The University of California, San Diego invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Data Science and Public Policy: higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?Jo… #PAJobMarket

Finding official sub-national GDP data is a nightmare. I've spent years researching this. Here's a comprehensive list of official sub-national GDP sources for 50+ countries, I wish I had 5 years ago:

Top recipient countries for #remittances in 2023 were: 🇮🇳 India ($125 billion) 🇲🇽 Mexico ($67 billion) 🇨🇳 China ($50 billion) 🇵🇭 The Philippines ($40 billion) 🇪🇬 Egypt ($24 billion). Read more about #migration and development: wrld.bg/o6OY50QjUEz

Some extreme weather in Houston tonight.

Increases in visas for nurses from the Philippines caused a brain gain, rather than brain drain, of nurses. In the January 2024 issue, by Caroline Theoharides (Caroline Theoharides), Paolo Abarcar (Paolo Abarcar) zurl.co/7RFZ

Download our data! We have been surveying Indonesian voters every week for the past three months and will continue to do so for the next ten months.

***Academic Job*** I'm hiring a post-doc (starting this fall) as part of building out a lab model re: conflict and development at Emory. Open broadly but Asia is bulk of agenda right now. ABDs & recent grads please submit apps by June 15th apply.interfolio.com/145540

"The @HarvardGovernm1 seeks to appoint a tenure-track professor in Government specializing in Political Methodology or Formal Theory." I (and some former colleagues of mine no longer there!) strongly recommend applying to this postdoc position😂 academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/13875 Joke

🚨Public good alert! 🚨#EconTwitter The public-use NUMIDENT is now available for download with nearly 50 million death records and 25 million claims records (1936-2007)! Link: doi.org/10.3886/E20720… 🧵1/N

Call for papers for the 17th annual conference on migration and development, this year to be held in Bologna on Dec 9/10. Submissions due Sept 20. Always an excellent conference & has featured some of the best work on the topic. Keynotes are Dean Yang & Sandra.Sequeira

2024 Winter SEAREG Fellows nominations are due Oct. 4! If you are or know an advanced PhD student or newly minted PhD in social sciences w/ outstanding promise as a scholar of SE Asia, please submit your nomination! Nominate: duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0q… 📷2024 Summer Fellows

Blog your job market paper 2024: submissions now open - our 14th year of publishing posts by PhD students on the development job market (submissions due Nov 6) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Yesterday, I presented the preliminary results of our project funded by Russell Sage Foundation at University of Hawaii at Manoa where some of my interviewees and other members of the community attended. It was great to get feedback from them. I was so anxious. I’ve always felt more nervous presenting

Congrats to our newest cohort of SEAREG Fellows! Kuan-Wu Chen, McCausland College of Arts and Sciences Hui-Yuan Neo, Cornell Government Jae Hyun Park, Political Science Tuwanont Phattharathanasut, 早稲田大学 Waseda University Shourya Sen, Princeton Politics They will present their working papers at the 2024 Winter SEAREG Conference.

2 days left to apply! 👇🏻

Applications for our Pre-Dissertation Fellowship are now being accepted! The award (up to $5,000) assists social science PhD students who must travel to Southeast Asia for their research. Info + to apply: dcid.sanford.duke.edu/seareg-pre-dis…

📢We are pleased to share the report, “Improving the Publication Process in Economics” prepared by an ad-hoc joint AEA Journals EEA The Econometric Society RES committee - Joseph Altonji, Kevin Lang, Erzo F.P. Luttmer, Imran Rasul, Stefanie Stantcheva, Romain Wacziarg and chair Guido Imbens. Read

🧵 Proud to share our new paper in American Political Science Review (open access)! We used a field experiment to test how contact with citizens shapes POLICE OFFICER attitudes then developed inductive theory about when it works v. backfires. Paper w/ Matthew Nanes & Nico Ravanilla

The Department of Politics & Public Admin The University of Hong Kong is hosting an empirical research conference May 16-17. We aim to bring together scholars doing exciting, cutting-edge research in Asia & beyond. HKU PPA will cover transport & accommodation for nonlocal presenters. Details:

Today we are sharing work from Nico Ravanilla, Renard Sexton, & Dotan Haim. The trio studied government efforts to provide services & build trust w/ communities in a rural, conflict-affected region in the #Philippines during the COVID19 pandemic. buff.ly/wP6XecY