Todd Pugatch

Do loan officers discriminate against women entrepreneurs? In a paper with @ketki.bsky.social & Shibiru Ayalew just published in @restatjournal.bsky.social, we use a field experiment in a large-scale, high-stakes natural context to show that they do not.

The EdDev Community Group will meet on TODAY at 11 AM ET. Jalnidh Kaur (University of Glasgow) and Andrea Cornejo (Paris School of Economics) will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group for the Zoom link:

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The EdDev Community Group will meet on tomorrow at 11 AM ET. Jalnidh Kaur (University of Glasgow) and Andrea Cornejo (Paris School of Economics) will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group for the Zoom link:

Tomorrow!

Assistant Teaching Professor position @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social - deadline approaching! Apply by Oct. 11 for priority consideration.

Join us this Friday October 9 at 11AM ET for the second @aefpweb.bsky.social AEFP EdDev Scholars of Education in Developing Countries community group.

Can a savings account reduce heavy drinking? In a randomized trial with 1,500 men in western Kenya, a savings program cut hazardous drinking by 26% and intimate partner violence by 15%. New NBER working paper 🧵

Todd is underselling the value of watching Josh Allen play every week

@ubuffaloecon.bsky.social is hiring a tenure-track assistant professor! Fields: industrial organization, micro theory, and/or macro. Looking for research interests related to artificial intelligence, broadly defined. Priority deadline Nov 30. Apply here: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/64506

And you can now major in AI and Quantitative Economics here at UBuffalo in a collab between the Departments of Economics and AI and Society!

Resharing: We are hiring a 9-month tenure track assistant or associate professor in my program, administration & supervision (education leadership) at UVA! If you're one of the 3 people who follows me on here, please share! I'm chairing the search and happy to talk. apply.interfolio.com/190669

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Assistant Teaching Professor opening @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social is now up on JOE. 3-yr initial appointment. Come work with us! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

Come work with us @ubuffaloecon.bsky.social! We are hiring an Assistant Teaching Professor. 3 yr appointment, with 1-yr renewable terms. Priority deadline Oct. 11. www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/64268

We are hiring! Applications received by October 11, 2026 will receive priority consideration! #EconSky @toddpugatch.bsky.social

UBuffalo Econ is hiring a non-tenure track position. 3 yr appointment and renewable after that. 3 courses a semester, and you'd be a core dept member. Looking for someone to start next semester! But next fall possible for a terrific candidate. #EconSky www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/64272

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The EdDev Community Group will meet on Friday at 11 AM ET. Pepi Pandiloski (University of Porto) and Innocent Akampurira (Partnership for Economic Policy/Building Tomorrow) will present work in progress. Join the EdDev Community Group for the Zoom link: aefpweb.org/communit...

1st @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev mtg of the academic year, this F Sep 11 11am US eastern! Presenters: -Pepi Pandiloski, "Nation Formation in the Wild Wild East" -Innocent Akampurira, "The Effect of School Feeding on Education Outcomes" Contact me for Zoom link. Join group (free) at AEFP. Plz RT!

Brown just opened a cluster hire for two tenure-track positions in Education Policy. Come join our vibrant community of scholars at @brownedudept.bsky.social & @annenberginstitute.bsky.social! apply.interfolio.com/190527 Please help spread the word.

The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) resumes its work-in-progress seminar series this fall. Meetings are the 2nd Friday of each month, 11a-12p ET. Register your interest in presenting: forms.gle/8ag4Bm8QjkudPBaj6 Plz reskeet! #econsky #edusky

Quasi-experimental DD syllabus question: Anyone have a paper they like to use to teach new staggered DD stuff that is empirical but does a good job of walking through (/showing) all the individual estimates and how they are aggregated?

Help shape AEFP's 2026–27 programming by proposing a webinar you'd organize & facilitate OR request a topic you'd love AEFP to cover! Submissions are due by August 17 to be considered for the initial lineup. Ideas are welcome on a rolling basis after that.

Targeted remediation à la TaRL vs. structured pedagogy? Morocco's primary schools do both. At scale, in a national reform. With learning effects of 0.9 SD, in the top 1% ever recorded. Pre-registered, now out as our "Best Buy" paper: de-barros.com/publication/... with Ibrahim, Deschênes, Glewwe

📢 Inviting papers for the next special issue of the Journal of Development Effectiveness on 'Rapid and Responsive Evidence Synthesis for Sustainable Development'. 📅 Deadline: 30 September 2026 🔗 Read more: https://bit.ly/3iewebJDEff

Looking forward to seeing how development economics grows with new ideas from such a wide group, to be amplified on a global stage! Share widely, especially if you know someone with fresh ideas to contribute!

Three weeks ago, IDEA opened its doors to development economists everywhere. The response has been extraordinary: 3,700+ scholars from 134 countries have joined the community. See who's taking shape — where we are, where we work: idea.devecon.org/community.html 🌍

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The @aefpweb.bsky.social EdDev (Scholars of Education in Developing Countries) resumes its work-in-progress seminar series this fall. Meetings are the 2nd Friday of each month, 11a-12p ET. Register your interest in presenting: forms.gle/8ag4Bm8QjkudPBaj6 Plz reskeet! #econsky #edusky

We're putting together a special issue at the IREE on AI in teaching, assessment, and learning. If you're doing interesting work in your econ courses, we want to see it. Especially applied, replicable stuff. Submissions open Sept 1, 2026 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

There's a brand-new International Development Economics Association —> @ideadevecon.bsky.social Why this has been needed for a long time: @owenozier.bsky.social explains at @cgdev.org —> www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu... Top-tier team, @deanyang.bsky.social + many other stars #EconSky

The Shrinking Care Economy: A Growing Challenge for Egypt 🇪🇬 Is the paid care economy improving or deteriorating? My new study with Maye Ehab reveals a concerning trend: despite goals to expand this vital sector, it is actually shrinking and job quality is declining. rdcu.be/fqHxy #EconSky (1/7)

Two days in, 2,671 development economists from 126 countries have joined @ideadevecon.bsky.social! @owenozier.bsky.social lays out why development economics needed a global home. Now on the @cgdev.org blog. Read it, then add your name: idea.devecon.org 🌍 www.cgdev.org/blog/introdu...

I'm so grateful to the colleagues who have been willing to read my forthcoming book How Economics Discovered Women in advance (#1).

IDEA on the World Bank's Development Impact blog. Board member Owen Ozier introduces the association — why development economics needs a global professional home, and what IDEA is building. Read it, then join us: idea.devecon.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

¡Por fin una comunidad global para economistas del desarrollo! 🌎 @ideadevecon.bsky.social abre sus puertas a investigadores de todo el mundo — una gran oportunidad para economistas en América Latina de conectar, colaborar y visibilizar su trabajo. Únete aquí: idea.devecon.org

🚨 I'm hiring for a (Senior) Research Associate position to work with me on a broad research agenda focused on teacher labor markets. Great opportunity to be a part of the vibrant @annenberginstitute.bsky.social community of researchers at Brown University. Links in reply Please spread the word

Development economics finally has a global professional home. Today we launch @ideadevecon.bsky.social ... Open to every development economist, everywhere. Join the community: idea.devecon.org Please share 🌍

What makes IDEA distinctive: - Open to all - Democratically governed - Global by design - Pluralistic on methods and intellectual traditions - Complement, not competitor, to existing institutions like BREAD

🌍 Announcing IDEA — the International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social The field's first global, open, democratically governed professional association for development economists. Sign up to join the community: idea.devecon.org 🧵

Development economists: come join!

I'm THRILLED to be a part of the @ideadevecon.bsky.social International Development Economics Association as a board member. We're building a global home for development economists (researchers, practitioners, everyone!) Join us at idea.devecon.org for updates!

Fantastic and important initiative to support development economics globally: the International Development Economics Association (IDEA). Learn more and sign up here: idea.devecon.org

Welcome to IDEA!

What is IDEA?