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🚨 Migration as escape valve from Malthus 🚨 1) high fertility or late fertility transition -> spread of diasporas 2) Age of Mass Migration -> transition to modern growth ww.nber.org/papers/w33542 NBER Romain Wacziarg

This paper has been in the making for so long that eight children across the co-author group were born between the time we started and now! But it is finally out, and you can check it at arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13323

What happens if u indoctrinate school children w Communist ideology? Evidence from a well identified Finnish experiment says u hurt their learning and lifetime income!

Today, a decision to increase ERC support for researchers moving to Europe was adopted. On top of normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories/research teams in Europe. This extra is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

Will be in Sweden this week, presenting our paper on "Lobbying for Industrialization" at the Uppsala Workshop in Economic History: uu.se/en/department/…. Superb program! And at least 4(!) good friends in one small workshop :)

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.

Developing a quantitative, multi-sector, semi-endogenous growth model of structural change in innovation and production, incorporating demand-pull and technology-push forces, from Diego A. Comin, Danial Lashkari, and Martí Mestieri nber.org/papers/w33855

Hot off the press: my new paper finding *positive* effects of home-country Internet expansion on immigrants' health and well-being in AEA Journals. Effects increase with strong cross-border family ties and weaken with local social integration. Link: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Hopping on a plane to get to my first Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum! Presenting my JMP: how the Internet may slow down immigrants' socio-economic integration, but also reduce segregation. Full program: events.bse.eu/live/files/546… And a random graph from the paper :)

Honored to have joined the ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin network as a research affiliate! Rockwool hosts great events (e.g., Migration Forum in March rfberlin.com/event/migratio…) and has a global network of fellows in labor econ. Thanks to Christian Dustmann for the invite! rfberlin.com/author/alexand…