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‘What does it mean? No one knows’: six-seven meme invades UK classrooms Four out of five secondary school teachers surveyed say they have heard perplexing viral phrase called out

Hmm, I also don't know what it means, but I know how to make your kids stop using it at home, fellow parents. Adopt it and let it slip casually into conversations with your kids.😉 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Real change in public expenditures on higher education, 2008 to 2023, selected countries that actually publish the damn data. UK is worst here, but note this does not include RAB (projected future loan forgiveness, basically). If RAB is included...UK would still be last.

Opinion | Brazil Just Succeeded Where the U.S. Failed

My opinion about the historic verdict coming out of Brazil, with @stevelevitsky.bsky.social, is in the @nytimes.com today.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/o...

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created.

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Congrats Nadine, very important and timely work!

A big thank-you to my colleagues at FJP for their outstanding work in organizing this series and driving the conversation on using evidence to shape better public policies

This lecture marked the kick-off of a series of events on evidence-informed policymaking, funded by the British Academy and developed in partnership with the João Pinheiro Foundation.

Picture of attendants at lecture at FJP.

Yesterday, I had the privilege of delivering a lecture to the State Minister of Planning of Minas Gerais, Brazil. We discussed key lessons from the UK’s system of policy evaluations and how these insights can help strengthen evaluation practices in Brazil.

Society of Labor Economists (SoLE) Annual Conference will be May 1-2, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. Submission portal is now open! Deadline for submissions is October 31--don't forget to submit! It will be a great conference! (organized by me and @jrothst.bsky.social)

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Trump signs order increasing Brazil tariff to 50 percent President Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order raising tariffs on imports from Brazil to 50 percent, escalating his fight with the largest South American economy. The order Trump signed dec…

Trump does shit every day that should get him impeached. But illegally punishing an entire country — and any Americans who use products or do businesses with anyone in Brazil — because it’s prosecuting its former president for attempting a violent coup is among the worst things he has done.

Using time series graphs to make causal claims be like

Paid internship on The Economist’s Britain desk An opportunity to write for The Economist

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I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart.

It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

I'd love to fund studies of interventions that reduce real-time pollution exposure, in the US, on outcomes related to violence and criminal behavior.

(There is strong evidence that such exposure increases violence in real time; the next question is how much interventions can mitigate this effect.)

Re-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called:

"How to Write a Title and Abstract"

Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles.

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🆕 Understanding Brazil’s falling income inequality 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, Alysson Portella (Insper) discusses why the gap between the richest and poorest has been narrowing in Brazil since the 1990s: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...

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DIW Berlin: Überstunden und gestrichene Feiertage helfen nicht weiter Deutschland muss mehr arbeiten, fordern Wirtschaft und Politik. Die Abschaffung eines Feiertags wäre Symbolpolitik – und übersieht das wahre Potenzial des Landes.  Das Gerücht, wir Deutschen seien fau...

„Deutschland braucht kein unsinniges Lamentieren über fehlende Leistungsbereitschaft von jungen Menschen“, sagt DIW-Präsident @mfratzscher.bsky.social. Ihm zufolge habe der Arbeitsmarkt noch jede Menge ungenutztes Potenzial.
Zur Kolumne: www.diw.de/de/diw_01.c.... / via @zeit.de

📣 SURE START FINAL REPORT OUT!!

🌟So proud to have been part of this journey! 🔟 years of hard work + rigorous analysis, & the evidence speaks clearly: #SureStart worked.

💷 SS returned £2 for every £1 spent. A milestone for #EarlyYears policy.

Ready for the launch! 🚀

YouTube video by Rederei FM Igor Levit über Margot Friedländer beim Deutschen Filmpreis 2025 -

Star pianist Igor Levit informs the German film awards audience that Margot #Friedländer has passed away.

“She was a miracle.” His impromptu speech is worth watching if you understand German. m.youtube.com/watch?v=XnVt...

When your statistical model "fits the data well" ...

Quite the quote.

Cool graph. If you had asked me, I would not have correctly predicted that the slope was steepest for Latin America

Great set of papers on inequality in LAC covering a wide range of issues.

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Fantastic short clip in response to nativist remarks by CDU leader Merz, stating the well-documented but oft-ignored fact that women are much more likely to get assaulted by their partner at home than by (immigrant) strangers outside of the home.

Intransparente Parteispenden: Warum die Korruption in Deutschland zunimmt Bestechung von Abgeordneten, intransparente Parteispenden in Millionenhöhe: Deutschland tut nach Ansicht von Fachleuten zu wenig gegen Korruption im öffentlichen Sektor. Weltweit ist man damit in „gut...

Ein Bericht über Korruption zeigt ein düsteres Bild: Die Lobbyisten agieren unverschämter. Sie kaufen sich Einfluss.

Wir müssen Spenden von Unternehmen verbieten. Denn Demokratie heißt: die Mehrheit entscheidet, nicht das große Geld. #CPI2024

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