Germany will soon be published by the Progressive Politics Research Network! This work, a collaboration with @sebastiankohl.bsky.social and @simonvoss.bsky.social , digs into who has access to space and how policy can address it.

📢 Call for Applications: 2026 PhD Program Opportunities across four different PhD tracks: 🔹 PhD in Economics 🔹 PhD in Accounting 🔹 PhD in Finance 🔹 PhD in Management ❗ Application Deadline: January 15, 2026 More information👇 berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-program/... #phdcallforapplications

🎉 Yesterday, we had the pleasure of welcoming our new tenure-track Assistant Professor @philippbach.bsky.social at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social In his talk, Philipp gave an inspiring overview of his work in the field of #CausalMachineLearning: method development, software tools, and applications.

The new semester is here, and so is the Research Seminar in Economics! 🎉 Every Thursday, a guest speaker will share their latest research on various topics. We are starting tomorrow with Oleg Nivievskyi; he will talk about his research on „Impact of Tax Incentives on Industry Performance and Growth“

I really enjoyed joining the "Our Long Walk" podcast to discuss my research on migration in Africa and its role in structural transformation and development — among other migration & development topics. Plus, an AI-generated music of my research findings! 😊 open.spotify.com/episode/4jOb...

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

I continue to be struck by the degree of heterogeneity in development economics courses! This is from coding "over 200 courses in 56 developing countries and the United States." documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/6... from @dmckenzie.bsky.social & Paffhausen

Together with @lennartkaplan.bsky.social, we are looking for a student assistant to support our @3dseminar.bsky.social. This is a great opportunity to get in touch with influential researchers and practitioners working in the field of development from around the globe. See below for more details.

Replication Games @i4replication.bsky.social coming to Berlin! @janmarcus.de Register here. www.surveymonkey.ca/r/I4R_Replic...

🦇😢 Throwback 1970: Am 26. Juni tritt die noch nicht so berühmte Heavy-Metal-Band #BlackSabbath mit ihrem Frontmann Ozzy Osbourne im ausverkauften Audimax im Henry-Ford-Bau auf. Anschließend tun sie das, wofür Rockbands gefürchtet waren: Sie verwüsten ihre Garderobe. #RIPOzzy tinyurl.com/25a9qw5g

Deadline July 21st! www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Excited to welcome @zohalhessami.bsky.social from @ruhr-uni-bochum.de this thursday for a talk on migrant integration in our Research Seminar in Economics at @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social - happening at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social ! #EconSky #EconConf #Migration #Integration

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Bargaining for Women: How Unions Can Create Female-Friendly Jobs,” by Corradini, Lagos, and Sharma: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

🗓️ Thursday, June 12: We are very happy to have Andrés César at the Reasearch Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „Vietnam’s Industrial Automation: Drivers and Impacts on the Labor Market“ #EconFUBerlin #RseFUBerlin

South Korea gender divide update 😲 Young men lean right by 50 points (74% conservative vs 24% centre-left) Young women lean left by 22 points (58% centre-left vs 36% cons)

SUBMIT YOUR PAPER NOW: #Göttingen Workshop on #Ibero-American Development on September 24&25. Keynote speaker is @anamibanez.bsky.social, Vice President IDB.👉https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/events/659948.html. @unigoettingen.bsky.social @m-santos-silva.bsky.social #EconTwitter#MWKNiedersachsen

New paper out in @science.org! “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scie...

📣Glad to share the logo of {geocodebr}, a really fast, scalable and completely free #rstats package to geocode Brazilian addresses 🗺️📍 ipeagit.github.io/geocodebr/ The logo of #geocodebr was created by the talented Gabriela Momberg www.behance.net/mombergabri

👏👏👏 Thank you to all presenters & participants of the „3rd Internal PhD Workshop in Applied Microeconomics“ @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, jointly organized with @steinhardt.bsky.social, @janmarcus.de, @m-santos-silva.bsky.social. So great to learn more about all your projects and see your progress! 🥳

🗓️ Thursday, May 15: We are very happy to welcome Andreas Ferrara ( @andyferrara.bsky.social ) at the Research Seminar in Economics at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social . He will present his work on „The U.S. Civil War’s Impact on Women’s Work and Political Participation “ @bsoeberlin.bsky.social

New interview on the blog! Claudio Ferraz talks about the importance of understanding local context and political constraints when studying development policies, among other insights into his career research. Read the full interview here: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/04/etrm... #EconSky

👇Have a look at our new working paper with timely insights, especially relevant in light of next month's Polish elections!

Our next speaker is @danzernatalia.bsky.social, introducing work in progress on “Gender Attitudes in Times of Economic Uncertainty”. #LabourWorkshop

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

The Workshop "Immigration and Refugee Inflows: The Impact on Host Country Economies" was a great success! Thank you to all the participants for bringing all of your great ideas, presentations and discussions to FU Berlin (@fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social, @bsoeberlin.bsky.social) See you next time!

Fascinating new research in the poster session at our Workshop on Immigration and Refugee Inflows!

Great insights from the keynote lecture by Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University) on "The Economic and Political Implications of Immigration: The Role of Local Fiscal Impacts in Reconciling Economics and Politics" at our Workshop on Immigration and Refugee Inflows #EconSky

Few days left to submit your work! Deadline: Friday, 28.02!

📢 I am looking for a new PhD student (Research Associate)📢 🔹 4 year position at FU Berlin (66% TV-L E13) 🔹 Research on causal effects in education, health, labour & family economics 🔹 2 hours teaching/week & statistical consulting #EconSky www.fu-berlin.de/universitaet...

Today and tomorrow: The workshop “The Socio-Economics of Overcrowding” is taking place at the @jfki-econ.bsky.social!

*Extremely* timely EDCC article #econtwitter #econsky about effectiveness of foreign aid in building soft power. . .for China! Completion of Chinese foreign aid projects ⬆️ support for Chinese gov in recipient countries @elwellner @DreherAxel @fuchs_andreas @AustinMStrange

We are looking for RAs to work with us on a new meta-science & replication project, joint with @i4replication.bsky.social, now with focus on environmental (economics) topics such as air pollution & carbon pricing. RAs can work remotely but must be located in Germany www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...

La representación de las mujeres en la política importa: Evidencia de los cierres escolares durante la pandemia nadaesgratis.es/admin/la-rep... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

For german speakers: i gave my opinion on the conflict over deportation flights between trump and petro at tagesschau www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amer...

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @juliaseither @juliaseither.bsky.social at Universidad del Rosario who works on topics related to experimental + behavioral economics www.juliaseither.org/

📢 1st Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & recent post-docs looking to connect with folks working on Latin American topics. 10-11 July 2025 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky

If you happen to be at #ASSA in San Francisco come to our session where we present our study on labor market effects of deportations in El Salvador: www.aeaweb.org/conference/2...

My favorite thread of the year so far!

Most int migrants move to a neighbouring country (e.g. Venezuelans to Colombia, Syrians to Turkey). The chart shows this: It measures the shortest possible distance between borders of origin and destination. Zero distance (i.e. crossing neighbouring borders) is the most common.

New Working Paper with #AgataGalkiewicz and #ThomasSiedler. We find: Randomizing the question order in online exams has no negative side effects. #EconSky #TeachEcon #EduSky

Congratulations to this year’s fantastic graduation cohort at the School of Business and Economics at Freie Universität Berlin! 👏👏👏All the best to all of you! Always a very special and proud moment - also for the members of the faculty! ☺️🎉🍾 @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social

The CfP for the #German #Development #Economics (GDE) conference 2025 is out, hosted by #Goethe university in #Frankfurt on June 12-13 (keynote: Lori Beaman). Send us your best development papers: events.gwdg.de/e/gde2025. @heidland.bsky.social @langlotzsarah.bsky.social

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵