Congrats to @mxhupp on his @umichecon Ph.D.! Very proud to have been his committee co-chair. Max is off to @BoE_Research in their climate research unit. You can find Max's great work here:

Very proud of my student Emir Murathanoglu, who completed his @umichecon Ph.D. today! Emir will start as an assistant professor of economics at @oberlincollege this fall. Check out his top-notch research:

Congratulations to Russell Morton on his @umichecon Ph.D.! Russell is off to a postdoc at @YaleEconomics and then will be an assistant professor at Rochester @SimonSchool. Very proud to have been his committee co-chair! Check out his cutting edge work:

We found that a public health program in Mozambique inadvertently reduced HIV testing rates, but simple household informational interventions offset those negative effects, bringing HIV testing back up. Read a nontechnical summary in our new @vox_dev piece!.

New piece in VoxDev by @umichECON alums @ctheoharides and @pabarcar! They started this cutting-edge research on migration-induced brain gain while doing their Ph.D.s here at U-M.

A selection of papers presented at the conference will also be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Development Economics, to be edited by @SamuelBazzi, Hillel Rapoport, and me.

RT @leightjessica: Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @JEAllenIV who joins IFPRI today (+ works on health + education, particula….

Submit your paper to the 16th Migration and Development Conference! A great gathering of migration econ scholars. Will be at Boston University's @GDP_Center, Oct. 2-3, 2023. Submission deadline Aug. 5 (in about two weeks!) .

The course features lectures by @seema_econ, @Ben_Olken, Michael Greenstone, @johnvanreenen, @BardHarstad, @gharadbryan, @melaniemorten, Rohini Pande, Nick Ryan, Tamma Carleton, Reed Walker, @DufloEsther, Clare Balboni, @AllanHsiao. A star-studded lineup!.

BREAD/@The_IGC virtual course on environment and development! Designed for PhD students, but all are welcome. Intro lecture by Robin Burgess & Kelsey Jack. Sep14-Nov9, 2023. Registration free.

I'm proud to be represented in the U.S. Congress by @RepDebDingell! Was thrilled to run into her at the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market, where she shows up often and knows all the vendors.

Congratulations Dr. @JEAllenIV on your successful @umichECON Ph.D. dissertation defense today! Committee includes @DavidLam_UMich, Tanya Rosenblat, and Lauren Bergquist. Best of luck as you start your career at @IFPRI !

Apply to two development economics research positions at @umichECON! Deadlines are in one week, 19 May. Positions are on projects with: 1) @EmmaRiley19, and 2) Tanya Rosenblat, Basit Zafar, and me. @econ_ra

RT @dmckenzie001: Where is there scope for migration policy interventions if you can’t change migration policy? I use a framework from a re….

I forgot to attach this photo yesterday. Congrats again @JEAllenIV on your @umichECON Ph.D.!

Check out @JEAllenIV's amazing work at

Congratulations @JEAllenIV on officially receiving your economics Ph.D. from @umichecon today! I'm honored to have been your committee chair (with Tanya Rosenblat, @DavidLam_UMich, and Lauren Bergquist). Best of luck at @IFPRI, and looking forward to continued work together!.

Congratulations @1JoshGreenberg on your @umichecon Ph.D.! It was an honor to be on your committee, and I look forward to all the great work you'll do!

Congratulations to @umichecon BA grads Yuqing Wang and Wei Xu! Very pleased that they'll be joining our economics Ph.D. program this fall!