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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Funded by Big Probit.

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Andre Groeger @andregroeger.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum 📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026 Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF). ⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This is a hard year for the job market. Dev economists: check out this available funding *if you’re open to be based in an LMIC* It could supplement your salary + provide research funds. Lots of research active hubs in Asia, Africa, LAC that would love to affiliate excellent global talent!

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 08/12/2025

Watch the Nobel Lecture in Economics live from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and the Royal Academy of the Sciences: www.kva.se/en/event/the... The lecture begins at 2:30 CET today December 8th #econsky

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The Nobel Lectures 2025 - Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now! Senior Editor @singhabhi.bsky.social & Co-Editors @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @iies.su.se & Philip Oreopoulos, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech. Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...

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Education Technology

Policy Priorities for EdTech in LMICsAvoid hardware-first approaches. These have consistently failed and are expensive.Prioritise interventions with strong evidence of cost-effective impact:Personalis...

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I have a new VoxDev Lit launching this week on education technology👇 This area has lots of froth, but also some very promising evidence on tech use (on teaching, assessments, information) across K-12. Pulling this together was fun (with Phil Oreopoulos and @lnavarrosola.bsky.social ).

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Otis Reid @otisreid.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Some amazing jobs here! Our science and global health R&D team works on funding breakthroughs for neglected, high mortality/morbidity diseases and does a ton of great and interesting work -- see job links in Jacob's thread!

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 15/10/2025

Painful as a finance prof

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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Come work with me! Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance. By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in. Econ advert below: jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...

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Tenure Track, Assistant Professor Position at The Department of Economics

Description and QualificationThe Department of Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) seeks candidates for one tenure-track assistant professor po...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

📢 Call for papers: 🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩 30-31 March 2026, Munich Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard) PhD students & early postdocs, please apply! www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev... Deadline: 11 Jan 2026 @caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Our new paper in EJ shows facts I've been curious about for ages. I'm biased but, IMO, these results are important. Most of all, though, this paper was fun to write --- coauthors who worked well together, steady progress, and referees who were demanding but made the paper SO much better!

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Michael Eddy @michaeleddy.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I remember meeting Karthik & @singhabhi.bsky.social w/ the Mindspark/EI team when I was working at Global Innovation Fund back in 2017—and being blown away by how they were designing for impact @ scale from day 1. A stellar example of academics + do-ers partnering for scale 🚀📈👇

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Todd Pugatch @toddpugatch.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Really cool result here -- edtech intervention using personalized adaptive learning in RCT in India reduces mismatch between students and the (overly ambitious) curriculum

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Many interventions “work” in small trials but fail at scale Also, EdTech often promises much, but delivers little In a new paper (bit.ly/3JKLgVn) @karthik-econ.bsky.social & I show how personalized adaptive learning (PAL) software can sharply improve learning outcomes at scale🧵1/16

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

📢Our CESifo Conference on Economics of Education is about to start!🤩 This will be so exciting!!!🥳 🔗https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-09-05/cesifo-area-conference-economics-education-2025 @raffasadun.bsky.social @sandramcnally.bsky.social @christinafelfe.bsky.social @singhabhi.bsky.social …

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Results so stunningly clear they inspired this classic xkcd (xkcd.com/2400/):

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This would also be devastating for current US Econ PhD programs. Nobody finishes in 4 years, even 5 is rare! It would be strange if US unis were forced to move to the old UK/France model (separate Masters + 3y PhD) now when finally the top end of European programs finally converged to 5y programs…

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Erik Angner @erikangner.com · 19/08/2025

Fans of "slow television" are in for a treat, as Swedish TV is live-streaming the effort to move an entire church in Kiruna from one place to another over the course of two days: www.svtplay.se/video/KnDgQ9... Enjoy!

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Den stora kyrkflytten – Första dagen

I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande ...

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

I'm very excited to be in Nairobi again -- the last time was 15 years ago! I'll be busy with a conference Wed-Fri (which looks great): iipf.org/cng.htm But I have spare time over the weekend. What should I go and check out? Any friends still in Nairobi, please DM!

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International Institute of Public Finance Annual Congress

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AEA Data Editor @aeadata.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🪅DHS (not that one) Program website active again, and accepting requests for data access dhsprogram.com/Who-we-are/N... (via @ipums.bsky.social )

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Independent reliable statistics are crucial in all modern democracies — and under attack in many parts of the world…

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Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Stefan Zweig on borders is almost too much to bear

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 15/07/2025

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Department of Economics of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name.

Ghazala made important contributions in a large number of fields, spanning the economics of discrimination, gender, education and organizational economics. The award will promote work in those fields by young scholars.

The first edition of this award will consist of a 5,000 euro prize for the best paper in this set of fields by junior researchers. The selection of the laureate will be carried out by a scientific committee composed of Pierre Cahuc, Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo.

Eligibility for the prize requires that all authors have obtained their PhD after 1 September 2018. Papers written jointly with more senior researchers will not be considered.

The prize will be awarded at SciencesPo during the event organised in memory of Ghazala on 10 December 2025. One of the authors of the prize winning paper will present the work at this event.

Applications must be submitted by 31 August 2025.

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Nordic design — winning since the Palaeolithic Age!

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

This is a very neat demonstration of how subtitling promotes English language acquisition (compared to dubbing). I wonder what the net effects of Netflix etc is for future cohorts. You can watch in any language, subtitle *anything* and it’s always much nicer than dubbing. But it’s voluntary…

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Dan Tortorice @dantortorice.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

USAID has spent $2 billion supporting vaccines through GAVI. In research, published in AEJ:Economic Policy, Kartini Shastry and I find GAVI saved 1.5 million lives at a low cost of $9,000 per child saved. See the writeup of our research in VoxDev: voxdev.org/topic/health...

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Effective health aid: Evidence from Gavi’s vaccine programme

Coordinated health aid for vaccination has increased coverage rates and saved the lives of children around the world.

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

This thread about applying for ERC Starting Grants is super useful. Checks out 100% with my experience. Heck, now I wish I’d just spoken to Konrad before applying myself — took me ages to figure this stuff out at the time!

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Ooh, I don’t like this either.What I don’t know: How much of my reaction comes from: 1) being a Masters student in the UK in 2007-08, or 2) broader Econ training/work in the ~17 years since I suspect 1 is a lot stronger than 2 (never worked on finance/macro, altho exposed to many folks ofc)

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Lee Crawfurd @leecrawfurd.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

New blog: @rglenner.bsky.social & I suggest 4 criteria for donors choosing between multilateral education funds (eg GPE/ECW/IDA/IFFED/UNICEF/UNESCO) 1. Cost-effective interventions 2. Foundational literacy & numeracy 3. Poor countries 4. Financial & policy leverage www.cgdev.org/blog/four-cr...

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I wonder if rich US universities will start setting up foreign subsidiaries in the near future just to reduce political risk. A hostile govt can always attack pipelines of funding and foreign students/staff. Harvard subsidiaries in Canada or Norway might be the best insurance?

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 12/05/2025

christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I'm so sorry for every international student at Harvard today. There's no version of this that won't be hugely stressful for everyone on visas right now (even if Harvard gets relief from courts). I've now spent ~18 years on visas. It's always hugely complex, but this step is just cruel...

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European Research Council (ERC) @erc.europa.eu · 16/05/2025

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 16/05/2025

AYFKM There is special circle of hell for those who fabricate data Immeasurable harm to all of us who break our backs to collect real data, to brilliant students who deserved that position, to other students who won’t get trust they deserve — just obscene

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MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

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Ryan Hill @ryanreedhill.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

With the excitement (delirium?) surrounding the rise of AI, it's more important than ever that scientists and journalists maintain an attitude of skepticism and dispassion about new findings as they arrive www.wsj.com/tech/ai/mit-...

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MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper

The university said it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student.

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Sue at the Stockholm School of Econ today. Honestly, what the Nordics do well is little pleasant things like this. It's nice to be in high trust, high social capital environments (even with the long dark winters...)

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

@dynarski.bsky.social is on her way to visit us in Stockholm. I wouldn't have predicted that the journey here would be so adrenaline-infused even before leaving US shores 😬

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics: 👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings @annualreviews.bsky.social 1/9

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Abhijeet Singh @singhabhi.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I'll be presenting tomorrow at the joint Harvard-MIT Development seminar (2:30 p.m.- 4 p.m.). Friends working on econ or edu in Boston/Cambridge, come over to say hi if you've got nothing else on!

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Rachel Glennerster @rglenner.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

As I meet people from aid agencies around the world this week I will be making the case for a radical simplification in how we do aid: fewer countries, fewer projects, radically simpler programs. It was key takeaway from my time in govt. Read why. www.cgdev.org/blog/radical...

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Radical Simplification: A Practical Way to Get More Out of Limited Foreign Assistance Budgets

With major cuts to foreign assistance announced or anticipated in the US, the UK, and across the EU, and in the World Bank’s subsidized lending program, we must urgently work to get the most out of sh...

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 21/04/2025

This is a really great short memoir of Michelle White's time in economics. I had no idea (but should've) how ground breaking her presence was in the field econweb.ucsd.edu/~miwhite/sca...