#McGill is trending upward in the latest QS World University rankings by subject. 🌟 The University has three subjects in the global Top 10; seven subjects in the Top 20; 35 subjects in the Top 50; and 47 subjects in the Top 100. 🔗 mcgill.ca/x/w3s

#QSWUR #TopUnis

Call for papers for the LAMES-LACEA meeting is out. This year in Montevideo in mid-November The Econometric Society Vox.LACEA

What better way to celebrate our employment and ethic politics paper coming out in this month’s issue of AEJ: Applied than with our lead RA on the project Dylan Munson, previously McGill University now PhDing Duke University! w/Giorgio Chiovelli #SebHohmann

I’m very grateful to the AEA Journals board for this prize. This article was my job market paper, so it is extra special to me. A special thank you goes to C. Kirabo Jackson, who was the best editor possible for this paper and made its final version so much better.

A Brief History of Nobody Wants to Work Anymore

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📢 NEW #STEG funding for PhD students! 🎉
Doctoral student seeking funding for your research on structural transformation and economic growth?
Apply for a STEG PhD Research Grant up to £15k here: steg.cepr.org/call-for-propo…
Deadline: 20 May 2024

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Please submit your paper to the 1st Political Economy at Brown Conference (PEB) on October 18! Fill this form by May 31st: forms.gle/XNWR3hNR4xbZEm…

Me and Brian Knight are looking forward to reading your papers! We thank the Orlando Bravo Center and PPE for funding the event.

🚨 JOB ALERT (AGAIN): Andre Groeger and I have opened an additional full-time pre-doc position for this ERC-funded project at Barcelona School of Economics. Deadline 30/April; Apply (and more info): euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/213418

Competitive conditions + vibrant team! Ideal for prospective Ph.D's!

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

Increases in exporting led Mexican firms to pay higher wage premia -- above what workers would get elsewhere. In the March 2024 issue of REStat by Judith A. Frias, David S. Kaplan, David Kaplan, Eric Verhoogen, Eric Verhoogen, David Alfaro-Serrano zurl.co/Scp0

Muy buena e informativa la columna de Ana Ines Balsa sobre el sistema de salud y los incentivos/expectativas/resultados de las empresas prestadoras de servicios sin fines de lucro
busqueda.com.uy/Secciones/-Sin…

Details at CEPR: [cepr.org/events/naples-…] Mattea Stein Jan David Bakker Andrea Ariu.

How’s your Spring going?

📅 The Montreal Applied Microeconomics Day will bring together Fabian Lange 🇺🇦 Francesco (Ciccio) Amodio Gabrielle Vasey Lars Vilhuber 🇺🇦 and N. Lawson to present their recent #research in applied #microeconomics on April 22 !

Information and registration 🖊️
cirano.qc.ca/en/events/1221…

Come work with me at the LSE next year on exciting projects in development, labor and political economy. Deadline to apply: 20 April 2024

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/61…

I did a 15-minute talk on labor migration at the Nobel in Africa symposium at STIAS in Stellenbosch University.
I summarized macro and micro literature on spatial productivity gaps. Video:
youtu.be/jWLyhmaPBlo?si…
slides: stias.ac.za/wp-content/upl…

So much for the economically illiterate concept „labor shortages“… beloved by managers, politicians and the chattering classes.

📢CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

The 23rd Summer School in #International and #Development #Economics is now accepting applications from interested graduate students & young researchers.
This year's theme: Political Economy and Development.

✍ow.ly/bgqF50QT2hJ️
📆Deadline: 3 May

Trade is pro-poor: 'all US households benefit from a 10% reduction in US trade costs. But the poorest fifth of households experience a welfare gain more than 4.5 times larger than the richest' Minneapolis Fed Mike Waugh minneapolisfed.org/article/2024/t…

So, a 10% tariff *hike*...

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