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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Billionaires ke paas already sab kuchh hai. Ab, aapka time aageya. Billionaires already have everything. Now, your time has come.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

In today’s @hindustan-times.bsky.social: “Crossing the red lines on the right to free speech,” a.k.a. “Does the Constitution only protect ‘patriotic’ speech?” — www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/cros...

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Shuang Zhang @shuangzhang.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

🚨PhD alert! In light of everything happening in the world, the Econ Department at Imperial College is conducting a second round of admissions for fall 2025! Applications due April 30, offers in mid-May. Please spread the word! More details: #EconPhD @mondpanther.bsky.social @samasher.bsky.social

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Sean Higgins @seankhiggins.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

We are thrilled to share the program for the WEFIDEV-RFS-@cepr.org Conference on #Finance and #Development, with an RFS dual submission! Thanks everyone for contributing. See you in March at LSE! Organized w @giorgiabarboni.bsky.social, Kim Fe Cramer, Nicola Limodio www.wefidev.com/2025-confere...

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WEFIDEV - 2025 CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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Wayne Sandholtz @wsandholtz.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

I'll be teaching Development Economics to PhD students later this year and really psyched for it. If you feel inclined to be a giant upon whose shoulders I could stand, I'd love to see the PhD dev syllabus from a class you think worked well.

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter #econsky My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Our penultimate #econjmp is by Luisa Cefala (Berkeley), who shows how farmer workers can be reluctant to share skills when technology is rival - workers don't share row planting skill but do share composting knowledge. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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When sharing is not caring: Knowledge Hoarding as a Barrier to Agricultural Innovation. Guest post by Luisa Cefala.

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Nick Hagerty @hagertynw.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Save the date! Announcing the inaugural BIG SKY WORKSHOP on the Economics of Agriculture and the Environment Hosted by Montana State University and PERC in Bozeman, MT -- June 19-20, 2025 Call for abstracts in January. Travel funding available for grad students www.bigskyworkshop.net

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Respondents who received evening surveys (4pm-8pm) were 2.8 percentage points less likely than respondents who received morning surveys (6am-12pm) to self-report IPV - today's #econjmp by Katherine Theiss (Fordham) on how survey methods affect IPV estimates blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Uncounted: how survey implementation methods miss 3 million annual cases of intimate partner violence worldwide. Guest post by Katherine Theiss

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Joshua Deutschmann @joshdeutschmann.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Trying out this starter pack thing. Ag/Dev economists, let me know who I've missed! #EconSky go.bsky.app/Fhdu7mW

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Okay, the first Women in Econ starter pack was such a success that we quickly hit the BlueSky starter pack limit (150 accounts). But, I've got a version 2.0 with even more awesome economists you should follow! go.bsky.app/J6nhkk7

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Aashish Gupta @aashishg.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

"We find that violence against women is common, that most violence against women is not reported to the police, that violence by husbands is less likely to be reported than violence by others, & that the reporting of violence has not improved over the last decade & a half" www.epw.in/journal/2024...

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Violence against Women in India

Understanding trends in the extent of violence against women can be helpful in challenging violence against women and gender inequality. In this paper, we compare the incidence of violence, as measure...

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Cannon "like boom" Cloud @cannoncloud.bsky.social · 13/09/2024

Updated lists of #DevEcon people. Added 70ish people. Bluesky nuked my list at one point so if you got dropped, it was not intentional. Please let me know if you would like to be added, or if there is anyone I'm missing! Part 1 go.bsky.app/7dWAEXe and part 2 go.bsky.app/2RbAeCP

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