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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

From forthcoming EJ Special Issue on Polarization in Field Experiments: ‘Reality Bites: Partisan Beliefs as Enforced Norms’ by Andrea Robbett, Peter Hans Matthews doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf062 @andrearobbett.bsky.social ‬ @phminvt.bsky.social @albertobisin.bsky.social

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The Economic Journal @theeconjournal.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

📣The Call for Papers for EJ special issue ‘AI Measurement in Applied Economics’ is now open. ⏰Deadline: 15 January 2026 More info here 👉 bit.ly/47sNmS7 @albertobisin.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social

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Jacob Edenhofer @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

cultural transmission (see @albertobisin.bsky.social and Verdier's papers) literatures to identify four mechanism that can produce persistence – Selection (migration): who moved and who stayed after 1989. Think of what happens if those most likely to benefit from open doi.org/10.1146/annu...

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Submit submit submit ... email us if not sure whether your paper fits well. We promise constructive refereeing but no quality discounts!

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled
Immigration Affect Offshoring?
Evidence from the H-1B Program
Britta Glennon
WORKING PAPER 27538
DOI 10.3386/w27538
ISSUE DATE July 2020
REVISION DATE February
2023
Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Any IO papers on the impact of funding $ on academic research (e.g. published papers, weighted by citations or anything similar) in the sciences?

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 16/08/2025

I’m old enough to remember when it was on pace to out-think humanity.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk
Humanity
BY ZOË SCHIFFER AND WILL KNIGHT | 2-MINUTE READ

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Giacomo Brusco @jackbrusco.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Check out if you’re interested in international trade or know someone who might be interested in pursuing a PhD! Can absolutely vouch for @petereppinger.com

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Proud of being at CESifo! Looking forward to contribute to the network!

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NBER @nber.org · 23/06/2025

A survey of advances in modeling cultural transmission in economics and how these models differ conceptually from those employed in evolutionary anthropology, from @albertobisin.bsky.social and Thierry Verdier www.nber.org/papers/w33928

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Very cool conference … on the sleepy lagune - far from fancy weddings and tourist-masses Poverty, Persistence and Policy: Comparative Development and the Deep Roots of Prosperity | Venice Summer Institute | ifo | CESifo ifo.de/en/cesifo/even…

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Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I know this take will probably be unpopular on Bluesky, but I think as educators we should be thinking about how to productively incorporate LLMs into our teaching. I think that if done thoughtfully, it has the potential to boost learning.

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Paolo Crosetto @paolocrosetto.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

A *null* result I'm very proud of! Led by Rustam Romaniuc, 35 coauthors from all over France tested nudge interventions to boost voter turnout. None worked, and we are possibly not surprised -- but a well-powered null result *is* a result! Paper: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

The main figure from the voter turnout paper -- no effect of any nudge intervention on voter turnout.

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Emre Ozdenoren @emreozdenoren.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

This recent fraud case is also a cautionary tale for any research based on proprietary data source.

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

This is great - congratulations.

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

A pat on the back of Editors, Associate Editors, Referees, Administration, ... of the Economic Journal @resmedia.bsky.social

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Noah Williams @bellmanequation.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dapper academics and their desks: Richard Bellman and David Blackwell

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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

UniCredit Foundation launched new contests for research grants that are expiring in the next few weeks: 3rd Marco Fanno PhD Research Grant - Open to Economics and Finance Departments of Italian Universities for 2 grants in support of PhD students activities - € 40,000 each- deadline March 15, 2025

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Michele Tizzoni @mtizzoni.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Last paper out in JEBO! We propose an epi-economic model to understand how individuals change their behavior to adapt during an ongoing epidemic. Big thanks to @albertobisin.bsky.social Lorenzo Nemati Fard e @mstarnini.bsky.social! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 26/02/2025

In memory of Ed Leamer’s passing, check out his wonderful monograph

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Daron Acemoglu @dacemoglumit.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

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M Gessen @mashagessen.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In which the time to think is now.https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/opinion/trump-autocracy-bad-ideas.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Great postodoc opportunities ... economics and archeology .... fascinating project .... please look www.origins-project.com/open-positions

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Open Positions

Postdoc in Archeology of Bronze Age Mesopotamia

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USI Institute of Economics (IdEP) @usiidep.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

We are happy to launch our new Junior Seminar Series! This term, we’ll host promising young researchers presenting their original work to the #USIEcon department. idep.usi.ch/storage/app/... Check the full schedule below and join us in person in Lugano if interested!👇

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Al Roth @alroth.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

foreign aid to fight infectious diseases is a kind of enlightened self interest, since infectious diseases that go around come around. Aid for fighting AIDS, now suspended by Executive Order, is no exception. marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2025/02/cons...

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Consequences of suspending U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

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Ted Loch-Temzelides @tedloch.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Happy Darwin day!

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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 11/02/2025

Someone should write a paper called "The Myth that Economists Did Not See the Tradeoffs Involved with Free Trade."

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Please email me if you are interested and have doubts of any sorts.

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Diego Känzig @dkaenzig.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🌎Does unilateral decarbonization pay for itself? In our new working paper, @adrienbilal.bsky.social and I analyze whether large economies like the U.S. and E.U. can justify broad decarbonization policies based purely on domestic economic benefits. WP: nber.org/papers/w3336... #econsky

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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

PLEASE RT :) Submit to the annual Network Science and Economics Conference, the largest US event for network theory and empirical research in and adjacent to economics Deadline Jan 30 (soon!) Conference Apr 11-13 at Stanford

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Dissotterrare i navigli a Milano?

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UChicago | Stone Center on Wealth Inequality & Mobility @ucstonecenter.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Director @durlauf.bsky.social explores how @albertobisin.bsky.social and Jean-Philippe Bouchaud bridge theoretical insights and practical understanding by adapting tools and theories from physics and mathematics to inform socioeconomic analysis. Listen every other Monday: bit.ly/3YdiCkj

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Delighted to see them shared here ... thanks @durlauf.bsky.social As for the Renaissance ... I'm embarrassed :)

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

In case you missed it on the other site: fascinating new [preliminary] RCT evidence that use of chatgpt as an after-school tutoring method in Nigeria *dramatically* shifted learning outcomes #econsky blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/01/2025

"increases in long-term rates, like the 10-year Treasury rate, might reflect the horrible, creeping suspicion that Donald Trump actually believes the crazy things he says about economic policy and will act on those beliefs." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/is-there-a...

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Is There an Insanity Premium on Interest Rates?

Something strange is happening in the bond market. Is it Trump?

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

A great friend - with a great understanding and love for football :) very happy to see an autobiography out

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Alberto Bisin @albertobisin.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Two cents: The increase in wealth inequality should not necessarily be a justification for wealth taxes (a whole complicated issue worthy of a distinct discussion) but it should certainly motivate democracies to find new ways to shield the democratic process from very large wealth.

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