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Interesting paper on why people follow rules: Intrinsic respect for rules and social expectations are the most important motives for rule-following ("55–70% of participants conform to an arbitrary costly rule"). Extrinsic incentives and social preferences play only a minor role.

Until recently, the transmission of knowledge has been a total black box for economists. We are sure that there are positive spillovers, but we have never been able to show this — until now. Using cell phone data, we can show how chance meetings lead to patents. 1/

Researcher assumptions shape not just how experiments run—but what questions we ask. Outlining best practices for designing context-aware lab experiments in non-Western settings, from sara lowes and Nathan Nunn nber.org/papers/w33981

"It's the economy, stupid" Voters vote based on the state of economy. But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most? This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets. But the inflation plays the biggest role.

Describing tote bag capacity in units of “Pikettys”

Positive China Shock in Ethiopia: Chinese imports post 2001 caused industry-wide manufacturing employment to rise by ~5% because cheaper imported inputs (machines, chemicals, metal products, etc.) with no domestic substitutes increased firm productivity & capacity utilisation

Opinion: Britain and Europe need to get serious about air conditioning on.ft.com/44sxu1G

Our paper on modeling and measuring systemic discrimination is out in the QJE this month! Check it out (ungated): academic.oup.com/qje/article/14…

"Americans are richer than Europeans but Europeans have nicer lifestyles" NO THEY DON'T, sweltering and suffering through 4 months of the year is non-negotiably awful.

this is a truly remarkable stat from the FT -- European countries see deaths spike way more than US cities with similar no of sunny days... why? the irrational hate of AC, sacrificing the poor and elderly on the altar of the climate gods. oh, and the learning of children, too.

Likely underappreciated stylised fact: In the past 300 years, countries started the Demographic Transition at apprx similar income levels, but over time, transitions have been getting FASTER & SHORTER, so that later transitions end at lower income levels than earlier transitions

Two centuries of unequal exchanges To better understand the issues at stake, the World Inequality Lab recently published a historical study on global trade and financial imbalances since 1800 lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2…

Two asset types are often excluded from conventional stats: consumer durables & offshore financial wealth. Yet they shape how wealth is distributed across households. Learn how to visualize these aggregates on the GC Wealth Project site👇 wealthproject.gc.cuny.edu/news/article.h…

Now on Early View: 'Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century'. By Sara Torregrosa-Hetland & Oriol Sabaté . Sara Torregrosa Oriol Sabate UPNA - Universidad Economic History UB School of Economics onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

Measuring international power stemming from trade and investigating the geopolitical consequences and strategic causes of such power, from Ernest Liu and David Yang nber.org/papers/w34006

Tax systems really changed quite dramatically during and immediately after WW2. From an excellent new paper by Sara Torregrosa and Oriol Sabate: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eh…

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Education accounts for 45% of global economic growth Education accounts for 60% of pretax income growth among world poorest 20% 1980-2019 New paper by Gethin in QJE shorturl.at/lrTRV

The call for papers, sessions and posters for the 2026 EHS Conference is now open! It will be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, LSE, 10 – 12 April. Paper proposals must be received by 15 September 2025, poster proposals by 17 November. ehs.org.uk/conference/

For China's poverty reduction, income growth *within* agriculture was just as important as sectoral reallocation (moving from ag to non-ag). For Indonesia, agric income growth was far more important than sectoral reallocation, but income growth within non-ag also quite important