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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 1d

Hey #EconSky working in environmental econ! Looking for things to do this weekend? Why not write up a 2-3 page proposal for a cool conference-publication combo, happening in May 2025 in Washington, DC?

Submit your proposal (or paper) here by Oct 20: conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

Submission: 8th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER

conference.nber.org

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Online Spatial & Urban Seminar @osus-info.bsky.social · 1d

📣Join us Monday at 11:30 ET for an @osus-info.bsky.social seminar!

Elisa Giannone (CREI) presents “Unpacking Moving” (osus.info)

Klaus Desmet and Brian Greaney will be our panelists!

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Andre Groeger @andregroeger.bsky.social · 1d

That's how this looks if you include covid...

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 3d

Call for papers for a World Bank Economic Review special issue on migration and development: we are doing a special issue that builds on a recent conference, but with submissions open also for non-conference papers. Short papers in the AER insights type format also welcome. Deadline November 30.

Details of WBER call for papers, including URL and submission deadline of November 30.

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Centre for Economic Policy Research @cepr.org · 4d

📢 #CallForPapers - European Research Workshop in International Trade 2026
We invite papers on topics related to international #trade, foreign direct investment, #migration, automation, and other issues related to #globalisation.
Deadline: 14 December
cepr.org/events/europ...
#EconSky #EconConf

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Rigissa Megalokonomou @rmegal.bsky.social · Sep 10

Come & join us in summer (February) in beautiful Melbourne: Submit your paper to the Australian Gender Economics Workshop (AGEW), 11–13 Feb 2026 organised at Monash University and Monash Business School.

Deadline to submit a paper: 17 Oct 2025

Details & submissions: www.monash.edu/business/eve...

Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2026

www.monash.edu

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Dep Economia Aplicada UAB @ecapuab.bsky.social · 4d

📢 Next seminar at UAB Dep of Applied Economics (joint with UFAE):
📅Thursday, October 9 at 13:30
👨‍🏫 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (PUC Chile)
📃 "(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa"
📌 Sala de Graus, Faculty of Economics, @uab.cat

🖥️ sites.google.com/site/emiliod...

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Center for Global Development @cgdev.org · 4d

ODA is under growing pressure.🌍On Oct. 16, join CGD for an expert-led conversation on how we can construct a new shared vision for global development cooperation that works for partner countries, donors, and other stakeholders.

Register ⬇️
bit.ly/46EgIOb

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · 4d

PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference @cepr.org

Bringing together researchers studying the behaviour of firms in low-income countries & focusing on the market forces that drive efficiency in these countries.

📅26 - 28 Mar 2026
📍Oxford, UK

⏰Submission deadline: 20 Oct
cepr.org/events/pedl-...

PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 5d

📢 Call for papers:

🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩

30-31 March 2026, Munich

Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)

PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!

www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

Deadline: 11 Jan 2026

@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 6d

No.

Americans reject this extremist insanity.

Constitutional checks and balances by our co-equal judiciary are not “insurrection”.

Judges exercising their constitutional powers is not “terrorism”.

Conservative and Liberal Americans will defend our constitutional order against military rule.

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Marcos Vera-Hernandez @papiteide.bsky.social · 9d

After the success of the first conference, the submission link for the second is already open tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba. Submit by Dec 1. Workshop in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026, jointly organised with Rotterdam Global Health Initiative and Erasmus School of Economics.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 9d

I was invited to Moscow in 2009 by the great economist Sergei Guriev to present my research.

Four years later, he was forced to flee the country in fear as the regime tightened its chokehold on academia.

All authoritarians strangle universities—because thoughtful dissent threatens their power.

Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 9d

From me on the podcast today: how Vladimir Putin has taken control of the Russian higher education system and what might come after. With guest Dmitri Dubrovskiy.

The World of Higher Education | Undoing Bologna: Russia’s Conservative Turn in Higher Education with Dmitry Dubrovsky

In this episode of The World of Higher Education Podcast with Alex Usher, the discussion focuses on the vast reconfiguration of Russian academic life following Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine....

worlded.transistor.fm

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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · 9d

Save the date! The fifth annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics will be held from 5-7 May 2026 at the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire. Professor Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. For more info:
applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 12d

🆕 Why don’t farmers grow more profitable crops?

Today on VoxDev, Andre Groeger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) discuss agricultural productivity in Vietnam: https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/why-dont-farmers-grow-more-profitable-crops

Why don’t farmers grow more profitable crops?

Agricultural productivity in developing countries remains low and uneven, with high-return crops offering significant potential gains but limited adoption due to clustered social networks that restrict the diffusion of new technologies.

voxdev.org

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CESifo @cesifo.org · 12d

Submit your paper by 30 September (23:59 CET) 👇

CESifo @cesifo.org · Aug 22

📣We will jointly organize the 1st Workshop on the 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 on 𝟱 - 𝟲 𝗗𝗲𝗰 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱. Submissions are now open! Keynotes: @gathmannch.bsky.social & Tania Babina.

ℹ️https://www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/event/2025-12-05/cesifo-transform-workshop-economic-and-societal-impacts-ai
#TransforM

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · 12d

In today's blog, I discuss 3 ways for international migration to be part of a structural transformation policy: 1) as an industry itself; 2) training people abroad in the skills to develop a new industry at home; and 3) through immigration (eg Start-up Chile) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

International Migration as a Structural Transformation Policy

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Online Spatial & Urban Seminar @osus-info.bsky.social · 15d

📣 Join us Monday at 11:30 ET for an @osus-info.bsky.social seminar!

Allison Green (LSE) presents “Networks and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from World War II Navy Ships ” (osus.info)

Yanos Zylberberg and Gabriel Loumeau will be our panelists!

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Michèle Belot @michelebelot.bsky.social · 15d

Join us in 30 minutes: AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Jobs, Skills, Wages, and Productivity;
alumni.cornell.edu/event/ai-at-...

AI at Work 2025 - Alumni, parents, and friends | Cornell University

AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Jobs, Skills, Wages, and Productivity Friday, September 26, 2025 | Noon – 1:00 p.m. EDT | Zoom Webinar REGISTER FOR THE … Read more

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GLOBALCIT @globalcit.bsky.social · 16d

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit

Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

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Anna Bindler @annabindler.bsky.social · 18d

This is an exciting week full of research events! 🥳

We start with the 9th PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics at the University of Potsdam. @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to meeting the PhD students and to our keynote lecture given by wonderful @amandayagan.bsky.social.

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 18d

🚨 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 – One Week Left to Submit: #CDSM2025 🚨

📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (Virtual)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

We welcome:
✅ Presentation proposals
✅ Extended abstracts
✅ Full papers

📧 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼: [email protected]
🌐 Register or learn more: www.causalscience.org

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Andre Groeger @andregroeger.bsky.social · 20d

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · 20d

Forthcoming article "The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies" by and @andregroeger.bsky.social and Yanos Zylberberg
@eeanews.bsky.social

Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies

Abstract. This paper studies how social networks (might fail to) shape agricultural practices. We exploit (1) a unique census of agricultural production ne

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 21d

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

via @florianederer.bsky.social

How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled
Immigration Affect Offshoring?
Evidence from the H-1B Program
Britta Glennon
WORKING PAPER 27538
DOI 10.3386/w27538
ISSUE DATE July 2020
REVISION DATE February
2023
Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

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