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We have posted the minutes from the #FOMC meeting held April 28-29, 2026:   www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p...

A one-of-a-kind fellowship program, the “New Generation of Social Scientists in the Arab Region” (NewGen) is now accepting applications for its 7th cycle. theacss.org/call-for-app...

(Reuters) - The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is the beginning of a "systemic agrifood shock" that could trigger a severe global ​food price crisis within six to 12 months, the United ‌Nations Food and Agriculture Organization said on Wednesday. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Last chance to register for "Global Health in Context: Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS". The webinar will begin today at 10am CT. https://z.umn.edu/DHS-IHGIS-Webinar

Submit nominations for the APSA Committee on Contingent Faculty in the Profession’s “Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching, or Leadership” #Award recognizes scholars who have made significant #polisky contributions without tenure-track positions.🏅 Submit nominations by May 31st! buff.ly/EF9epuV

If you haven't signed up yet, please register and join us for this year's first Data for Good Roundtables. It's happening this Friday, and we will bring together researchers and practitioners working to innovate responsible use of AI in the public sector. sites.google.com/view/d4g-rou...

absolutely wild to see people out here saying that it is responsibility of peer reviewers to check for hallucinated references. it is hard enough to persuade people to read articles and provide reviews. expecting them to spend hours cross reffing literature is unreal.

New @cgdev.org paper! What can you actually do about lead poisoning? Nutritional supplements probably help a bit, are very cheap, but far from solve the problem. Paper: www.cgdev.org/publication/... Blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/can-nut...

This is Jam. He said he was the highest jumping golden retriever in Ontario. May or may not have lied on his resume. Still 13/10 (IG: skythepupvlogger)

This, here, is one of the most devastating statistics in global child health:

New from @econroy.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern? FAFSA is a big deal for college access. Progress has been uneven, but over the last decade policymakers and a government team have made it significantly less burdensome. It is possible to fix things. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/good-news-...

New paper (w @elizabethacox.bsky.social ): Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 ICE activity reduced employment for undocumented immigrants in US, did NOT increase employment for U.S.-born workers & generated negative spillovers in immigrant-intensive sectors bit.ly/3QZWbxW

Pre-print now available! If race is socially constructed, we should study how. We do so by asking who counts as Black. Parentage, skin tone, party id, neighborhood, & spouse's race all shape perceived blackness. Who is doing the classifying matters too. A labor of love. osf.io/preprints/so...

Not doing a full-blown JOLTS thread today. But a couple quick charts related to the ongoing A.I. layoffs debate. #NumbersDay #EconSky

Saher Alghorra (NYT) has won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for "his haunting, sensitive series showing the devastation and starvation in Gaza" www.pulitzer.org/winners/sahe...

New #research findings from Urban’s Kids’ Share project show spending on #children could fall to just 6% of federal spending by FY2035. With #budget debates underway, this article examines the decline and how current priorities may affect existing trends.

📣 Read the new policy brief "Childcare subsidies and employment services in Egypt" from our team of J-PAL Middle East and North Africa affiliated researchers - Stefano Caria, Bruno Crepon, and Abdelrahman Nagy. #EconSky www.povertyactionlab.org/publication/... 1/n

Our baseline estimate implies that preserving trust in the integrity and quality of official statistics generates economic benefits of about $25 for every $1 spent on the BLS budget — @nickbloom.bsky.social @ericagroshen.bsky.social Duncan Hobbs @michaelrstrain.bsky.social www.nber.org/papers/w35135

New working paper on the California Fast-Food minimum wage (will come out as NBER WP soon but posting now). Big increase in wages. Big drop in separations. Little change in jobs. (Bonus: sheds light on QWI vs QCEW measurement of jobs.)

The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France nber.org/papers/w31804 Useful in the context of the second-round effects of inflation

Insightful new paper on California's fast-food minimum wage. One key finding: an important payroll dataset negatively biases estimated employment effects because the policy sharply cut turnover, so fewer workers get double-counted within a pay period

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

📣 New policy brief (w/Ragui Assaad & Nouf Abushehab) shows while Jordan's participation rates remain among the world's lowest, the pace of deterioration has decelerated. Youth and women continue to struggle, w/unemployment reaching 69% for young Jordanian women. #EconSky erf.org.eg/publications...

📊 The Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey 2025 data are now live and publicly available through the Economic Research Forum . This wave follows the 2010 and 2016 rounds, capturing data from 9,884 households and 42,012 individuals . Access the microdata at www.erfdataportal.com #EconSky

Egypt’s manufacturing sector faces a dual challenge of weak job creation and persistent informality. This column explains why job creation is limited and informal work remains such an integral part of how firms organise production. #EconSky theforum.erf.org.eg/2026/04/25/l...

Thanks @ckrafftc.bsky.social - this is now published! "Can Better Information Reduce College Gender Gaps? The Impact of Relative Grade Signals on Academic Outcomes for Students in Introductory Economics" By Francisca M. Antman, Evelyn Skoy, Nicholas E. Flores onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I used to be good at Computer. Now Computer thinks it is good at me. But it actually isn’t??????

Gender Mix and Team Performance: Evidence from Obstetrics: Manasvini Singh

Enhanced Regional Survey on Syrian Refugees’ Perceptions and Intentions on Return to Syria: Wave 2 (April 2026) | Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon #Refugees

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation. The last coal plant is scheduled to close by 2028.

For anyone working with scholars from the MENA region, I wanted to share a community resource. For 156 weeks, with the help of co-hosts from Turkey, Syria, and Iran, I've run a MENA writing solidarity group across time zones. Here's the info: www.liselhintz.com/mena-solidar.... Please share!

Guess what? The Summer School in Environmental and Energy Economics was funded again! Thanks to the Sloan Foundation! Berkeley. In person. August 17-21, 2026. Applications are due May 15th! Lineup includes J. Shapiro, T. Deryugina, R. Walker, J. Boomhower and more! www.auffhammer.com/summer-school

The SWANA (Southwest Asia and North Africa) Population Working Group aims to bring together demographers working on the Middle East or from the region. Details on listserv and #PAA meeting forms.gle/CqdmFXyGPBWe...

Higher fuel costs due to Iran war mean fewer people will receive aid globally, NRC says www.al-monitor.com/originals/20...

Since 2017, the World Bank’s Window for Host Communities & Refugees has helped shift support toward longer-term development solutions. There has been progress, but results are uneven and gaps remain. @helen-dempster.bsky.social and @thomasginn.bsky.social explore what's next: go.cgdev.org/3Ow1g01

My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

I thought this felt relatable

Schools, colleges and other public institutions originally had until this week to make online content accessible to people with disabilities. Now, the Justice Department has delayed that deadline. n.pr/3Qnk6Hq

shattering: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

🧵Excited to share our new working paper: "Mismatch in the Egyptian labor market" with Carmen Armas Montalvo. We use the 2023 Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey to investigate why high unemployment and low participation persist despite rapid educational expansion. hdl.handle.net/10419/339993 1/ #EconSky

Paid Caregiving Leave Policies and an Update on Paid Parental Leave: Maya Rossin-Slater

I am particularly interested in getting a bunch early career folks (including advanced grad students) together for the MENA event so we can start organizing as a "sub subfield." Methodologically inclusive! Just has to be historical. DM with questions.

CfP for our 3rd Annual HPE Conference @uscprice.bsky.social @usc.edu sponsored by @usccis.bsky.social and PIPE. Submit by May 30. If you work on MENA, I am running a smaller pre-conference for HPE papers focused on the region. @polisky.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Israel killed an average of at least 47 girls and women per day in Gaza. A new analysis published by the United Nations shows that more than 38,000 girls and women were killed in between October 2023 and December 2025.

🧵 We just released our new working paper examining whether expanding early childhood care and education (ECCE) increases employment for mothers in Jordan (with Ragui Assaad, @pavendano.bsky.social and Ruotong Li. You can read the full study here: #EconSky www.theigc.org/sites/defaul... 1/10

We all have days like this

Paper using EU-SILC data shows: in heterosexual couples, when men experience an earnings loss, material deprivation rises. Stable female employment can buffer the shock; having small children shapes how prevalent this buffer is, not its effectiveness. www.demographic-research.org/articles/vol...

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social