So happy to have celebrated the hooding of this year's ARE PhDs! From left to right: Leila Safavi, Qianmiao Chen, Joel Ferguson, Daniel Agness and Jed Silver. Congratulations!!!! Joel Ferguson Michelle (Qianmiao) Chen Daniel Agness Jed Silver 🟣 Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics Berkeley Rausser College of Natural Resources

Mexico's new president elect Claudia Sheinbaum is on Google Scholar. Check her out: scholar.google.com/citations?user…

Mexican Democracy as a contingent outcome of conflicts More a theoretical set of reflections, but my optimist take on the future of democracy in Mexico La contingencia democrática que resuelve conflictos link.medium.com/tPw56WOX9Jb

Very happy to see the World Bank Development Impact blog covering UC-Berkeley JMC Gwyneth Miner's JMP on how to encourage migration in a developing country setting. This tool will become ever more important in the policy toolkit move people to opportunity blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

I love this paper! Congrats Pame! So happy to see it out in print. Pamela Medina Quispe

Congrats Joaquin!!

Happening at UC-Berkeley now! Stand up for science.

📣 Call for papers 📣 19th North American Meeting of the Urban Economics Association October 3 - 4, 2025 Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada Keynotes by Cecile Gaubert and Keith Head Keith Head. Please submit your paper by May 30. urbaneconomics.org/meetings/uea20…

New interview on the blog! Claudio Ferraz talks about the importance of understanding local context and political constraints when studying development policies, among other insights into his career and research. Read the full interview here: econthatmatters.com/2025/04/etrm-i… #econtwitter

What a great location for LACEA 2025! Submit your papers!

📢 Tomorrow! Join us Online Spatial & Urban Seminar at 11:30 ET, 4:30 pm (UK), or 5:30 pm (Euro)! Marco Gonzalez-Navarro (UC Berkeley) presents “Immigration and Slums” (osus.info) Hosted by Urban Economics Association #econtwitter

Welcome to Berkeley, Shifrah! Shifrah's work on how FEMA allocates aid post-disaster and how to improve it is fascinating.

Today Francisco Gallego sites.google.com/view/francisco… leaves his position as scientific diretor for J-PAL LAC after 16 years. Hard to describe everything he did for research and policy evaluation in Chile and LatAm in general in all those years. Gracias Pancho!

A real institution builder. Thanks Pancho!

I love that this interview really looks at the forest - some of the big questions in political economy in developing countries and how research has made headways.

Super interesting graph from NYT today on electric vehicles sales as a share of overall sales in multiple Asian countries. It's astonishing that Nepal is at more than 70% share given their GDP per capita of only $1,447 USD in 2024.