Garance Genicot

✨Great students on the market this year from
@gcer-gu.bsky.social

All addressing very interesting questions in their JMPs!

Excellent showcase of our department's diverse fields and strengths. Take a look! 👇

📆 21 October @ 16:00 CEST
The Fall 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD seminars continue with
James Robinson (University of Chicago) presenting "How Developmental States really work: Evidence from Rwanda"
Moderator: @ggenicot.bsky.social
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#EconSky

Parfois c’est ce qui nous est le plus proche que l’on met le plus de temps à voir.

Pendant quinze ans j’ai cartographié les grandes fortunes mondiales, objectivé leurs techniques pour contourner l’impôt dans les paradis fiscaux, du Luxembourg aux îles vierges britanniques... 🧵

Please join @jayatighosh.bsky.social, @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and me on October 1 at 10:00 a.m. at the National Assembly in Paris for a discussion with Éric Coquerel on taxing the ultra rich, organized by @icrict.bsky.social and the EU Tax Observatory. Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers.

Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*.

tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.

Economists across fields are standing up for central bank independence. Sign here by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In our latest, Timothy Shipp and @rodrigooliveira.bsky.social recap the UNU-WIDER Summer School, where attendees explored advanced methods in analysing intergenerational mobility.

Thanks to instructors @ggenicot.bsky.social, @gneidhofer.bsky.social, @diogobritto.bsky.social!

👉 go.unu.edu/CwXtc

We hosted the SEEDEC symposium together with
@fair-cele.bsky.social, organized by @vincentsomville.bsky.social. We enjoyed keynotes from
@ggenicot.bsky.social and David McKenzie, lively discussions and great presentations. Thank you all who participated!

The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa Although sex ratios at birth remain relatively balanced in sub-Saharan Africa, this does not necessarily imply a lack of son preference. Analysis of over 100 Demographic and Health Surveys across 34 c...

In an analysis of 100+ DHS surveys, @ggenicot.bsky.social & @mariahdb.bsky.social find that having a firstborn daughter drastically changes the trajectory of a women's life–influencing marriage prospects, fertility decisions, and economic security: voxdev.org/topic/health...

An amazing conference!

Next @GGenicot presented evidence using a newly generated measure of mobility, and showed cross-country data shows no evidence of an "inequality trap"

Thank Cannon , this is interesting.

Eid Mubarak ❤️

8 Ways Musk and Trump Could Inflict Pain on Each Other

It’s astonishing how we’ve rapidly devolved and it’s now an accepted fact that we’re no longer governed by the rule of law. Basically none of these ways of “inflicting pain” would apply in a functioning democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

How do firstborn daughters influence long-term family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa?

To learn more, read today's article w/ @ggenicot.bsky.social sky.social & @mariahdb.bsky.social:

✨ Just out on @voxdev.bsky.social: our blog on firstborn daughters, son preference, and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa — co-authored with @mariahdb.bsky.social Take a look 👇👇👇

✨ Just out on @voxdev.bsky.social: our blog on firstborn daughters, son preference, and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa — co-authored with @mariahdb.bsky.social Take a look 👇👇👇

📆 3 June @ 16:00 CEST
The Spring 2025 VDEV/CEPR/BREAD seminars wrap with Oeindrila Dube presenting the paper "Does Contact Reduce Conflict? Experimental Evidence from #Nigeria"
Moderator: @ggenicot.bsky.social
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#EconSky #webinar

⭐Check out our @voxdev.bsky.social blog on son preference and family structure in sub-Saharan Africa with @ggenicot.bsky.social 👇👇👇

A long long time ago, in a far away galaxy... the US used to tax the rich

‼️Call for Papers: III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics

🌆 October 21-22nd at @fundacionareces.bsky.social dacionareces.bsky.social in Madrid!

⭐Wonderful keynote speakers: Sylvie Lambert and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra

📝Full papers/extended abstracts by June 15: spande.workshops@gmail.com.

Such a cool conference! 🙏🏽

Wonderful conference as always !

Wonderful conference as always !

Thank you!

Help me find a paper I saw: using variation in exposure to oversea recruiters in India during the World Cup in Qatar to study the impact of migration to the gulf.

3 More Prosecutors Resign Over Adams Case, Refusing to Admit Wrongdoing They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. “We will not confess wrongdoing when there was none,” they wrote.

Breaking News: Three federal prosecutors who worked on the criminal corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams said that they would resign rather than admit wrongdoing in refusing to abandon the case, according to an email obtained by The New York Times.

The IMF released its latest forecasts today, and they seem to suggest that the folks most hurt by Trump's trade war are... Americans.

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs

In just three months, with no external shocks, economic forecasters have gone from predicting that the U.S. economy would continue to deliver ongoing growth, to predicting a quite weak (and possibly recessionary) economy.