Please RT: The BREAD Conference on Development Economics is coming to Asia for the first time! Hosted in December by NUS in collaboration with partner organizations. More info at breadasia2024.com. Deadline August 16. Welcome to Singapore!

Definitely adding this to my policy evaluation course.

I have one additional predoc opening SIAW-HSG to work on topics in political economy, natural resources, and urbanization. Application deadline is August 10th, 2024.

James Scott, RIP dlvr.it/T9tyFY

James C. Scott, my mentor and friend, has passed away. A legendary social scientist, Jim was an exceptional scholar and one of the kindest people I've ever met. His contributions to political science and anthropology are unparalleled. 🧵 1/12

Reminder: Please submit your papers on development economics to the BREAD Asia conference by August 16.

Back in Melbourne with Joris Mueller speaking on the influence of the CPP on Chinese firms. Great work! #DEHIPE Monash University Monash SoDa Labs 🥤📊 #25degrees

At 5 AM, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences received a call from Daron that he finally accepted to receive the Econ Nobel prize this year.

Check out my paper on State Building in a Diverse Society (co-authored with Ruth Carlitz, Ameet Morjaria and Philip Osafo-Kwaako), forthcoming in the Review of Economic Studies: restud.com/state-building…

Excited to be part of BREAD Asia 2024 workshop starting off in Singapore, put together by the wonderful Johannes Haushofer and Joris Mueller and NUS! Will be presenting work on socio-emotional skills and school-related outcomes in India.

In the keynote talk at #BREADAsia2024, Abhijit Banerjee is updating work from his work with Esther Duflo and colleagues. Loving the illustrations, likely taken from the lovely children's book that came out recently.

Co-hosted by The University of Hong Kong Asian Development Bank HKUST NYU Abu Dhabi UTokyo | 東京大学 — super excited to be here with friends and colleagues :) مشهور Yiming Siddharth George Albert Park Fantastic quality of work and audience

Recently accepted to #REStud, ``State Building in a Diverse Society,'' from Carlitz, Morjaria, Mueller and Osafo-Kwaako: restud.com/state-building…

Nice summary of our work on the effects of (very) long-run climate change on conflict in Europe during the Little Ice Age (with Murat Iyigun and Nancy Qian): insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/the-co…

🚨 New Paper and Public Good🚨 "The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset", joint with Chenzi Xu, Mohammed Lehbib, and Ziliang Chen. We built the most comprehensive macro database ever—covering 243 countries from 1086-today, integrating 110 sources. 🧵

Interested PhD students: please submit the application to cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.p… by April 8, 2025. Combine the following documents in one PDF and upload it to the online platform · CV · Writing Sample · List of Referee

We are very happy to publish the new National Elections Database, including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

Thread of photos from families in each quartile of income in the world: first photo is from the poorest 25%, last photo is richest 25%. Based on these photos, which income bracket are you in? First up: Toilets

Call for Papers: Joint Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR 2nd Conference on China in the Global Economy - mailchi.mp/cepr/cge-cfp-1…