One of my students asked me for book recommendations. They're looking for popular econ books -- the kind that are both fun to read, and which give you some new insight into the world. So I'm compiling a list of recommended popular econ books. Lemme ask: What books would YOU

🎉 I just wrapped up teaching the Introduction to GIS Programming course this semester at the University of Tennessee! All course materials and lecture recordings (26 hours) are freely available online. Explore the links below to dive into #geospatial 🌍 data visualization and

Join us in Reading, Pennsylvania, for the 2025 Pennsylvania Economic Association (PEA) Annual Conference (May 29 to May 31). The registration link is here: econpea.org/pea/conference/ (Reading Pagoda Photo Credit: Albright College).

In this blog, we discuss how migration can help balance the demographic divergence between countries though bilateral labor agreements. They can be a great instrument, esp when combined with skills dev & match, and strong implementation capacity. wrld.bg/1sJJ50UY5iX

We hear a lot about failed efforts to promote economic development. So I thought I’d highlight evidence on VoxDev of some policy success stories that you might not have heard of, where governments in Colombia, India & Mexico have improved welfare through policy 🧵 1/10

Join us this Thursday as Azharul Islam from The University of Texas at Dallas presents his Job Market Paper: 📢 "Decomposition of Consumer Sentiment and the Effects of Its Cyclical Component" Register here: sites.google.com/view/phd-evs20…

New report just dropped. Time for a thread. You can find the replication report and the author's response in the linked thread (in the second tweet).

Who are these people in civilian cloths and cars kidnapping a student off the street? And how are we letting this happen? 😡😡😡

"Vaccines aren't actually responsible for the reduction in infectious diseases" say Joe Rogan's guests And he believes them Meanwhile in the real world 👇👇

I just hope I got everything right because it took a while and my eyes were itching at the end lol diddigest.substack.com/p/a-few-papers…

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

The EdDev Community Group will meet on next Friday at 11 AM ET. Palaash Bhargava & Rubina Hundal will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group today aefpweb.org/community_grou…

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Tufts University is thrilled to host the North East Development Consortium (NEUDC) Conference on November 8-9, 2025! 📝 Call for Papers: Submissions start June 16, and end August 17. Submit your papers here: editorialexpress.com/conference/Tuf… 📌More details to come! #NEUDC #NEUDC2025

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#AMIE won’t exist without the generous help of amazing mentors in the profession! Please do apply to be a mentor and help young scholars! Deadline is July 11! AMIE AEA Journals NBER CSWEP J-PAL Royal Economic Society

Causal inference is all the rage. But good descriptive research is vital. This new article lays out an argument for what makes good descriptive research.

4 findings from our experimenting with policymakers paper, finally published in World Development last month (a mere 3.5 years after the CGD working paper version) ...

Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from Amory Gethin and Emmanuel Saez nber.org/papers/w34217

I’ve also updated my undergraduate course on unemployment for Fall 2025: pascalmichaillat.org/v/ All materials — lecture videos, notes, readings, homework — are freely available. This update includes new readings about the labor market in Europe & the developing world.