Bokslut för biståndsåret 2025: Regeringen kräver evidens men kapar 4 miljarder i blindo. Sida saknar utvärderingspolicy. Resultatet blir beslut på känn, inte på kunskap. Jag och Jakob Svensson föreslår tre reformer för evidensbaserat bistånd i DN Debatt. Gott nytt år!

Fulvia Budillon, Andre Gray, and I are hiring a field RA for a project in Mozambique, starting in the spring. Please see application information here: www.saralowes.com/resources.html. Deadline February 13. Please apply!!

Academic Christmas

I've now updated this with a few updates: 1. I've added the JFE, JF, and RFS 2. I've added QJE and (most of) JPE 3. I've fixed some bugs 4. I added a way to adjust for length of papers over time 5. I've added citation counts (per OpenAlex) paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Thrilled to have presented our work with @saadgulzar.bsky.social and @juanfeliperiano.bsky.social "Pay-to-Play: Campaign Contributions and Long-term Distortions in Public Procurement" at the XLIII Political Institutions and Economic Policy Conference at Caltech piep.caltech.edu/selected-pap...

For more takeaways from the North East Universities Development Consortium conference earlier this month, see our blog post. www.cgdev.org/blog/whats-l...

Superb research and engagement at ASWEDE's 10th conference. Thanks to everyone who made this event memorable! #ASWEDE2025

ASWEDE's 10th Annual Conference kicks off tomorrow at Nääs Fabriker! We look forward to sharp presentations and discussions on development economics from PhD students and senior researchers. Program: bit.ly/3K1sRUJ

Update your syllabus and stay on the frontier - it will increase your students’ wages. Epic work by my colleagues @barbarabiasi.com and @profsongma.bsky.social #linkoftheday www.barbarabiasi.com/uploads/1/0/...

📢 5 more days to apply to our AP position in Microeconomics!

Ten Years of Relational Power: The Long-Run Effects of Teaching Negotiation Skills to Adolescent Girls Read the latest #NBER paper by Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau @corinnelow.com & Xiaoyue Shan nber.org/papers/w34339

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

Come join us in Stockholm!

”There is a dramatic change when women become mothers while nothing is happening to the fathers. Motherhood penalties around the world account for much of the gender pay gap in advanced economies.” Professor Marianne Bertrand delivering this year´s Gunnar Myrdal lecture. www.su.se/english/news...

Join us for ASWEDE's 10th annual conference in Development Economics! November 17-18 at Nääs Fabriker, outside Gothenburg. Submission deadline in one week: September 26. Open to PhD students and senior researchers. Details below. #ASWEDEConference #DevelopmentEconomics

Mycket intressant inlägg om behovet att reformera svenska doktorandutbildningarna i nationalekonomi.

India now spends ₹2 trillion/year (0.6% of GDP) on cash transfers to 130M+ women—yet we know little about their effects. In a new paper (bit.ly/4mE6EtW), @karthik-econ.bsky.social Paul Niehaus Jeff Weaver & I present findings from the first large-scale RCT of maternal cash transfers in India (1/10)

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Swedish Defence University advertises two postdoc positions focused on narrative geopolitics, or how emotional and widely circulated narratives shape international security, great power relations & geostrategic rivalry. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/... fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline: 31 Aug

Vore det inte smidigare för alla om SJ bara tog betalt för halva biljetten redan från början? Och så får man betala in resten om tåget mot förmodan ankommer i tid?

By all indications, last years economics job market was much tougher than any year since the pandemic. But all signs point towards an even worse job market coming up this season. Let me explain.

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

New evidence that immigration raises intergenerational mobility, from Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky, and Jonathan L. Rothbaum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33961

Parenting choices, shaped by economic incentives, contribute to social stratification and inequality in society, from Francesco Agostinelli, @mdoepke.bsky.social, Giuseppe Sorrenti, and Fabrizio Zilibotti https://www.nber.org/papers/w33963

Our paper with @nicolaslagios.bsky.social & @ilantojerow.bsky.social is now out in the Economic Journal ( @resmedia.bsky.social). It shows that demonstrating against the far-right in France had the intended effect. 1/18 academic.oup.com/ej/article-a... 1/18

How culture and policy shape each other—and why paying attention to local context is key for development policies' success, from Natalie Bau, Sara Lowes, and Eduardo Montero https://www.nber.org/papers/w33947

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Plata y Plomo: How Higher Wages Expose Politicians" by Massimo Pulejo and Pablo Querubín. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Congratulations to @rhelensdotter.bsky.social !

New study shows that unfettered access to ChatGPT can harm student learning. Without guardrails, students use ChatGPT as a “crutch” while learning and subsequently perform worse on their own. But (!) these negative learning effects are largely mitigated by safeguards one can build into ChatGPT.

Just published on APSR First View: Family Ties, Social Control, and Authoritarian Distribution to Elites by ANTONELLA BANDIERA, HORACIO LARREGUY (@HLarreguy), and JORGE MANGONNET (@jmangonnet) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Is US air pollution regulation too lenient? 🏭💸 We find marginal benefits of pollution control exceed marginal costs by >10×. New evidence from dozens of US pollution offset markets. 📄forthcoming at AER, w/ Reed Walker: joseph-s-shapiro.com/research/IsA... 1/🧵

Been waiting for this to come out for a while now: www.nber.org/papers/w3397.... That's such a cool paper!!!

I have a new review article w/ Alessandra Voena on women's power in the household in LMICs (just submitted to JEL). I've written ~6 review articles, and I think this is the best one. We make some useful conceptual points IMO. But you decide! Comments welcome! seemajayachandran.com/womens_power...

Postdoc in Narrative Geopolitics @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social We’re looking for a postdoc w expertise in machine learning, data mining, or related quantitative methods to explore how emotionally charged narratives shape international security & great power politics. fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Academics are the only mammal who carries an idea for 4–7 years, then abandons it at birth.

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

"AI and development economics: Early evidence and how to keep up" voxdev.org/topic/ai-and...

I love this upside down Equal Earth map centered around Australia. Great piece by @mtnmapper: buff.ly/AU3DIqQ

Forthcoming in the AER: "A Model of Populism as a Conspiracy Theory" by Adam Szeidl and Ferenc Szucs. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Adapting my favourite Brexit-tweet. Trump: you don’t have the cards! Zelenskyy lays down a royal flush Putin looks at his own cards: Mr Bun the Baker, Pikachu, a Shadowmage, a fireball spell, and the Fool.

💥Research Assistant Positions💥 1. Ingvild Almås, Timo Boppart, Thor Berger, Hannes Malmberg, and I are looking for a research assistant to work on a project which investigates Sweden's spectacular economic growth during the late 19th century using establishment-level data.

Incorporating informative Bayesian priors offers the ability to learn more from experiments. @leoiacovone.bsky.social , @economeager.bsky.social & @dmckenzie.bsky.social demonstrate how to do this in the context of a Colombian exporting experiment. buff.ly/CwdGmKE

Our final Research Insights for the year focuses on Professor @selimgulesci.bsky.social article published in @aeajournals.bsky.social 👏 💡Prof Gulesci talks about why he co-wrote this paper and what impact he sees it having on the world. 👇 tinyurl.com/a8ch7y4u #econsky @tcdssp.bsky.social

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

Äldre inte mer ensamma än förr. Däremot har vi fler äldre i befolkningen. Någon ensamhetsepidemi verkar inte finnas. aldreicentrum.se/spotlight/al...

📢 WE are hiring a Professor in Labor Economics at JKU Linz! Come and join us! We are a young and active department with a strong focus in applied econ. Link: tinyurl.com/jkulabor Please help us spread the word and RT.

It was great to present my work with Jacobus Cilliers and Nour Elashmawy on PDS Lasso in field experiments at BREAD this weekend. Several people requested the slides afterwards, so I have put them up on my webpage - glad people found the talk useful: drive.google.com/file/d/1NFly...

'The Swedish National Archives makes one million handwritten documents searchable' riksarkivet.se/inlagg/riksa... - the Universal Viewer plus AI text transcription! Congratulations to everyone at the Riksarkivet who worked so hard on this! #AI4LAM #UniversalViewer