We are live. A packed two-day programme, a great set of speakers, and a wide range of topics. Our 3rd #SCoPE workshop at @sydney.edu.au has a lot to look forward to. Register and stop by if you are in town.
sydneyscope.org
Thank you for featuring my work, @leightjessica.bsky.social!
Thank you, honoured to have received this award.
It has been one year since the January 2025 suspension of USAID. In our new paper (with Annabelle Tan and @ashani.bsky.social), we treat this suspension as a natural experiment and examine how foreign aid withdrawal affects conflict dynamics. A thread:
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It’s that time of the year!
Send in your submissions to the next Social Conflict and Political Economy Workshop at the University of Sydney! 😊
Deadline 15 Jan 2026.
sydneyscope.org
And with that, all 3 chapters of my PhD thesis are now published 😅
Diverting domestic turmoil (JPubE) doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...
Key players in economic development (JEBO) doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Grateful to my awesome supervisors/co-authors @raschky.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social
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After nearly 10 years since we started working on it, our paper “How natural disasters spread conflict” (with @raschky.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social and Junjie Zhou) is now published in the European Economic Review 🤩
doi.org/10.1016/j.eu...
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We have a superb lineup of 18 speakers representing 10 universities from across four countries. Really excited about this one!
The day is here! Looking forward to the 2nd edition of SCoPE at the University of Sydney today 🤩
@davidubilava.bsky.social
Program sydneyscope.org
Today at sydneyscope.org (organised by @davidubilava.bsky.social and @ashani.bsky.social). With @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
TOMORROW (30 April): AYEW Environmental Economics Workshop!
Join us at 7:00pm AEST to listen to Xiaoxin Zhang (@usc.edu) & Manisha Mukherjee (UNU-MERIT)
Sign up for Zoom details: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
TOMORROW (16 April): AYEW Gender & Development Economics Workshop!
Join us at 7PM AEST to listen to Avenia Ghazarian ( @sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social), Vanshika Chaudhary (IIM Indore) and Shahid Majeed Dar (IIT Kanpur)
Sign up for Zoom details: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (@JacksonmMatt ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: www.monash.edu/business/eve...
On this side of the country, I’m teaching his paper on food aid and conflict in class today!
Come join me in Zurich! We’re hiring a Professor of Health Economics (deadline April 30).
DM me if you have any questions about our department, ETH 🏫, or Switzerland🇨🇭
ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...
TOMORROW (9 April): AYEW Culture & Economic History Workshop!
Join us at 11:00am BST to listen to @langluo-sociology.bsky.social (Peking University), Victoria Biagi (@liverpooluni.bsky.social) and Luca Vitale (@nyu.edu)
Sign up for Zoom details: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
TOMORROW (26 March): AYEW Urban Economics Workshop!
Join us at 11:00am GMT to listen to Jorge Páscoa Ferreira (Nova SBE), @cosentinopol.bsky.social (@sorbonneparis1.bsky.social) and Yutong Guo (@bristoluni.bsky.social)
Sign up for Zoom details: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
TOMORROW (19 March): AYEW Narrative Economics Workshop!
Join us at 7:00pm AEDT / 8:00am GMT to listen to Hanh My Le(@tubraunschweig.bsky.social), Hao Geng(Chinese University of Hong Kong), @laraberger.bsky.social(@unicologne.bsky.social), @prashantgarg.bsky.social(@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social)
Season 10 is here!🎊🎉
TOMORROW (12 March, 11:00am GMT): Gender Economics Workshop!
@sarthakjoshi.bsky.social (@warwickecon.bsky.social),
Yifan Lyu (@sthlmschoolofecon.bsky.social),
@akanksha-vardani.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social)
Sign up for Zoom details:
monash.edu/business/imp...
FINAL REMINDER: AYEW Season 10 Call for Papers🌟
Deadline in 2️⃣ Days (28 February)!
Submission details below⬇️⬇️
REMINDER: 1 week left to submit your paper for AYEW Season 10!🎉
Don't miss your chance to present to a worldwide audience!🌟
Submission details below⬇️⬇️
If you're the kind of person who waits until the last minute, the wait is over. Submit your paper or extended abstract for the 2nd SCoPE workshop to be held in Sydney on 3-4 June by the end of the day.
New WP!
“Getting along or getting ahead? The domestic roots of status-seeking in international relations”
By @ashani.bsky.social and @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social
ideas.repec.org/p/syd/wpaper...
Comments welcome!
Don’t forget to submit your papers to the 2nd Social Conflict and Political Economy (SCoPE) workshop at the University of Sydney School of Economics!
Deadline: 31 January
More info: sydneyscope.org
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It's February at The Economic Journal ❤️
Lots of great papers, long (9) and short (2). Enjoy!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
Please submit your best papers to this workshop on 25 – 26 June 2025 (part of @cesifo.org Venice 🇮🇹 Summer Institute).
Keynotes: Paola Giuliano and @albertobisin.bsky.social
My co-organizers: Uwe Sunde & @jvoth.bsky.social
Deadline 9 Feb 2025 (midnight CET)
www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...
Our end-of-year newsletter is out! GCAP's latest research on economic coercion and currency competition, event recaps from our Big-Data Initiative and Annual Conference, new resources, and more.
Read the newsletter: shorturl.at/EZM17
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Is it already January? Yes! The Jan 2025 issue of The Economic Journal is out @resmedia.bsky.social with a fascinating mix of topics. Check it out!
academic.oup.com/ej/issue/135...
📢Workshop Announcement
The 2nd Social Conflict and Political Economy (SCoPE) Workshop will take place at the University of Sydney on June 3-4, 2025. Please submit your papers by email to scope.conference@sydney.edu.au by 31 January 2025.
dubilava.github.io/Calls/SCoPE_...