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🔄

The biggest threat to European security does not come from Russia but it comes from the far right within its own nation states. All of the defense spending is not going to protect anyone if Trump's and Putin's buddies are voted into office, they consolidate power and erode liberal democracy 1/

Ich sehe Politik und Medien zu Mannheim folgen wieder einer einfachen Regel...

Today in my econ history PhD class: Politicians and Economic History For better or worse, reasonably sure no one else teaches a lecture like this in any other econ history grad classes

Vielleicht sind diese konzeptionellen Überlegungen zur Politökonomie der Schuldenbremse in der jetzigen Situation von Interesse

Occasional reminder of differences PRE German partition. See (pdf) 👉 www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... @lukasmergele.bsky.social @woessmann.bsky.social

Deutschland hat gewählt, und die AfD gilt als die große Siegerin. Wie lässt sich ihr Ergebnis einordnen, und welche geografischen Merkmale prägen ihre Unterstützung? @hudde.bsky.social und ich haben das AfD-Zweitstimmenergebnis in den 299 Bundestagswahlkreisen ausgewertet. Ein Thread. 🧵👇

1 week to go! UK Econ colleagues: Please participate in the res.org.uk/participate-... Help us to shape the future of our work on creating a more inclusive discipline. Fill the survey, ask your friends, reshare this! @resmedia.bsky.social #Economics #EconSky

German trains are less punctual than Britain’s ‘broken’ railways https://www.ft.com/content/d3b6e6b5-eddb-4230-b866-932d284cef9c

📣📣 The Women in Economics (WiE) Index 2024 is out! Launched in 2019, it tracks women's leadership in the academic, private and public sector worldwide. For the first time in six years, we see a slight general improvement in women's representation! 🔗 www.women-in-economics.com/copy-of-index

🚨🚨 @ibprofaston.bsky.social, @taxjusticenet.bsky.social and I, have a funded #PhD studentship at @astonuniversity.bsky.social on #profit #shifting, #taxhavens, tax policy and #MNEs Please help us spread the word! #econsky📈📉 #geosky @gabrielzucman.bsky.social 👀👇 tinyurl.com/3cb4njau

Today the ONS have published new estimates of UK healthcare productivity. They estimate that productivity has declined substantially, while last week NHS England estimated that English acute hospital productivity has increased. What’s going on? A short thread

Forthcoming article by @janeeckhout.bsky.social "The Value and Profits of Firms" @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

📢 We’re Hiring! 2 Doctoral Researchers – Labor Econ 💡 Interested in how global megatrends shape labor markets? 📈 Background in Econ/ STEM? 🖥️ Love working with large-scale data? If 3xYes, then join my Research Group @ihs.ac.at in the heart of Vienna! 🙂 Apply by March 7: lnkd.in/egzuWgmC #EconSky

Registration open for @cep-lse.bsky.social Women Economist event on February 19th. cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/EVENTS/...

We are hiring pre-docs at the Reimagining the Economy Program at Harvard www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/wien...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

"The researchers estimate that for every £1 of net government expenditure, the UK boiler upgrade scheme generates £1.24 in social benefits." www.nber.org/202502/diges...

The small % of foreign students who stayed in the US after earning master’s degrees made outsized contributions to the creation of new startups. Reducing enrolment barriers & increasing financial grants will aid #innovation. M Beine, G Peri, @morganraux.bsky.social cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

📢 New @wzb.bsky.social Working Paper w/ @lennartschuermann.bsky.social: “How Anti-Racist Protests Influence Pro- and Anti-Migration Voting Behavior: Evidence from National and European Elections” ❗️Main finding: Anti-racist protests can change voting behavior towards a more inclusive society 🧵1/8

🚨Job alert 🚨 I am looking for two PhD students to work on (comparative) economic inequalities, broadly defined 💰📈💸 The positions are fully funded (E13, 100%), 4 years (with possibility of a 1y extension), and in beautiful Heidelberg! 🏰 adb.zuv.uni-heidelberg.de/info/INFO_FD... Deadline is Feb 28!