Last call for applications. Deadline is on March 15.

So exciting. Congratulations, Michael! Can't wait to see what you will build there.

Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year ❤️

🆕 How skilled migration from Asia reshaped the US economy 📢

Today on VoxDevTalks, @econgaurav.bsky.social (@gpsucsd.bsky.social) discusses the rise of high-skilled migration from Asia to the US.

🔗 Link below ⤵️

Workshop on Migration Find paper topics, past speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Migration

Call for papers for the Migration Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
bse.eu/summer-forum...

📅 Dates: 8-9 June 2026

Keynotes: Leah Boustan & Sam Bazzi

Organizers: L. Farré, J. Fernández-Huertas Moraga, A. Glitz, A. Groeger, J. Llull, J. Monràs

⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

@bsebarcelona.bsky.social

PhD-position - Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics - Bonn, Germany | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn)

Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team.

www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/phd-...

Apply to present your work at the @novafrica.bsky.social PhD Workshop on Development Economics.

Organized by the fantastic Econ PhD students at Nova SBE!

How international migration shapes fertility and reproductive health back home Exposure to less restrictive reproductive health policies via international migration leads to lower fertility in origin communities through the diffusion of new knowledge, preferences, and behaviour.

🆕 How international migration shapes fertility and reproductive health back home

Susan Godlonton (Williams College Economics Department) & Caroline Theoharides (Amherst) discuss how exposure to less restrictive health policies abroad lowered fertility in the Philippines: https://ow.ly/7lZw50Y4JiS

BÆM💥5 days left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings!

🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi

👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides

⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås

👉 baem.info

I am saddened beyond words to learn that Jon Temple, the profound investigator of the economics of growth, has passed away.   https://lnkd.in/d9KMSE7B   We must have first met at several conferences…... I am saddened beyond words to learn that Jon Temple, the profound investigator of the economics of growth, has passed away.   https://lnkd.in/d9KMSE7B   We must have first met at several conferences ...

Extremely saddened to learn about the passing of Jon Temple. He was a leading thinker on the economics of growth, and such a decent person.

Here’s a few fond memories of our interactions, for which I’ll always be profoundly grateful:

www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

R.I.P., dear Jon.

I continue to be inspired by our amazing Malengo students — here is another conversation, this time with Kiltan Karbous, a Sudanese refugee from Uganda, who is studying Physics in Leipzig.

This is a hard year for the job market.

Dev economists: check out this available funding *if you’re open to be based in an LMIC*

It could supplement your salary + provide research funds.

Lots of research active hubs in Asia, Africa, LAC that would love to affiliate excellent global talent!

📢 Less than 3 weeks left to submit to the Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM). Come join us!

🌍Development (5-6 May) w/ Mobarak, Orkin, Rasul, Rossi

👥Migration (6-7 May) w/ Abramitzky, Monras, Theoharides

⚖️Fairness (8 May) w/ Fehr, Bénabou, Almås

👉 baem.info

Inaugural Workshop of the Standing Committee for Political Economy of the German Economic Association (Verein für Socialpolitik e.V.), @vfsecon.bsky.social
Call for Papers below! Maik T. Schneider, @steinhardt.bsky.social @theocharisgr.bsky.social
and I hope to see you in Berlin, March 26-27!

📢 International migration is one of the most powerful tools available for poverty reduction and economic development.

At our VoxDevLit launch event on January 14, Dean Yang will summarise evidence on international migration.

Register➡️ https://ow.ly/y5n150XRWT9

Ungated version: econgaurav.github.io/papers/Abund...

Congrats on a fantastic article @econgaurav.bsky.social Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and @deanyang.bsky.social!

Great new evidence from the Philippines on the long-run multiplier of labor migration in countries of origin.

"Initial migrant income shocks are magnified six-fold over time, increasing domestic income, education levels, migrant skills, and high-skilled migration."

We got a new paper out on Ukrainian #refugee entrepreneurs in Poland, with Cevat Giray Aksoy and Piotr Lewandowski. Check it out here: cevatgirayaksoy.com/wp-content/u... and see below for a THREAD!!! 👇 #EconTwitter

1. Less skilled labor is abundant. 2. Skilled emigration is a brain drain. 3. Development substitutes for migration. 4. Migration substitutes for failing development, but doesn't cause development.

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries.

In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.

www.iza.org/publications...

🧵 thread—>

BÆM also has two other meetings with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers:

🌍Development, 5-6 May
M. Mobarak (Yale), K. Orkin (Oxford), I. Rasul (UCL), P. Rossi (CREST)

⚖️Fairness, 8 May
E. Fehr (Zurich), R. Bénabou (Princeton), I. Almås (Zurich)

👉http://baem.info

📢 Call for papers 📢

Join us for the Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on the Economics of Migration, May 6-7!

Invited talks by Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, and Caroline Theoharides.

Submit your paper by Jan 31. Some travel funding is available. baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf

Exciting news on @malengo.org, the NGO that helps East African students move to Europe for education: Our research team has given us a glimpse of their early findings!

Here is the full writeup, joint with @richardnerland.bsky.social:

forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/CpZYHk...

Thread follows!

📢 #CallForPapers 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration
CEPR @ebrd.bsky.social King's College London & Sapienza University are co-organising a workshop on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome
Submit by 23 January
cepr.org/events/7th-w...
@micheledimaio.bsky.social @plvezina.bsky.social #EconSky

Over the past 3 decades, high-skill migrants from Asia—especially India and China—have transformed the US economy, fueling innovation, tech, higher ed, and healthcare growth, from Gaurav Khanna www.nber.org/papers/w34449

CfP🗣️: 7th edition of the Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration. 28-29 May 2026, in Rome!

Organised by CEPR/King's College/EBRD/Sapienza

Keynotes are Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford).

Submit your papers: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline 23 Jan.

🤓🔥🍕🍝🍷

Billionaire Migration: An Interactive Map An interactive map of city-level migration flows for 3,106 billionaires from birth to most recent residence.

New from me:

An interactive data visualization showing billionaire migration: paths from birthplace to most recent residence for > 3,100 of the world’s richest individuals.

Most importantly, fun to play around with; also, useful for thinking about q's re: elites and comparative wealth ineq. 1/5

📢 Call for papers: Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Fairness in the Economy

🗓️ 8 May 2026📍University of Bristol

Confirmed speakers: Ernst Fehr, Roland Bénabou, Ingvild Almås

No parallel sessions. Plenty of discussions. Call: baem.info/CfP_FIE_26.pdf

📢 Call for papers: Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Economics of Migration

🗓️ 6-7 May 2026📍University of Bristol

Confirmed speakers: Ran Abramitzky, Joan Monras, Caroline Theoharides

No parallel sessions. Plenty of discussions. Call: baem.info/CfP_MIG_26.pdf

📢 Call for papers: Bristol Applied Economics Meeting (BÆM) on Development Economics

🗓️ 5-6 May 2026📍University of Bristol

Confirmed speakers: Mushfiq Mobarak, Kate Orkin, Imran Rasul, Pauline Rossi

No parallel sessions. Plenty of discussions. Call: baem.info/CfP_DEV_26.pdf

BÆM is back! Submit your paper and join us for the 3rd Bristol Applied Economics Meetings. Three workshops with a fantastic lineup of invited speakers:

Development Economics, 5-6 May
Economics of Migration, 6-7 May
Fairness in the Economy, 8 May

Calls for papers👇https://www.baem.info/