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@miamiecon.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor this year! A great fit for someone who is passionate about teaching & advising undergraduates.

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🏭 How can we measure firms' political influence across countries?

➡️Using surveys of 27,000+ firms in 41 countries and a Bayesian IRT model, D C. Francis & @rmkubinec.bsky.social estimate firm-level influence scores and show how they vary across regimes www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Affairs The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Public Affairs offers rigorous, advanced study that prepares researchers to enter academia or join highly respected institutions involved in cutting edge research in ...

📣 I am recruiting PhD student(s) in Public Affairs (Fall '26) at the Humphrey School, University of Minnesota! Come join me to work on Development/ Labor/ Education/ Gender/ ECD/ Inequality - in a top-ranked, fully-funded PhD program! Details: www.hhh.umn.edu/doctor-philo... #EconSky #PoliSky

Where to find development economics resources: Newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos Where can you find articles, podcasts, and videos about research and topics in development economics? This blog is your one-stop shop for accessible resources related to development economics.

🆕 Where to find development economics resources

I've updated my list of all the various sources of newsletters, articles, podcasts & videos relevant to development economics that I've come across in my three years at @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/where-...

Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics: Financial and Agricultural Commodity Market Economics University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

@UCDavisARE.bsky.social is hiring an Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics: Financial and Agricultural Commodity Market Economics.

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07305

2026 SF Fed Research Associate Company Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Are you a motivated college graduate looking for a chance to make a difference? The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is hiring Economic Research Asso...

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Submission: 8th Annual NBER Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy Conference, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBER

Hey, #EconSky! Got a policy-relevant paper that you want folks in DC to see? Present & publish it with NBER's Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy.

Submission deadline is Oct 20.

Conference is in DC on May 21, 2026.

More details below.

conference.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026
We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!

📢JOB OPPORTUNITY📢 I am hiring a part-time or full-time research assistant in Mexico City 🇲🇽

For a project with #PierreBachas #AndersJensen to understand the impacts of a tax on firms' cash deposits at banks

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#EconRA @povertyaction.bsky.social @j-pal.bsky.social

#Econadvice I'm looking for some resources for undergraduate teaching, with an overview of key insights from the main fields in economics. E.g. what are some of the main findings from labor, public econ, etc.

Does someone have a class syllabus with such information? Or is there a book or similar?

Senior Fellow – Jobs, Firms and Growth - Center for Global Development - Career Page Apply to Senior Fellow – Jobs, Firms and Growth at Center for Global Development in Washington, DC.

CGD is #hiring! 🌟

The Center is seeking a Senior Fellow for a new initiative on jobs, firms, and growth. The Senior Fellow will work on issues of labor markets and firms to promote growth and development.

Apply:
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Thriving in Economics: PhD Student Edition - AI for Good Foundation The “Thriving in Economics” e-book series (pdf format) is a crowdsourced collection of bite-sized advice on almost everything related to a PhD and career in economics, featuring a variety of new and…

Are you starting a PhD program in Economics this fall or continuing your PhD? Check out this crowdsourced guide for success.

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📢 Pre-doc RA position at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance! Join the Education & Skills programme led by Prof Sandra McNally. Work with large UK education datasets (e.g. NPD, LEO). Strong Stata skills & interest in policy a must. Apply by Aug 24 👉 ow.ly/bpN450WrLq4

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Friday is the application deadline for our 2025 Dissertation Award, given to the best policy-focused Ph.D. dissertation on employment-related issues. First prize is $2,500 and up to two honorable mention awards of $1,000 may also be given.
Details at www.upjohn.org/dissertation...

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📢 We’re Hiring! 2 Doctoral Researchers – Labor Econ

💡 Interested in how global megatrends shape labor markets?
📈 Background in Econ/ STEM?
🖥️ Love working with large-scale data?

If 3xYes, then join my Research Group @ihs.ac.at in the heart of Vienna! 🙂

Apply by March 7: lnkd.in/egzuWgmC #EconSky

Submission: Summer Institute 2025, Page 1 of 2 - MyNBERNBER: National Bureau of Economic Research

Environmental economists - submit to present at the NBER summer workshop

Submissions due March 20th: papers.nber.org/confsubmit/b...

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Dear #EconSky community, I want to help

I’m not super familiar with US federal data, but my #Rstats coding skills are strong and I know how to easily download data from the Internet

If you want me to help you keep copy of US federal data, please DM me or email me

Repost appreciated

Submit your papers to the Women in Empirical Micro Conference @beckerfriedman.bsky.social, August 21-22!

Info here: bfi.uchicago.edu/events/event...

Please submit by Feb 28.

Help spread the word. The @minnpop.bsky.social is a great place to work. @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social #Demography #PublicHealth #Sociology

The 7th Washington Area Labor Economics Symposium will be hosted at @georgemasonu.bsky.social on Feb. 14, 2025

Details—> web.cvent.com/event/e1fd15...

Submissions due Dec. 20th—> forms.gle/vwoEbEhmt2rZ...

YouTube video by NBER Development Economics Program Meeting

The NBER Development Economics fall conference is being livestreamed now. Here's the program, which runs until 4:45 pm ET today: www.nber.org/conferences/...

Are you an applied microeconomist and golfer? Come to Fife & do both! The 1st annual Fife Applied Microeconomics and Golf conference will be held 2-4 June. Golf on Balcomie (Old Tom Morris) and Craighead Links (Gil Hanse). Deadline 15 Jan. Info: applied-microecon.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/fifeamgolf/

Postdocs on industrial policy at Columbia University www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

My excellent student @sarahshaukat.bsky.social is on the job market! Check out her great JMP: "Do NGOs Matter for Development? Evidence from Pakistan". Read more about her work: sites.google.com/view/sarahsh...

I'm happy to see my JMP written up in the Development Impact Blog! Let me give a small overview of my paper and why I think it's exciting / important / why you should hire me.

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia Apply for Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Res...

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc

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Episode 84: Emily Nix on Violence Against Women at Work — The Visible Hand

Episode 84: Emily Nix on Violence Against Women at Work.
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Listen now at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

More and more migration-and-development economists are here! Please suggest yourself or others for me to add. #EconSky

Alright, I've got zero followers right now—let's see if this thread on my JMP can escape the depths of the internet.

TL;DR: Labour market power leads to large productivity losses.

Keep reading if you’re interested in misallocation, tech diffusion, and regional disparities (you should be!).