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🚨 I’m on the job market! 🚨 Check out my JMP: Designing Debt Restructuring: The Adverse Effects on Labor Market Outcomes. Bonus: fun insights on examiner/judge IV designs. Very brief summary: 👇

Grateful for the incredible energy and insights from everyone at this year’s ASWEDE Conference! Thank you for making it a success! Go to the other site for more details on all of the wonderful presentations. #ASWEDE2024

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions" by Sebastian Jävervall and Roza Khoban. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

The events in Syria have made the world realise once again, or at least they should, that even the most cruel regime may fall and that Russia and its allies can be defeated.

🚨Hiring a research assistant to work with me at the SV-fakultetet UiO 🇳🇴 starting asap. You'll be working on the Marketplace Activity Index, using 🛰️imagery to track economic activity in remote rural areas. Please reach out with any questions! sv.uio.no/econ/english/a…

These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):

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

USA:s nya administration kommer ledas av en person som gillar att få betalt för sin ”hjälp”. Flera EU-länder kan snart dra ner på Ukrainastödet. Då blir frysta ryska tillgångar nyckeln till landets överlevnad, skriver .Torbjorn Becker eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

New position as professor in economics (any field) at Department of Economics, Stockholm University. Apply by March 31. Annons på svenska: su.varbi.com/se/what:job/jo… Ad in English: su.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

🗣️New EBRD Working Paper: "SMEs and Workers During Crises: Evidence from the Covid-19 Pandemic in Uganda" The EBRD Francesco Loiacono @selimgulesci Andreas Madestam #COVID_19 ebrd.com/publications/w…

Harvard's Library Innovation Lab just released all 311,000 datasets from data .gov, totalling 16 TB.🫡🫡 This is a complete archive of federal public datasets harvested during 2024-2025, updated daily.

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for AEA Journals There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes I hope they can be helpful! dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v96g…

*How* did so much of the world's population exit extreme poverty? Vinny Armentano 📈 , Tom Vogl and I wanted to know; here is what we've found.. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape…

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

#WorldWaterDay: Almost half (47%) of Africans say droughts have intensified in their region over the past decade, and more than half (56%) say they went without enough clean water during the past year. See Afrobarometer’s latest in The Continent Get your copy here:

Let's make Canada the 28th member of the European Union.

Forthcoming in the AER: "A Stepping Stone Approach to Norm Transitions" by Selim Gulesci, Sam Jindani, Eliana La Ferrara, David Smerdon, Munshi Sulaiman, and Peyton Young. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

🎓 New working paper: "Communism in the Classroom: Long-Run Effects of an Experiment" (with Matti Mitrunen)

Incredibly saddened to hear about Ghazala Azmat's premature death. She was a wonderful and kind person, this is an immense loss for the economics community.

This started as a casual question in a second-year course: Do siblings from rich and poor families differ in how similar they are to each other? Thanks to fantastic coauthors, that curiosity has turned into a short descriptive paper now out in Labour Economics. 🧵