Todd Pugatch

At least we know the Senate won't have to give him the third degree -- he's already got one you see.

(Also, what a sad state of affairs.)

Publication lags in economics be like

privatize the gains and socialize the costs ftw.

Most of their waking hours??? Schools aren’t open for most of a kid’s waking hours even on school days.

NGO/Development organization!? Dave is CGD just your side hustle?

ADEA is seeking a Founding Executive Director to shape and lead FLIGHT, a new catalytic funding initiative to support African governments to implement proven foundational learning interventions at scale.

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Update on the state of the job market courtesy of a nudge by @gottliebecon.bsky.social

It's bad!

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Wow, that's me!

An editor's single wish... decline any request but please do so promptly

Looking forward to the next iteration of this work, “F- it, we’re doing four robustnesses.”

a man laying on the floor holding a bottle of alcohol ALT: a man laying on the floor holding a bottle of alcohol

Reviewing another cross-country regression paper

Yikes. Not that it makes you feel any better, but that's far down my list of troubling developments at Texas universities in the past year.

OK, that's different...here I haven't seen the same encroachments into faculty teaching.

I dunno...our admin is also Team AI but I distinguish their interest in AI research $ from an endorsement of uninhibited AI use for student academic work.

Training a single teacher (the "gender focal point") in each school in Mozambique reduced sexual abuse of girls by school staff by 67%

For Harvard and for Economics, the problem in the Summers/Epstein exchanges isn't Epstein, it's Summers./1

🚨Attention! AshEcon call for papers! 🚨
www.ashecon.org/2026-minneap...

Due date for abstracts: December 10, 2025

I'm the Program Chair for Health and Development, so would like to encourage global health scholars in particular

Some tips for prospective authors in thread below

Stay tuned for follow-up, where we conduct an RCT involving vulnerable women in this area - half abducted as children - to assess the impact of:

1) cash only

2) cash+group life-skill training

3) cash+group mental health counseling

W/ @eeshani.bsky.social & @mirandainez.bsky.social

This is wild: "Sorry for my lengthy relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Anyway, last class we were talking about consumer surplus..."

CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

boost enrollment with this one weird trick

Indonesia built 6,000 secondary schools and you'll never guess what happened to enrolment rates next

cesarlgm.github.io/documents/pa...

📢 New postdoc opportunity at Annenberg!

The Annenberg Institute is seeking a postdoctoral research associate for a 2‐year appointment to join a diverse community of scholars committed to educational equity and improvement!

More info here: annenberg.brown.edu/opportunitie...

Using data to allocate teachers more carefully keeps children advancing in school. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...

Reminder, last couple of weeks to get your papers in for a special issue of the WBER on migration and development.

Proud to be part of an institution that welcomes international students

📢 Revolutions in computing have led to the rapid development and deployment of a new set of programmes to support student learning.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on December 4, @singhabhi.bsky.social will summarise evidence on education technology.

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