The Senate's version of the 'Big Beautiful Bill' would put vast amounts of public land up for sale – with few exemptions. My piece @salonnewsroom.bsky.social on what's at stake
www.salon.com/2025/06/21/f...
I will be in Paris on June 17th, please join us if you are around. @IHEAL_CREDA
In this new chapter, w/ F. Jordán, we discuss the long-term consequences of land counter-reform and the allotment of indigenous reservations by Pinochet's regime in the Mapuche territory.
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
Pluses & minuses of shift to individual property rights in Chile felipejordanc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/static/home/... "Socioeconomic conditions w/in former reservations improved" BUT "dispossession when allotted parcels were sold prevented reservations’ descendants from sharing in the...benefits."
Excited to announce
the Spanish translation of Gambling on Development
Apostar por el desarrollo
out with Catarata 28 April 2025
for example see:
librerialorcacuenca.com/es/libro/apo...
China’s response is not the start of a global trade war since it only targets the USA. It is how you would expect a major player to respond. This is not the global economy breaking down, it is not the 1930s, it is not the formation of multiple imperial blocs, it is the US isolating itself.
What's that, you want a round-up of papers presented at the @oxfordcsae.bsky.social conference last week?
www.cgdev.org/blog/what-ec...
Some very bad news:
New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
With this title, this list of authors and this abstract I really have to spend a lot of energy to not drop everything I am doing right now so that I can start reading this paper faster. #Econsky
Analyzing the rationale and consequences of expropriating foreign investments without compensation. The analysis focuses on the case of Chile from 1970 to 1973, from Sebastian Edwards https://www.nber.org/papers/w33572
"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
My op-ed on the aid cuts in the US, the UK and Europe in The Independent:
Foreign aid is how countries show their national character to the world
www.independent.co.uk/voices/musk-...
Denial of a wanted abortion increases a woman's risk of death by 2.5pp within 9 months, and causes more health issues, lower educational attainment, reduced labor force participation, and higher rates of poverty in the long-run.
I want one!
Please share: I am hiring 2 #Pre-doc RA's to work with me on topics in #Structural #Transformation funded by the #ERC-project #RUSTDEC. 1. Data Collection Specialist (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/307727), 2. Analysis Specialist (euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/307733). #econ_ra #geospatial #EconSky
A practical guide to recent econometric advances with shift-share instruments, from Kirill Borusyak, Peter Hull, and Xavier Jaravel https://www.nber.org/papers/w33236
Next year, the German Development Economics Conference (GDE) will take place in Frankfurt, my former hometown. I hope to see you there with a beer in your hands!
@andregroeger.bsky.social @hesss.org @fuchsa.bsky.social @cannoncloud.bsky.social @loribeaman.bsky.social @kczura.bsky.social
We've created a starter pack for all of the economics journals on Bluesky. Please nominate other journals to join the list.
go.bsky.app/4kR21vX
The 22nd Midwest International Economic Development Conference (MWIEDC) will be held at UIUC March 28–29, 2025. Co-hosted by Ag Econ and Econ. Mushfiq Mobarak @mushfiq-econ.bsky.social keynote. Always one of my favorite conferences.
Deadline for submissions Jan 8, 2025.
Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks
Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"
1/ (Twitter rerun!)
this is a bit discouraging, though not unexpected...
You guys here's a starter pack of ag economists by @pablohutch.bsky.social
go.bsky.app/LWvcnN8
My advice to starting PhD students: Tackle big questions, because testing hypotheses is like checking your luggage—it’s necessary, but it’s not why you booked the trip #phdlife #gradschool #PhDadvice #gradstudent
We have put together some of our favourite sources of research, newsletters, articles, blogs, podcasts & videos on development economics, including economists who have written for VoxDev, in this starter pack.
VoxDev has had ~2000 authors so let us know if we missed you! go.bsky.app/4rsxm7G
I updated the data in my article about the history of child mortality.
Without any large exceptions, every second child died — in Ancient Rome, in hunter-gatherer societies, in the pre-Columbian Americas, in Medieval Japan, in Imperial China, or the Renaissance.
ourworldindata.org/child-mortal...
I thought someone would have made it already but they hadn't done so....
go.bsky.app/SmQgVK4
I keep adding development economists to this starter pack. If you haven't looked in a while there should be lots of new people. #econsky #devecon
If this is all new to you, there's also a part 1 on my bio. Let me know if I should add you, a friend, a job market candidate, etc.
go.bsky.app/2RbAeCP
Huge, huge thanks to @shooshan.bsky.social who took on the work of compiling many more health economists than I had yet added to the Starter Pack. So many names I recognize for early health econ Twitter, and so many new voices that I don't but look forward to hearing from.
bsky.app/starter-pack...
