Mangoes.
I feel sad for everyone whose main introduction to the fruit came from a European supermarket.
Also, papayas.
Mangoes.
I feel sad for everyone whose main introduction to the fruit came from a European supermarket.
Also, papayas.
I’m on Filipe’s side: until I moved to the UK, I didn’t even know that *the* Olympics had a winter cousin.
That said, when the Winter Olympics roll in, I pretend to be an honorary Swede when celebrating medals. If only I’d moved to Oslo after the job market, I’d even claim to be top of the league 😂
Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026
Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF).
⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
This is a hard year for the job market.
Dev economists: check out this available funding *if you’re open to be based in an LMIC*
It could supplement your salary + provide research funds.
Lots of research active hubs in Asia, Africa, LAC that would love to affiliate excellent global talent!
PARIS, Dec. 31, 1842. I aM writing these lines in the last hours of the unpleasant departing year. The New Year is at the door. May it be less horrible than the old. I am sending my sorrowful good wishes across the Rhine. I wish for the stupid a little understanding, and for the understanding a little poetry. I wish the most beautiful clothes for the women and much money for the men. I wish a heart for the rich and a little bread for the poor. But above all I wish that we may blackguard each other as little as possible during the New Year. ...
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Watch the Nobel Lecture in Economics live from @stockholm-uni.bsky.social and the Royal Academy of the Sciences: www.kva.se/en/event/the... The lecture begins at 2:30 CET today December 8th #econsky
08.12.2025 11:21 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
📢 Our new VoxDevLit on EdTech is out now!
Senior Editor @singhabhi.bsky.social & Co-Editors @lnavarrosola.bsky.social @iies.su.se & Philip Oreopoulos, summarise everything you need to know about EdTech.
Read & download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/ed...
I have a new VoxDev Lit launching this week on education technology👇
This area has lots of froth, but also some very promising evidence on tech use (on teaching, assessments, information) across K-12.
Pulling this together was fun (with Phil Oreopoulos
and @lnavarrosola.bsky.social ).
Some amazing jobs here! Our science and global health R&D team works on funding breakthroughs for neglected, high mortality/morbidity diseases and does a ton of great and interesting work -- see job links in Jacob's thread!
12.11.2025 01:55 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I was just imagining a mozzarella + tomato sandwich, maybe with some prosciutto.
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Painful as a finance prof
15.10.2025 20:29 — 👍 36 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 6
Four items by Mokyr: the first is a topic already recognised by the Nobel, but the other three are less well known areas of Mokyr: his study of the Irish famine, his explanation of why the Dutch Republic was not the first, and his artisan theory of the Industrial Revolution.
13.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 60 🔁 21 💬 0 📌 3
We’re a v collegial dept, good in multiple fields: applied micro, macro, Dev, theory, behavioural...
See e.g. @toreellingsen.bsky.social @robertostling.bsky.social @martinabjorkman.bsky.social @jmerilainen.bsky.social
Lots of seminars, an excellent PhD program (run across the Stockholm depts)
Come work with me!
Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance.
By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in.
Econ advert below:
jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...
📢 Call for papers:
🚀 4th CESifo Junior Workshop on the Economics of Education 🤩
30-31 March 2026, Munich
Keynote: Michela Carlana (Harvard)
PhD students & early postdocs, please apply!
www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...
Deadline: 11 Jan 2026
@caterinapavese.bsky.social @mtotarelli.bsky.social
My Swedish skills are still rubbish but I can read a bit. And Danish is basically looks like misspelled Swedish :)
06.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You working on Danish schools, Josh?
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We can't say definitively (no center-based data).
Likely: low time use on cognition. Pub preschools are under-resourced, a single AWC worker expected to work miracles!
This *can* be fixed (as we show for COVID-19 remediation in the same state elsewhere)
jhr.uwpress.org/content/earl...
Our new paper in EJ shows facts I've been curious about for ages.
I'm biased but, IMO, these results are important.
Most of all, though, this paper was fun to write --- coauthors who worked well together, steady progress, and referees who were demanding but made the paper SO much better!
Not on human rights or democracy, for sure. But, for skilled workers, moving to Dubai or Singapore is often more attractive than Europe. It’s easier for companies to expand, salaries are higher, taxes/COL lower etc.
EU has many natural advantages for attracting talent but little joined up strategy
That, sadly, is only one of the things that are wild about 2025…
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I remember meeting Karthik & @singhabhi.bsky.social w/ the Mindspark/EI team when I was working at Global Innovation Fund back in 2017—and being blown away by how they were designing for impact @ scale from day 1.
A stellar example of academics + do-ers partnering for scale 🚀📈👇
Really cool result here -- edtech intervention using personalized adaptive learning in RCT in India reduces mismatch between students and the (overly ambitious) curriculum
05.09.2025 13:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
No randomly assigned diff in dosage. Some externally induced through implementation changes which we evaluate with observational methods in Year 3 of the program.
The dose response survives school FE, grade FE, attendance, lagged achievement etc. pretty well
In first ppr, we also validated w/ IV
@woessmann.bsky.social @deonfilmer.bsky.social @matthewakraft.com @andydebarros.bsky.social
05.09.2025 12:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Big picture: `science of scaling’ matters enormously for welfare.
Unlike medicine, social programs need iterative adaptation & testing beyond finding "what works" in small pilots.
Without this, as
@johnlist.bsky.social
notes, “we are performing efficacy tests on steroids”. 16/16"
These results also matter for rich countries.
High-dosage tutoring has been found to be very effective but has been hard to scale since good tutors are scarce, and costly.
PAL could make personalized tutoring feasible at scale. 15/16
These results matter beyond India.
Most LMICs face a “learning crisis”, and have large numbers of students below grade-level standards.
Middle-school years are especially challenging with few evidence-backed scalable ideas.
Our results offer a promising way forward. 14/16
Implementation protocols developed/tested in this study have *already* informed policy at scale (+ other EdTech initiatives).
Mindspark is now operational in over 2200 public schools in 13 Indian states covering >260k students.
Further scale-ups currently in the works. 13/16
Why is this a big deal?
Governments spend billions on hardware, but evidence shows hardware alone ≠ learning.
What matters is thoughtful integration of PAL software into classrooms.
Our study shows how to make EdTech actually work in public schools. 12/16