ONLINE tomorrow: @guygrossman.bsky.social will present our new paper on the effects aid cuts for refugees. We follow 5400 households over 2 years and leverage a regression discontinuity design in Uganda. We find that self-reliance policies are not enough to mitigate the negative impact of cuts.
Shelby Carvalho
I'll be presenting tomorrow at 11am EST a new paper at the ONLINE Science of International Migration Seminar (SIMS), organized by Stanford IPL and ETH. Paper title: "Aid cuts for refugees reduce welfare without increasing self-reliance."
To register:
immigrationlab.org/science-of-i...
Looking forward to hosting the 2026 meeting of the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) on May 8 with Jamie Hintson, @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social & Nic Wicaksono. Please submit your papers and research designs if you're in the region!
Look what I found in the mail today, just in time for blizzard reading. Massive congratulations, @melinaplatas.bsky.social! It’s a beauty
I wish everyone considering not to vaccinate their child read this: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
1/ At 17 weeks pregnant, Emily Waldorf was suddenly faced with a life-threatening situation: Her baby’s foot was dipping out of her cervix.
Doctors told her the longer her cervix stayed open, the higher her risk of infection.
They knew how to treat her. There was one issue … 🧵
Oh my. This is spectacular.
sinceyouarrived.world/taken
Pia Raffler
I have a new paper. We look at ~all stats articles in political science post-2010 & show that 94% have abstracts that claim to reject a null. Only 2% present only null results. This is hard to explain unless the research process has a filter that only lets rejections through.
27 January 1933 | A German Jewish boy, Lutz Ludwig Grünstein, was born in Berlin.
He was deported to #Auschwitz from the #Theresienstad ghetto on 9 October 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after selection.
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Children at Auschwitz:
📖 Lesson: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars?
These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research.
So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...
Ross Floate
ProPublica
🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program"
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3
w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh
#econtwitter #econsky
Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor
market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...
www.pnas.org
Auschwitz Memorial
Ryan Briggs
John Holbein
Moritz Marbach
Deadline for submission to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) at Harvard is March 27. Please apply! @nlnathan.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @piaraffler.bsky.social @scrosenzweig.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social
Link:
forms.gle/7R9PkFWEZTc6...
