Folks are writing about malaria again! Some bonus reading on previous eradication campaigns (by me): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Thank you ‪@voxdev.bsky.social‬ for featuring our work!

Person who was fired here - you should still trust BLS data. The agency is being run by the same dedicated career staff who were running it while I was awaiting confirmation from the Senate. And the staff have made it clear that they are blowing a loud whistle if there is interference.

Screen shot that reads Journal Article Editor's Choice When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System Free Kehinde F Ajayi , Willa H Friedman , Adrienne M Lucas The Economic Journal, Volume 136, Issue 673, January 2026, Pages 26–60, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf046 Published: 13 June 2025 Article history Abstract We implemented a large-scale randomised controlled trial encompassing 900 junior high schools in Ghana, a country with universal secondary school choice, to study whether providing students and parents with information on school characteristics and selection strategies improved outcomes in a centralised school selection mechanism. Information changed households’ preferences and the characteristics of schools to which they applied. Students gained admission to higher value-added schools, yet they were not more likely to matriculate on time or at all. Incomplete school information was not the only friction. Household shocks and inaccurate preference forecasting likely contributed to continued admission deviations.

Thrilled that "When Information is Not Enough: Evidence from a Centralised School Choice System" with @willafriedman.bsky.social and #KehindeAjayi is in the January 2026 #EconomicJournal.

It's an "Editor's Choice," FREE to download, and easy to cite. :) academic.oup.com/ej/article/1...

screen shot with the words "Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty, 2025 Award Winner, Muhammad Usman Taj, Midlands Technical College" and a picture of the winner wearing a window pane (white background) button down shirt.

Congratulations to @udelaware.bsky.social Economics PhD alum #MuhammadUsmanTaj (now at #MidlandsTechnicalCollege) for winning the 2025 #AmericanEconomicAssociation Professional Development Grant for URM Faculty!

Applications are OPEN for CSWEP’s 2026 CeMENT Mentoring Workshop! 🎉 Come get feedback on your research, practical advice for navigating the tenure track, and a community that will lift you up.

Details & application here 👉 www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co...

@aeacswep.bsky.social #EconSky

Job posting: Assistant Professor in @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment. "a social scientist whose research addresses the policy, legal, and/or economic dimensions of contemporary ocean resource use."

Apply!
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New @nber.org working paper by my @udelaware.bsky.social colleague #MariaRosalesRueda and other nifty folks.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:

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#IVoted If you have not voted, not too late to join the democracy/cool sticker club! Vote!

Election Day! Vote. Vote. Vote. All elections are consequential!

My Summer Internship: Anxhela Beluli Anxhela Beluli, economics Ph.D. student, spent her summer as an Economist Ph.D. Intern at Amazon.

UDelaware Economics PhD student @anxhelabeluli.com spent the summer as an intern at Amazon. lerner.udel.edu/seeing-oppor...

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Happy Welcome Back Picnic @udelaware.bsky.social economics faculty, staff, PhD students, and families! Great to see everyone!

New @wsj.com college ranking puts University of Delaware @udelaware.bsky.social at #38!

(Rumor* has it that it's due to the stellar economics department)

(* I started that rumor, just now, but we are stellar)

🚨 Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professors in Econ at the University of Copenhagen! 🚨

Join a great group in an exciting (and friendly) city 😀! Details will follow.

Pls repost and get in touch to hear more. All fields, and I’m esp. interested in hearing from DEV candidates 😀!

#EconSky

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Good morning #UMinnesota! Excited to present my paper on the long run and intergenerational effects of a Chilean CCT!

Open letter Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence!

The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top).

If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there!

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The @udelaware.bsky.social College of Earth Ocean and Environment is hiring a Department Chair of Geography.

Possibility to be joint appointment with Public Policy (with me) & be part of an institution with a super nifty economics department (chaired by me).

careers.udel.edu/cw/en-us/job...

I am proud to join multiple Nobel laureates and hundreds of colleagues in signing this letter to protest the US Administration's illegal seizure of control at our central bank.

Line chart titled "Figure 1. Pipeline for Departments with Doctoral Programs: Percent of Doctoral Students and Faculty Who are Women, 1994-2024" The "Full Professors (T)", green line, was about 7% in 1994 and 18% in 2024.

On the (almost) 105th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment in the US, women are
* 51% of population
* 29% of House of Representatives
* 26% of Senate
* 18% of full professors at PhD granting economics departments

Any economists out there who might be interested in writing about choosing a childfree life? I'm editing an upcoming CSWEP newsletter on fertility choices and hoping to include this perspective. Shoot me a message if you might be my person!

If you’re at #aaea today, come see our track session at 10am in Plaza Court 2

I’m presenting work joint with @profalucas.bsky.social and Sabrin Beg on the impacts of an intervention designed to reach out of school girls in Pakistan

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

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Impressive, long-term impacts of targeted cash transfers for indigenous children in Chile

8 members of the UD economics faculty sit in their academic robes in front of graduating seniors in blue caps and gowns.

Great team representing Economics at this morning’s @udelaware.bsky.social Lerner College convocation! #JorgeSoares #ValMichelman #LizBayley @bartonwillage.com #HansHolter #NishaChikhale #ErinYetter #KatyBender Congratulations to all the Econ undergraduates!!

Picture of Adrienne Lucas, Jason Christie, Dean Oliver Yao at UD convocation ceremony. They are all wearing academic robes—Brown, UD, and Maryland.

Congratulations Dr. #JasonChristie! @udelaware.bsky.social latest economics PhD graduate.

Local primary day in PA--be sure to vote! Or tell someone who lives in PA to vote!

screen shot from NBER website that contains paper title, authors, and abstract: Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan & David Torres Irribarra Working Paper 33798 DOI 10.3386/w33798 Issue Date May 2025 Since 1991, Chile has provided large, renewable cash grants to indigenous children in lower-income households, conditional on school enrollment. We estimate intent-to-treat effects of grant exposure on indigenous adults and their children, leveraging variation in expected grant exposure across birth cohorts and never-treated adults, and using fixed effects to absorb unobserved variables shared by adults born in the same year and community. Cohorts with the greatest exposure had 0.6 more years of schooling, 10% more hours worked, and 22% higher labor earnings, reducing pre-treatment ethnic differences. Mothers’ exposure increased their children’s early-grade test scores and reduced second-generation grant receipt.

New @nber.org working paper "Targeted Education Transfers Reduced Long-Run and Intergenerational Ethnic Inequality in Chile" with #PatrickMcEwan & #DavidTorresIrribarra.

Title summarizes it. More details: www.nber.org/papers/w33798

Educational conditional cash transfers to indigenous students increased education, adult earnings, and human capital of the subsequent generation, from Adrienne M. Lucas, Patrick J. McEwan, and David Torres Irribarra https://www.nber.org/papers/w33798

White sheet cake with pictures of Barton, Thomas, and Olga.

On reading day, graduate students present their research, and we honor outstanding faculty by putting their faces on cake— @bartonwillage.com #ThomasBridges #OlgaGorbachev. Best day of the academic year!