Augustin Bergeron

🚨 I’m hiring a Harvard-based Predoctoral Fellow.

If you’re excited about development, political economy, and public finance, apply!

✅ Full-time (July 1 start)
🗓️ Rolling deadline
🎓 Great fit for candidates considering a PhD

Apply ➡️ academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15884

POTUS setting 1000s of aggressive, over-armed, over-armored secret police loose on our community makes danger.

It makes us unable to live free.
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Delegating Property Tax Collection to Local Elites in the DRC | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation during the 2018 property tax collection campaign to test the impact of delegating tax collection to local chiefs. Where local chiefs collected taxes, hous...

🇨🇩 Are local elites in the DRC able to collect taxes more effectively than government? Research by @abergeron.bsky.social with Gabriel Tourek, Pablo Balan, and Jonathan Weigel showed people were more willing to pay their taxes when local chiefs led collection. Read our summary: https://bit.ly/4jydj8h

📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration.

Register➡️ https://ow.ly/y5n150XRWT9

Everything you need to know about a PhD in economics A set of answers to many of the most common questions about economics PhDs, including: What is an economics PhD? Should I do an economics PhD? And how should I prepare and apply to a PhD programme?

What is an economics PhD? Should I do an economics PhD? And how should I prepare and apply to a PhD programme?

Assistant Professor of Economics Abdoulaye Ndiaye outlines everything you need to know about a PhD in economics. https://voxdev.org/topic/everything-you-need-know-about-phd-economics

Resources If you would like a letter of recommendation, please review the posted instructions and use the template: [ Instructions ] [ Template ] [ Release Form ].

Fulvia Budillon, Andre Gray, and I are hiring a field RA for a project in Mozambique, starting in the spring. Please see application information here: www.saralowes.com/resources.html. Deadline February 13. Please apply!!

A reminder for those who are not aware: "remigration" is the process of deporting all non-white people from a country. It includes citizens and is, by definition, ethnic cleansing.

And to be clear: this is not fake. I just screenshot it myself.

Incredibly proud of this 🤩🥹! So much work and determination behind this publication. What a journey this was! Honored to have done it with you @vickybarone.bsky.social 🚀❤️

I am hiring a 2-year post-doc, starting Sep 1 2026
econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
If you are interested in culture, gender and masculinity, please apply and join me in Sydney!

Dix ans après, les trois minutes d’assaut au Bataclan racontées par l’ancien chef de la BRI  Dans un entretien au « Monde », Christophe Molmy se souvient de l’intervention de ses hommes face aux terroristes et de l’assaut, mené dans des conditions critiques, qui permettra de libérer les derniers otages.

Dix ans après, les trois minutes d’assaut au Bataclan racontées par l’ancien chef de la BRI 

We're hiring a Full Prof in Economics (open-field) at the Econ dept in King's Business School. Come join us in central London - apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/12... #Econsky 1/2

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’

I think at this point it’s fair to say that we’re no longer under the rule of law.

Trump Orders Santos to Be Freed From Prison ‘Immediately’ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Come work with us at CMU Heinz! We have a great applied microeconomics group and we’re looking for an economist to join us. Please reach out if you have any questions!

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Happening right now. To us. In America.

🚨 New in Econometrica (@ecmaeditors.bsky.social)!

“Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development”

by NOVAFRICA @NovaSBE Prof #NikitaMelnikov, Carlos Schmidt-Padilla & Micaela Sviatschi.

The paper examines how criminal activity shapes labor mobility and development in El Salvador.

🔗 t.co/jF4tEsf8MV

We're hiring a research associate or research manager for a project in the DRC! This is a great opportunity for anyone who is interested in gaining very hands-on research and work experience in a low-income country in partnership with the local government. Also a great preparation for a PhD.

Research Fellowships Each year, IAST invites applications for post-doctoral Research Fellowships, which offer candidates an opportunity to devote themselves full-time to their research at the start of their careers. Fello...

It is the time of the year when I tell you about my favorite post-doc ever 👇 Unless you are allergic to the French, this one sits up there with the Nuffield postdoc (life style, productivity, interdisciplinary stimulation). Share widely! Apply! #poliscky

www.iast.fr/research-fel...

🏆 Congratulations to @doniakamel.bsky.social (PSE), for the MinE Best Paper Award 2025 ( @eeanews.bsky.social - Hub for Equal Representation ).
👇 www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/en/news/doni...

Researchers discover a secret weapon that saves babies' lives. And it's not medical To save the lives of infants and small kids in lower resource countries, there are a handful of tools: anti-malarial drugs, bed nets and vaccines. A massive experiment in rural Kenya suggests another.

And nice NPR coverage today of our research in Kenya!

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on.

Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts.

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Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025!

📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here:

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More details to come!

#NEUDC #NEUDC2025

Graphs showing 25 years of budgets for the National Institute of Health, NASA, and the NSF. In all cases, the proposed budget for next year is far, far below any year of the previous quarter century.

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd.
It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Congratulations to @frankodhiambo.bsky.social who is defending his PhD dissertation in economics at @ethz.ch today! 🥳🎊🤸🏾‍♂️🧑🏿‍🎓👑🎷

Frank is a co-founder and one of the first alumni of gain-network.net

Thank you Frank for all the leadership you have already provided to the field of economics!

What happens to developing countries when highly-educated people migrate? See our new review of the evidence on "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang/fil... #EconSky #Migration

In extremely rare move, Harvard revokes tenure and cuts ties with star business professor An internal investigation had found that Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino’s research on why people lie and cheat was based on falsified data.

www.wgbh.org/news/educati...

Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants.

"This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.

Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...

Today, I received a termination for my National Science Foundation CAREER Grant, which employed a post-doc and many undergraduate research assistants.