Fabulous new paper! 👏🏽👏🏽 I hear many rush to interpret it broadly in terms of "industrial policy". Ok. I'd rather choose to emphasize what it more strictly shows: the crucial importance of export promotion in export development, and of doing it right. No more, no less.

Impresionante trabajo👇🏾sobre el rol de las oficinas en el exterior de la agencia de promoción de exportaciones "Kotra" en el crecimiento exportador coreano y sobre la diferencia que hace tener agentes públicos atentos a las oportunidades en los mercados de destino. 🧵

Thrilled to share my JMP #EconTwitter! Cities in poor LMICs often make news for toxic air, but limited budgets constrain action. Can reducing pollution increase aggregate incomes and help ease budget constraints? Can targeting specific sources produce larger income gains? 👇1/

Thanks for featuring my JMP "Bureaucrats and the Korean Export Miracle" (w @EuijungJay ) in the amazing development impact blog! For anyone who missed it, find here the thread I posted a few days ago: x.com/philippbartesk… Full paper here: philippbarteska.com/files/KOTRA.pdf

Today, UK government announced major changes to legal immigration: raising minimum skilled worker salary and income requirement for spouse visa to over £38K! Wondering about effects of such policies?! Check out my JMP!

Had a great time presenting my JMP at #FirmsTradeDev. I really enjoyed getting to see such a broad set of papers on firms and trade in economic development. A big thank you to the organizers for putting together such a stimulating set of presentations!

NEW: "Demand-Side Constraints in Development. The Role of Market Size, Trade, and (In)Equality" By Pinelopi Goldberg & @TristanReed_, in Econometrica: economics.yale.edu/research/presi…

Trade not aid? In the early 2000s, the African Growth & Opportunity Act, aka #AGOA, unleashed a brief boom in African manufacturing. The China shock killed it. As Congress debates renewing AGOA, can it be revived? New paper w/ Arvind Subramanian: cgdev.org/publication/lo… 1/

La importancia de tener funcionarios experimentados y altamente profesionalizados en en el exterior para promover las exportaciones 🇦🇷 y generar divisas para el país: evidencias del caso 🇰🇷, cortesía de Philipp Barteska

An oft-ignored factor behind Korea's growth miracle: "The Korean total of $6 billion in US economic grants and loans, 1946-1978, compares to $6.89 billion for all of Africa, and $14.89 billion for all of Latin America." — Jung En Woo's Race to the Swift

The program is up for the Columbia University New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference, Nov. 1-2, 2024: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/sites/default/… Featuring talks by Alondra Nelson, Dani Rodrik & Mariana Mazzucato, and many fascinating papers. Registration link here: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/news/new-think…

📢We're hiring! The EBRD's Office of the Chief Economist seeks a Research Economist Open to all career stages: ➡️PhD candidates ➡️Post-docs ➡️Current tenure-track/tenured faculty econjobmarket.org/positions/10986 aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

The Columbia University New Thinking in Industrial Policy conference is happening tomorrow and Saturday. In-person registration is closed, but here are the livestream links: Day 1 (youtube.com/live/VzdK5dJ_F…), Day 2 (youtube.com/live/O32YQOuog…). Conference page here: cdep.sipa.columbia.edu/content/new-th…

🚨 Excited to share my job market paper! “Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (drive.google.com/file/d/1ksDE04…) It has been awarded the EEA/UniCredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award. A thread summarising my findings 👇(1/13)

Two postdoc opportunities on industrial policy Columbia University: 1. Center for Political Economy's Firms & Industrial Policy Idea Lab: cwp.submittable.com/submit/303472/… Deadine: Dec 2. 2. Columbia's Initiative for Policy Dialogue: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph… Official deadline today (11/25)! Please spread word.

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between research and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself? Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) against women worldwide is a major public health and inequality concern. It's not clear what causes IPV, or how to reduce it. Gaby Deschamps' JMP notes that IPV is positively correlated with motherhood, and asks if we can understand why.

🚨New working paper🚨 “The Political Costs of Taxation” with Joseph Enguehard & Igor Kolesnikov When a state has low capacity and legitimacy, attempts to enforce unfair taxation can fuel social conflict! Some key findings: 🧵 1/10

🧵Gordon Hanson, Dani Rodrik, and my chapter for NBER's upcoming volume on place-based policy. We discuss the history of innovations in place-based policies in the US & unpack the "supply chains" through which these policies are implemented | nber.org/papers/w33511

Come and work with me in lovely Lisbon! I’m hiring a full-time predoc research associate to work on exciting projects on discrimination, AI and health, and social media use in LMICs. Please share and apply! (Link in next tweet) #econra #econtwitter #econsky