❄️🐻‍❄️ Finally some positive news from Hungary. As record cold and snow hit Central Europe, polar bear cubs at Nyíregyháza Zoo are seeing real snow for the very first time in their lives. (Video by the zoo.)

Our fourth blog post of the JMP series is out! Khyati Malik writes on soil-carbon programs, showing why they must consider soil type heterogeneity to improve efficiency. www.econthatmatters.com/2025/12/payi... #JMP #Econsky #ETRM

3rd JMP post! Maximiliano Garcia writes on Chile's water markets, showing legal rights are not enough. Local institutions are essencial for enforcement. Check it out: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/12/gove... #JMP #Econsky #ETRM

Our second blog post for the JMP Series is posted! Roshan Saha writes on how irrigation can worsen wage drops after rainfall shocks. Read: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/12/when... #JMP #Econsky #ETRM

In today's JMP blog, @krajah123.bsky.social conducts experiments in India to show how spousal jealousy affects female labor force participation: women are more likely to take up work in women-only office & greater impacts for those with more jealous husbands blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

New IPEDS data on admissions, graduation rates, student financial aid, and cost of attendance (in a new format) just dropped. Let's see how everything looks!

To kick things off for our 2025 Job Market Paper series, Ferran Vega-Carol writes about his JMP about Solar Electrification in Rural Myanmar. Check it out: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/12/how-... #JMP #Econsky #ETRM

Our new interview with Nicolás de Roux is out! We talked about his research on production in developing countries, the usage of models and causal estimation together, and how his research influences policy in Colombia. #Econsky #ETRM www.econthatmatters.com/2025/09/etrm...

Nice to see at least one democracy preserving the rule of law. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Your latest interview is out! Kristina Manysheva talks about the importance of using macroeconomics to study development, innovation in a development context, and engaging with stakeholders. Check it out! www.econthatmatters.com/2025/06/etrm... #ETRM #EconSky

Check out our newest interview! @oyebolaoo.bsky.social talks about taxation policy in developing countries, working at the World Bank and advice for PhD students www.econthatmatters.com/2025/05/etrm... #ETRM #EconSky

🚨 FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) offers grants for foreign researchers or Brazilians abroad to work in Brazil! 🔹 Thematic: up to R$6M, 5 yrs → deadline June 30, 2025 🔹 Young Investigator: up to R$2M, 4 yrs → deadline June 3, 2025 More: fapesp.br/17526 | fapesp.br/17473 #Research #Brazil

Just published! Don't miss our interview with Dean Karlan on his path in development economics, the current funding uncertainty, and the value of development aid. Read it here: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/04/etrm... #EconSky #ETRM

seeing some joke comments about the subject matter of this paper so it seems important to clarify that studying competition between platforms and the effect of regulations in a setting with potentials for truly massive externalities is just a very high value added activity for economists to do

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

The share of apartments that are vacant is the highest its been since 2010. This is especially true in Dallas, Austin and Houston where many new apartment buildings have been built recently. This makes now a good time to negotiate a deal on your rent.

We continue with our interview series. This time we interviewed Meredith Startz to discuss development, trade, and the challenges of collecting data to answer questions in these fields www.econthatmatters.com/2025/03/etrm... #econtwitter #DevelopmentEcon #innovation #firm

A nossa produtividade está no mesmo nível em que estava quando apenas 3,4% d adultos tinham ensino superior. O único setor que tem aumento contínuo produtividade é a agricultura, que emprega cada vez menos gente. Naércio Menezes via @jmf7.bsky.social

Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101 gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...

Call for papers: The Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime - one of the best conferences in this area - will be held in Berlin, Sep 26-27. ** Deadline for paper submissions: May 2 ** bit.ly/4183vJ8

Check out this video interview with Fabiano Dal-Ri (@fabianodalri.bsky.social), Postdoctoral Associate at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, about his #ASSA2025 poster on the skills needed to start a successful business. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/conference/v...

Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets what’s at stake…

This is a bizarre, unhinged, totally made-up conspiracy theory. Immigrants who are not lawfully present in the United States get zero dollars of Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.

This is very disappointing. @aeacswep.bsky.social operates in the service of the whole profession, including the fabulous newsletters with great career advice. Even resources targeted at women benefit the profession, as it increases the quality of the pool of economists we all hire from.

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

I swear to God I told my daughter this very week that this was coming: some GOP politician was going to propose that. There’s a race to the bottom in showing fealty — and there is no bottom.

📢o pacote {geocodebr} v0.1.0 para geolocalização de dados brasileiros em #rstats está no CRAN ! O #geocodebr é a maneira mais rápida e barata 🗺️📍🚀de geolocalizar endereços no 🇧🇷 ipeagit.github.io/geocodebr/ #rspatial

The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate' 1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher; 2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent; 3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts #commsky @polcomm.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ― Benito Mussolini

The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. https://buff.ly/42ReSrr

🚨🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨🚨 Drawing on 25 stakeholder interviews, this study explores the social protection and humanitarian emergency nexus in Zambia. Stepping out of my comfort zone, this was a very cool project to work with an excellent group of co-authors. www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API - Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis... - API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com

Trump’s tariffs are a bully strategy. Bullying doesn’t win over time on the playground or in the international arena. This self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to Xi Jinping. 1/4

Holy forking shirt balls "Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "

We are back to our interview series. We had the opportunity to interview @ericverhoogen.bsky.social to discuss development economics, innovation, and firms. Dive into the insights. Don’t miss it! www.econthatmatters.com/2025/01/etrm...

the first fatal commercial plane crash in 16 years happened just days after Trump froze hiring of air traffic controllers that were already stretched thin

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...

Guys talk about getting the sign wrong on policy!!! Government R&R accounted for 1/5 of total TFP growth since wwii!!!

As noted in the working paper by Andrew Fieldhouse and Karel Mertens, government R&D has a colossal effect on overall GDP growth. Maybe you don't like their methodology. Well, the existing literature looks bit-by-bit and comes to a similar conclusion: this is a good investment.

Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" by Nicolás Ajzenman, Bruno Ferman, and Pedro C. Sant'Anna. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the 😀😀 American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals ) 😀😀 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Come work for me at UChicago @beckerfriedman.bsky.social ! I'm hiring a full-time pre-doc to start this April/May/June for data analysis on crime, education, mental health, and organized crime, mostly on projects in Latin America. Details & apply here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityof...

Participação feminina crescendo nos programas de mestrado e doutorado em economia da FEA-USP! Sejam todas bem-vindas!! 👩‍🎓 🌟

You can't make this stuff up. "Another unknown is whether NIH researchers will still be allowed to submit papers to peer-reviewed journals."

"Each dollar of government expenditure on [universal pre-kindergarten] yields $10.04 in benefits." www.nber.org/papers/w33038 Evidence from the USA (Connecticut)

I'm hiring RAs to work on data analysis for projects on education, infrastructure, and political economy in Latin America. Spanish/Portuguese language helpful; remote work possible. Please share, and/or apply! Links in next tweet. #econra #econ_ra #EconSky

The Social Network (2010)