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Augustin Bergeron

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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🚨 I’m hiring a Harvard-based Predoctoral Fellow. If you’re excited about development, political economy, and public finance, apply! ✅ Full-time (July 1 start) 🗓️ Rolling deadline 🎓 Great fit for candidates considering a PhD Apply ➡️ academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15884
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18/01/2026
POTUS setting 1000s of aggressive, over-armed, over-armored secret police loose on our community makes danger. It makes us unable to live free. bsky.app/profile/jaya...
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J-PAL @j-pal.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🇨🇩 Are local elites in the DRC able to collect taxes more effectively than government? Research by @abergeron.bsky.social with Gabriel Tourek, Pablo Balan, and Jonathan Weigel showed people were more willing to pay their taxes when local chiefs led collection. Read our summary: bit.ly/4jydj8h
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Delegating Property Tax Collection to Local Elites in the DRC | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation during the 2018 property tax collection campaign to test the impact of delegating tax collection to local chiefs. Where local chiefs collected taxes, hous...
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development. At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration. Register➡️ ow.ly/y5n150XRWT9
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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
What is an economics PhD? Should I do an economics PhD? And how should I prepare and apply to a PhD programme? Assistant Professor of Economics Abdoulaye Ndiaye outlines everything you need to know about a PhD in economics. voxdev.org/topic/everything-you-nee…
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Everything you need to know about a PhD in economics
A set of answers to many of the most common questions about economics PhDs, including: What is an economics PhD? Should I do an economics PhD? And how should I prepare and apply to a PhD programme?
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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Fulvia Budillon, Andre Gray, and I are hiring a field RA for a project in Mozambique, starting in the spring. Please see application information here: www.saralowes.com/resources.html. Deadline February 13. Please apply!!
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Resources
If you would like a letter of recommendation, please review the posted instructions and use the template: [ Instructions ] [ Template ] [ Release Form ].
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Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing. And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.
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Carolina Arteaga @caroartc.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️
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Pauline Grosjean @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
I am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026 econjobmarket.org/positions/12... If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 13/11/2025
Dix ans après, les trois minutes d’assaut au Bataclan racontées par l’ancien chef de la BRI 
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Dix ans après, les trois minutes d’assaut au Bataclan racontées par l’ancien chef de la BRI 
Dans un entretien au « Monde », Christophe Molmy se souvient de l’intervention de ses hommes face aux terroristes et de l’assaut, mené dans des conditions critiques, qui permettra de libérer les derniers otages.
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Niall Hughes @niallehughes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law. Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
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Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’
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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7
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Andy Garin @andygarin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Come work with us at CMU Heinz! We have a great applied microeconomics group and we’re looking for an economist to join us. Please reach out if you have any questions! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Happening right now. To us. In America.
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NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
🚨 New in Econometrica (@ecmaeditors.bsky.social)! “Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development” by NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE Prof #NikitaMelnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla & Micaela Sviatschi. The paper examines how criminal activity shapes labor mobility and development in El Salvador. 🔗 t.co/jF4tEsf8MV
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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.
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Charlotte Cavaille @ccavaille.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky www.iast.fr/research-fel...
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Research Fellowships
Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...
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Paris School of Economics @pse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
🏆 Congratulations to @doniakamel.bsky.social (PSE), for the MinE Best Paper Award 2025 ( @eeanews.bsky.social - Hub for Equal Representation ). 👇 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/doni...
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Ted Miguel @tedmiguel.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
And nice NPR coverage today of our research in Kenya! www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical
To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/
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Laura K Gee @laurakgee.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf... More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.
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Andrea Matranga @andreamatranga.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.
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Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Congratulations to @frankodhiambo.bsky.social who is defending his PhD dissertation in economics at @ethz.ch today! 🥳🎊🤸🏾‍♂️🧑🏿‍🎓👑🎷 Frank is a co-founder and one of the first alumni of gain-network.net Thank you Frank for all the leadership you have already provided to the field of economics!
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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.... Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
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Sabrina Karim @sabrinamkarim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.
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Matthias Doepke @mdoepke.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
30 years after arriving in the US, I just resigned from Northwestern and we sold our house. We are an American family, I became a citizen in 2014, and until recently did not expect to ever leave. But now, this no longer feels like the right place to raise a family and pursue a research career.
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance by inves...
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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...
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Stefanie Stantcheva, Clark Medalist 2025
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Owen Ozier @owenozier.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🚨Development Economists!🚨Do you use Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS Program) data, which had been supported by USAID? IPUMS ( @ipums.bsky.social ) and the UN Statistics Division have a survey for you. I just filled it out. You can too. #econsky
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Sara Lowes @saralowes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
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: www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/fiel... Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu, subject Mozambique Intern. Thanks!
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Field Research Intern - UC San Diego Economics | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 12/04/2025
In retrospect, it continues to seem like a really bad decision by the New York Times to push out Paul Krugman, their longtime columnist who won his Nobel Prize in the economics of trade and geography right before we have 4 years where trade policy is the #1 crisis in the country.
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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...
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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Given the current political news, this may not be top of mind, but my co-authors and I are looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in the DRC that study the role of state capacity in economic development. 1-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...
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Predoctoral Field-Based Research Associate (One Year) – Democratic Republic of Congo, UC Berkeley | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
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Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @beckerfriedman.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
As opportunity costs rise for Seventh Day Adventists in Sub-Saharan Africa, membership and satisfaction decline, and adherence to health rules drops. New research brief from @eduardomontero.bsky.social (Harris Policy), Dean Yang, and Triana Yentzen. ow.ly/CN5g50VgL9z #EconSky
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The Price of Faith: Economic Costs and Religious Adaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa | Becker Friedman Institute
Prior research shows that religious institutions play a major role in shaping economic behaviors, social norms, and development outcomes worldwide. But what happens when religious membership (or belie...
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Chris Bennett @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Heartbreaking to see announcements of major layoffs at most research organizations that have played a vital role in supporting federal statistics for education and developing high-quality evidence about what policies/practices actually work. Below are just a few examples from my LinkedIn feed.
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To our clients, partners, and peers:
We want to let you know that we are reducing our workforce to align with the needs of our clients and ensure the continued, exceptional support we've offered for decades to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. The staff we are letting go are skilled, experienced, and passionate about their work. Any organization would be fortunate to have them. Please don't hesitate to reach out if we can be of assistance.Dan Gaylin • 2nd
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Like many of our peer organizations, this week NORC had to reduce our staff to ensure we are operating effectively and have the right mix of skills to align with client needs. The people departing NORC are highly talented and capable professionals, and they have made important contributions to our mission of delivering trustworthy and reliable data and analysis to inform society's most important decisions. They will be valuable employees and colleagues wherever their careers take them next.
To each of you who are leaving, and on behalf of everyone at NORC, I offer our deepest thanks and appreciation for your dedicated service and the lasting impact you've made on our organization.marc
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To our collaborators: Like many of our peer organizations, MDRC has had to reduce our staff in recent days, letting go of many talented and highly skilled professionals. Each of these colleagues would be an asset to another organization, and we encourage you to consider them for any career opportunities you may have.
MDRC remains committed to our mission of learning what works to improve policy, practice, and people's well-being.// Westat
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In light of recent industry changes, Westat is making strategic reductions to our workforce to better align with our clients' needs. The talented professionals who are leaving Westat have made significant contributions to our mission and embody our values of uncompromising excellence, client commitment, and innovation. They are current and future leaders in their fields and will undoubtedly be an asset to any organization they join.
We remain committed to our mission to improve lives by delivering exceptional data-driven research and technical assistance, fostering insights and solutions to advance health, education, and social and economic opportunity.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
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Augustin Bergeron @abergeron.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
My co-authors and I learned yesterday that USAID has canceled our grant for an ongoing RCT in the DRC. Conceived in 2019 and underway since 2023, the project aimed to help the provincial government build a mass appraisal tax system for more progressive taxation in a province that urgently needs it.
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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I was just informed that our RCT in Bangladesh has been terminated mid-way. The project we were evaluating was helping to build resilience by forming farmer groups in 225 villages and transferring critical knowledge on smart agriculture practices in areas highly affected by climate change.
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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The examples of early/mid 20th Century Austria and Germany show that a country can euthanise its own research sector even though it began from an incredibly strong place. From the looks of it this is the direction the USA is going in.
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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@jlondonovelez.bsky.social) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
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The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children*
Abstract. This paper examines the impact of denying a wanted abortion on women and children in Colombia using high-quality administrative microdata and cre
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's not often that a theory paper piques my interest these days*, but this by @snageebali.bsky.social and coauthors, on the logic behind zero-sum thinking by voters, is just brilliant -- and so relevant and urgent! www.econometricsociety.org/publications...
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The Political Economy of Zero-Sum Thinking - The Econometric Society
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 28/01/2025
Guys talk about getting the sign wrong on policy!!! Government R&R accounted for 1/5 of total TFP growth since wwii!!!
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