I had a fantastic time visiting with the excellent folks at Jobberman in Lagos recently and got to experience in real time the brilliance of the team in the employment space. They're doing excellent work connecting youth, women, and people with disabilities to employment, highly recommend their work
Presenting this paper at the CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social conference today at Oxford, so feel free to stop by if you're in the area and want to hear about the effects of protests on economic redistribution (with some added results from the NBER paper). Comments and questions welcome #OxCSAE2026
The AEA poster session and lightning round sessions are great opportunities to share your research at the #ASSA2027 conference! Submit your paper and check the appropriate boxes to also be considered for the lightning rounds and/or the poster session. #econsky aeaweb.org/conference/s...
Happy International Women's Day, with a special shoutout to all my Black/African women ❤️
Happy Freedom, Independence Day to one of my favorite countries in the world! 🇬🇭
Thanks friend and likewise! 🤗❤️ Chat soon! :)
Thanks again to all the organizers and all who attended and participated- everyone look out for these young economists- most definitely bright stars in the profession
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I had such a wonderful time at the Sadie Collective conference- seeing the energy, passion, brilliance of so many young and aspiring economists at an event planned/founded by brilliant Black women economists (including the amazing @itsafronomics.blacksky.app) was the highlight of my year to date
Happy Black History Month, all day, everyday, every month, every year, forever Amen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WEe...
Looking forward to the 2026 Sadie T.M. Alexander Conference for Economics and Related Fields today and thanks to the @sadiecollective.bsky.social team for inviting me as the keynote: www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-sadie... #SACE2026
Anyway, interesting new paper #Econsky #Academicsky
Me as the “friend who continues to be too woke” reading this new NBER paper: why are all the AI’s ‘men’/given male names (Claude, Gemini, Grok, now, Gabriel), while the service tech/digital assistants given female names/coded as women (Alexa, Siri, Cortana etc)?
This is a beautiful paper, and I have been eagerly waiting for nearly a year to see it come to light — these media embargoes by major scientific journals are frankly quite silly at this point… www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Femi 😭😂
Good to see I'm not the only one 😂
Oh good, it's not just me then 😭 😂
Oh lol, I'm going through my notes for a paper I'm writing and found a really clear 3 step outline for points to include that I have no memory of writing, but I do love a good 3 step outline, so I was like this sounds like me but when...😂
Fellow writers, has anyone else ever written a document in a coffee/caffeine haze at 1am in the morning, then gone back and been like, oh this is pretty good but I barely remember writing this? To trust your sleep deprived, coffee-fueled, but apparently really cogent past self or not to trust...😂
Some comments in Aljazeera: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/... on the AU summit.The destruction of USAID and cuts to health funding are devastating-people have died and it’s a threat to global health security-in between this and the axing of US climate policy, the next pandemic will be horrific
#Econsky #Academicsky #Blacksky
Full paper link here: www.nber.org/papers/w34787
10. So thank-you to all the brave people from Minneapolis/US to Nigeria protesting in the streets for a better, more equal world. Your efforts matter and we should all be watchful and pro/reactive against our governments manipulating our tax resources to punish dissenters in non-aligned states 10/n
9. In conclusion, do protests matter? Can they shift govt. policy around economic redistribution? Yes, they do and can, but it depends on the political alignment between protesting states and federal govts and how transparent the transfer process is. Protesters also face more state violence 10/n
8. Similarly, police violence is higher when protesters are from states that are not politically aligned with the federal government 9/n
7. Specifically, protests increased transfers to protesting states, but only in states that were politically aligned with the federal govt. i.e. where the governor and president were from the same political transfers. They decreased transfers to non-aligned protesting states 8/n
6. 2 things happened as a result of the Occupy Nigeria protests: (1) protests led to both increases and decreases in transfers to protesting states and (2) protests led to increased police violence against protesters. Why? 7/n
5. The protests continued for weeks and many protesters were injured or killed by police and security forces. The protesters demanded the reversal of the fuel subsidy removal and other economic redistribution concerns. They subsided after a partial reinstatement of the subsidies was announced 6/n
4. Specifically, the Occupy Nigeria protests started when on Jan. 1, 2012, the fed. govt removed fuel subsidies without warning leading to an overnight 115% spike in gasoline prices. Protests over the price hike began the next day and millions of Nigerians participated (shown in figure below) 5/n
3. The Nigeria case is useful since (1) Nigeria operates a fiscal/tax system called fiscal federalism, where states depend heavily on the federal government for revenue in the form of transfers using a formula and (2) The 2012 Occupy Nigeria protests were explicitly motivated by economic demands 4/n
