RIP David Dollar Gone too soon. I didn't always love what he had to say, but when I was in grad school and in CGD's early days, David defined the intellectual consensus we all grappled with. "Growth is good for the poor" "Aid only works if countries get their policies right"

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How does #democracy cause economic growth? In their WZB discussion paper @BoeseVanessa (@WZB_Democracy) & @MEDevEcon find that freedom of expression, fair elections & legislative-executive constraints are important drivers for growth effects. #EconTwitter https://t.co/oLBQ3E3tcx

Forthcoming at EJ: ‘Gender Differences in Reference Letters: Evidence from the Economics Job Market,’ by Markus Eberhardt, Giovanni Facchini, Valeria Rueda https://t.co/flseirVzHJ @MEDevEcon @GiovanniFacchi5 @valiguaran @RoyalEconSoc @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter #OpenAccess

New study on #academic #migration reveals renowned #scholars are more likely to emigrate, driven by prestige over financial factors, while a country's currency exchange rate can influence their decision. @giannidefraja @UoNEconomics @UoNresearch https://t.co/Q4wtpjOszj

Who believes any of this drivel? And more importantly, who’s interested? If Saudi Arabia next funded a cricket league, Gushi Rish! would be the first to cheer for them.

@wytham88 Hi! People can find the arxiv pre-print of our paper here:)

Introducing #Econverse, a new podcast hosted by @UoNEconomics students Khushi Talwar, Aditi Solanki, Jack Roycroft-Sherry, Shanahan Prabowo. Interviews with #alumni about #econcareers. Please share widely.

My son Felix has designed a T-shirt for the local Mini-Marathon and it’s one of the four they’ve put to the vote (go on, vote!): https://t.co/UB9CUTMPle Robie (Robbie?) Hood is inspired by and named after a little red robin who has been flitting around our garden a lot recently

F from @JesseGray_3J mini marathon T shirt design for @RobinHoodHalf has got through to the final - if you’re on Facebook please vote for his design by liking it before 2pm on Thursday! https://t.co/XBrTFrPmmc

Professorship (W2) in the economics and politics of China at Göttingen. Advert here:

The lovely folks at @UoNEconomics hosting me today have presented me with a hand-crocheted #sophiefromromania - made by the talented Hayley

Nottingham is a nice city, and the department is wonderful. So if you are on the market, but for whatever reason, do not get offered a job at Essex (see our ad here: https://t.co/34x80fHEwb), then do consider Nottingham ;-)

Academic Vacancies at University of Nottingham School of Economics ⁦@UoN_GEP⁩ ⁦@UoNEconomics⁩ — CITP 3-year #trade #postdoc turning into AP position (£75k plus up to £15k childcare), junior and senior faculty positions (all #econ fields)

Tory leadership: Tom KeineTugendhat backs Liz Truss

My paper on the #heterogeneous effect of #democratic regime change on long-run economic #growth (and also on the fragility of empirical results in some of the prominent literature) is now out at the #EER. Open access link here:

UCU national has opened a new petition against pensions cuts, which is open to any USS member, here is the link: https://t.co/42WHZtoyFB

My paper with Frank Windmeijer, on the power of the conditional likelihood ratio and related tests for weak-instrument robust inference, is now out in the Journal of Econometrics: https://t.co/QORRC96Wg5 Access should be free for first 50 days. Short 🧵. 1/n

Female professors call for rethink on planned UK pension cuts