Andre Groeger

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📢 Next seminar at UAB Dep of Applied Economics (joint with UFAE):
📅Thursday, October 9 at 13:30
👨‍🏫 Emilio Depetris-Chauvin (PUC Chile)
📃 "(De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa"
📌 Sala de Graus, Faculty of Economics, @uab.cat

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ODA is under growing pressure.🌍On Oct. 16, join CGD for an expert-led conversation on how we can construct a new shared vision for global development cooperation that works for partner countries, donors, and other stakeholders.

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PEDL 15th Anniversary Conference @cepr.org

Bringing together researchers studying the behaviour of firms in low-income countries & focusing on the market forces that drive efficiency in these countries.

📅26 - 28 Mar 2026
📍Oxford, UK

⏰Submission deadline: 20 Oct
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📢 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

No.

Americans reject this extremist insanity.

Constitutional checks and balances by our co-equal judiciary are not “insurrection”.

Judges exercising their constitutional powers is not “terrorism”.

Conservative and Liberal Americans will defend our constitutional order against military rule.

After the success of the first conference, the submission link for the second is already open tinyurl.com/ywcwz7ba. Submit by Dec 1. Workshop in Rotterdam 4-5 June 2026, jointly organised with Rotterdam Global Health Initiative and Erasmus School of Economics.

I was invited to Moscow in 2009 by the great economist Sergei Guriev to present my research.

Four years later, he was forced to flee the country in fear as the regime tightened its chokehold on academia.

All authoritarians strangle universities—because thoughtful dissent threatens their power.

Save the date! The fifth annual Scotland and Northern England Conference in Applied Microeconomics will be held from 5-7 May 2026 at the Crieff Hydro Hotel in Perthshire. Professor Steve Machin (LSE) will deliver the keynote. For more info:
applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/sane-worksho...

Why don’t farmers grow more profitable crops? Agricultural productivity in developing countries remains low and uneven, with high-return crops offering significant potential gains but limited adoption due to clustered social networks that restrict the diffusion of new technologies.

🆕 Why don’t farmers grow more profitable crops?

Today on VoxDev, Andre Groeger (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) & Yanos Zylberberg (University of Bristol) discuss agricultural productivity in Vietnam: https://voxdev.org/topic/agriculture/why-dont-farmers-grow-more-profitable-crops

Submit your paper by 30 September (23:59 CET) 👇

International Migration as a Structural Transformation Policy

In today's blog, I discuss 3 ways for international migration to be part of a structural transformation policy: 1) as an industry itself; 2) training people abroad in the skills to develop a new industry at home; and 3) through immigration (eg Start-up Chile) blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

📣 Join us Monday at 11:30 ET for an @osus-info.bsky.social seminar!

Allison Green (LSE) presents “Networks and Geographic Mobility: Evidence from World War II Navy Ships ” (osus.info)

Yanos Zylberberg and Gabriel Loumeau will be our panelists!

AI at Work 2025 - Alumni, parents, and friends | Cornell University AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Jobs, Skills, Wages, and Productivity  Friday, September 26, 2025 | Noon – 1:00 p.m. EDT | Zoom Webinar REGISTER FOR THE … Read more

Join us in 30 minutes: AI at Work: How Artificial Intelligence is Redefining Jobs, Skills, Wages, and Productivity;
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Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset - Globalcit Suffrage is a central element of democracy. Over time, electoral rights have increasingly become available to migrants—both as non-citizen residents and as non-resident citizens. However, existing dat...

Explore the new GLOBALCIT Migrant Electoral Rights (MER) Dataset ❗🌐

🌍 165 countries (1960–2020)
📊 488 indicators
🗳️ voting & candidacy rights of non-citizen residents + non-resident citizens
🏛️ Differentiates election type (legislative, executive, referendum) & level

📥: tinyurl.com/yv37nj7m

This is an exciting week full of research events! 🥳

We start with the 9th PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics at the University of Potsdam. @cepa-unipotsdam.bsky.social

I’m looking forward to meeting the PhD students and to our keynote lecture given by wonderful @amandayagan.bsky.social.

🚨 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 – One Week Left to Submit: #CDSM2025 🚨

📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (Virtual)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

We welcome:
✅ Presentation proposals
✅ Extended abstracts
✅ Full papers

📧 𝗦𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝘁𝗼: submission@causalscience.org
🌐 Register or learn more: www.causalscience.org

@bsebarcelona.bsky.social

The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies Abstract. This paper studies how social networks (might fail to) shape agricultural practices. We exploit (1) a unique census of agricultural production ne

Forthcoming article "The Pick of the Crop: Agricultural Practices and Clustered Networks in Village Economies" by and @andregroeger.bsky.social and Yanos Zylberberg
@eeanews.bsky.social

Teaching materials available: www.eeassoc.org/teaching-mat...

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How Do Restrictions on High-Skilled Immigration Affect Offshoring? Evidence from the H-1B Program Britta Glennon WORKING PAPER 27538 DOI 10.3386/w27538 ISSUE DATE July 2020 REVISION DATE February 2023 Highly-skilled workers are not only a crucial and relatively scarce inputs into firms' productive and innovative processes, but are also a critical resource determining competitive advantage. An increasingly high proportion of these workers in the US were born abroad and permitted to work on skilled worker visas. How do multinational firms respond when artificial constraints, namely policies restricting skilled immigration, are placed on their ability to hire scarce human capital? This paper combines visa microdata and comprehensive data on US multinational firm activity to demonstrate that firms respond to restrictions on H-1B immigration by increasing foreign affiliate employment at the intensive and extensive margins, particularly in China, India, and Canada. The most impacted jobs were R&D-intensive ones, but there is some evidence that non-R&D employment was also affected. The paper highlights a means by which firms can circumvent constraining policies and mitigate country-level risk, but it also suggests that, for the average MNC, this means is imperfect; for every visa rejection, they hire 0.4 employees abroad. The most globalized MNCs are the most likely to respond to these restrictions by offshoring, highlighting that firm capabilities—in the form of prior internationalization-shape the decision and ability to offshore in response to skilled immigration restrictions; indeed, these firms hire 0.9 employees abroad for every visa rejection. More broadly, the paper provides evidence of a push factor for internationalizing knowledge activity: artificial constraints on resources result in firms circumventing restrictive policies in ways that may not be anticipated by policy makers.

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada.

via @florianederer.bsky.social

I4R Replication Games coming to Münster! @i4replication.bsky.social @aufdroeseler.bsky.social @fialalenka.bsky.social

The lecture series addressed a core issue in urban economics - transportation - using both theoretical insights and practical applications. The emphasis on how transportation systems influence economic productivity and urban inequality resonated with attendees, showcasing the tangible impacts of well-designed or poorly implemented policies. The lecture's balanced focus on equity, efficiency, and sustainability further enriched its appeal, making it highly relevant for addressing pressing urban challenges in both developed and developing countries.

There was a great combination of theory, practical research and clear research gaps. I felt the language was accessible for someone starting to explore urbanisation economics, and the speakers were very engaging.

The BREAD-IGC virtual PhD course starts in just 48 hours with our largest-ever group of participants! 🎉

If you’re in development economics, this must-attend course is a game-changer - just read the testimonials from our last course below.

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Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself

The US Administration has moved to kneecap our universities, and bar as many foreign students and scientists from the country as it can.

Reckless policymakers are destroying the American future and handing it to China.

Those in Congress entrusted to protect our future sit, flaccid, watching it.

🔊 We’re looking for researchers working on migration at universities, research institutes, and think-tanks in Africa and Europe.

👉 We’re conducting a study to understand how researchers think about the drivers of international migration.

📋 Take the survey here: mpcsurveys.limesurvey.net/acd

➡️ Deadline approaching—only one month left to send in your papers and presentation proposals for #CDSM2025!

🚨 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀: 𝗖𝗮𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 🚨
📅 𝗡𝗼𝘃 𝟭𝟮–𝟭𝟯, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 (𝗩𝗶𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹)
📥 Submission Deadline: 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁 𝟯𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱

📣 The Department of Economics is hiring!

Check out our open position for 1 Assistant Professor in Macroeconomics and apply by 3 November 2025 ⏰

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⭐Only a few more days to submit your paper for the 10th Monash-Paris-Warwick-Zurich-CEPR Text-As-Data Workshop!
@elliottash.bsky.social @essobecker.bsky.social & Philine Widmer
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📄📄📄Call for Papers is open!
RFBerlin invites submissions for the next Migration Forum "Migration: Drivers, Consequences, and Governance". Submit your work now and share this call with colleagues.
Submit now: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79526...
#Migration #Governance #callforpapers

Submissions for the 2nd RFBerlin Migration Forum are now open! Please send your papers by November 2.

Keynote lectures by Nancy Qian & Mathias Thoenig.

See you in Berlin on March 26-27 2026.

📢 Call for Papers - @theeconjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for its special issue: Labor Market Effects of Immigration with Micro Data.

🗓️ Deadline: 15 Oct 2025
📄 Submit here: bit.ly/458jedz

#Economics #Immigration #LabourMarket #EconJournal #EconSky