Adnan M. S. Fakir

Associate Professor in Economics @SussexUBusiness

[AMIE @econmentoring]

🚨 Call for Papers!
The AMIE 2026 Workshop in Applied Microeconomics is now accepting submissions from PhD scholars!

Present your work, get feedback from top scholars, and join a global community of researchers.

Deadline: Jan 23
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[John A. List @Econ_4_Everyone]

AEA job market update. The numbers don't lie, as this is the toughest market for PhD economists in recent memory.

JOE listings are down 20% from last year. Worse: they are 19% below COVID levels. Let that sink in.
The academic market took the biggest hit. Full-time US positions dropped 33% year-over-year. Liberal arts colleges and PhD-granting universities? Both down about a third. International academic postings fell 13% from last year, 25% from COVID.

Nonacademic isn't much better: down 27% from last year, 45% below COVID. And federal government hiring? That's where it gets ugly. Down 71% year-over-year, 79% below COVID. DOGE cuts plus the shutdown created a perfect storm.

One bright spot: private sector jobs in consulting, research, banking, and finance are holding steady at recent-year levels.

Bottom line for candidates: the data confirm what you're feeling. It's brutal out there. Universities facing their own financial pressures should still find ways to bridge unmatched candidates for another year. The talent is there—the opportunities aren't.

H/T John Cawley

[Antoine Germain @ant1germain]

I am on the #EconJobMarket !

My JMP evaluates what happened to these workers⏬

This is a coal mine in Belgium 🇧🇪 in 1907.

They are working more than 10 hours per day.

Then, the government imposed a maximum 9h workday.

What happens to wages and employment?

A JMP🧶(1/12)

[Applied Young Economists' Webinar @ayew2021]

🚨CALL FOR PAPERS🚨

Hey #EconTwitter!

We are now accepting submissions for Season 11 of the Applied Young Economist Webinar!

Deadline: Sunday, 5 Oct 2025

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[Jason Kerwin @jt_kerwin]

Are you picking controls for your RCT based on which variables have "significant" differences in your balance table? Don't do that.

[Basherkella - বাঁশেরকেল্লা @basherkella]

Teams are guarding #Hindu Temples!

#ProtectMinorities #ProtectAllFaiths #SafeBangladesh #NationalUnity #CommunalHarmony #HindusAreSafeInBangladesh

[Nirab @Nirab23]

This is Real News Tonight in #Bangladesh

Everyone is coming forward to protect the temple in different places.

1. Hathazari Kali Mandir is guarded by the students of Hathazari Madrasa.

2. A team is on guard to protect the Ramakrishna Mission in Faridpur!

3. We are general student guards to protect Thana Mandir

4. Students of Chittagong University are moving ahead to protect the temples of Nandirhat and Fathabad area.

5. Sri Sri Bura Shibbari, (adjacent to hospital gate) Baniachong, Habiganj, has come forward for rescue.

6. Students are guarding all temples of Hindu brothers located in Noakhali city and assuring them about security...

- In addition, everyone is coming forward to protect the temple in several places, you all come forward.

- This is how we should come forward in each other's danger. @dhruv_rathee @TheDeshBhakt @niiravmodi @dhruvrahtee @zoo_bear

[Nazmul Ahasan @the_nazmul]

Bangladesh’s Muslim clerics are voluntarily guarding a Hindu temple in Cumilla after reports of attacks on Hindu communities and their places of worship prompted politicians and protest leaders to call for 'resisting' those committing violence.

Photo by Billah Mamun/Facebook

[David Bergman @TheDavidBergman]

The irony. The irony. … Here is the Uk Awami League, holding right now in London a peaceful rally outside the House of Commons in support of the #Bangladesh government, …. when back in Bangladesh the Awami league government law enforcement authorities have (a) literally just a few hours ago arrested students in a number of locations who tried to protest, (b) have in recent days arrested thousands of opposition and student activists and (c) a week ago quashed large student protests by shooting at, and killing, at least 200 protesters and on lookers.

These people are sloganising about the wonder of Sheikh Hasina, the leader of the Awami League and the prime minister of Bangladesh responsible for all this.

To say this is shameless is the least of it

[Sami @ZulkarnainSaer]

'𝟐𝟎𝟎 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬, 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐫��𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐡', that has emerged in the wake of quota reform protests. They are also calling for an end to the Bangladeshi government’s repression of students, as well as to the British government’s training of Bangladeshi police forces like the notorious Rapid Action Battalion unit (RAB). The statement, coordinated by the UK Bangladeshi organisation Nijjor Manush, is published amidst growing repression of faculty in Bangladesh engaging with student protestors Highlighting the progressive role of student movements historically, the statement stresses the links between recent student mass mobilisations in Bangladesh and Britain, such as the student encampment movement in solidarity with Palestinians, and the draconian response from the government and universities in both instances. The signatories call for academics and university workers in Bangladesh to lend their solidarity to their students and affirm their support for the deepening of the democratic struggle in Bangladesh.

A spokesperson from Nijjor Manush, which coordinated the statement, says:

“Bangladeshis in the diaspora have been outraged by the brutal response of the Bangladeshi government to the current student movement. It has exposed the thinly-veiled contempt of the Bangladeshi government towards its people and their democratic aspirations. On this, the Bangladeshi government can find common ground with our own government here in Britain - given the British state’s training and support for the notorious Rapid Action Battalion police unit and the recent joint agreement between the two governments to expedite the deportation of Bangladeshi asylum seekers from Britain. We call for an end to the British government’s complicity with state violence in Bangladesh and express our support for the deepening of popular democratic struggle in Bangladesh by students, workers, peasants and the oppressed as the antidote to the oppressive rule of the Awami League government”.

Dr.Adnan Fakir, lecturer at the University of Sussex says:

“As Bangladeshi academics in Britain, we extend our full solidarity and support to students currently on the frontline in Bangladesh and call on our counterparts in Bangladeshi universities to support their students. The re-emergence of the quota reform movement - and the draconian response to it - has seen the arrested ambitions of students and youth in Bangladesh, facing large-scale unemployment and inequitable access to public sector employment, reveal the widespread discontent with the ruling dispensation in Bangladesh. The government needs to publicly acknowledge, apologize, and provide justice for the martyrs of the movement in order for the nation to move forward. The collective memory of the draconian acts, without proper justice and political reformation, will only lead to repeated cycles of the horror that has transpired. The task of transforming society cannot be shouldered by students alone. It is one that can only be carried through by the students of Bangladesh alongside the peasants, the workers and the oppressed.”

[Tasneem Sharrem @TasneemSharrem]

The violent retaliation to student protests in Bangladesh has stayed with me this week so I went to @nijjormanush's rally in Altab Ali Park today and learnt so much from the speakers there and felt far less isolated in my anger at what's been happening. No justice, no peace 🇧🇩

[South Asian Avant-Garde @SAAGanthology]

On 20th July, Shahidul Alam communicated a dispatch and diary entries of the brutal crackdown of student protests in Bangladesh via WhatsApp to SAAG and other media organizations, briefly getting through the internet shutdown. “Hundreds killed. It’s a massacre,” he said tersely.

[Naomi Hossain @nomhossain]

Just in: analysis of the Bangladesh student protests from @SOASDevelopment student Rafid Hossain, a graduate of @DhakaUni1921 🇧🇩

#bangladeshstudentprotests
@SOASpress @SOAS @NetraNews @ypfbd
https://t.co/633LKYNNTS

[S Anukriti @s_anukriti]

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[Peter Hull @instrumenthull]

I struggled with depression and anxiety throughout grad school. There are days I still do today.

Seeking, or even considering getting help is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

You are not alone.

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[Tushar Bharati @Bharati_Tushar]

With @AdnanMSFakir and Wina Yoman: Internal Migration and Labor Market Outcomes in Indonesia | Economic Development and Cultural Change https://t.co/RuEEMujD2g