1/🚨NEW STUDY on US irregular border crossings: Using 25 years of data I quantify a strong relationship between crossings and labor market tightness: As job openings increase, so do border crossings throughout Ds and Rs admins. Link to Center for Global Development paper here: cgdev.org/sites/default/…

Most Ukrainians displaced by the war plan to return home as soon as it is safe, finds new research by Cevat Giray Aksoy KCL Department of Political Economy. He says returning refugees will be vital for post-war reconstruction & development efforts in Ukraine⬇️ #WorldRefugeeDay kcl.ac.uk/news/most-ukra…

Heel goed dat NRC zich zo duidelijk uitspreekt over misschien wel de meest zorgwekkende ontwikkeling in de Nederlandse politiek.

As the US, Mexico and Central America swelter during a record breaking heatwave, our new study on heat🥵 and decision-making 🧠 shows that: ⚠️High nighttime temperatures lead to poor decision-making ⚠️Main drivers: ⬆️sleep deprivation and ⬇️ cognitive abilities A 🧵

How can democracies counteract misinformation from autocracies? We analyze the EU's unprecedented ban on RT and Sputnik and find that it decreased the spread of pro-Russian propaganda on social media, but only shortly. Excited to see our work on VoxEU ! cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…

The hardest thing to explain to non-academics is how different technical rigor is across fields. Here's (yet another) article in PNAS, of course handled by Fiske, of course in psych, that we would have desk rejected. Paper is "Can Names Shape Facial Appearance?" 1/n

📢 #Promotionsstelle in #VWL (#Sozialpolitik)! An meinem Lehrstuhl für #Finanzwissenschaft an der Universität Jena ist ab Herbst eine Stelle für ein/e wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter/in frei. 📷Deadline 31.8.2024! jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/893…

📄Call for Papers is now open! RFBerlin invites submissions for our upcoming conference on "Migration: Economics, Politics, and Development". Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues! Submit: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/76102/s…

Wenn man Migrant*innen für den schlechten Zustand der Schulen, Krankenhäuser usw. verantwortlich macht, statt die politisch Verantwortlichen, die *check notes* 16 Jahre lang regiert haben, dann gibt es dafür ein Wort: #Rassismus

Looking for graduate students, faculty and researchers in behavioral science & psychology for our Munich Replication Games. The event is at LMU München (or virtual) on October 28th! Register here: surveymonkey.ca/r/META-REP_Gam…

I'm working on a new project using Machine Learning to extract data from videos 🎥💻 The goal is to explore "video-as-data" for political and communication research. My case study analyzes 2000+ video episodes of two popular Italian political talk shows👇🧵papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

#econtwitter #econjobs JMCs in Applied/Labor, do not miss this opportunity!

The Standard Errors of Persistence Timothy G. Conley and Morgan Kelly Forthcoming at 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰𝘀 Let's just say some "famous" papers in the persistence literature out there are not surviving well the test of time... 👇

📢We are hiring📢 ifo Institut is looking to fill 5 positions, incl. one 6-year Postdoc🧑‍🎓 to join our team at the ifo Center for the Economics of Education! 👉econjobmarket.org/positions/11131 Deadline: 24 Nov 2024 Please spread the word! ifo Education Universität München #EconTwitter

Das Forschungsdatengesetz muss kommen! zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft… via Frankfurter Allgemeine

📢 I am on the academic job market 🌐 sites.google.com/view/manuelmen… In my JMP, I study firms’ beliefs about macroeconomic tail risk and their role in investment decisions. JMP thread below👇

Hi #EconTwitter, I am on the Job Market! My primary fields are Labor, Migration, and Political Economy. My secondary fields are Macro and Growth. In my 1st JMP, I examine how the global spread of the Internet affects immigrants' socio-economic integration in the US.🧵

Looking forward to presenting my JMP (on how the Internet affects immigrants' integration) at the amazing OECD Migration conference in Paris tomorrow. Leah Boustan, Jan Stuhler, and Marco Tabellini as keynotes! Take a look at the program here: immigoecd14.sciencesconf.org/data/pages/Pro…

#MigrantsDay #econtwitter "NEW APPROACHES TO LABOUR MARKET INTEGRATION OF MIGRANTS AND REFUGEES" For the European Parliament , I reviewed over 160 studies from econ, pol science, sociology, migration studies, etc. on #migrant and #refugee #integration

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