Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics “University as a Melting Pot: Long-term Effects of Internationalization”
Debates on international students often focus on capacity, funding, or competition.
My paper shows the main effects on natives are not academic or economic, but social.
Suddenly, amidst the constant tirades against their costliness, UK universities again have a use value....
It's a real shame we couldn't quite replicate Econtwitter here, but I simply refuse to engage with that platform.
Romania has decoupled economic growth from pollution faster than anywhere else in EU. Its net greenhouse gas emissions intensity fell 88% between 1990 & 2023, so each euro’s worth of economic activity heats planet 10 times less. Emissions have plunged by 75%. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
One of the best papers I've read in a while!
It is the policy of the United States to accelerate the warming of the earth and the natural disasters that will accompany it, a legacy that will outlive everyone involved.
Very interesting work!
🚨Rare and exciting opportunity 🚨
We're looking to hire an exceptional economist to work on fiscal policy at the IFS. We don't do this often. It's a chance to shape, carry out and communicate research on some of the highest-profile topics in UK economic policy. [1/4]
📢 Call for papers: 1st Annual CEP–IFS Labour Conference
London | 15–16 June 2026
We invite labour economics papers on wages & inequality, firm wage-setting, monopsony, unions, worker mobility & place-based policies.
Submit by 13 Feb 2026.
🔗 Details & submissions: ow.ly/yvGJ50XY3fK
“Potential” and the Gender Promotion Gap† By Alan Benson, Danielle Li, and Kelly Shue* We show that subjective assessments of employee “potential” contribute to gender gaps in promotion and pay. Using data on 29,809 management-track employees from a large retail chain, we find that women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings. Differences in potential ratings account for approximately half of the gender promotion gap. Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues, both on average and on the margin of promotion. We highlight two mechanisms driving the gender potential gap: strategic retention and stereotyping. (JEL J16, J31, J71, L81, M12, M51)
"...women receive substantially lower potential ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings... lower potential ratings do not reflect accurate forecasts of future performance: Women subsequently outperform male colleagues..."
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
📢 Call for Papers: Structural Microeconometrics Workshop at the @bsebarcelona.bsky.social Summer Forum 📍 Barcelona | 🗓️ June 11-12 2026
Join @anamoremaldo.bsky.social, Joan Llull and me together with our keynote speaker Jeremy Lise!
👉 events.bse.eu/live/files/5...
Joint work with Pedro Carneiro, Lucy Kraftman, Imran Rasul and Molly Scott!
We study whether open enrolment interventions targeting cash transfers to pregnant mothers unintentionally induce those not pregnant to accelerate birth timing in order to start receiving the cash, in the context of rural Northern Nigeria.
Very happy that our paper "Accelerating Birth Timing to Access Cash Transfers? Evidence from Households in Extreme Poverty" is now published in the Journal of Health Economics!
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New post!
There was a lot of innovation in medicine and biomedical research this year, and I've tried to summarize the biggest ones in this blogpost.
Medical breakthroughs in 2025. Plus a serious note at the end.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev/p/medical-br...
despite people still driving like mad men/women!
This is *fantastic* news! Many congratulations Henning!
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Are you on the academic job market with a paper about crime or criminal justice policy? Please send me your JMP! Jdoleac@arnoldventures.org
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
🚨Economics students! People who know or teach economics students!🚨
The IFS offers summer internships each year. Many of our permanent staff started with one of these. On Monday we're holding an online event to provide more info. Please do come/share.
ifs.org.uk/events/ifs-r...
such a great actor and an incredible performance. he stunned me
Come and join us! Our search focuses on econometrics or IO!
Montreal, imo, best city in North America and 🇨🇦 is a welcoming, awesome country.
That's the loveliest gift!
Come work with me!
Stockholm Sch of Econ (@handels_sse ) is hiring Assistant Professors this year, both in Economics (my dept) and in Finance.
By revealed preference, I think it’s a great place to work + a lovely city to live in.
Econ advert below:
jobs.hhs.se/en/job/stock...
"Not the Onion"
😂 i was surprised at how well he dealt with modernity, given his films are mostly always depicting the past. i was positively surprised at how well he captured the contemporary world while still weaving in exaggerated elements of almost "comic book" like nature with such skill. And so much comedy!
great film!