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Sports lesson from COVID: the home field advantage comes from the home crowd intimidating the referees. When COVID led to soccer matches in closed arenas, it didn't change player performance but it eliminated "one-third of a yellow card for away teams relative to the home team."

🚨JOB ALERT🚨 Ohio State Econ has 2 Postdoc positions now open in Health or Labor economics! Come join me Dr. Trevon D Logan & Dr. Cynthia Colen on an NIH-funded project studying how jobs and workplaces impact racial health disparities More info here: osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers/job… #EconTwitter

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Please join us for the first annual Development Economics in the South Workshop (DevSouth) on May 19th! Hosted by the University of Tennessee at the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in Gatlinburg, TN. Submit your paper by March 29th! haslam.utk.edu/event/developm…

LAST CHANCE TO APPLY to present at the Firms, Labor Markets, and Development Workshop on 22-23 June 2023 at Collegio Carlo Alberto in Turin, Italy. Deadline: 15 April For more information: ow.ly/NMH050NHl5o #STEGEvents #EconTwitter

📣Spread the word - We are hosting the 2023 convening of the North East Universities Development Consortium (NEUDC) on Nov. 4–5, 2023! 🖇 Accepting papers June 17 - August 17, 2023 bit.ly/3XfgHKf #NEUDC

I'm re-upping this announcement for papers. Don't miss out.

Call for papers! Conference on industrial policy Columbia University, Nov. 10, 2023. Keynote: Michael Kremer. Details here: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-th… Submit by Sept. 15, 11:59pm EDT. Co-hosts: Center for Political Economy, CDEP ColumbiaSIPA, Columbia | SIPA Tech & Innovation Initiative.

I consider this chart to be the clearest indictment of our country’s path over the last several decades: In 1980, the U.S. had a typical life expectancy for an affluent country. Today, the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy of any affluent country:

A modest proposal: editors should state which subset of referee comments should be responded to. If it's not in the list, it's not grounds for rejection at the next stage. Some editors do this to some extent already 🙏🙏🙏 But it can be even more explicit. 1/5

Structural Transformation of African Agriculture and Rural Spaces (STAARS) fellowship program is now accepting research proposals for its 2024 cohort. 1/2 barrett.dyson.cornell.edu/staars/staars-…

Come work with me, @danielascur Joanna Upton John Hoddinott Jenny Aker Heather Schofield, etc. We are launching a Cornell pre-doc program in development economics. (Despite the formal HR language, we can petition for visa support if needed.) Join us! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

Please join us for the second annual Development Economics in the South (DevSouth) workshop on April 19! Hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Submit your paper by March 1st! We welcome submissions in all areas of development economics. haslam.utk.edu/event/developm…

“Son preference” among American parents appears to have gone away. nber.org/system/files/w…

🚨New working paper🚨 "Monopsony and Religious Clubs: Evidence from Indonesia" with Peter Brummund docs.iza.org/dp16999.pdf Researchers keep finding evidence of monopsony power, but where is it coming from? We've got a new answer! (Narrator: it's not *new* new, but it's interesting!)

🧵The United States faces serious economic and social challenges. To address them, the "grand bargain committee" met throughout 2023 to craft a path forward for the nation. bipartisanpolicy.org/report/toward-…

Please share ... CIDER development economics pre-doctoral fellows program now accepting applications for July 2025 start date. Come work with me, Jenny Aker, Heather Schofield,Johannes Haushofer, Joanna Upton, Martina Occelli, John Hoddinott, and perhaps more! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

It has also helped ~8 millions kids be born HIV free! And it’s saved ~26 million lives total. It’s the best thing GW Bush ever did. PEPFAR is bipartisan, popular, and an amazing return on investment. It is helping to win the fight against AIDS. npr.org/sections/goats…

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller

The tragedy (and puzzle) of Donald Trump is that he is doing something too few Presidents have had the courage to do: incur large, widespread short-run pain--while being reasonably transparent about it--in the service of long-run gain. (The tragedy is he is mistaken on the LR.)