Laura A. Harvey

🧵 UPDATED WP OUT 🧵What happens when you pay disadvantaged teenagers to stay in school? We evaluated England's Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), which paid low-income 16-19 year olds up to £1,400/year to remain in education. @theifs.bsky.social @nickridpath.bsky.social

Thoroughly enjoyed @itsafronomics.bsky.social talk at kings x @resmedia.bsky.social! It was followed by a wonderful and fruitful online discussion. If you’re able to get to one of the below events you should!

📢Registrations for the RES Annual Public Lecture #APL2025 are now open.
🗓️19 November 2025
⏰10:00-15:30 (approx.) with the lecture closing the event
🗣️Andy Haldane, Royal Society of Arts
📍 @lborouniversity.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/3TSejIj

Register today!

#EconSky #EconEvents #schools

Discrimination & Diversity Workshop The 5th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop will take place on Monday, 2 June and Tuesday, 3 June 2025. Programme

Day 1 of DnD workshop today! 5th edition already - I love this community we have built and I am sure the next 2 days will be awesome! 🤩
There is still time to join us - sign up here sites.google.com/view/dnd-wor...

🚨 The 5th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop will be held via Zoom on 2–3 June 2025.

Keynotes: Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti.

Sessions on LGBTQ+, Gender, AI, Environment, and Migration. See below for more details 👇

Programme & free registration: tinyurl.com/2nhcr79s

Animal Behaviour Collective - Open Collective We are a collective of animal behaviour researchers organising microgrants and mentorship for undergraduate & graduate students in animal behaviour.

Hey #EconSky

I would like to set up a microgrants for phd-students and postdocs in econ. I.e. microgrants for submission fees, conf fees etc.

Q: Does something like that already exist?

@climent.bsky.social @joshua-goodman.com @dynarski.bsky.social @ckronenberg.bsky.social

Bank of England backs scheme to put more economics teachers into state schools Initial training to be offered in north-west England, as report shows disparities in access to the subject

Many disadvantaged pupils are missing out on the opportunity to study economics.

Whether a student can study a subject should not be determined by their background, where they live, or the school they attend.

A positive move from @bankofengland.bsky.social ⬇️

Congratulations to Stefanie Stantcheva (@s-stantcheva.bsky.social) of @harvard.edu, winner of the 2025 John Bates Clark Medal! #econsky www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/ho...

Charts show the effect of the EMA on qualifications and annual earnings. Title states: "The Education Maintenance Allowance did not improve attainment or earnings for disadvantaged students."

NEW: The Education Maintenance Allowance, a weekly cash transfer to disadvantaged students aged 16-19, did not improve their long-run outcomes.

The EMA only provided around 40p of benefits to students for every £1 spent.

THREAD on our new @nuffieldfoundation.org-funded report:

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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

📣📣📣Job Alert 📣📣📣

Come work with me on children’s health and human capital!

@iseressex.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

🗓️2 year Post-Doc, start Oct 2025
📝Apply by 23 March
🔗More info: tinyurl.com/y54tuds3, or contact me.

Join us at Essex! Please share 👋

✨ There is still time to submit your papers! ✨
We have an awesome line up of speakers and a great community to showcase your work to! ✨
Deadline: 17th March

🥳RES is pleased to announce that a judging panel has awarded this year’s RES Medal for Services to the Economics Profession to Prof Sarah Smith @bristoluni.bsky.social
Sarah will receive her medal at this year’s RES Annual Conference in July.

Read👉 https://buff.ly/4jGglH0

#EconSky #RESMedal

📣We are delighted to announce that the host for the RES 2025 #AnnualPublicLecture will be @lborouniversity.bsky.social with speaker Andy Haldane!

Thank you to all those who submitted an expression of interest to host the APL!
Read👉 https://buff.ly/4gRA9ph

#EconSky #APL

#EconSky we need your help!
We are organising a workshop in June on The Impact of Generative AI on Economics Education.

Could you help to shape this, by filling this quick anonymous survey on the current use and your perspectives on genAI? forms.office.com/e/bPsUrmNQ2v

Thanks!

#TechEcon

I have moved my open textbook on inequality research to a new address:
https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/

(The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)

Department for Education Curriculum and Assessment Review: Royal Economic Society and Discover Economics Response - Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society has released a short summary in response to the Department for Education’s Curriculum and Assessment Review.

Click here to read more - res.org.uk/department-f...

I fully support @resmedia.bsky.social @discoverecon.bsky.social response to the DfE Curriculum and Assessment Review. Basic economic literacy should be part of the national curriculum. It is essential for democratic participation and to ensure that children are given the best start in life.

RES Women’s Committee Mentoring Programme: Call for Mentees - Royal Economic Society The Royal Economic Society Women’s Committee is running its mentoring programme for early career women working/studying in academia.

🚨DEADLINE EXTENDED - RES Women’s Committee is seeking mentees for their #mentoringprogramme for #earlycareer women working/studying in #academia.

⏰Deadline is 31 December 2024
👉 bit.ly/3YrieiB

#EconSky #RESEvents #Mentorship #EconPhD

Discrimination & Diversity Workshop The 5th Discrimination and Diversity Workshop will take place on Monday, 2 June and Tuesday, 3 June 2025.

More information and to submit your papers:

sites.google.com/view/dnd-wor...

🚨 CfP: 5th Discrimination & Diversity Workshop, 2-3 Jun '25

Keynotes by Alexander Cappelen & Claudia Olivetti, Sessions on LGBTQ+ (chaired by Billur Aksoy), Gender (Pamela Campa), AI (Andreas Leibbrandt), Environment (Katrin Millock) and Migration (@jeromevalette.bsky.social)

Deadline: 17 Mar '25

🎙️Level 3 results day blog post 🎙️

Bouncing off the runway blogs.ucl.ac.uk/cepeo/2024/0...

by @jakeanders.uk @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and @gillwyness.bsky.social

Today’s results will be good news for many pupils, but continue to show vast inequality by school type, region, and gender. 📈📉

As the A-level results are out today, a reminder of our analysis of the challenges facing further and higher education.
By Sandra McNally, Gu Ventura and Gill Wyness

cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICA...

After coediting AER: Insights for about eight months, I wanted to share some (hopefully useful) information about this awesome journal.

📈📉Tues 7:30 EST come watch some zoom talks on Sterotypes as part of the Discrimination & Diversity Confernece exe.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🚨Call for Papers! 🚨
Send us your best papers on discrimination and diversity ✨