Social science folks: Have AI-powered phone surveys reached the useful stage yet? I found this paper arxiv.org/abs/2502.20140 from this company 60decibels.com, but it's still missing a rigorous test. This is potentially useful too: www.usesimple.ai Who has looked into this? Thanks for any hints!

Please apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

We're hiring a research associate and a research intern for a field project on taxation in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This is a great opportunity for anyone interested in gaining hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government.

Gläder mig åt att regeringen med migrationsminister Forssell i spetsen prioriterar talangattraktion inom universitetsvärlden. Frågan är helt avgörande för kompetensförsörjningen inom universitet och högskola – och i förlängningen för Sveriges ställning som innovationsledare och kunskapsnation. 🧵/1

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Can You Erase the Mark of a Criminal Record? Labor Market Impacts of Criminal Record Remediation" by Amanda Agan, Andrew Garin, Dmitri Koustas, Alexandre Mas, and Crystal S. Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

I continue to be inspired by our amazing Malengo students — here is another conversation, this time with Kiltan Karbous, a Sudanese refugee from Uganda, who is studying Physics in Leipzig.

New cool fellowship from the Weiss Fund for junior researchers in LMICs: weissfund.uchicago.edu/weiss-fund-j...

Falls jemand einen Job sucht, wir suchen eine Leitung des International Office, 100%, 14er Stelle. Bitte auch gerne teilen.

💡Combining an aspirations workshop with a cash transfer helped Kenyan women gain greater control over household resources and reduced intimate partner violence, new research by Associate Professor Kate Orkin shows. Find out more👇

I wanted to give an end-of-year shout out to @ourworldindata.org, who we recently gave a three-year, $3m general support grant (short 🧵)

30 Ratschläge für ein gutes Leben asator.substack.com/p/ratschlage...

Forthcoming in the AER: "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" by Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Introducing the world to our amazing Malengo students, vol. 3: Please meet Ratif Ssemujju, who is a Malengo Uganda–University Scholar studying Management and Data Science at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. youtu.be/dbpN5gwdj9s

My new essay is out in Nature: how can we learn the economic impact of AI in time? A few ideas for social science, including forward-looking experiments and piloting new institutions. rdcu.be/eUPN2

Big new blogpost! My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more. --> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful. www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

I'm excited, the RCT suggests Malengo increases psychological well‑being by about 0.36 standard deviations. As a reference point, this is similar in magnitude to the improvements after vision-restoring cataract surgery. This is not obvious a priori!

A new wave of Global Skill Partnerships is emerging to respond to rising labor migration needs.🗺️ @helen-dempster.bsky.social & Ahmed Iqbal explore how these programs are being designed—and what that reveals about the evolution of the GSP model: https://go.cgdev.org/4oyT9fA

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings! Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social: forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk... Thread follows!

An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜 🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

Siddharth Eapen George et al. study a 2006 Indian reform to show expanded credit access fosters #innovation for firms that face few non-financial barriers. But for the average firm, other barriers hinder their ability to translate credit into innovation. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.

It's my dear sister Lisa's (lisahaushofer.com) birthday on Wednesday, and she is raising money for the folks in Italy who helped us rescue a very cute puppy recently! More here: www.gofundme.com/f/help-anna-...

I'm excited to share a new way to support Malengo students! Through a new partnership with Neta (netafoundation.org), you can now invest in the success of @malengo.org students, and earn a return on your investment. 1/4

- So many job market candidates! We should come up with a system to choose between them that takes into account their full spectrum of qualities. As a discipline that prides itself on nuance and sophisticated measurement, along how many dimensions do you think we should rank them? - Economists:

🚨 We are hiring! ‼️‼️ tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics) econjobmarket.org/positions?sh...

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...