One of the basic rhetorical trick of Trumpism is to frame "accountability" to "being elected" rather than being answerable for your actions (which Trump avoids). Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...

The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”

Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!

Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!

📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...

🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics! 🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school 📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...

So happy to see this forthcoming! A fantastic paper from a former Haas BPP student! @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social Congrats @yasirkhan.bsky.social super well deserved!

Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025. The leading conference in the firms & development space! Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30. General submission deadline: July 18.

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵 Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

❗️We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of crime. @chtraxler.bsky.social ⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today. See details in the thread below 👇

CALL FOR PAPERS: Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025. Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy. Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Very excited about the first installment of the Berkeley Econ History Mini Conference — first edition being on econ history x political economy. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!

Today about a thousand folks Stood up for Science at Berkeley, and I was honored to be among them. Great energy — and it’s just the beginning #SUFS

Here is a link for those w/o FT subscriptions. The editorial is well worth reading. on.ft.com/3DtbLM4

"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are." -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.

Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard! www.standup4scienceberkeley.com

18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people: 18f.org

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 NICEP Conference What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics 📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd 📍 Nottingham, UK Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh... #EconSky

Today's #Kuznets2025 mini-conference celebrated the scholarship and teaching of Oriana Bandiera, and featured a lineup of fascinating new research. Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants: egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social

Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Opinion polls from before Germany's election (Infratest). 1) Social Democrats draw heavy criticism for unconditional handouts (Bürgergeld), seen as punishing the working poor. Same for neglecting the working class in general, Scholz not providing leadership.

🚨New working paper🚨 “The Political Costs of Taxation” with @evadavoine.bsky.social & Igor Kolesnikov When a state has low capacity and legitimacy, attempts to enforce unfair taxation can fuel social conflict! Some key findings: 🧵 1/11

🚨One more week to apply to the 2025 Berkeley Stone Center Summer School on Inequality A unique program geared towards students at the beginning of their PhD, taught by leading scholars in the field, all costs covered! Deadline: Feb. 28 👇👇👇 sites.google.com/berkeley.edu...

📰 Stories of Elon Musk’s efforts to remake #USgov continue to dominate the news. Given the particular focus on the independence of experts working in the federal government, it’s worth considering the history of the civil service and the long-running efforts to create a meritocratic system.

I have been studying bureaucracy my entire career. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform the US federal bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-c...

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

We just moved our China Government Employee Database-Qing search platform to its own server, and it has a new URL: searchjsl.leecampbellgroup.blog It contains all of our 縉紳錄 data, as well as 同年齒錄. We'll add the 北洋職員錄 soon. Enjoy! 1/2

Excited to share results from a 4-year first-ever RCT across US jails. We (Crystal Yang & I) find that death rates are much higher in jails than officially reported & health care accreditation improves staff coordination, quality & save lives. www.nber.org/papers/w33357

There is just one more week until the deadline to apply for the Postdoc position in Economic History! #EconSky

The call for papers for the NBER Organizational Economics Working group (April 10-11 2025) is out! If you have a paper you would like considered for presentation, please upload it to this link by 11:59 pm ET on February 14, 2025: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b... Pls retweet (or reskeet?)

@assameeting.bsky.social #assa2025 creating Royal Sonesta vibes by blasting freezing AC air into the conference rooms — must be colder inside right now than out there in SF?

Big regret I never had the chance to be part of this — highly recommended…!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS CASBS's 7th summer Institute on Organizations & Their Effectiveness happens July 9-16, 2025. Directed by CASBS legends Bob Gibbons & Woody Powell. The institute continues to revitalize the field of cross-disciplinary org studies. Apply by Jan 8. DETAILS & APP: bit.ly/4fFi3q3

Please send your papers to Shafik and me (and a fantastic team of expert scientific committee members) and join us for this first edition of the IIPF Congress in East Africa!

Fascinating jmp from Morgan Foy at UC Berkeley. "Union members appear negatively selected by teacher value added." Decertifying teachers unions improves student educational outcomes. morganfoy.github.io Adviser is @guoxu.bsky.social

Thu — tomorrow — (3/21) is the deadline for submitting your work to the NBER political economy summer institute www.nber.org/conferences/... particular encourage those who haven’t submitted/presented before to give it a shot!

Thu — tomorrow — (3/21) is the deadline for submitting your work to the NBER political economy summer institute www.nber.org/conferences/... particular encourage those who haven’t submitted/presented before to give it a shot!

@LukasLeucht from UC Berkeley is on the job market this year with an excellent paper on "Votes for Jobs: Patronage and Performance in Tammany Hall's NYPD" - be sure to have a close look at his paper and profile! lukasleucht.com #EconJobMarket

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) Saturday, March 9, 2024 Stanford King Center on Global Development Submit Your Paper Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...

Glad I leapfrogged Mastodon — hope this platform is it.