Start of the school year for undergrad students @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and master students in our joint Master @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and UCLouvain. I wish you the best, and will do all I can to be of help as new head of the econ departement in Namur.

🆕 How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India Today on VoxDev, @guilhemcassan.bsky.social (Université de Namur), Lakshmi Iyer (@ndecon.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social) & Rinchan Ali Mirza (@kent.ac.uk) discuss the expansion of voting rights in India: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Congratulations, Mathieu !

Yesterday, the students of our class "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" presented their posters under a wonderful sun ! Congratulations to all students for their wonderful work, and to the winners of the best poster prize !

Only a few days left to hand in your application for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics! 👉A great opportunity for graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers to further develop their skills through an intensive training course. cepr.org/events/twent... #EconSky

Thanks @jan_eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social for such a great presentation of your book "the Great Paradox" ! What a chance to have you for the closing lecture of our new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" taught with @ammapanin.bsky.social !

The Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship application is starting soon. Reach out if you're interested in joining UNamur's dynamic economics department! For details, visit marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p.... Connect with us on @econunamur.bsky.social @econunamur @UNamur

Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa. Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award

Trump Officials Accidentally Text Journalist War Plans theonion.com/trump-o...

Looking forward to the 2nd session of our new methods seminar orgniazed with our colleagues from the Political Science department ! Sign up here to get the updates: marketing.egoi.page/1e2e84ny/sig... @EconUNamur @UNamur @JeremyDodeigne @Nelsonlrsantos

Given the current political news, this may not be top of mind, but my co-authors and I are looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in the DRC that study the role of state capacity in economic development. 1-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...

Our paper (joint with Lakshmi Iyer and @RinchanMirza ) on the consequences of enfranchisement in colonial India is out in the Journal of Economic History. See below the podcast in which my friend and co-author Lakshmi Iyer @nd_econ @BIGLabND presents it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to it !

I am looking forward to the papers measuring if there is a pet penalty. My (quite depressive) guess: much more gender balanced than the child penalty.

Un bouclier fiscal qui serait un bouclier pour l'équité, ça change !

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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The US has a weakness: its groveling, highly internationalized oligarchy Why is it a weakness? Because it’s a tiny number of people, who rely, for their wealth, on accessing foreign markets—thus giving foreign countries sizable power on them It’s now time to use that power 6/x

📣 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

📢 Call for papers 📢 Submit your paper to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics Where and when: Oslo, June 17-18 Submission deadline: Feb 28 Keynotes: Eliana la Ferrara and Kalle Moene www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...

Looking forward to our 2025 seminar series in the economics departement of UNamur !

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

We look forward to seeing you at the EUDN Development Economics conference that we organize @EconUNamur @UNamur ! Please find the program below:

"Imagine all the people... paying their taxes." Treasury recovers $1.3 billion in unpaid taxes from high-wealth tax dodgers https://buff.ly/3VXkA6S

Kudos to our in Economics Master's graduates from @UNamur/@UCLouvain_be ! We wish you success in both your professionnal and personnal endeavors. It was a privilege to have been your professor ! @EconUNamur

Please submit your great papers to this EJ special issue, edited by the wonderful @albertobisin.bsky.social

Hello #EconSky, Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity in the economics of Identity. Come work with Prof. @ammapanin.bsky.social and me at #UCLouvain. 2 days left to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Hi #econsky, I'm preparing a new course called "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges". One thing we ask students is to read papers using different applied economics methods. What are your favorite papers using IV, DiD, RDD and Event Study for teaching? Thanks !!

Amidst #COP29, you might have missed it but, the most important environmental treaty since the #Paris is being negotiated THIS week! At the #INC-5 in Busan, countries are hoping to strike an agreement on a global treaty to reduce #plastic pollution. But why is this relevant for climate? A 🧵 1/

📢 Call for Papers open: Nov 1 – Feb 1, 2025 for the annual ThReD Conference, hosted by @MonashUni 📍 Monash Prato Centre, Prato, Italy🇮🇹 📅 June 25-26, 2025 Submit your research thred.devecon.org/conferences/... #EconSky #DevelopmentEconomics

Okay, I made an updated version of the guide "Python Packages for Applied Economists" to reorganize a bit, incorporate suggestions, and put it on Github like a grownup: github.com/clibassi/pyt... Comments welcome!

Wonder if we should take on the advice on title for academic publications. This is definitly more appealing than "Evolution of main reasons people say they like the Democratic party, 1950-2020".

Starter pack etiquette question: is it considered rude not to follow someone you've put on a starter pack you created ?

Female content creators on YouTube received significantly more negative feedback for comparable content. But the removal of public display of dislikes eliminated this gender gap and persistently increased female creator productivity and consumer demand. sites.google.com/view/maritaf...

I watched Back to the Future 2 with the kids. The prediction of 2015 is quite off. But the alternate 1985 is not so far from actual 2024...

Is the media industry shaped by political determinants? Is supply of media politically motivated ? Short answer: yes, a lot. A 🧵 on our paper on India's newspaper market with amazing co-authors Julia Cagé and Francesca Jensenius

Gender biased (GB) stopping rule leads to an increase in fertility, right? This intuition is in fact not obvious and depends on what one thinks unbiased preferences are. Counterfactual reasoning applied to India shows fertility can change anywhere from -4% to +6% ! Mini