Klaus Desmet (@klausvanieper) 's Twitter Profile
Klaus Desmet

@klausvanieper

Economist @SMU, @nberpubs, and @cepr_org, Alum @Stanford, @uclouvain_be, @UWCUSA and @CollegeIeper

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Online Spatial & Urban Seminar (@osus_info) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢TODAY! Join us Online Spatial & Urban Seminar at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)! Levi Crews (UCLA) presents “Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use” (osus.info) Hosted by Urban Economics Association #EconTwitter

📢TODAY! Join us <a href="/osus_info/">Online Spatial & Urban Seminar</a> at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)!

Levi Crews (UCLA) presents “Agriculture, Trade, and the Spatial Efficiency of Global Water Use”  (osus.info)

Hosted by <a href="/UrbanEconomics/">Urban Economics Association</a> 
#EconTwitter
Rocío Madera (@elpuntoderocio) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢A reminder that we are hiring! Come join our lunch table at SMU Economics next year🌞. 🚨Last few days: apply by ➡️November 15⬅️ to ensure full consideration! We are interested in candidates with a research focus in *applied/theoretical metrics*. aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

📢A reminder that we are hiring! Come join our lunch table at <a href="/SMUEconDept/">SMU Economics</a> next year🌞.

🚨Last few days: apply by ➡️November 15⬅️ to ensure full consideration! We are interested in candidates with a research focus in *applied/theoretical metrics*.

aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…
Joseph Shapiro (@_josephshapiro) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Exciting--our work on electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act is the lead front page NYT story, paragraph 2 (link below👇)

Exciting--our work on electric vehicles and the Inflation Reduction Act is the lead front page NYT story, paragraph 2 (link below👇)
Petra Moser (@pmoserecon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#EconTwitter please spread the word about this amazing two-year pre-doc opportunity. Research with/for faculty is optional, not required. Instead, we help prepare you for your PhD apps, with advising, classes, etc.. Deadline 11/15: stern.nyu.edu/programs-admis…

Klaus Desmet (@klausvanieper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢#CallForPapers 📷Deadline: 15 December 2024 CEPR Workshop on Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict, organized by @j_fgomes and Klaus Desmet in Brussels on 23-24 June 2025. Confirmed speakers Elias Papaioannou, Marta Reynal, Moses Shayo and Mathias Thoenig

📢#CallForPapers 📷Deadline: 15 December 2024 <a href="/cepr_org/">CEPR</a> Workshop on Ethnicity, Identity and Conflict, organized by @j_fgomes and <a href="/klausvanieper/">Klaus Desmet</a> in Brussels on 23-24 June 2025. Confirmed speakers <a href="/EliasPapaioann2/">Elias Papaioannou</a>, Marta Reynal, <a href="/moseshayo/">Moses Shayo</a> and Mathias Thoenig
Royal Economic Society (@royaleconsoc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

📢CALL FOR PAPERS The Economic Journal Special issue: Climate Change and Inequality 📅Deadline: 28 February 2025 Editor: alberto bisin ➡️Learn more and submit: bit.ly/3YKS3lR @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

Stanford King Center on Global Development (@stanfordkingctr) 's Twitter Profile Photo

#Predoctoral Research Fellowship opp: ✅Work with Stanford faculty mentor Allan Hsiao ✅Boost skills ✅Expand networks ✅Strengthen candidacy for top doctoral programs ✅Tuition, health insurance & stipend included Students from developing countries encouraged to apply!

#Predoctoral Research Fellowship opp:
✅Work with Stanford faculty mentor <a href="/AllanHsiao/">Allan Hsiao</a> 
✅Boost skills
✅Expand networks
✅Strengthen candidacy for top doctoral programs
✅Tuition, health insurance &amp; stipend included

Students from developing countries encouraged to apply!
Klaus Desmet (@klausvanieper) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Super resource for anyone interested in doing high-resolution analysis of economic growth and development at a global scale. It will be updated yearly.

Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (@beckerfriedman) 's Twitter Profile Photo

(1/2) Measuring global GDP is challenging, especially in middle- and low-income countries where reliable statistics are scarce. In new research, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg combines nighttime lights, land use, emissions, and a random forest model to estimate subnational GDP.

(1/2) Measuring global GDP is challenging, especially in middle- and low-income countries where reliable statistics are scarce.

In new research, <a href="/HansbergRossi/">Esteban Rossi-Hansberg</a> combines nighttime lights, land use, emissions, and a random forest model to estimate subnational GDP.
NBER (@nberpubs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reviewing a decade of advances in spatial dynamic modeling, with applications to trade, climate, migration, infrastructure investment, structural change, and policy, from Klaus Desmet and Fernando Parro nber.org/papers/w33443

Reviewing a decade of advances in spatial dynamic modeling, with applications to trade, climate, migration, infrastructure investment, structural change, and policy, from <a href="/klausvanieper/">Klaus Desmet</a> and Fernando Parro nber.org/papers/w33443
J-PAL (@jpal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

From the Netherlands to J-PAL LAC, Alipio Ferreira shares his journey as a postdoc in environmental economics, emphasizing the impactful networks and relationships he built along the way. povertyactionlab.org/blog/3-17-25/p…

Urban Economics Association (@urbaneconomics) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including Nathaniel Baum-Snow, Melanie Morten, Alvin Murphy. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…

PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. 

Learn from leading scholars, including <a href="/baum_snow/">Nathaniel Baum-Snow</a>, <a href="/melaniemorten/">Melanie Morten</a>, <a href="/AlvinMurph/">Alvin Murphy</a>. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.

urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…
Ömer Özak (@omerozakecon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy to see our paper with Klaus Desmet and Ignacio Ortuño Ortin in print! Want to learn more about the role of identity and economics in #Secessionism? Check it out! All our data and codes are also available here (doi.org/10.5281/zenodo…).

CEPR (@cepr_org) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20337 On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity Klaus Desmet Klaus Desmet SMU Cox School of Business SMU, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin UC3M Economics, Romain Wacziarg UCLA Anderson School of Management ow.ly/3oR850W6ho3 #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP20337
On the Measurement of Social Heterogeneity
Klaus Desmet <a href="/klausvanieper/">Klaus Desmet</a> <a href="/SMUCox/">SMU Cox School of Business</a> <a href="/SMU/">SMU</a>, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortin <a href="/EconomicsUc3m/">UC3M Economics</a>, Romain Wacziarg <a href="/uclaanderson/">UCLA Anderson School of Management</a>
ow.ly/3oR850W6ho3
#CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
Cowles Foundation (@yalecowles) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Call For Papers! 📢 Papers selected for presentation at our Conference on Spatial Dynamics will have a discussant and will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of the Journal of International Economics (JIE). More info: cowles.yale.edu/events/2025/sp…