Special thanks to Dominic Rohner Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى & scientific committee Mariapia Mendola LuciaCorno Andrea Guariso Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano for kind & inspiring exchanges, creating an excellent atmosphere for rich academic debates. Simply the best summer meeting for ECRs in EU (see below)!

Delighted to host ~50 academics, parliamentarians & policy advisors for 2 days of research-policy interface in Luang Prabang, Laos for Swiss National Science Foundation's r4d programme. Rewarding to facilitate direct debates b/w researchers & labour, health, natural resources & environmental policymakers

Belated thanks to CSAE for another excellent annual conference last month, grateful for opportunity to learn from Abebe Selassie (IMF) on tax base erosion from sub-saharan Africa & present new research alongside an old friend - Prof Daniele Rinaldo.

PSA: Submission deadline today for one of the best summer schools in development economics in Europe. Offers unparalleled opportunities to get feedback on presentations and discuss research with a fantastic line-up of invited researchers (this year featuring Debraj Ray 🤩)

Thanks to Christian Lessmann & organizing team for a fantastic conference #GDEC2023 TU Dresden. Delighted with opportunity to network and learn from a great community in a historic campus - session by Jörg Ankel-Peters & co-authors on replication in economics was a particular highlight!

Thank you Harvard CID Melissa Dell Asim Ijaz Khwaja and team for the wonderful organization. Looking forward to learning from inspiring #NEUDC2023 programme, esp. the new CID Development Perspectives!

Strong Geneva Graduate Institute representation at #NEUDC2023, led by Dany Jaimovich! A testament for our DevEcon programme. 𝙐𝙜𝙤 𝙋𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙯𝙯𝙖

Many congratulations to all prize winners at #NEUDC2023 making important contributions at the frontiers of development economics. Inspiring to meet and learn from Andrew Weiss at Harvard CID.

Thanks to The Economist for interviewing me on my research on Cambodia/SE Asia this week. It is a privilege to contribute to this short yet painful article on Cambodia's genocide remembrance anniversary in this week's edition.

You don’t need a medal to be a heroine. Amidst a sea of prodigious Olympians and well deserved champions, the story and words of a disqualified athlete epitomizes, for me, a level of grace that all can aspire for.

Sad case study on the relationship between age vs. creative quality in filmmaking. 👎

India launched missile strikes into Pakistan, triggering a serious escalation following the #PahalgamTerrorAttack that killed 28 civilians. Our new paper in the Journal of Public Economics offers a timely lens to understand the political consequences of such events. #econtwitter 🧵Here:

Stan Fischer and Rudi Dornbusch both gone. Their macro textbook got me hooked on economics in the early 1980s. I believe samizdat copies were circulated behind the Berlin Wall. They did a lot of higher research too, but the textbook was a model of clarity and I’d still recommend