Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 04/09/2026This paper brings back fond memories - this was my first field RA experience! 020
Reposted by Lauren GilbertAveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Important piece by @ruthjoneslabour.bsky.social in @labourlist.bsky.social, calling for the national screening committee to hurry up and review screening for harmful lead exposure. Ours is a "remarkably complacent and cavalier approach". We must take the issue more seriously, as in the US/France.labourlist.org'Lead is still harming British children. Why aren’t we screening for it? - LabourListScreening for lead needs to become the norm. We cannot afford to continue to wait, for the children’s sake. 134
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 22/08/20261/ A few reflections on this thought-provoking post from Vijayendra Rao — an economist I greatly admire (and a coauthor, many years ago). 2/ Part of this reads as a critique of economics as it was. 101
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 14/08/2026This week in In Development: Matheus de Souza writes about disaster data, and how it's... really a lot worse than you probably think. indevelopmentmag.com/disaster-dat...indevelopmentmag.comDisaster Data’s Shaky Foundations Undermine Relief – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 020
Reposted by Lauren GilbertIn Medias Malone @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 12/08/2026indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/what-the-s...indevelopmentmag.substack.comWhat the South Sudanese Census Can Teach Us All, and Why We Should CareIt was Juba, South Sudan, in 2012; a place where and time when, frankly, problems were not hard to find. 073
Reposted by Lauren GilbertSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 11/08/2026BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.worksinprogress.coEvery disease is a policy failureFew people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing. 1327189
Reposted by Lauren GilbertDara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 10/08/2026NEW FROM ME: The Great Delegalization. There are now (almost certainly far more than) 1M immigrants who were protected from deportation on Jan 20, 2025, and no longer are. It’s the result of a problem that’s been building for 30 years—& now only Congress can fix. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...newyorker.comThese Immigrants Lived in the U.S. Legally. Now Trump Is Changing Their Status.More than a million immigrants are seeing protections that granted them safe lives in the U.S. suddenly swept away. 14996443
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 06/08/2026South Sudan has some of the worst possible conditions for collecting quality administrative data. But South Sudan actually has quite good administrative data. How? @danhonig.bsky.social writes for In Development on how to make governments effective: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/what-the-s...indevelopmentmag.substack.comWhat the South Sudanese Census Can Teach Us All, and Why We Should CareIt was Juba, South Sudan, in 2012; a place where and time when, frankly, problems were not hard to find. 132
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 01/08/2026So I updated Twitter on this, so I should probably put it here as well: all responses will probably be slow. Earlier this month, we discovered my father has a five-inch tumor in his hip. We're waiting on the core biopsy, but the FNA biopsy confirms it is malignant and high-grade. 020
Reposted by Lauren GilbertSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 30/07/2026Nice piece by @wilsonmking.bsky.social on a surprisingly unsolved question: Why are Indian kids so short? (Even more than India's development would imply.) It felt a bit voyeuristic to me though, like reading about myself or something.indevelopmentmag.comThe Mystery of Short Indian Children – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 4266
Reposted by Lauren GilbertSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 28/07/2026I'm interested in finding and potentially supporting people who are interested in doing long-form writing on the big efforts in global health: Gavi, Global Fund, PEPFAR, etc. If this is you or someone you know, please make yourself known! 58174
Reposted by Lauren GilbertAlessandro @poli.sisti.ca · 24/07/2026Lauren runs In Development Magazine, and the tweet seems earnest - if you're the right person to write this, you can pitch the article at indevelopmentmag.com/pitch/ @lgilbert.co 121
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 06/07/2026I'm in @arguablymag.bsky.social today making a case for a positive-sum immigration policy in the UK: www.arguably.uk/p/20-ideas-f... 0136
Reposted by Lauren GilbertAveek Bhattacharya @aveek18.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I have a piece with Niamh O Regan in @newstatesman1913.bsky.social mapping child lead exposure by parliamentary constituency, drawing on modelling by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/he...newstatesman.comRevealed: Britain's lead poisioning legacy could still be affecting childrenHundreds of thousands could be impacted. New mapping highlights the parts of the country most at risk 134
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 30/06/2026last day to submit pitches to In Development for the time being*: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/call-for-p... *we will probably keep to a cadence of opening pitches once every six months or so. so we'll next open pitches in January.indevelopmentmag.substack.comCall for PitchesWord count: 2,000-4,000 words 010
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 24/06/2026I highly recommend having a dyke friend that is vastly better than you at all things DIY. @juliamurdza.bsky.social 130
Reposted by Lauren GilbertNoam Angrist @noamangrist.bsky.social · 23/06/2026📣 Apply to lead research at one of the most important global education foundations: the Prevail Fund. Feel free to reach out if you're interested -- happy to discuss the role. www.prevailfund.org/careers?ashb... 034
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 22/06/2026not sure if @mosenkis.bsky.social is a great friend or a terrible one for specifically forwarding me emails about a book I am likely to dislike 130
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 09/06/2026immigrants do raise housing prices but they aren't the reason your rent is too damn high new post from me on immigration's effect on housing prices: www.laurenpolicy.com/p/immigratio...laurenpolicy.comImmigration and House PricesThe rent is too damn high. If there is one thing that young people seem to agree on these days, it is that the rent is too damn high. 021
Reposted by Lauren GilbertSaloni @scientificdiscovery.dev · 04/06/2026New short blogpost! I wrote a round up of cancer research news from ASCO2026: - Daraxonrasib, the breakthrough pancreatic cancer drug - Big 7-year results of lorlatinib for ALK+ lung cancers – Talazoparib, a prostate cancer drug that cut the risk of progression by half and much more. Read here:abundanceandgrowth.orgCancer breakthroughs at ASCOA What we're reading spotlight 05622
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026"Inept political and economic strategy has left the UK in a horrendous situation." @alanbeattie.bsky.social on immigration policy dilemmas in advanced economies. www.ft.com/content/c57b...ft.comGovernments are scared of tackling the immigration dilemmaRich economies need workers but their voters don’t like migrants 54014
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 04/06/2026With a link to my recent paper with @lgilbert.co progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...progressiveeconomyforum.comImmigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy ForumThe UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss... 062
Reposted by Lauren GilbertMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 01/06/2026Remember that recent paper claiming to show that "ideological bias" determined the results obtained by immigration policy research teams? A careful, open-code reanalysis by @kauspurg.bsky.social & Josef Brüderl finds that the result arises from a coding error. —> doi.org/10.31222/osf... 1310107
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 30/05/2026How do we get back to a closer relationship with Europe? Clare Short, Peter Holmes, Orla McBreen and Lauren Gilbert giving us the lowdown. 122
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Immigration to the UK: escaping the doom loop. @lgilbert.co & I summarise the recent history of the economics and politics of immigration and try to set out a way forward. For the Progressive Economy Forum. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...progressiveeconomyforum.comImmigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy ForumThe UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss... 43219
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJo Michell @jomichell.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Next, @lgilbert.co and @jdportes.bsky.social on how to escape the UK's immigration doom loop. progressiveeconomyforum.com/publications...progressiveeconomyforum.comImmigration to the UK: Escaping the doom loop • The Progressive Economy ForumThe UK exhibits unusually high and persistent levels of concern about immigration. Survey evidence consistently shows that around 40–50 per cent of voters rank immigration among the most important iss... 133
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 28/05/2026btw I will be speaking at the Progressive Economy Forum on Saturday about a paper @jdportes.bsky.social and I wrote, arguing the value of immigration to the British economy 020
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 21/05/2026The last piece of the first issue of In Development is out! There are 7.7 million people with opioid use disorder in India. Only 45,000 of them are receiving evidence-based treatment. Akshay Narayanan explains how this happened. indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/cheap-drug...indevelopmentmag.substack.comIndia's Treatable Crisis: Why 7 Million Opioid Patients Go Without CareIndia produces enough buprenorphine, a medication used to treat opioid addiction, to serve about 450,000 patients each year. It is treating only 45,000. How do we fix this? 0137
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 21/05/2026In advance of migration stats at 9.30, expected to show further fall, a reminder of extent to which migration has boosted the UK labour market recently. The number of non-EU origin migrant employees has increased by more than 2 million (while UK-origin employees have fallen by about 700K). [1/3] 23219
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 21/05/2026I'm hiring for In Development's first not-me hire. Help shape the future of development journalism; edit pieces that do serious cost-effectiveness analysis AND have jokes. Up to $90k USD, fully remote worldwide. indevelopmentmag.com/jobs/indevelopmentmag.comJobs – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 33519
Reposted by Lauren GilbertDavid Powell @davidpowell.bsky.social · 18/05/2026They’re called clustered standard errors because they cluster just under beta/1.96 in published studies. 0334
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 07/05/2026Initially, I wasn't going to cover migration in the first issue of In Development so it wasn't just Lauren's Special Interests, The Magazine but then @charlesjkenny.bsky.social pitched us a piece on emigration, so obviously I published it: indevelopmentmag.substack.com/p/wheres-my-...indevelopmentmag.substack.comWhere’s My Ministry for Emigration?Emigration As Growth Strategy 041
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 30/04/2026This week in In Development: Jakarta added ten million new residents in a decade and traffic got *better*. How? Transit, of course. indevelopmentmag.com/jakarta-tran...indevelopmentmag.comJakarta’s Remarkable Urban Transit Transformation – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 0144
Reposted by Lauren GilbertAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 26/04/2026Trump and Elon Musk destroyed most of the global H.I.V. program that saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Zambia. Now the US is threatening to cut remaining support, unless Zambia gives access to the country’s mineral resources. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...nytimes.comAIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance 18434462009
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 26/04/2026This week in In Development, Daniel Yu - founder of Africa's largest B2B company - argues young people who are interested in development should consider starting a business instead of working in aid: indevelopmentmag.com/exporters-wi...indevelopmentmag.comExporters Without Borders: Why You Should Start a Company Instead of Working in Aid – In Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 110
Reposted by Lauren GilbertElisa Xi Chen @elisaxchen.bsky.social · 17/04/2026@lgilbert.co told me about this magazine a few days ago and my first thought was: when can I publish here? Check it out, for development researchers, policy makers, overthinkers, contrarians, the justice-minded, the word-obsessed, dreamers, and poets. 001
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 17/04/2026We've launched In Development! It is aiming to be the New Yorker for global development. We want to promote discourse on development without dogma - stories doing deep-dives into pressing development issues, backed up by evidence, argument, and experience. Subscribe here: indevelopmentmag.comindevelopmentmag.comIn Developmentevidence and argument for a developing world 14625
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 10/04/20261) is it weird to go to your mutual's book event 2) is it more or less weird if you mention you're mutuals at said event @soumayakeynes.ft.com 240
Reposted by Lauren GilbertDean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 01/04/2026New in the American Economic Review: migration doesn't hollow out the home economy — it builds it up. More than 75% of the long-run income gains from migration are domestic. The home economy itself grows. Here's what we found: 🧵 111443
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 18/03/2026my living literature review has a one-year update on what we've learned about immigration recentlylaurenpolicy.comUpdates From The Immigration Literature in 2025Academic literature is not static. 092
Reposted by Lauren GilbertJonathan Peelle @jpeelle.bsky.social · 17/03/2026I have a joke about a grant but you probably won’t get it 1023544
Reposted by Lauren GilbertHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 15/03/2026Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme: 39142453628
Reposted by Lauren GilbertMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/03/2026Cumulative total issuances of F-1 student visas to the United States for each calendar year, by month. August 2025 is the latest month available. A wall against the brightest young people from around the world harms all Conservative & Liberal Americans, impoverishing our shared future. 03320
Lauren Gilbert @lgilbert.co · 05/03/2026my friend Josh Martin is launching the Peace Per Dollar Initiative, attempting to determine what conflict reduction interventions are effective and cost-effective: cega.berkeley.edu/article/how-...cega.berkeley.eduHow much peace can a dollar buy?Donors need to know how best to fund peace: Introducing CEGA's Peace Per Dollar Initiative 1103