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Workshop on Migration Find paper topics, past speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Migration

Call for papers for the Migration Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
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📅 Dates: 8-9 June 2026

Keynotes: Leah Boustan & Sam Bazzi

Organizers: L. Farré, J. Fernández-Huertas Moraga, A. Glitz, A. Groeger, J. Llull, J. Monràs

⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

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🧵 New WP with @kaimiele.bsky.social. We document 2 unsettling patterns in mental health care: 1) despite universal coverage, few individuals with mental illness receive guideline-consistent treatment, and 2) the more severe the illness, the lower the treatment uptake & the longer the wait times. 1/n

📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration.

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Economists are facing a recession [FREE TO READ] Demand for their work is down as a hiring crunch hits

Economists are facing a recession

(My column this week)

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One last (sobering) update on the #EconJobMarket before the winter holidays; data as of 2025-12-14.
In terms of # of job listings on Job Openings for Economists (JOE), this is the worst job mkt in recent yrs for PhD Economists. # jobs down 20% from last yr, even 18.9% lower than during COVID (2020).

AEA Survey of hiring plans of U.S. Economics Departments (and an unrelated unprecedented AEA announcement about Larry Summers)

The AEA is navigating through stormy times
#metoo #econsky #academicsky
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Left to right: Edna Carolina Sastoque, Samantha Eyler-Driscoll, Juliana Jaramillo Echeverri, and Irina España-Eljaiek at the 3rd Colombian Congress on Economic and Business History at EAFIT University

What a lovely time this week at the 3rd Colombian Congress on Economic and Business History, where I met some brilliant researchers documenting the historical role of women in the Colombian economy. Thanks again to @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social, Edna Carolina Sastoque, and ACHEE for inviting me!

My lovely friend @julianajaramilloe.bsky.social rocking pink satin while discussing the economic history Nobels on this panel at @universidad-eafit.bsky.social. We have to stan

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📢 #CallForPapers - Women in Economic Theory Conference
May 15-16, 2026 @ LSE
Interested researchers are invited to submit papers for the conference, with a preference for completed papers.
Deadline: 14 December 2025
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25. Daron Acemoglu - Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan Daron Acemoglu is an acclaimed economist, author, and professor at MIT. In 2024, he received the Nobel Prize in Economics and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. His research focuses on ...

I joined @utopiaspodcast.bsky.social for a conversation on Ramesh's podcast Utopias with Dr. Ramesh Srinivasan. We discussed the power of Big Tech, the dangers and opportunities of AI, and much more. Listen to our full conversation here: www.buzzsprout.com/2272465/epis....

CONGRESO La Asociación Colombiana de Historia Económica y Empresarial, la Red de Investigadores en Historia Económica de Colombia, la Universidad Eafit y el Banco de la República organizan el III Congreso C…

I'm soooo excited to be giving an invited talk next week on how social science writers can learn to Think Like An Editor at the ACHEE Congress at @universidad-eafit.bsky.social. If you'll be in Medellin Wednesday afternoon, drop in!

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Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation (Forthcoming Article) - Why is workplace sexual harassment chronically underreported? We hypothesize that employers coerce victims into silence through the threat of a retaliatory firing. To test this, we estimate how two external shocks which reduce workers’ outside options—unemployment rate increases and sharp cuts to unemployment insurance benefits—affect the selectivity of sexual harassment charges filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. We find that both shocks increase selectivity, which implies an increase in underreporting. Bolstering these findings, anonymous Google searches for “sexual harassment in the workplace” (total prevalence) spike relative to charges filed (reported prevalence) during the Great Recession.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Why is Workplace Sexual Harassment Underreported? The Value of Outside Options Amid the Threat of Retaliation" by Gordon B. Dahl and Matthew Knepper. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Minimum wages in Brazil substantially raised wages for informal workers, and effects of the policy on reallocation out of formal employment were limited, from Ellora Derenoncourt, François Gerard, Lorenzo Lagos, and Claire Montialoux www.nber.org/papers/w34445

🚀 I'm on the #EconSky Job Market!

My JMP asks a classic question:
Do large, dominant firms foster or hinder innovation?

To study this, I turn to the Great Merger Wave (1895–1904), when >2,600 U.S. firms combined into corporate giants like U.S. Steel and DuPont.

A JMP 🧵👇 (1/13)

Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct

📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu

If anyone has a job market paper they would like me to repost, tag me and I will do my best to do so! Would love to follow what people are working on more closely.

I was privileged to be a Nuffield PPRF and it was nothing short of career changing. 3 years with ample time for research, surrounded by some of the most supportive people out there.

The call is out now; do apply!

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Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!

We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.

Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!

Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!

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tenured track assistant or associate prof in economics at university of Melbourne @unimelb.bsky.social

welcome applications from all fields (but especially from econometrics)

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Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

Academic tip: sometimes you have to write "Importantly," to get a sentence started and then you can go back and delete it.

Looking forward to this discussion on the History of Thought on Economic Inequality today - around the superb books by @brankomilan.bsky.social and @laywilliams.bsky.social !

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Having a unique ORCID identifier is one way for academics to distinguish themselves from other researchers with the same name, but a far simpler solution would be for the bigger one to consume the smaller one.

It's hiring season at @iast.fr!

- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France

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Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women Mona Morgan-Collins and Valeria Rueda Abstract Can political activism foster electoral participation? We investigate this question by examining the role of the British suffragists in fostering women’s electoral participation. While scholars have shown that women politicians increase women’s participation in politics, less attention has been paid to the role of activists. We fill this gap by studying the 1913 Pilgrimage, a large-scale nationwide march in support of women’s parliamentary suffrage. Using a novel database of geocoded electoral registers, we employ a differences-in-differences strategy to show that proximity to the Pilgrimage increased women’s registration in local elections. To explain this effect, we show that exposure to women activists spurred other women’s political mobilization, and that our results are not driven by an endogenous selection of the march path and cannot be attributed to mobilization by other movements or politicians. Our findings highlight that women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians.

Figure 2. Map of the march and data availability at the division level. Note: March path in sampled counties is along main roads connecting stopping points and along straight lines outside the sample (see Appendix Figure C.1 for stopping points).

Figure 3. The effects of the march using different treatment definitions. Note: Plots the coefficient of interest β, defined using different distance buffers; ninety per cent and ninety-five per cent CIs; standard errors clustered at the parliamentary division level, using Model 2 in Table 3

“Can political activism foster electoral participation?” Study examines “1913 Pilgrimage, a large-scale nationwide march in support of women’s suffrage.” Finds “women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New IZA paper by @jangromadzki.bsky.social and @paweladrjan.bsky.social shows anti-LGBTQ resolutions in Poland increased migration intentions. Their findings nicely echo our own (osf.io/preprints/os...) from the same case: even symbolic exclusionary politics can shape people’s choices on the ground.