Works in Progress is hosting an event in Berlin! "Housing and transport policy in Europe" on May 19th Looks like a very cool lineup 👀 luma.com/bdc8as5a

#econsky TOMORROW (22 Apr): Final session of the 12th AYEW - Public Economics Workshop! Join us at 7pm AEST/ 10am BST and listen to Dyah (ANU), @martakorczak.bsky.social (EUI_EU), @immanuelfeld.bsky.social & Kyle (@warwickecon.bsky.social) Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...

2026 Haavelmo Prize for "Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression" by Müller & Watson (ECMA 2024) 🎉🎉🎉 We have Stata code and a practitioners guide for you 👉 pauldavidboll.com/research/pub... Stata Journal Now working on "How much should we trust regressions using cross-sectional spatial data?"

We've published a new @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social 'how to' guide on understanding local GVA, productivity, and income: whatworksgrowth.org/resource-lib...

Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians

New working paper! I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity doi.org/10.31235/osf...

📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April: ⭐️Doctoral Researcher / PhD candidate www.google.com/url?q=https:... ⭐️Postdoctoral Researcher www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding: Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...

The agglomeration elasticity may be larger than widely believed (if we account for capitalization in commercial floor space prices). And the first micro-geographic commercial rent index for Germany!!! 😎 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social DP: opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f... Data: github.com/Ahlfeldt/AHS...

Interesting and impressive amory-gethin.fr/files/pdf/Ge...

Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum 📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026 Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF). ⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

One year RA post at @poid-lse.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... working with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social

Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag von @monika-schnitzer.com zum Jahresgutachten des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social bei uns an der @unileipzig.bsky.social!

Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - submission deadline in two weeks #healtheconomics

There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right? With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...

📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers! Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America. 9-10 July 2026 in Berlin. Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below) #EconConf #EconSky

🚨Job alert! 🚨 I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills. ⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26 More info:

It was a real pleasure to co-organize the first CREST Urban and Spatial PhD workshop last week, together with the great @mateomoglia.bsky.social Including a fantastic set of young researchers and an amazing and inspiring keynote presentation by Clara Santamaria. I hope this was not the last one!

The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...

So deserved, congrats @aaherrerab.bsky.social ! 🥳

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026 We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

What a fabulous 2025 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social www.bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld.bsky.social , all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...

🚨 Applications to our PhD program starting January 2026 close on July 31 🗓️ Fully funded scholarship for a 1 year Master’s coursework + 3.5 year research in our School. A 🧵 on our PhD program and school. (1/7) Program and application info 👇 www.unsw.edu.au/business/stu...

The study has N=54 split in three groups. It basically has no power to detect the effects it seeks to detect. I’m all for pre-published media engagement but this is not enough to get it outside of your own lab environment. time.com/7295195/ai-c...

This app and the associated development is in line with the "village economy". In many cities with healthy hyper-local social media communities (think: street, development level), sharing of property items is already very common.

We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...

📣Call for papers: 𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗥 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 28 - 29 October 2025, Munich Keynote Speaker: Jens Hainmueller (Stanford) ℹ️ www.ifo.de/en/event/202... 👉 Submit by 30 June: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78037... @sebastianschirner.bsky.social @econmunich.bsky.social

We are looking to hire post-doc interested in working on migration, citizenship, and diaspora. Come join us in Münster! Generous contract + no teaching for 2 years. Many details and link to job add here: sites.google.com/site/tnhalbe... Please PM me incase you have questions!

I just signed this and I hope many of my colleagues will too. As academics we need to stand up against the erosion of basic human rights of trans people and other sexual minorities. We need to make sure that our trans students and colleagues know that they are not alone in this.

"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%." @afenizia.bsky.social Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Finally some good news! ... Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva on the 2025 John Bates Clark award for best economist under 40! I'm humbled to have been part of her selection and inspired by what she has accomplished. #econsky @s-stantcheva.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

📣 Attention PhD-candidates & early postdocs! We host the 2nd Freiburg PhD-Workshop on the Economics of Criminal Behavior: 22-24/09 at csl.mpg.de. 👩‍🏫📊🎓 Discuss ideas, network with leading experts, and present your research. Apply by 22/06 & spread the word! 🗣️👂 tinyurl.com/FRECB25

Great postdoc opportunity at ifo #Fürth! Please reach out if you have any questions ☺️👍🏻 Deadline: April 10 ⏰ www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

I am hiring a Junior Economics Researcher at UPF Barcelona. Please apply if you are interested macro, market power, labor euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/332002 #EconJobs #AcademicJobs #Economics #JobAlert

Want to digest the tariff news in podcast form? Well today is your lucky day... I rejoin @chadpbown.com for this @trade--talks.bsky.social "tariff day" special. And we hear from Kathleen Claussen, Maury Obstfeld, and @douglasirwin.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The second edition of The Effect is now available for preorder! This version has a whole new chapter on Partial Identification, a considerable update on staggered treatment and control variables in DID, and zillions of other little updates throughout. www.routledge.com/The-Effect-A...

Looking for a PhD candidate to join a project at the intersection of health comms & computer science! We’ll use LLMs to create synthetic patient populations to test vaccine uptake interventions & build a training tool for better vax communication. jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-... Please repost!

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

I'll be teaching a four-week course on formal political economy for our MPhil students at @politicsoxford.bsky.social. Here is the draft syllabus -- suggestions for improvement and feedback very much welcome. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tk6lk...

Deadline in 5 days! Work with @chiara-bonacchi.bsky.social and myself for a 3-year postdoc based in Edinburgh. Cultural evolution + social media data to study how archaeological content fuels (or not) contemporary hostility online.

Prospective PhD students in development economics, consider applying to @cerdi.bsky.social! 🎓 We have funding for 6 PhD fellowships including one that would work with me 😊 on questions around environment/energy/agriculture/labor primarily in SSA context. Please share with your networks! #EconSky

@henninghermes.com and I are looking for two PhD students for the ifo Center for the Economics of Education 👇

📣 We’re hiring! 📣 Join @woessmann.bsky.social and my team at @ifoeducation.bsky.social as a PhD student to conduct super-exciting field experiments in the Economics of Education 🤩🚀 Reach out if you have any questions! 💪🏻🙏🏻 @cesifo.org

We are recruiting 3x Lecturers in Economics (Assistant Professors) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ163/l... Join us at @sotonecon.bsky.social! I heard there are good colleagues there 😆 #hiring #econsky #economics

In this VoxTalks Economics, we feature young economists discussing global trade, taxation, and wealth inequality @mmatyas.bsky.social @weareceu.bsky.social, @laura-arnemann.bsky.social Uni of Mannheim, Gustavo García Bernal @sciencespo.bsky.social 🎧Listen: cepr.org/multimedia/n...

I am hiring a Postdoc on the SNSF project "Ethical Views and Social Welfare" (EVAS). The project (joint with Co-PI Brian Jabarian, U. Chicago) deals with identifying ethical views in society, their aggregation, and implications. Get in touch for questions and share with potential applicants!

New Broadstreet post up! Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders! @ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu www.broadstreet.blog/p/african-bo...

Labour should try and learn some lessons from Germany. Unfortunately, this rather speaks for a deep misunderstanding of what causes the success of the AfD and other far-right parties. Labour is set to repeat the mistakes of many other social democratic parites. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The deadline is **today** 🚨PhD students with a paper on Development Economics, apply and come to the beautiful campus of PIK in Potsdam in June! Nice environment for feedback and a great keynote. No fee of participation #EconConf #EconSky #PhD #Econ #DevEcon 🔄please share widely🔄