Guilhem Cassan

Aller, sortez d'ici. Du ballet !

Of course I am !

I love how this pictures suggests that economists see themselves as ballet dancers in suits !

Ce livre a l'air renversant !

Check our econ program:
Master: t.co/iJvTFr93Tq
Undergrad (in French): www.unamur.be/fr/bachelier...

Start of the school year for undergrad students @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and master students in our joint Master @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and UCLouvain.
I wish you the best, and will do all I can to be of help as new head of the econ departement in Namur.

How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India Voting rights alone did not transform political participation or competition in India, but they did shift government priorities in favour of the newly enfranchised voters.

🆕 How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India

Today on VoxDev, @guilhemcassan.bsky.social (Université de Namur), Lakshmi Iyer (@ndecon.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social) & Rinchan Ali Mirza (@kent.ac.uk) discuss the expansion of voting rights in India: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Congratulations, Mathieu !

Economics School of Louvain | Université catholique de Louvain Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Communication

To know more about the econ master of Louvain School of Economics and Namur School of Economics: www.uclouvain.be/en/faculties...
@econunamur.bsky.social @ammapanin.bsky.social

The winning posters' topics were:
- Tutoring Impact on Children: The Case of Colombian Public Schools
- True Cost of Tariffs: Higher Prices, Fewer Choices The 2018 U.S.–China Washing Machine Case
- Indigenous Education in Brazil
- Impact of Floods on Income: Evidence from France

Yesterday, the students of our class "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" presented their posters under a wonderful sun ! Congratulations to all students for their wonderful work, and to the winners of the best poster prize !

Only a few days left to hand in your application for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics!

👉A great opportunity for graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers to further develop their skills through an intensive training course.
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Next week, students will present their projects via a poster session.
To know more about our master please visit:
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Thanks @jan_eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social for such a great presentation of your book "the Great Paradox" ! What a chance to have you for the closing lecture of our new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" taught with @ammapanin.bsky.social !

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary…

The Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship application is starting soon. Reach out if you're interested in joining UNamur's dynamic economics department! For details, visit marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p.... Connect with us on @econunamur.bsky.social @econunamur @UNamur

Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa.
Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award

“A president’s cabinet is only as good as its drunkest member.” David Ray, Guerrilla Marketer

Trump Officials Accidentally Text Journalist War Plans
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Looking forward to the 2nd session of our new methods seminar orgniazed with our colleagues from the Political Science department ! Sign up here to get the updates: marketing.egoi.page/1e2e84ny/sig... @EconUNamur
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Predoctoral Field-Based Research Associate (One Year) – Democratic Republic of Congo, UC Berkeley | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Given the current political news, this may not be top of mind, but my co-authors and I are looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in the DRC that study the role of state capacity in economic development.

1-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...

Link to the podcast: t.co/tjSGQJ7bmH

Our paper (joint with Lakshmi Iyer and @RinchanMirza
) on the consequences of enfranchisement in colonial India is out in the Journal of Economic History. See below the podcast in which my friend and co-author Lakshmi Iyer @nd_econ @BIGLabND presents it.
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Looking forward to it !

I am looking forward to the papers measuring if there is a pet penalty. My (quite depressive) guess: much more gender balanced than the child penalty.

Un bouclier fiscal qui serait un bouclier pour l'équité, ça change !

a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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The US has a weakness: its groveling, highly internationalized oligarchy

Why is it a weakness? Because it’s a tiny number of people, who rely, for their wealth, on accessing foreign markets—thus giving foreign countries sizable power on them

It’s now time to use that power 6/x

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
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