#econsky TOMORROW (22 Apr): Final session of the 12th AYEW - Public Economics Workshop!
Join us at 7pm AEST/ 10am BST and listen to Dyah (ANU), @martakorczak.bsky.social (EUI_EU), @immanuelfeld.bsky.social & Kyle (@warwickecon.bsky.social)
Zoom link: www.monash.edu/business/imp...
2026 Haavelmo Prize for "Spatial Unit Roots and Spurious Regression" by Müller & Watson (ECMA 2024) 🎉🎉🎉
We have Stata code and a practitioners guide for you 👉
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Stata Journal
Now working on "How much should we trust regressions using cross-sectional spatial data?"
We've published a new @whatworksgrowth.bsky.social 'how to' guide on understanding local GVA, productivity, and income: whatworksgrowth.org/resource-lib...
Fully-funded #PhD opportunity on the early history of the Public Records Office starting this October phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... with @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @universityofleeds.bsky.social Available full or part-time. #archives #skystorians
New working paper!
I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity
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📣 Join our ERC LEARN Research Team at CRIS, Sciences Po, Paris, to investigate how major disruptive events affect children's educational development. Apply by 12 April:
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Great piece from @dsquareddigest.bsky.social, which touches on one of the big theories for why English-speaking countries do especially badly at housebuilding:
Adversarial and litigious common law systems (Anglo) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere.
samf.substack.com/p/build-the-...
The agglomeration elasticity may be larger than widely believed (if we account for capitalization in commercial floor space prices). And the first micro-geographic commercial rent index for Germany!!! 😎 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social DP: opus4.kobv.de/opus4-hsog/f... Data: github.com/Ahlfeldt/AHS...
Interesting and impressive
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Call for papers for the Development Economics Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
📅 Dates: 11-12 June 2026
Organizers: Paula Bustos (ICREA-UPF), GIACOMO DE GIORGI (IEE/GSEM-U. Geneva), Andre Groeger (LISER, UAB), Gianmarco León Ciliotta (UPF) and Alessandro Tarozzi (EUI, UPF).
⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB
One year RA post at @poid-lse.bsky.social jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... working with @johnvanreenen.bsky.social
Wir freuen uns schon sehr auf den Vortrag von @monika-schnitzer.com zum Jahresgutachten des @svrwirtschaft.bsky.social bei uns an der @unileipzig.bsky.social!
Reminder: Essen Health Conference 2026 - submission deadline in two weeks #healtheconomics
There’s a paradox around remote work. Jamie Dimon says it will kill productivity, while startups are hiring for remote roles. Who is right?
With Abhinav Gupta and Elena Simintzi we try to resolve this dispute
Paper: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Substack: arpitrage.substack.com/p/remote-wor...
📢 2nd Junior Workshop Economics of Latin America - Call for Papers!
Aimed at PhD students & post-docs working on development economics with a regional focus on Latin America.
9-10 July 2026 in Berlin.
Submission deadline: Feb 28. (details below)
#EconConf #EconSky
🚨Job alert! 🚨
I'm advertising a PhD position (66%) in Comparative Politics at HU Berlin. Ideal candidates combine a research interest in autocratic politics, conflict, and/or political violence with strong quantitative methods skills.
⏳ 4 (+2) years | 🗓 DL 16.01; Start March/April 26
More info:
It was a real pleasure to co-organize the first CREST Urban and Spatial PhD workshop last week, together with the great @mateomoglia.bsky.social
Including a fantastic set of young researchers and an amazing and inspiring keynote presentation by Clara Santamaria.
I hope this was not the last one!
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
So deserved, congrats @aaherrerab.bsky.social ! 🥳
We (development econ faculty at Princeton) are hiring predocs, to start in summer 2026. Please share the application with folks who might be interested: rpde.princeton.edu/rpde-%E2%80%93-predoctoral-fellows-research-specialists-start-summer-2026
We'll review apps starting on 9/15. Thanks!
What a fabulous 2025 @bsoeberlin.bsky.social www.bqse.de seminar season it has been! Thanks to all the co-organizers, our manager @immanuelfeld.bsky.social , all speakers, guests, and locals! You have been a fantastic spatial community! sites.google.com/view/bqse/bq...
🚨 Applications to our PhD program starting January 2026 close on July 31 🗓️
Fully funded scholarship for a 1 year Master’s coursework + 3.5 year research in our School.
A 🧵 on our PhD program and school. (1/7)
Program and application info 👇
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The study has N=54 split in three groups. It basically has no power to detect the effects it seeks to detect.
I’m all for pre-published media engagement but this is not enough to get it outside of your own lab environment.
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This app and the associated development is in line with the "village economy". In many cities with healthy hyper-local social media communities (think: street, development level), sharing of property items is already very common.
We are pleased to announce the 9th Potsdam PhD Workshop in Empirical Economics, which will be held September 24–25, 2025. The workshop aims to allow talented young researchers to present and discuss their research. For details and the CfP, follow this link: www.uni-potsdam.de/en/cepa/even...
📣Call for papers: 𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗥 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 28 - 29 October 2025, Munich
Keynote Speaker: Jens Hainmueller (Stanford)
ℹ️ www.ifo.de/en/event/202...
👉 Submit by 30 June: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/78037...
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We are looking to hire post-doc interested in working on migration, citizenship, and diaspora. Come join us in Münster! Generous contract + no teaching for 2 years.
Many details and link to job add here:
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Please PM me incase you have questions!
I just signed this and I hope many of my colleagues will too. As academics we need to stand up against the erosion of basic human rights of trans people and other sexual minorities. We need to make sure that our trans students and colleagues know that they are not alone in this.
Not Incentivized Yet Efficient: Working From Home in the Public Sector 51 Pages Posted: 21 Oct 2024 Last revised: 20 Feb 2025 Alessandra Fenizia The George Washington University Tom Kirchmaier London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance Date Written: January 14, 2025 Abstract This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs. Studying public sector initiatives allows us to establish baseline estimates on the impact of WFH net of incentives. Exploiting novel administrative data and plausibly exogenous variation in work location, we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%. These productivity gains are primarily driven by reduced distractions. They are not explained by differences in quality, shift length, or task allocation. The productivity gains more than double when tasks are assigned by the supervisor. Keywords: working from home, productivity, public sector
"This paper studies whether working from home (WFH) affects workers' performance in public sector jobs... we find that WFH increases productivity by 12%."
@afenizia.bsky.social
Evidence that administrations that reject WFH harm efficiency.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London.
Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...
Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!