📢Just out: Geoeconomics is emerging as a major research field. With Cathrin Mohr, I reviewed the literature: What is Geoeconomics? Key questions and findings? What research is needed? Read our full survey here: tinyurl.com/2axswx9v

🚨 NYUAD hiring open-rank Computational Social Science faculty position. Anyone still on the market and interested, please apply. We start reviewing applications next week. Application: apply.interfolio.com/160603 #econtwitter Econ Job News NYUAD Social Science New York University

What do a US 20 year old & a 60yo have in common? They spend about 6 hours a day alone. Is the rise of solitude hurting our mental health? New graphs by the great John Burn-Murdoch

Deadline approaching: The CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society is hosted by Bocconi University in June 2025! Submission deadline is January 31, 2025. We accept extended abstracts but priority will be given to full papers.

The deadline is fast approaching!

📢 Free Virtual Course for Economics Students! The ReCIPE (CEPR) research programme is hosting a course on ‘Key Concepts for Economies in Conflict and Fragile Settings’, taught by a series of experts in the field. More details & registration: recipe.cepr.org/event/virtual-…

🚀New paper alert!📄 The Internet & social media often get blamed for harming users' health & well-being. But is that always the case? In this paper (soon in AEA:P&P), I ask: How does global Internet expansion affect immigrants' well-being? The answer & details below👇(1/6)

In autocracies, journalists are often harassed, but those episodes are a part of a bigger strategy to discipline the press in critical moments, to generate more favorable coverage from previously critical voices - thus disrupting mass mobilization. Evidence from Russia

🚨New data alert! A beta version of the Global Tariff Database is now available! 🔗feodorateti.github.io 🔎If you're looking for cross-country data on bilateral tariffs, this might help you.

OpenAI has launched Operator, an agent that can perform tasks in your browser. I asked it to complete a Qualtrics survey I created. The results are very promising for Operator but *very* concerning for survey researchers

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Are you PhD student interested in AI/ML & economics? Apply to the Machine Learning in Economics Summer Institute at Chicago Booth, Aug 7-13. Two-part program includes lectures from experts + 2-day conference on cutting-edge research. Deadline March 28, plz RT. Link in reply.

🚨My amazing colleague Jacob Moscona is hiring a predoc! Come work with him on topics in environmental economics, the economics of innovation, and political economy Learn more and apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/clie…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20192 Trade #Sanctions Against #Russia: Stylized Facts Konstantin Egorov UAntwerpen, Vasily Korovkin, Alexey Makarin, Dzhamilya (Jamila) Nigmatulina ow.ly/NiHM50VLVUg #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

🔥🔥🔥 It is with great excitement that I share our new paper A consensus statement on potential negative impacts of smartphone and social media use on adolescent mental health 🧵 below

Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation? This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change. 92–97% of experts

Closing the 3rd CEPR workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder" by Berkeren Büyükeren, Alexey Makarin, and Heyu Xiong. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Trois jeunes économistes se sont penchés sur les effets de la diffusion de Tinder dans les universités. Ils observent notamment une augmentation des inégalités dans les opportunités de rencontres. «Comment les applis ont transformé la rencontre amoureuse» lefigaro.fr/conjoncture/an…