We're honoured to be 1 of 3 European destinations on the REStud Tour, organised by the Review of Economics Studies (The Review of Economic Studies) 🌍 On 15-16 May we welcome 7 leading new global economists to speak to our academics & explore Bristol 🎓 Read more 👉 brnw.ch/21wSkVM

sara lowes delivers a keynote lecture on Culture and Development Policy, discussing how culture shapes incentives, persists and evolves, and documenting cultural mismatches between policymakers and target populations.

Dean Yang Karmini S Jorge Garcia Hombrados Viola Asri Warwick Economics Thanks to all participants for a fantastic development economics workshop! The 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM) are not over yet. Tomorrow we continue with the meeting on “Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital.”

Useful paper in the "Journal of Economic Literature" on how artificial intelligence may change the research process in economics, describing several use cases (e.g. ideation and feedback, writing, background, research, data analysis, coding, and mathematical derivations).

REMINDER The New Economic History of Brazil conference, organized w/ Guilherme Lambais Deadline to send us a proposal: May 26, 2025 To be held at the Lusíada University of Lisbon on September 12, 2025 Opening session: Cláudio Haddad Keynote speaker: Bill Summerhill (UCLA) To apply, see👇

Feel welcome to join us online or in person at University of Malawi (UNIMA) for the Launch of the Special Issue on #BeyondFailure: exploring the #heart of the #Malawian state on 27 May! With Journal of Southern African Studies Centre for Social Research (CSR), UNIMA Sara Elisa Fischer, PhD, @saraefischer.bsky.social Sociale Wetenschappen - Social Sciences KU Leuven CAS Edinburgh Happy Kayuni Gerhard Anders

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

A lot of my posts have been downbeat these days, so I decided to do a quick roundup of only positive news. noahpinion.blog/p/at-least-fiv…

Our recent Bristol Applied Economics Meetings featured over 30 guest speakers from Europe & North America, exploring insights on the themes of 'Development Economics', and 'Gender, Diversity, & Human Capital' 🌍 Watch the full video and learn more: brnw.ch/21wSZe3

Thiong'o should be required reading in any PhD level course in Development Economics.

We want to see you in Recife for LACEA 2025. Great plenaries and invited speakers and looking forward to amazing sessions. Send your paper lacea2025.org you can then stay and relax for a couple of days at the beach after the conference 🏖️

We have had some technical issues with LACEA membership/Oxford abstracts. Therefore we are extending the deadline until next Wednesday June 4th. Get your paper in and come to Recife! LACEA 2025 Vox.LACEA lacea2025.org

How do Africans feel about the influence of their former colonisers? See Afrobarometer's latest in the Continent. #VoicesAfrica

I’m sharing my slide deck on the demographic future of humanity, 🔗 Slides: sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Slide… prepared for the keynote address I will give tomorrow to the 7th EBRD and CEPR Research Symposium on “The Economics of Demographic Change”: 🔗 Symposium: ebrd.com/home/news-and-…

Why Woke Failed. (The movement was based on flawed understandings of human nature, argues Michael Shermer) open.substack.com/pub/persuasion…

Why did Britain industrialize? It's complicated! Fortunately, Joachim Voth, Alex & I wrote a paper: now you can also read a summary here: broadstreet.blog/p/where-have-a…

As several people requested, I am posting the video of Lecture 1 | Economic Thought from Aristotle to Scholasticism: youtu.be/AcRGlVCJP_g?si… All future videos will be posted here: sites.google.com/view/foundatio… Thanks!

The occult, the president, and the body: understanding Zambia’s legal action against the Lungu family mastmediazm.com/2025/06/the-oc…

"The Child Penalty Atlas" academic.oup.com/restud/advance…

Hiring a pre-doc for work in dev, pe, and econ history. Please apply :) employment.ucsd.edu/research-assis… Econ RA Listings