You will be greatly missed, Sebastian! 🥹
27.02.2026 10:26
👍 2
🔁 0
💬 0
📌 0
You will be greatly missed, Sebastian! 🥹
Can cities in developing countries create enough good jobs for climate migrants? @gulyssea.bsky.social and @clementimbert.bsky.social show that, over a decade, drought-induced immigration decreases informality and increases the number of formal firms and jobs in Brazil. buff.ly/d3h4E6p
The native workforces of today's wealthiest countries are rapidly disappearing due to fertility that is low and very unlikely to rise—ever, and certainly not in time to make a difference.
The brilliant Lant Pritchett spells out the implications for migration policy:
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
📢 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
Forthcoming in the AER: "Abundance from Abroad: Migrant Income and Long-Run Economic Development" by Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
screenshot of my post
Big new blogpost!
My guide to data visualization, which includes a very long table of contents, tons of charts, and more.
--> Why data visualization matters and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/salonis-gu...
Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!
Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:
forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...
Thread follows!
An Imbens retrospective on experimental v. non-experimental methods — looks like a must-read www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
🆕 From brain drain to brain bridges: How mobile PhD scientists connect home countries to global science
Today on VoxDev w/ Rodrigo Ito @unumerit.bsky.social, Diego Chavarro, Tommaso Ciarli, Robin Cowan (University of Strasbourg) & Fabiana Visentin (Masstricht University): voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
New blog post!
Let's say you have two measures meant to capture the same confounder. They're highly correlated. Can you still proceed with your regression analysis?
(I admit, the title is a bit of a spoiler)
www.the100.ci/2025/10/13/i...
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...
Conference on Migration and Education – Sep 30 | Cabo Verde
NOVAFRICA promotes a discussion on youth & high-skilled migration and its impact on economic development.
w/ #NovaSBE #EconomicsEducationKC @liser.lu & #UnivCaboVerde
Program: bit.ly/4nJoXya
Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/xrv5T0X...
📣 Call for Papers 📣
🌐 15th Annual International Conference on #Immigration in OECD Countries - Dec. 11- 12.
🗣️ With Keynotes from @christinafelfe.bsky.social & @profdaviddorn.bsky.social
⏳ Submit by September 15th
🔗 immigoecd15.sciencesconf.org
#EconSky #EconConf #Migration
New evidence that immigration raises intergenerational mobility, from Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho, Darren Lubotsky, and Jonathan L. Rothbaum https://www.nber.org/papers/w33961
📢 New paper in the Economic Journal (@resmedia.bsky.social):
👉 Differences in patience can account for substantial regional variation in educational achievement within countries
Data on Facebook interests allow us to derive regional measures of patience
academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
A 🧵 1/9
We hosted the SEEDEC symposium together with
@fair-cele.bsky.social, organized by @vincentsomville.bsky.social. We enjoyed keynotes from
@ggenicot.bsky.social and David McKenzie, lively discussions and great presentations. Thank you all who participated!
Giving +$313/mo ($3756/yr) in unconditional cash to low-income U.S. families with new babies doesn't seem to improve the children's development at age 4, per multi-city field experiment by child poverty & development researchers.
Relevant to debates on CTC & baby bonus
www.nber.org/papers/w3384...
Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research
Loving this NY Times article on "The Surprising Ways That Siblings Shape Our Lives."
It features our work showing that, across the globe, older sibs' college choices affect those of their younger sibs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/m...
A cityscape at twilight, from the middle of a street.
1. Can you figure out where I was standing when I took this picture?
ChatGPT could. Given the photograph (scrubbed of all header information), the new chain of thought model, ChatGPT o.3, was able to pinpoint the location with a few meters.
This was a productive episode to do since I remain with the thought that the most important area of science we can be engaged in today is the science of scaling, or the science of using science.
Understanding causality vs. correlation is genuinely hard especially on complex topics like inflation. Our research finds that 60% of Americans think high interest rates cause high inflation & support rate cuts to fight it. But high rates usually respond to inflation,not cause it
What better way to start using this platform than to tell you about our Visiting Program on Migration 🌐. Every month a migration expert visits LISER for a few days. Among other things, we made short videos about their latest research, check them out here 👇:
@liser.lu @liser-cb.bsky.social
1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky
❗Deadline Approaching for SEEDEC 2025!
Don't miss your chance to register for the Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC 2025) in Bonn, Germany!
⏳ Registration deadline: March 1, 2025
🔗 www.nhh.no/en/research-... @vincentsomville.bsky.social
Our practical guide to shift-share IV is now out in the JEP!
www.aeaweb.org/issues/793
(Ungated version: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/el9yn...)
How much student learning do you think a school district could gain just by better assigning its teachers to schools?
Consider a quite politically-feasible change. Do not let district make any assigned teacher worse off, nor change teacher hiring, nor compensation, nor the students.
New evidence!
In case you missed it on the other site: fascinating new [preliminary] RCT evidence that use of chatgpt as an after-school tutoring method in Nigeria *dramatically* shifted learning outcomes #econsky
blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Does the “Boost for Mathematics” Boost Mathematics? A Large-Scale Evaluation of the “Lesson Study” Methodology on Student Performance" by Erik Grönqvist, Björn Öckert, and Olof Rosenqvist. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
I'm very excited to join the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social in January. And we're hiring pre-doc fellows in development economics! Great 1–2 year PhD preparation. Please share widely! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...