Apply by 4 May for the 25th Summer School in International and Development Economics. The 2026 theme is Economic Development in the Age of Big Data and AI. The summer school will take place at the Castello di Gargonza in Tuscany, Italy from 1-4 September.

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⌛Deadline: 4 May
📆1-4 September |📍Tuscany, Italy
Lecturers: @samasher.bsky.social & @novosad.bsky.social
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You will get paired with people around your ability level, plus a few schoolings from the masters.

We alternate fourth Thursday of the month 10pm ET and fourth Sunday 12pm ET.

Come and join us!

Anyone doing academic / phd work in econ is invited, incl predoc, postdocs, hangers on.

The idea is you already have a chess addiction, you might as well play with people you're likely to meet somewhere.

We alternate late/early ET times so ppl from all time zones get a chance.

Econ PhD Chess is happening this Thursday Jan 22 at 10pm ET!

1 hour of 3+2 blitz against fellow econ enthusiasts, all skill levels welcome!

If you're not in the lichess group, fill our Google Form to get invited: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F....

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Sign Up: Economists Chess Arena Are you an academic economist? Do you play chess? Would you like to spend an hour playing chess against other economists? Sign up for the Economists Chess Arena! Organized by Paul Novosad and Michael...

Econ Phd Chess, sign up here:
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Open to anyone doing academic/phd work in economics—chiefly profs, phd students, pre/postdocs, or other hangers on.

You have a bad addiction anyway, might as well spend it with people you could meet IRL!

Next date Jan 29!

Congrats to Weiliang Tan "amateur_nonmaster", AP at Claremont McKenna, winner of the first Econ PhD Chess Arena!

2nd and 3rd to Nahim Bin Zahur and
@avivcaspi.bsky.social.

We're playing monthly, all levels welcome. Fill the form below for a chance to get schooled by one of these monsters.

Last chance to sign up for Econ PhD Chess tomorrow!

We're sending arena invites today, please register by the form below ASAP if you want to be on our list or play on Sunday.

We're opening the invitation to anyone doing academic/phd work in economics—chiefly profs, phd students, postdocs and predocs, or others in that same community, with real names known.

The idea is you should at least some connection to many people you're playing. Come join us!

♟️♟️ Phd Econ Chess Arena!

Organized by me and @michaelstepner.bsky.social, all skill levels welcome, come play an hour of bullet/blitz, once a month on lichess. First date Dec 28 12pm ET.

If at all interested, please answer our Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Adaptive persistence of elite families despite regime change, alongside lasting regional scarring, highlighting the role of cultural transmission for social mobility, from Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller www.nber.org/papers/w34451

Yeah that's valid. I should have posted those two graphs together. Unfortunately there's no "amend" option and corrections never travel as far.

I'm not sure it changes the interpretation all that much—it makes sense that both legit and illegit accommodations would be requested after a slump.

Wow, this is fantastic.

Inserting @novosad.bsky.social's X post - I am still not very proficient in R, but I converted all of my Stata code to R for fun, which resulted in a very primitive version masala-merge in R (github.com/devdatalab/m...)!

#masala-merge #R #India #economics

To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss

Editing our writing is a common academic task. I *hate* how spell/grammar checks annoy me by thinking proper nouns or LaTeX code are misspellings (yes, I want `` ''). I also want *style* tips like a good editor would give me. Problem solved. 1/5

OMG is real www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

I have revise-and-resubmits older than ICE

The most marketable skill right now is having good judgment regarding how and when to use AI.

Using AI to generate your writing assignments is having bad judgment.

It's wild to me that in 2025 there are academics advising their students to never use AI.

How Europe is quietly stealing America’s scientists

Please do it less quietly, Europe. US political leadership needs to be more rattled by this!
www.politico.com/newsletters/...

just register for your own protection. it will be fine

U.S. Texts Barnard Employees and Asks if They Are Jewish A questionnaire from a federal commission also inquired about whether professors and other college staff members had been harassed.

Ah yes, the government asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews. No way that could go wrong www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/n...

The Courage to Be Decent The goal isn’t to police all behavior at all times. It’s to make us fearful to the point that we police our own behavior.

fuck these fucking guys who did this slate.com/news-and-pol...

Academic creativity is underrated and technical methods are overrated.

Take this excellent paper on Zero Sum Thinking—simple in retrospect, just an excellent idea!

Graph shows rise in zero-sum thinking with Millennial and later U.S. birth cohorts.

Congrats to @s-stantcheva.bsky.social

Parents are going to flip out when they learn that the 4th grade teacher hasn't answered all the math worksheet questions by herself.

Is EconSky dead?

Scrolling through my feed, none of the posts by real people (as opposed to social media celebrities) have any engagement.

Even "new paper alerts" getting like <20 likes.

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)?

Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions.

U.S. Applicant Week:

www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

#AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

We also published the entire database with metadata on 80 million Indian court cases from 2010–2018: devdatalab.org/judicial-data