Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 2: Please meet Violet Nampala from Uganda, who is studying Energy Systems Engineering at Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ru9R...

The Shapiro Foundation's new investment in Malengo is a great milestone for us! Here are some more details: malengo.org/malengo-secu...

In some places, 18+m refers to the age in months at which the book is appropriate. In Germany it refers to the maximum number of letters per word

One of the great joys of working on @malengo.org is interacting with our amazing students. Here is a conversation I had with Hillary Turinawe, who is studying Medicine in Bonn, Germany.

Great news on @malengo.org: With a new large investment from The Shapiro Foundation (theshapirofoundation.org), we'll be able to bring several hundred vocational training and university students from Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda to Europe over the coming years! More here: malengo.org/malengo-secu...

The American Economic Association should select its president through an open election with multiple candidates. NBER, BREAD, and JPAL should allow self-nominations for membership, rotate the committees that decide, and provide feedback to rejected applicants.

Has anyone gotten an H-1B since that Executive Order? Has anyone been asked for the $100k?

The Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship "invests in the graduate education of 30 New Americans—immigrants and children of immigrants—poised to significantly contribute to U.S. society, culture, or their academic field. Fellows receive up to $90,000 in financial support over two years."

"Jane" (2017), directed by Brett Morgen, with music by Philip Glass, and based on unseen footage discovered shortly before, is one of the most enchanting films I've ever seen. Goodbye Jane Goodall, and thank you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRlU...

Endlich wieder Erklär mir die Welt - live Mit Peter Rippl von der HausWirtschaft über die Stadt der Zukunft. Am 6. OKT um 19:30 in Wien. Tickets sind ab sofort hier erhältlich: erklärmir.at/ticket

Come visit us in Singapore 🇸🇬 www.asiaone.com/singapore/ul...

Great new blog post by @lgilbert.co about @malengo.org's Uganda–Germany university program! www.laurenpolicy.com/p/what-happe...

⏰Closing tomorrow 08 Aug! Opportunity to join the CSAE research team in Nairobi! Working with Kate Orkin @blavatnikschool.bsky.social and partner institutions. Apply today👇

We just opened another round of applications for Malengo's Uganda–Germany university program! Please share widely. (Note the early deadline, Aug 16!)

We are adding a Chief Investment Officer to the team of @malengo.org. Please share widely!

1/ New working paper with Trevor Bakker, @stefanie-deluca.bsky.social, Eric English, Jamie Fogel, and Nathan Hendren: We use newly linked Census, IRS, and credit bureau data to explore differences in credit access by race, class, and hometown. djh1202.github.io/website/cre... 🧵...

🎉 Our paper “Asylum Seekers and Host Country Mental Health” is accepted at JDE! Using data from Germany & Switzerland (2010–2016), we find no evidence that asylum inflows harmed host population mental health. With Bharadwaj, Khoury & Schmid #Migration #MentalHealth #Economics

Y’all, I wrote a book! www.amazon.com/Science-Seco...

🧵1/4 🚨 We have finalized our DID textbook! You’ve run out of excuses for sketchy pre-trends and mysterious TWFE coefficients. 📘 Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments By Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In 2021 and 2023 I had the chance to serve on the @ERC_Research Starting Grant evaluation panel. There are a couple of things I learned that might be helpful to future applicants. I guess some points apply to other grants as well.

Malengo uses income share agreements (ISAs) to make education accessible—no fixed loan payments, just a % of income after you land a job. ✅ No payments if you earn below a minimum ✅ Payments scale with income Learn more: www.malengo.org #Malengo #Education #ISA

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Great new @science.org article by the rockstars of development economics looks at the evidence on the impact of skilled emigration on origin countries. TL;DR, it can be positive, but we need a *lot* more work in this area! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions. econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Now officially out with nice formatting and all 🥳 "Thinking clearly about age, period, and cohort effects" -- a gentle introduction to the age-period-cohort problem and how to "solve" it through various types of assumptions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Lisa Haushofer’s @haushoferl.bsky.social Wonder Foods: The Science & Commerce of Nutrition ( @ucpress.bsky.social , 2022) was a surprise hit. I kept ignoring it because it seemed too historical. But then I actually read it. And it is so good! It was a great companion read to From Label to Table.

#Wilmasreview Wilma 🐶 enjoys a walk with her basset hound friend from abroad. This made her think about movement across boarders-international labor migration. Researchers reviewed evidence whether skilled people leaving their home countries creates "brain drain" or "brain gain". The results: 1/🧵

Thread on a speech I gave at the Oxford Martin School last week: The Crisis of Climate and Development Finance. The public sector is cutting aid, the private sector isn't going to deliver, and mitigation finance is eating adaptation and development finance. What to do? ...

📢 New Publication in @science.org! "Brain Drain or Brain Gain? Effects of High-Skilled International Emigration on Origin Countries" Read our summary thread below! 🔗 Read the full article here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How does high-skilled emigration affect countries of origin? I summarize our recent Science paper, &draw out lessons from where we need nuance (not all high-skilled is the same, & most studies lump together), what we don't know (especially how to do better policy) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Question for the experts: "consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor ... visa appointment capacity" reads like a restriction on *additional* capacity *beyond existing* capacity? So there is still a certain number of slots each day, that number just won't increase?

🆕 Can group therapy improve mental health among adolescent girls in Uganda? Today on VoxDev w/ Luca Parisotto (Università Bocconi), Sarah Baird (GWU), Berk Özler (World Bank), Chiara Dell’Aira (World Bank) & Danish Us-Salam (Central Bank of Ireland): voxdev.org/topic/health...

Our publication on how multi-buy offers increase unplanned overbuying and how this can increase food waste at home is out and open-access! This was probably one of the most complicated field experiments I ever ran, but also one I am very proud of: rdcu.be/enmFi

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

An important reminder that measles vaccines save millions of lives every year across the world. The measles vaccine is arguably the most life-saving vaccine in use. Our latest article from @scientificdiscovery.dev and @spoonerf.bsky.social: ourworldindata.org/measles-vacc...

I’m so happy to share that our paper is conditionally accepted at AEJ: Economic Policy! Big thanks to my amazing coauthors—grateful for every step of this collaboration.

Our scholars in Kenya are getting ready to start nursing training in Germany, supported by #Malengo. They've learned German & now seek forward-thinking employers. Know a clinic or healthcare provider hiring? Let us know! 📷 www.malengo.org #Nursing #TVET #Migration

Please help: Do you know a baby, less than 12 months old, who can walk? We are trying to complete a project, 7 years in the works. And all we need are 3 infants who are less than a year old and can walk, to do a short online looking-time study. 🆘

At Malengo, we involve families in every scholar’s journey to Europe. 🌍 During onboarding, we help them support their loved ones studying abroad. Their support has proven vital to student success in Germany. ✨ Learn more: www.malengo.org #Malengo #Education #Migration

We kicked off 2025 with the full Malengo team in Nairobi—diving into strategy, culture, scholar & staff welfare, and more. We also made time to connect, relax, and have fun! Excited to share more in 2025 🎉 Learn more: www.malengo.org #Malengo #Education #Migration

My amazing sister Lisa @haushoferl.bsky.social made an equally amazing quiche!

Dean took this opportunity to make the leap! Welcome to Bluesky @deankarlan.bsky.social

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

Centre for the Study of African Economies at University of Oxford will automatically consider all applicants from Africa for full funding for the MPhil in Economics - we have new scholarships for eligible students. How? Just apply asap: deadline 4th March (extended deadline): see below

From a friend NIH appears to have canceled/postponed all its study sections—the independent review panels that approve federal grants for health research. Such grants fund the work/salaries of 300k people at more than 2,500 institutions

Position as professor in economics (any field) at Stockholm University, Department of Economics. Apply by March 31. Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/... Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #econsky #economics

Come join us at Stockholm University.

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

Come to Oslo for the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics! June 17–18, 2025. Keynotes: Eliana La Ferrara (Harvard Kennedy School) Kalle Moene (University of Oslo). No conference fee—just bring your passion for research! Submission deadline: Feb 28, 2025. Link below: