@valmuellerasu
Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU Work on climate change impacts, focusing on human mobility #DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon Non-resident fellow at IFPRI Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6
If a colleague who has been having a rough time lately knocks on your office door, and before you have a chance to answer, walks in and sits at your meeting table... stop what you're doing, shut your door, and listen.
#AcademicSky #ScienceSky #MedSky #EpiSky
That’s horrible
Copy paste?
Here I am again fixing another set of publication proofs because some AI software messed up and nobody in production checked. I waste so much time on this crap. #AcademicSky
I wonder what happened the last time the government limited Bostonians access to their favorite drink.
Despite rising educational attainment, women’s employment rates have declined in Egypt, falling to just 15% as of 2023. This chapter explores the determinants of declining female employment rates in Egypt. The research considers demand side factors, including potential discrimination and the changing structure of the economy, as well as supply side factors, such as gender norms, domestic responsibilities, and education mismatch. Analyses illustrate trends in women’s employment and review the rich literature on drivers of women’s employment in Egypt. A particular focus is how the policy environment shapes both supply and demand for women’s labor. While women have become increasingly educated, restrictive gender norms and disproportionate care responsibilities limit what types of employment they can accept. Those types of jobs have become decreasingly available since structural reform curtailed public sector hiring. The private sector has not created sufficient “women-friendly” employment. Policy and programmatic interventions that try to increase women’s employment will have to either create woman-friendly jobs or shift gender norms that restrict women’s employment.
📣 "Why are women’s employment rates declining in Egypt?" New GLO working paper! Explores demand side, incl. potential discrimination & the changing structure of the economy, & supply side, incl. gender norms, domestic responsibilities, & education mismatch. #EconSky
www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...
Not enough reporting on the fact that Netanyahu’s government goal of making Iran a failed /crippled state isn’t in the interest of the USA and its Gulf Allies.
This cartoonishly childish Hegseth persona is an insult to the American military, the American people, the Iranian people, and just about everybody affected by this war. It is absolutely incredible, in the literal sense, that this man is at the hinge of the chain of command in this spiraling war.
Statement from Jasmine Crockett.
If you are having someone else do your lit review--and I mean LLM but also research assistants, honestly--you didn't review the lit, you don't know the field, you know someone else's view of the field. That seems like a problem, like a constructing a strawman problem. With LLMs, it's worse.
Thank you!!
For my birthday, I asked if we could order the pineapple anchovy quiche at our local bakery. It was on a list of quiches made. The baker came out to make sure we understood what we ordered. My family was skeptical, but they ate over half of my birthday quiche last night. Highly recommend.
I’m on sabbatical to be reminded of what true leadership looks like
Curious about what environmental and natural resource economists think? Check out this research with @johnwhitehead81.bsky.social and Tim Haab
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Thank you!!
I made it to 49 today.
👀 new storm events database site at @noaa.gov , and it's not terrible!
Go check out the beta site and break it!
www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/storm...
Economists love to point to insurance as the market-based solution for adaptation - allow premiums to reflect risk and adaptation will follow.
In the real world there are limits to the effectiveness of this approach.
Nice commentary by Jo Weil and Jesse Gourevitch:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It’s funny because common sense is now sophisticated. My grandparents were wise and I spent lots of my youth listening to them. Somehow we lost that and now people turn to these BS videos.
I’m trying to switch my early May flight out which stops through Dubai now.
Pope Leo is a LEADER.
US Catholic bishops file brief w/ the court,calling Trump’s order on birthright citizenship “antithetical to church’s teaching”.
The Church speaks with one voice on fundamental human dignity.
“Children do nothing wrong by being born in the US.”
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources.
We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available.
#EconSky #NumbersDay
I do think it's funny that they think [sternly, patriarchally] "you actually owe it to people to have children" is going to work at all in this American cultural epoch. There is no meaningful social structure that would make people think that! Neoliberalism made kids a consumption choice, babe!
lol this is an incredible video
this seems like something we should be funding
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
When my kid in college gives me the time of day and calls me for 45min, I’m in heaven.
23 years ago I thought I could not hate a politician more than GW
