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Some thoughts on the 2025 World Happiness Report and happiness pyschometrics writ large adarkroom.substack.com/p/nicecore-psy…

1/ New resource: The Global Currencies Database: globalcurrenciesdatabase.com

Deep learning (DL) is proving remarkably effective at solving dynamic models in economics: 📄 nber.org/papers/w33117 Curiously, DL often yields stable solutions without explicitly imposing boundary conditions (e.g., transversality). Why does this work? A short thread 🧵👇 1/7

Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with Fulvia Budillon and Andre Gray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: povertyactionlab.org/careers/field-… Send materials to [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you! Econ RA Listings

If you'd like to read or teach about the new economics of supply networks and their fragility this spring (see quoted thread for an application)... a short list of resources you might find useful that make a natural unit in a syllabus.

📢 We are excited to share the agenda for the inaugural International Seminar on Trade (ISoT)! 📄 📍 World Bank, Washington D.C. 🗓️ 5-6 May 2025 Co-organized by Journal of International Economics, @BanquedeFrance, @CEPR_org, World Bank, University of Surrey

Long-term research on the One Laptop per Child programme reveals that providing laptops to students did not have a positive impact on educational outcomes. Read the full article to learn more: x.com/vox_dev/status…

Fantastic paper in the Journal of Political Economy JPE titled "Of Cities and Slums" by Pedro Cavalcanti Ferreira, Alexander Monge-Naranjo and Luciene Torres de Mello Pereira journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

"We introduce a new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data." NEW Discussion Paper by Jianwei Ai, Costas Arkolakis, and Anton Yang: cowles.yale.edu/research/cfdp-…

🆕 How Uruguay’s beef exports to China reshaped its economy Today on VoxDev, Francesco Amodio (McGill Economics), Giorgio Chiovelli (Universidad de Montevideo ISID_McGill) & SFrache discuss how Uruguayan beef exports to China expanded its service sector: voxdev.org/topic/trade/ho…

Check out the program of our Workshop on Culture, organized with Emmy Lindstam & Vicente Valentim! June 25th in Madrid, day before EPSA, at IE Political Science (IE Tower). If you'd like to join, feel free to get in touch with one of us!

After reading Ganesh Sitaraman & Chris Serkin's "Post-Neoliberal Housing Policy" alongside Ezra Klein's interview of Zephyr Teachout & Saikat Chakrabarti, I think I'm finally starting to understand the crux of the Left's vehement reaction to Abundance. 🧵/22

After China joined the WTO, banks in Italy contracted credit in response to the trade shock, affecting even firms expected to benefit, say researchers at Banca d'Italia and LSE. #Chart aeaweb.org/research/chart…

Examining the role of banks in mitigating trade search costs during the 2018–19 US-China trade tensions, from lalfaro, Mariya Brussevich, @cminoiu, and Andrea Presbitero nber.org/papers/w33754

Five years after an increase in labor demand, labor migration explains 60 percent of increased regional employment. Migration elasticity has stayed roughly constant for 80 years, from Andrea Foschi, Christopher House, Christian Proebsting, and Linda Tesar nber.org/papers/w33755

African expectations: Measuring consumer confidence using Afrobarometer adarkroom.substack.com/p/savanna-spir…

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

What impact does a one degree increase in temperature have on GDP per capita? What does this mean for the world's poorest? Read our #VoxDevLit on Climate Adaptation to learn more: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/clim…

We propose methods to (i) identify the full effects of country-specific policies in the gravity model and (ii) estimate trade elasticities without tariff or price data. A true pleasure to work with Mario and the young talents Angelos Theodorakopoulos and Rebecca Freeman. Thanks! Gravity rules💪