Etienne Le Rossignol

Thanks for the invitation :)

Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties - WID - World Inequality Database This study documents disparities in earnings and ranks across different minority groups in France and compare France with the US.

Racial minorities in France face substantial earnings penalties, with Middle Eastern/North African and Sub-Saharan African individuals most affected. This is one of the key findings of a new study by @yajnagovind.bsky.social @paolosantini.bsky.social & E. Derenoncourt.

▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Call for abstracts for interdisciplinary conference on "Popular Support for Autocratic Regimes in Historical Perspective," May 26-27 in Toulouse @tse-fr.eu

Deadline: Nov 15. Travel/accommodation will be covered.

Please apply!

Co-organized with Jan Stuckatz, Selina Hofstetter, and Mikkel Dack.

Christian missions in colonial Congo weakened kin and ethnic ties, eroded communal values, and durably redirected loyalties toward religious affiliation, from @abergeron.bsky.social https://www.nber.org/papers/w34262

Claudia Sheinbaum se convierte en la primera mujer en protagonizar el Grito de la Independencia de México. www.rtve.es/noticias/

📢ReCIPE’s first call for Big Research Grants is opening soon! Deadline: 27 October. We’re looking for research proposals exploring the links between conflict and economic growth within ReCIPE research themes and in ReCIPE focus countries.
recipe.cepr.org/funding/big-...
#EconSky

MY GOD, I HAVE A NEW HERO. SHE HAD THEM SO HOOKED AND THEN BAM, SHE ATE THEM, BONES AND ALL.

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

🚨🚨 Pre-doc Hiring! 🚨🚨

We are hiring pre-docs to start in Princeton in Summer 2026, supporting Pascaline Dupas, @thomasfujiwara.bsky.social @seema.bsky.social and Mica Sviatschi. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in development economics research before applying to PhD programs. Link 👇

Before-and-after satellite imagery shows multiple large burn scars from the recent major wildfires in Portugal and Spain.

NEW: The first evidence of a solar take-off in Africa☀️✈️

x33 rise in Algeria solar panel imports in the 12 mths to June 2025, compared to previous 12 mths.
x8 in Zambia
x7 in Botswana
x6 in Sudan
x3 in each of Liberia, DRC, Benin, Angola, Ethiopia

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carte postale du village africain, en 1925 à Grenoble, actuel parc Paul Mistral

#Grenoble 1925, zoos humains & fascination coloniale.
L'exposition de la Houille blanche s'est déroulée de mai à oct. 1925, il y a 100 ans, avec un zoo humain
Jusqu'à fin septembre, exposition "Zoos humains, l'invention du sauvage" du groupe de recherche ACHAC

9ème jour - La végétation Europe de l'O est complètement desséchée et jaunit. Ce n'est pas que les prairies cette fois-ci. Les tâches brunes autour du Massif Central correspondent aux forêts tandis qu'une épaisse fumée des feux de forêts d'Espagne et Portugal s'étale au dessus de nous. Ambiance. 1/4

Happy to share this great news! For a summary of the paper, read @pgmeon.bsky.social great thread here 👇🏻

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

Map of countries where the DHS was the only source of maternal mortality data

In February, the US gov shut down the Demographic & Health Surveys.

It was the only data source on maternal & child health, births, household structure in many countries – making it crucial for research.

In a new article I explain why it should be rescued.
ourworldindata.org/demographic-...

New article out at the American Journal of Political Science:

"The Troubles and Beyond: The impact of a museum exhibit on a post‐conflict society."

With Dr. Elsa Voytas.

Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

International travel experience also varies greatly across the nations in the study, and it is strongly correlated with per-capita gross domestic product. In the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom, more than four-in-ten have traveled to 10 or more countries. While about three-in-four Americans have traveled abroad, only 11% have been to 10 or more nations. In middle-income nations in Africa, Latin America and Asia, majorities have never left their country. However, most of those who have not traveled internationally say they would if they had the opportunity.

Have never traveled to a country outside their own
India 95%
Indonesia 92%
Nigeria 90%
Brazil 87%
Mexico 79%
S Africa 77%
Japan 34%
Poland 32%
US 23%
S Korea 21%
Greece 21%
Spain 15%
Italy 14%
Australia 10%
France 10%
UK 4%
Germany 3%
www.pewresearch.org/global/2023/...

ReCIPE’s First Call for PhD Research Grants now open! Apply before 11 August. We’re looking for research proposals from PhD students exploring the links b/w conflict & economic growth within ReCIPE research themes & in ReCIPE focus countries.

More info here: recipe.cepr.org/phd-research...
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✨Did markets make Americans more cooperative❓🔍

✅YES‼️

Between 1850 and 1920, the US became the largest and most integrated economy in the world 📶🌎

We show that this shift didn’t just move goods and affect prices—it fundamentally changed culture and behavior

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Afrique : d’une dépendance à l’autre

[25 cartes pour comprendre le nouveau désordre mondial] La Chine et la Russie gagnent du terrain dans les échanges commerciaux avec le continent africain, au détriment de l’Union européenne.

Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database - Scientific Data Scientific Data - Mapping nonhuman cultures with the Animal Culture Database

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report

Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Le grand recul démocratique

[25 cartes pour comprendre le nouveau désordre mondial] Seule une minorité de la population mondiale vit dans un pays où les libertés politiques et civiles fondamentales sont respectées.

“Such good English, where did you learn to speak so beautifully?” Trump asks the president of Liberia, whose official language is English

Le site Agrometeorologie continue dans l'innovation : l'évapotranspiration — perte en eau des écosystèmes — est désormais cartographiée pour toute l’Europe, J+10 et près de 70 cultures.
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Moissons d’une précocité record, prairies grillées et improductives : la sécheresse s’installe durablement en France. Depuis l’espace, le jaunissement du pays est frappant. Et les faibles pluies attendues ne suffiront pas à préparer la vague de chaleur dès jeudi.
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Rwanda-RD Congo. Le deal à la Trump ÉDITO LE « DEAL » DE TRUMP CONFRONTÉ AUX RÉALITÉS DE LA RD CONGO Par Colette Braeckman Enfin un succès. Tous satisfaits, fiers d’eux-mêmes et confiants dans l’avenir… Depuis la signature de (…)

Derrière le "deal" à la Trump entre la #RDCongo et le #Rwanda "l’exportation de minerais à l’état brut rappelle le pacte colonial d’autrefois, lorsque le cuivre et l’uranium étaient extraits du Katanga pour être traités en Belgique" écrit Colette Braeckman dans l'edito de notre lettre hebdomadaire⤵️

Seriously, I don’t care about my $5 on Skype, but multiply that by 30 million daily users and suddenly shutting down looks pretty lucrative…