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I understand the academic impetus to move to a new platform. But I think it is bad for the commons if all the academics disappear and only talk to each other. We need your good ideas to be shared widely as much we ever did.

The overlap between academics who fretted over the danger of online echo chambers and academics who are leaving X for a platform where they can hear themselves louder is too large

Our collaborator Amanda Dos Santos (Amanda Dos Santos, amandadossantos.net) at Columbia Business School is on the job market this year with JMP "The Development of Domestic Bond Markets".

Okay, last but certainly not least, I'll tweet about another excellent student, David Henning. David is a development economist, focusing on firms and their interactions with regulation/tax administration. His JMP studies how tax audits affect firms AND aggregate output in Uganda.

My Xmas wish for DOGE: please simplify the process of submitting letter of recommendation for PhD programs!

Like a winemaker, the economist will use math to produce a fine idea from the grapes of a rough insight. The math is the tool to help them think. Once the thinking is done, the reader can simply drink the idea. The curious reader may still want to visit the vineyard, see how

*Very* happy to see this 'in print'. Along with our paper "Labor Market Power", and "Merger Guidelines for the Labor Market", we present an set of tools / data / applications to big policy questions in labor markets. Its not perfect, but its a start!

🚨The Development-Markets Initiative at Yale EGC has a 1-year postdoc for Economics PhDs focused on development, trade & markets. All research, no teaching. Pinelopi Goldberg , Lauren Falcao Bergquist, Mayara Felix, Nick Ryan, Yale Economic Growth Center aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

The program of the Towards Sustainable Growth workshop of the XXth RIDGE Forum is already available. Tommaso Porzio will be the keynote speaker. Make sure you join us in Santiago! ridge.org.uy/wp-content/upl…

New paper: benjaminmoll.com/challenge/

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Last, this is why descriptive work is underrated. No preposterous IV, no incomprehensible structural model, just a new fact about the world. If the descriptive work is done well — and it is not easy — the fact permanently enters everyone's headspace and must be contended with.

We have an opening for a postdoc position Warwick Economics for a macro-development person! This is funded by my ERC/UKRI Starting Grant - you will develop your own research agenda with no teaching or admin required. Duration: initially for 1 year, extendable to 2+. [1/2]

Job market series 2024 Wrap-up: We just finished our series of 26 posts by development economics PhD students on the job market. Here is a summary of the process and a list of all the posts in case you missed any blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Now we have Tommaso Porzio from Columbia Business School delivering the keynote for RIDGE #TSG24 “Economic Development according to Chandler” Giorgio Chiovelli Banco Central de Chile

I am a former H1B visa holder and US citizen. When I arrived in the US in 2004 with a trekker's backpack, an F1 visa, and $2,000, I had no idea how this country would change my life. Within six years, I was hired by MIT as an Assistant Professor and within ten I had started my

Send us your best papers👇!! Looking forward to putting together 3 exciting days of economics with Kurt MIT-shock-man and our wonderful committee members!

I am looking for a pre-doc to work with me on a ERC/UKRI funded project on skills and economic development. Based Warwick Economics, flexible start date, competitive pay! UK Visa sponsorship possible. Deadline: March 31st. For more info and to apply: econjobmarket.org/positions/11504.

Can't wait for you to join us!! 🎉🎉

Dev Patel's interactive site describing how he estimates flooding in Bangladesh using satellites and ML is soooooo cool! Link in thread.