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This is a repost of my original thread about Trump's election, which has since disappeared. This time I am reposting it is a single message. I feel anxious and saddened by Trump’s election. Years of turmoil and uncertainty await us. I have also come to believe that this is not

I understand the academic impetus to move to a new platform. But I think it is bad for the commons if all the academics disappear and only talk to each other. We need your good ideas to be shared widely as much we ever did.

📢We're hiring a pre-doc to work on Malengo Inc.! Join Matthias Sutter Marcello Perez-Alvarez Merve Demirel Philipp Moskopp & me in studying the effects of international educational migration. Send us your application by Dec 8. Johannes Haushofer Econ RA Listings

BÆM is back! Come and join us in beautiful Bristol for the 2nd edition of the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings: Development Economics: May 6-7 Gender, Diversity, and Human Capital: May 8-9 Submit your paper by Feb 28. Travel support is available. baem.info. 1/4

In summer 2023, Harvard Business School suspended a star professor, Francesca Gino, over charges of research misconduct. By coincidence, one of her affected papers also had some funny-looking data from a *different* B-school superstar, Dan Ariely... (1/3)

I'm doing a TEDxZagreb talk on domestic abuse today and stepping out of my comfort zone. If you are in Zagreb and want to come, send me a DM.

New paper on the politics of inflation (with Cathrin Mohr Jonathan Federle) We study 365 elections in 18 countries since 1948 & show how inflation surprises boost vote shares of extremist & populist parties Paper tinyurl.com/u2xydtuy Christoph Trebesch Stefanie Stantcheva Kiel Institute (IfW Kiel)

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Population Change in Britain and Ireland (1821–2019)

Advice on publishing in economics and science journals. That was the title of the wonderful panel that Nick Bloom put together for the AEA meetings. The brilliant Mary Elizabeth Erzo F.P. Luttmer and #orleyashenfelter joined me on the panel. Many of you have asked for my slides.

How much should we spend to reduce A.I.'s existential risk? We spent around 4% of GDP to mitigate deaths from Covid-19... A new paper: web.stanford.edu/~chadj/reduce_…

But I don’t need to tell you lots of stuff differs between “WEIRD” Western and non-Western cultures. Even the importance of happiness itself differs between Western and non-Western cultures. Joe Henrich Steven Heine

I wrote about how you can streamline your workflow using VS Code—check it out here: esmaozer.github.io/resources/all_…

Increased news coverage of immigration in France pushed people with moderate views toward more extreme positions, says Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski of University of Exeter Business School. We spoke with her about how the media polarizes viewers. #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/media…

Submit your work using AI in the social sciences to the annual AI in Social Science conference at The University of Chicago! Submissions due May 1! The conference will be held September 25-26 in Chicago, IL, USA. Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Harris Policy MiiE Lab bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event/c…

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We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Economists: people don't understand marginal tax. If your tax rate increases above £100,000, you don't suddenly lose money when you earn £100,001 UK tax system: hold my beer

Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed free speech prophet, restricts Turkish accounts on X that call for protests in Turkey against Imamoglu’s detention, following requests from the government.

Honored that SHAMANISM has been named one of the best books of the month by TIME! "Blending memoir, investigative journalism, and anthropological fieldwork, Shamanism is a deep dive into a religious tradition that is as mysterious as it is timeless." ~3 weeks until it's out!