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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Another successful gathering of SMOQKists, this time at UQAM and with fantastic PhD poster presentations!

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Max Bell School of Public Policy @maxbellschool.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ethan Zuckerman, a prominent media scholar, has been named the Eddie Goldenberg Research Chair of Canada in the Digital Public Sphere at McGill University’s Max Bell School of Public Policy. www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschoo...

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McGill University @handle.invalid · 27/08/2026

Backed by a historic federal investment, McGill has recruited six Eddie Goldenberg Research Chairs of Canada. These globally renowned experts are coming to Canada to tackle pressing challenges, make discoveries, and advance innovation here at home.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20/07/2026

Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.

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Dean Yang @deanyang.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

🙌 10 days left to submit your paper to LACEA LAMES 2026!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

One month left to submit your paper to LACEA - LAMES 2026!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

🚨 Call for Papers: LACEA - LAMES 2026 🚨 Submissions now open for the Latin American and Caribbean Economics Association annual meetings Nov 12–14, 2026 in Lima, 🇵🇪! 📅 Submission Due: May 31, 2026 🔗 : lacealames2026.org Share widely and see you there! #LACEA2026 #Econsky #EconConf

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LACEA LAMES - 2026 Annual Meeting | Lima - Peru

Join LACEA LAMES 2026 in Lima, Peru, November 12-14. Submit abstracts. Leading economists, keynote speakers, and cutting-edge research.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Thrilled to be working with an amazing team of researchers from Fundación Capital, IDB, GRADE & McGill on a project to understand how gender norms act as a barrier for women-led businesses in Paraguay & what policy makers can do about it. Read what our awesome co-author Laura Morínigo writes abt it.

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Investigar para construir: percepción, agencia y decisiones de negocio entre mujeres emprendedoras - Fundación Capital

Mejorando la vida económica y financiera de millones de personas en todo el mundo.

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McGill University @handle.invalid · 18/12/2025

McGill is recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad through the federally funded Canada Impact+ Research Chairs program, addressing global and national challenges. The first round is due in early 2026. Learn more and submit your candidacy: mcgill.ca/x/5Zh

McGill’s Arts Building on campus, featuring its stone façade and green dome, with the McGill flag raised and autumn foliage surrounding the building.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Come join us at McGill! We are recruiting top-tier researchers working abroad.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...

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‘Come North!’ Canada Makes Play for H-1B Visa Holders With New Talent Drive

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

💥New Working Paper!💥 Women in Peru🇵🇪 spend 3 to 4 hours per day more than men in unpaid domestic and care work, regardless of their labour force participation. With colleagues @mcgill.ca and GRADE, we wanted to see whether beliefs about gender norms could help explain this pattern.

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Now out in open access: "Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol” doi.org/10.1080/2469.... Ben Forest and I explain why people fly “foreign” flags and why such displays can evoke powerful emotional reactions, both positive and negative.

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Aspirational Iconography: The European Union Flag as an Extraterritorial Political Symbol

How and why did the European Union (EU) flag, once a banal marker of European integration and institutions in its member states, become such a politically charged symbol outside of the EU? We demon...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Excited to get to welcome Steven Levitsky to McGill to kick off our first annual conference on democratic studies led by the new Diamond-Brown Professor Juan Pablo Luna.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I can't say it better than my colleagues -- apply to join our Economics Department @mcgill.ca. We are hiring and looking especially for Econometrics and IO.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And it’s a wrap! #SMOQK 2025 at Concordia - 5 excellent papers in development economics. What a great community we have in the Sherbrooke Montreal Ottawa Quebec and Kingston area. See you again in a year!

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And another set of amazing papers for the afternoon with @cmichaudleclerc.bsky.social (Laval), Zemar Hakim (Queens), and @caitbrownecon.bsky.social (Laval) #SMOQK2025

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

And we’re off! The 3rd annual SMOQK devo day at Concordia, with great presentations by Sylvain Dessy (Laval) Paula Lopez-Pena (Queens) this morning

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

🆕 Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation Today on VoxDev, Tasso Adamopoulos (York University) discusses how Ethiopia's large-scale road expansion accelerated structural transformation: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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Roads to Ethiopia’s structural transformation

Ethiopia’s large-scale road expansion cut travel times to markets – boosting farm productivity, reshaping cropping patterns, and accelerating structural change.

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 16/09/2025

OPINION: "Pronatalists argue that there will be too few workers to sustain the economy and too many older people for those workers to support. However, that is not necessarily true—and even if it were, increasing birth rates wouldn’t fix the problem," Root et al. write. buff.ly/EYgNpNm

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Opinion | Falling Birth Rates Won’t Cause Population Decline

Root, Guzzo and Clark write about misconceptions associated with pronatalism and how a population decline is not imminent.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Proud to share our paper on gender norms in 🇵🇾, out in the July 2025 issue of Economic Development and Cultural Change. With colleagues @McGill.ca and Fundación Capital, we ran a lab-in-the-field experiment to understand how an interactive digital application can influence beliefs about gender norms.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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Shelley Clark @shelleydclark.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

My coauthors @lesja.bsky.social @karenguzzo.bsky.social & I have a new piece in @theconversation.com , which offers insights into why most demographers do NOT think there is a current fertility crisis and the panic about population decline is unwarranted. 1/ theconversation.com/fears-that-f...

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Fears that falling birth rates in US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated.

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🆕 Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes? Today on VoxDev, Chris Cotton (Queen's University), Ardyn Nordstrom (Carleton University), Jordan Nanowski (CMHC) & Eric Richert (University of Chicago) outline evidence on girls' education in Zimbabwe: voxdev.org/topic/educat...

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Can talking about girls’ education improve educational outcomes?

Evidence from Zimbabwe suggests that dialogue-based engagement campaigns can be effective in increasing enrolment and learning, which is consistent with improving perceptions around the value of girls...

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Dear Canada, Happy election day!! 🎉 🗳️ Just one simple thing to do: cast your vote! Vote your heart out! Make yourself heard! I assume you understand your assignment, yes? Merci, thank you.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Timeline cleanse brought to you by my garden hellebore

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @hgninafon who works on topics related to development + health, particularly in W Africa - and is a newly minted PhD, congratulate him!

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Thomas Sampson @thomsampson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

For no particular reason, it might be a good time to repost my Starter pack of academic economists who study international trade go.bsky.app/G3dqAYg

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Congratulations to the Young Lives team for this very well deserved recognition of their important work in Peru Enhorabuena!

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McGill Arts @mcgillarts.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Prof. Erik Martinez Kuhonta, @mcgill-isid.bsky.social Associate Member and former Director, published an Op-Ed on the recent arrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the Globe and Mail. Read here: www.mcgill.ca/isid/channel...

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Erik Kuhonta on arrest of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte

Professor Erik Martinez Kuhonta, ISID Associate Member and former Director, publishes an opinion piece on the recent arrrest and transfer to the International Criminal Court of former Philippine Presi...

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Gurdeep Pandher of the Yukon @gurdeep.ca · 15/03/2025

Tariff-free joy flows from Canada to the world—receive this heartfelt and positive export from the land of resilience and love. 🍁🧡 (and forward the positive vibes)

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

In response to an article questioning gender-sensitive foreign aid, @fscoamodio.bsky.social and I wrote on the benefits of investing in women in Canadian development assistance. To be clear, we were not consulted about the photo they chose for our story. www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/03/07/p...

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Pourquoi l’aide étrangère du Canada qui favorise l’égalité des genres ne devrait pas surprendre

Un récent article du Journal de Montréal s’interroge sur certaines dépenses d’aide étrangère du Canada.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

You've been asking yourself "where is the Canadian guy"? But you knew he would show up just when we needed him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ozb...

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We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

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Sonia Laszlo 🇨🇦 @slaszlo.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

You know, it takes a lot to really piss Canadians off. Yet, here we are. #elbowsup

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Juliet Johnson @excubs.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

My new piece with @popovaprof.bsky.social and @danielbeland.bsky.social - “Putin seems to be counting on the Trump administration to do his dirty work for him by browbeating Ukraine into conceding via coercion what Russia has so far been unable to win for itself on the battlefield.”

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Trump’s Attack on Zelensky Sends a Clear Message to Canada and the World - Policy Magazine

In a stunning scene at the White House on Friday, US President Donald J. Trump and Vice-President J. D. Vance verbally attacked Ukrainian president Volodymyr

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Today is a reminder of Zelensky's superhuman stamina and strength. He deflected deeply unfair vile attacks in his 3rd language and kept it together while two bullies threatened his country's existence and repeated the tired but infuriating propaganda tropes of the aggressor.

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