🆕 The development economics I’d like to see
I recently attended the Growth Summit in Morocco. It was the best conference I’ve ever attended.
My main takeaway was that development economics is missing a whole ecosystem of organisations working on growth: https://t.co/6294bMAbXZ
Last article of 2025.
What would have happened if the Fed hadn't raised rates in 2022?
You can't answer this with an RCT, DiD, or RD. That's not a failure, it's the nature of the question.
Why macro never had a credibility revolution, and why that's not a bad thing.
Link: https://t.co/3XK086Ptof
I feel like trade as a field wants me to have the math skills of a theorist, the econometrics skills of a labor economist, and the modeling skills of a macroeconomist I wish they'd just PICK ONE 🥲
📢📢The Berlin School of Economics @BSE_Berlin will be recruiting PhD students in spatial economics 📢📢 (again). Still, time to apply before the 🧑🎄 break. See https://t.co/ziW9wvYbaN for an overview of our activities in "spatial". Apply now & retweet! https://t.co/j4sQe9Inhg
Jonathan Eaton was an exceptional scholar and a wonderful mentor. Cecilia Fieler and I wrote an intellectual obituary describing his academic work and legacy that was just posted on VoxEU. https://t.co/ti6m27Apuq
I will be attending the Journal of International Economics Summer School in Oxford.
If you are attending and want to connect please message me or reply here.
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I was today years old when I first got scammed online, definitely dumb of me 🥲
Well done @bookingcom for comprosing the security of your listed properties and letting the hackers send messages on the official app.
Read this by @TechTim42
https://t.co/sAhnQNmpEW
Everybody should be allowed one (1) Math Year™️ where you have no responsibilities and can spend all your time (re)learning any math you want at your own pace