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Great to see our practical guide to shift-share instruments wiht Kirill Borusyak and Peter Hull out in the Journal of Economic Perspectives today 👇👇👇 pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10…

Policymakers cannot solely rely on high-return farmers and market prices to increase the dissemination of agricultural technologies 🚜🌾 Read this week's article by Mai Mahmoud (J-PAL MENA) to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/agricult…

A new malpractice scandal is brewing in development economics. We should ask: What is the role of co-authors who had access to all of the shady data (and more), were happy to claim "all authors contributed equally" when these were top publications, and now quietly disavow and

Big kudos to this team for doing the work of uncovering what looks like large-scale research malpractice. Some highlights in this thread.

These images are all from Dollarstreet. A very cool website where you can see how people live around the world and at different incomes. You can check it out here: gapminder.org/dollar-street

"We introduce a new methodology to detect and measure economic activity using geospatial data." NEW in NBER, by Anton Yang, Jianwei Ai, and Costas Arkolakis: nber.org/papers/w33619

🐦 Just accepted 🐦 in JAERE: "Infrastructure, Institutions, and the Conservation of Biodiversity in India" by Raahil Madhok (Raahil Madhok) Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

🆕 Just accepted 🆕 in JAERE: "The Distributional Consequences of Incomplete Regulation" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes Read it here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

We are back! EEE Summer School @ Berkeley! 🔗 Info + application: auffhammer.com/summer-school📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 We especially encourage early stage Ph.D. students with possible interest in EEE topics! Must be enrolled in North American Econ"ish" Ph.D. program.

Every year South Asia’s brick kilns spew as much CO₂ as the entire U.S. car fleet. They poison the air 2B people breathe—and kill over 50,000 annually A new study in Science supported by Stanford Impact Labs Open Philanthropy & J-PAL shows how simple fixes can clean air & cut emissions🧵⬇️

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

Every econ referee report should include two scores out of 100: (1) Accuracy; (2) Importance. These scores should be public and should follow the papers. This would have all kinds of benefits: 1. It would reduce the incentive to submit to all 5 top five journals 🧵 1/n

Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones.

Deadline just a few weeks away. Apply now! Nishith Prakash Jessica Leight Priya Mukherjee

📢Registration is now open for #NEUDC2025! Conference registration link is available here: neudc2025.com The last day for paper submission is August 17 and the last day for registration is October 17. #NEUDC #EconTwitter

On March 18-20, 2026 at OIST, DHI Workshop 2025 on Macroeconomics, Health Economics, Labor and Family Economics, Public Policy, Demography, and Sustainability. Submission deadline: September 15, 2025 oist.jp/conference/dhi…

Excited to announce a new funding opportunity for research on "what works" in climate adaptation. We are specifically looking for strong causal designs that tell us what interventions work (or don't) to reduce impacts of a changing climate. Link in next post. Plz share!

China just rolled out a new childcare subsidy to tackle its record-low birth rate. I spoke with CNN about what this means—and why cash alone might not be enough. edition.cnn.com/2025/08/05/chi…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Climate and migration in the United States" By Patrick Baylis, Prashant Bharadwaj, Jamie T. Mullins, & Nick Obradovich sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics