*** EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE MY BOOK *** The go-to book on immigration: fact-based, comprehensive, & nonpartisan. Learn more & preorder: zekehernandez.net See below for praise from David Card Adam Grant Guido Imbens Richard Florida Luis von Ahn & Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Great recognition for a fascinating paper by Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, Dennis Egger, & Michael Walker!! My key takeaway from this study: A dollar of social protection transfers generates 2.5 dollars in the local economy!!

I am very late to read this paper (and the lit on graduation programs in general) but I thought this finding perfectly captures why development leads to migration and vice versa. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

In year 10: substantial household earnings were from city-based remittances

Wonderful indeed!! Who knew in year 1 that the long term gains from the TUP would come from the intervention enabling the household members to migrate to cities!!

``Successful performance of democratic regimes is critical for support for democracy." From Daron Acemoglu, Ajzenman, Aksoy, Fiszbein and Molina: restud.com/successful-dem…

I love this.

A new era for CGD! 🌍🌟 We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Glennerster Rachel Glennerster will be the new President of CGD! Building on the legacies of Nancy M. Birdsall and @MasoodCGD, Rachel is set to propel CGD forward with her rigorous approach to development economics,

Thrilled to share the news that Dr Rachel Glennerster Rachel Glennerster will succeed me as president of Center for Global Development. With her leadership, CGD will provide cutting edge and impactful research at a time when the world needs it badly. This is exciting news! Read more: bit.ly/4dOCwrU

In my keynote at the Dallas Fed / SMU last month, I explored the root causes of the policy crisis at the Southwest Border Video of my slides, audio of me—> youtube.com/watch?v=G8rPhG… (starts at 9:42, with gracious introduction by Pia Orrenius)

Super cool paper. I was asked to do this and was very flattered but declined both because of the endorsement pathway the researchers hypothesized, and because I now see my twitter as being equally if not more personal than professional. Selfishly I’m glad other tweeters did it!

On May 29 New Delhi recorded a peak temperature of 52.9, just 1.5 shy of the Death Valley world record of 54.4! 30 m people find themselves in a hellish urban furnace. ft.com/content/312258…

Esther Duflo (PSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), CEPR): "Climate change is not only about past responsibility. The emissions responsible for climate change are mainly due to the current behaviour of rich citizen, most of whom live in rich countries." #PSECEPRPolicyForum

Border chaos is a symptom of US labor-market needs, in new research by Dany Bahar 🌎 Great interview of Dany on NPR's Planet Money by Wailin Wong & Adrian Ma, +comments by me—> npr.org/transcripts/11… Summary of Dany's research, with link to full paper—> cgdev.org/blog/border-si…

This paper started off with terrible news, 3 days after I got married. The Indian electricity billing data that had taken years to get for my extremely exciting research question looked like this (this is the exact graph timestamped from 2018 to which I said %&$#):

It is high time to recognize that the AI boom – or the AI hype – will also have enormous costs in terms of fossil fuel emissions.

This afternoon, HE President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in-Council, approved a landmark policy set to transform healthcare human resource management in Nigeria. The National Policy on Health Workforce Migration addresses the critical challenges facing Nigeria’s

I constantly see the meme that "most new jobs go to immigrants, not natives!" We need more basic literacy about demographic change. Immigrants *right now* are the reason—the only reason—why the number of employed people in America can rise. No immigrants = falling employment.

In Nepal, IDA - World Bank-financed Youth Employment Transformation Initiative helped provide temporary employment to over 135,000 young people & established >740 Employment Service Centers to strengthen employment systems. Read stories from the field: wrld.bg/e91H50T197w #IDAworks

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)