Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive!

If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email tuna@ourworldindata.org.

Such a good piece today from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com which shows that the declining graduate premium is very much a UK problem rather than a general (or inevevitable) consequence of more people going to uni www.ft.com/content/649d...

2024: can Europe defend itself ALONGSIDE America?

2025: can Europe defend itself WITHOUT America?

2026: can Europe defend itself AGAINST America?

Happy 13th birthday to the most essential artwork of the current era, @kcg.bsky.social ‘s “This is fine,” to all those who celebrate.

Premio Nobel de Economía 2025: La innovación como motor del crecimiento económico Por Omar Licandro (University of Leicester) El Premio Nobel de Economía 2025 reconoce dos avances complementarios que, conjuntamente, explican tanto los orígenes como los mecanismos del crecimiento...

Premio Nobel de Economía 2025: La innovación como motor del crecimiento económico nadaesgratis.es/admin/premio... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

¿Por qué nadie consigue detener las pateras? Por Apurav Bhatiya. La migración irregular es uno de los temas más politizados de Europa. Aunque la mayoría de las personas migrantes llega por vías legales, los cruces maritimos, ya sea por el Medite...

Hoy, en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social publicamos un texto de @apuravbhatiya.bsky.social sobre la imposibilidad de que las politicas de disuasion migratoria sean efectivas.
nadaesgratis.es/admin/por-qu...

Collusion doesn't just happen in smoke-filled rooms. It can be out in the open in earnings calls.

New research uses NLP on 300k+ transcripts to spot the language that firms use to coordinate publicly. Regulators can use this tool to detect anticompetitive behavior.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Big congrats!

Reducing access to abortions ...

- increases families' economic hardship,
- increases families' debt,
- increases income inequality,
- increases housing insecurity, and
- increases financially motivated crime rates.

New Paper Alert!📢
"Virality: What Makes Narratives Go Viral, and Does it Matter"
by @kaigehring.bsky.social ‬& Matteo Grigoletto

This paper finds that political narratives are consistently more viral than neutral messages. Check out the whole paper here:
🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu...

Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence This paper examines changes in the labor market for occupations exposed to generative artificial intelligence using high-frequency administrative data from ADP, the largest payroll software provider i...

✍️The Lab has released a NEW STUDY with some of the first large-scale evidence of AI’s impact on entry-level employment!

Lab Director @erikbryn.bsky.social, Ruyu Chen & Bharat Chandar used @ADP data to reveal 6 key facts about AI's labor market impact: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/publications...

Public data is the foundation of economic research & analysis. Transparent revisions are a normal part of that process. Attacking BLS for political reasons like this will have immense costs in terms of public trust even if, as likely, Trump can't get the manipulated data he wants

I was an Econ undergrad student in Argentina when the government started to fake inflation data. Our prof back then asked us to forecast real inflation by using alternative info and past data for our final project. As an economist and mainly as *someone who lived something similar*, I'm so worried!

Si la economía española crece, si como dicen los datos de PIB crece incluso si descontamos la inflación, si lleva años creciendo... ¿dónde está tu parte, que no la ves?

Bueno: empecemos con un gráfico sencillo.

España: crecimiento sin abundancia (y dónde encontrarla) Si tanto estamos creciendo, ¿dónde está tu parte, que no la ves?

Columna súper clara e informativa!

España: crecimiento sin abundancia (y dónde encontrarla) open.substack.com/pub/jorgegal...

Highly relevant work! 👏🏼👏🏼
@danielasola.bsky.social

Abstract The rise of populist right parties is well-studied, but little attention has been given to how public service performance influences voter support. Given that public services are often the primary means through which citizens interact with the state, we argue that declining public services can create grievances that increase the appeal of populist right parties. Focusing on England’s National Health Service (NHS), we combine administrative data on local health facility closures with panel data on public preferences and voting intentions. Using a staggered difference-indifferences design, we find that closures reduce satisfaction with public services and increase support for populist right parties. These effects are moderated by migrant registrations at local health practices, highlighting the interaction between public service performance and immigration concerns in fueling populist right support. Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change.

Public Service Decline and Support for the Populist Right:

"Our findings underscore the role of public service decline as a driver of support for populist parties, especially in areas undergoing demographic change"

after announcing that foreign students are being banned from Havard, Noem warns "this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together."

Female economists are less likely to receive letters of recommendation that emphasize their ability.

Female economists are more likely to receive letters of recommendation that can be called grindstone letters--that is, they emphasize their hardworking tendencies.

🚨Pre-Doc and Post-Doc positions🚨

We are hiring 1 pre-doc and 1 post-doc in our "Marketing, Technology and Digital Environments" research group at #Esade. Details and deadlines in the comments:

#academicjobs #esade #marketing #AI #postdoc #predoc

Wait a minute, are these the words of a so-called center-left party PM? Once again, reality surpasses fiction...

- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no

I think about this comic at least once a week

India-Pakistan Conflict: How a Deepfake Video Made it Mainstream - bellingcat A manipulated video falsely claiming to show a General in the Pakistani army stating two of its fighter jets had been shot down was picked up and spread by Indian media outlets.

New from Bellingcat - How deepfake videos are getting mainstream coverage in the conflict between India and Pakistan
www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

Excited to welcome such a fantastic lineup of speakers this Friday at @econuniofbath.bsky.social for our Political Economy & Public Economics Workshop!

Proud to co-organise this with Jaideep Roy—join us in 4 West 1.01 for a full day of great talks and discussions!

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for @AEAjournals

There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes

I hope they can be helpful!

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ea7v9...

La representación de las mujeres en la política importa: Evidencia de los cierres escolares durante la pandemia Por Natalia Danzer, Sebastian Garcia-Torres, Max Steinhardt y Luca Stella A pesar de algunos avances durante la última década, la representación de las mujeres en los liderazgos políticos sigue sie...

La representación de las mujeres en la política importa: Evidencia de los cierres escolares durante la pandemia nadaesgratis.es/admin/la-rep... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Based on scientific evidence:

Immigration does not increase crime rates.