@andregroeger
Associate Professor of Economics @UABBarcelona & @bse_barcelona. #ERC_STG #RUSTDEC. Development, Labor, Agriculture, Environment, Urban, Migration, Climate Change, Conflict, #geospatial PhD @goetheuni #FirstGen https://sites.google.com/site/andregroeger/
📢 Call for Papers | ReCIPE
🗓 Deadline: 31 March 2026
ReCIPE is pleased to collaborate with Empirical Studies of Conflict (ESOC) for their Annual Conference on 6-7 November in Paris!
🔗 The call for papers is here: grp.cepr.org/events/esoc-...
#EconSky
Video of my talk about this chapter at the STEG 2026 Conference in Nairobi is here (from 1:56.00 to 2:52.30): www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEDi...
I also discuss my new paper with Ritam Chaurey, Gaurav Nayyar, and Siddharth Sharma on learning spillovers in Bangladesh: www.columbia.edu/%7Eev2124/re...
📢 Job opportunities
🔹 LISER is currently recruiting 2 Pre-Doctoral Researchers (f/m) to join the @erc.europa.eu-project “Rural Structural Transformation in Developing Countries” #RUSTDEC, under the leadership of Dr. @andregroeger.bsky.social
⏳ Deadline: 15/03/2026
🔗 jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...
📢 11th DENeB PhD Workshop 📢
taking place on April 17, 2026, in Berlin, hosted at
@isdcberlin.bsky.social
We’re excited to welcome Karlijn Morsink as our keynote speaker!
Sponsored by
@Geo_X_
🔗 Apply by February 27, 2026
⬇️ Links in the comments! ⬇️
The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files.
This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
Deadline this week! #econsky #econconf
📢 Are you a PhD students working on Development Economics? Come to Berlin to present your paper at the 11th DENeB PhD workshop. Apply here drive.google.com/file/d/1HQCK... by *Feb 27th*
No fee. Please share this call. Previous editions & all DENeB activities here: www.deveconberlin.org
Hi #econsky. This is the last week to submit your best work on policy evaluation at the COMPIE conference and join us in Paris on June 24-26, 2026.
Deadline: February 28!
Submit at: editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conf...
Keynotes:
@pedrosantanna.bsky.social
@michelag.bsky.social
Only one week left to propose a paper for the joint economic history-Indigenous economics meeting August 21-23 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories.
Send 1-2 page extended abstract to David Rosé (darose@wlu.ca) & Rob Gillezeau (rob.gillezeau@rotman.utoronto.ca) by February 27!
economichistory.ca
Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year ❤️
📢 Call for Papers | LSE–Kiel–CEPR Conference on Defence Economics 🗓 29–30 April 2026 | London
Jointly with LSE & @cepr.org we are inviting research on defence, war & military economics across all fields
❗️ Deadline: February 25, 2026 ❗️
👉 cepr.org/events/lse-k...
📢 Call for Abstracts!
3rd Workshop on the Economics of Health and Human Capital
📍 Madrid, 18 June 2026 @FundacionAreces
🎤 Keynote: Gabriella Conti (UCL)
🗓️ 15 Apr (submit) | 4 May (decision) | 7 Jun (full paper)
No fee; lunch & coffee provided.
More info: sites.google.com/uji.es/madri...
Nice coverage--and replication--of our working paper "Aid, Interrupted" by @leecrawfurd.bsky.social in a revlcent @cgdev.org blog post.
Here is the link to the current version of the paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
New Blog for CGD:
US Aid Cuts Fueled Conflict in Africa
www.cgdev.org/blog/us-aid-...
👋 Don't forget to submit your papers to the Linnaeus Inequality Summit! 👉 New deadline: March 6.
📢 2026 @novafrica.bsky.social #NovaSBE PhD Summer School
"Practical issues in designing and analyzing field experiments"
Taught by #DavidMcKenzie (WorldBank)
📅 June 22–24
👉 Apply by March 31
Learn more: url-shortener.me/B4DA
#NOVAFRICA2026 Conference:
tinyurl.com/uzc7dyc8
Apply and join us for this year’s @NovaSBE PhD Summer School in Development Economics!
#EconSky
📢 New free virtual course | ReCIPE
Key Concepts for Economies in Conflict and Fragile Settings (Part 2) - starting 2 March 2026
When: Mondays, 15:00–16:00 GMT
Format: Virtual + Recording available
🔗 More info: grp.cepr.org/recipe/cours...
📝 Register here: cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
IZA@LISER Summer School in Labor Economics 2026 When: From: MON, 1 JUN 2026, 10:00 AM To: WED, 3 JUN 2026, 5:00 PM Where: In person Remich, Luxembourg
#EconConf #TeachEcon #EconSky #FundSocSci #econ_ra
Only2️⃣days left to submit a paper for the 1st Human Capital Conference! @tse-fr.eu #CallForPapers #EconSky #EconConf
📢 Call for papers!
We are organizing the 6th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 14-15 May 2026 at King’s College London!
Keynote: Shanker Satyanath (NYU)
No fee, travel grants might become available!
Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpe2026
Recently accepted by #QJE: “Insuring peace: Index-based livestock insurance, droughts, and conflict,” by Gehring (@kaigehring.bsky.social) and Schaudt (@paulschaudt.bskz.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
🚨 1 Week to Go! | #2026NOVAFRICA Conference on Economic Development
⏰Submit your paper by Feb 15, 2026!
🗓️ June 18–19 | Lisbon, Portugal
🎓 Keynotes: Abhijit Banerjee (@MIT), Isaac Mbiti (@NotreDame), Sandra Sequeira (#LSE)
🔗 Submit: bit.ly/4pKGkjs
#NOVAFRICA2026 #CallForPapers
Best Paper #Prize in Public Policy Evaluation by FBK-IRVAPP @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social - papers by doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, or assistant professors are expected to apply counterfactual techniques to public policy evaluation. LINK: irvapp.fbk.eu/it/call-for-...
Call for papers for the Migration Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
bse.eu/summer-forum...
📅 Dates: 8-9 June 2026
Keynotes: Leah Boustan & Sam Bazzi
Organizers: L. Farré, J. Fernández-Huertas Moraga, A. Glitz, A. Groeger, J. Llull, J. Monràs
⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
@bsebarcelona.bsky.social
Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026
Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF).
⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
📣 Call for Papers:
🗓️ 23-24 April 2026 at LSE
Submit full papers: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p
Please share with colleagues & early-career researchers!
⏰One week left! Deadline approaching for our Early-Career Conference on Political Dimensions of Urban and Rural Life (April 23-24 at LSE).
Submit your paper: forms.office.com/e/9qVWeNTK0p
Looking forward to some great papers! ✨
Please, SHARE: The call is out for the course for #PhD students on "Panel Data for Causal Research Designs" (Bertinoro, 29 June – 3 July 2026), organized by @fbk-irvapp.bsky.social and the SIdE - Italian #Econometric Association - link: www.side-iea.it/events/cours... #EconSky 📉📈