New paper alert! 📣 @chrisblattman.bsky.social, Arthur Yu, and I reexamine the autocratic growth penalty—the finding that autocracies systematically underperform democracies in economic growth. TL;DR, the penalty is concentrated in personalist, not institutionalized autocracies. Details👇 1/X

Clear case of bsky confirming my low expectations. I at least received a little info and DMs from X. In case you are interested, however…

I’m amazed: On the foreign assistance freeze, I’m astonished not to see major State Dept and USAID recipients challenge the disruption in court. An injunction? Where is World Vision, SAVE, Red Cross, etc on this? Or the Beltway bandits (Chemonics etc) Is there activity happening?

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...

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...

Recommendations for Vegas with tweens? We are actually spending most days in Red Rock Canyon but evenings and some days could go to the strip or a day trip. (Unless you count get-out-the-vote door knocking in 2004, I’ve never been. For day trips: Hoover Dam looks dull. Am I wrong? What’s better?

Recommendations for Vegas with tweens? We are actually spending most days in Red Rock Canyon but evenings and some days could go to the strip or a day trip. (Unless you count get-out-the-vote door knocking in 2004, I’ve never been. For day trips: Hoover Dam looks dull. Am I wrong? What’s better?

If you receive a ref request and can't finish in the allotted time, you have options: - Decline the review. - Ask editor for more time. Then turn in report close to your new proposed deadline. Don't do: - Ghost the request - Agree to request then go months past the due date w/no communication

Truly amazed at the number of students I have heard zilch from all quarter who would now like to advise me on how I should calculate final grades.

If you zoom, you can see the Olmec head is crushing a Tesla

Stumbled upon in Roma Norte, CDMX

Anyone celebrating or condemning the ICC this week should temper their expectations. I posted this exactly 14 years ago today and, sadly, i have not seen much reason to raise my opinion of the court af4.cf3.mwp.accessdomain.com/blog/2010/11...

UChicago Harris School of Public Policy is searching for development economists at the Associate and Full level. We are open to untenured faculty ready or near ready for promotion too. More info and apply here: apply.interfolio.com/158745 EOE/Vet/Disability

Cambridge folks (the Massachusetts ones): I'm giving a public book talk on Nov 28th @harvard.bsky.social. Come! My first book talk since Oct 7th, in which I have managed to delude/convince myself that all sides will find my take reasonable. You should join just to see if that bubble pops.

We’re hosting the Midwest International Development Conference @UChicago April 5-6. Submit your papers! The world is welcome. Registration fees include most meals at the university’s new conference venue. Learn more and submit papers here: t.co/SJpFMF5oQj

We’re hosting the Midwest International Development Conference @UChicago April 5-6. Submit your papers! The world is welcome. Registration fees include most meals at the university’s new conference venue. Learn more and submit papers here: t.co/SJpFMF5oQj

Ben provides some helpful links to similar advice at the bottom of the page. I'd also add/endorse @chrisblattman.bsky.social's advice page (covering several career stages): chrisblattman.com/phd-advice/

How I mostly feel about this site

This, except the concept of file trees. We keep hiring interns who have no idea what subfolders are, and it's like having to teach a 90 year old how a computer works.

So glad to see @hofrench.bsky.social here!

The White House Council of Economic Advisers is hiring for multiple roles. GREAT GREAT opportunities for U.S. citizens interested in economic policy. Can't recommend them strongly enough. 📉📈 - Staff economists, PhD students on leave from PhD for a year... www.whitehouse.gov/cea/work-for...

Great website with LaTeX templates for slides, papers, and referee reports

In understanding Hamas’ horrific attacks, we leap to external motives, like interrupting the Saudi-Israel talks. Surely true in part. But we shouldn’t overlook internal motives—a desire to delegitimize Palestinian Authority, rally support, or distract own people from their dissent.

What would you say if you saw it in another country?

"The mutual suspicion between the military and the prime minister runs so deep that civil servants have barred the military from bringing recording equipment into cabinet meetings.... [a possible] attempt to limit the amount of evidence that could be presented to a national inquiry after the war."

As I said earlier this month, the Hamas attack will lead to the mother of all blame games in Israel. www.timesofisrael.com/surveillance...

someone want to invite me to give a talk in Milwaukee?

Prospective PhDs: Register for this webinar tomorrow (Tuesday) for prospective applicants to Chicago’s fantastic PhD program in political economy. Please join us if you can!

Pretty amazing how much the NYT watered down Thomas Friedman's recent column. There's no longer any mention of the fact that US aid goes directly into funding settlers. It also cuts Friedman stating that Netanyahu deliberately stymied US interests. Weak wills I guess web.archive.org/web/20231020...

Will be using this for my causes of conflict class

Blog your job market paper: our annual opportunity for job market candidates in development to share their work is now open for submissions blogs.worldbank.org/impactevalua...

Recorded this @foreignaffairs.bsky.social podcast a couple of days ago. Holds up pretty well, sadly. Check out the part towards the end about Arab regimes and their fears of a mobilized public because that’s happening now. www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/tur...

Interesting thread

Hi folks - I will be hosting a webinar next week for prospective students to discuss Chicago’s great new(ish) PhD program in political economy, joint between Harris and Political Science. Please forward/join! Here is the link (not active in the attached image): uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The kids are all about Tom Holland doing Rihanna, but for me, whenever I remember the existence of Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" I need to watch the whole video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCDIYvFmgW8