New working paper! What happened when Colombia gave nearly two million Venezuelan migrants full access to health care? Mortality fell among Colombians, who were already insured. Abstract: Does extending full health coverage to an excluded group induce health externalities for the population already insured? In 2022 Colombia expanded health services from emergency only to full access to approximately two million Venezuelan migrants. Comparing municipalities more and less exposed to program take-up before and after its onset, we find that the program reduced mortality rates for Colombians, saving one Colombian life for each 300 migrants covered. The effects are explained by a more efficient use of the health services by beneficiaries and regular and timely payments for the newly insured patients. The Colombian deaths saved are those that timely health treatment prevents. The net fiscal cost of the program is USD 93,000 per Colombian life saved, well below the value of a statistical life. Joint work with my incredible coauthors @HillerTatiana and @lpenalozap, both on the job market this year! Paper here: documents1.worldbank.org/cur…

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📢 On the 2026 Economics Job Market? The World Bank’s Development Impact Blog is inviting PhD candidates to showcase their job market papers to a global audience! Submit your original, non-AI-written post by Nov 4 to [email protected]. 🔗 blogs.worldbank.org/en/impac…

Call for prospective PhD students in Economics! Thinking about applying to an Economics PhD program in the United States? This is a fantastic opportunity to hear directly from three outstanding faculty members: Dean Yang (University of Michigan), Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak (Yale University), and Jessica Goldberg (University of Maryland). They will demystify the U.S. PhD admissions process and share practical advice on transcripts, GRE scores, pre-docs, recommendation letters, personal statements, writing samples, and more. 📅 Monday, October 19 ⏰ 10:00 AM New York time Here is the link to register: yale.zoom.us/webinar/registe… Come with your questions and learn from people who know the process extremely well. Please share widely with students considering a PhD in Economics!#Economics #PhD #PhDAdmissions #EconTwitter #DevelopmentEconomics #GraduateSchool

📢 Call for Papers | 16th Annual International Conference on Immigration in OECD Countries 📍 OECD, Paris 📅 December 10–11, 2026 ⏰ Submission deadline: September 15, 2026 The conference will bring together researchers working on immigration, including its determinants, labor market and public finance effects, political economy, and migrants’ social, political, and economic integration. 🎤 Keynote speakers • Leonardo Bursztyn, University of Chicago • Michela Carlana, Harvard University • Alan Manning, LSE 🏆 A €2,000 Young Scholar Award will recognize the best paper by authors under 35. Organized by CEPII, the CEPR Research Policy Network on Migration, LISER, and the OECD, with several partner institutions. Submit here: immigoecd16.sciencesconf.org…

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📢 Call for Papers — Deadline August 31 Just three days left to submit to the inaugural IZA@LISER Conference in Labour Economics, taking place December 10–11, 2026, in Luxembourg. The conference will bring together researchers working across labour economics, migration, education, family and gender economics, inequality, innovation, and the political economy of labour-market institutions. Patricia Cortés (Boston University) and Benjamin Schoefer (UC Berkeley) as keynote speakers, with Daniel S. Hamermesh (UT Austin & RHUL) as special guest speaker. 📍 Abbaye de Neumünster, Luxembourg 📅 December 10–11, 2026 ⏰ Submission deadline: August 31, 2026 Full papers are preferred; extended abstracts of at least 1,500 words are also welcome. Submit here: liser.lu/events/IZAatLISER20… #LabourEconomics #IZA #LISER #CallForPapers #Economics #Migration

Call for Papers | CSAE Conference 2027 The CSAE Conference on Economic Development in Africa will take place 21–23 March 2027 at the University of Oxford. The conference is inviting submissions across a broad range of topics in development economics in Africa. 📅 Paper submission deadline: 13 September 2026 💰 Funding application deadline: 9 August 2026 📍 Oxford, UK Full drafts only. Papers on countries outside Africa are also eligible if they address issues central to development economics in Africa. link: csae.ox.ac.uk/csae-conferenc…

📢 Call for Papers | Urbanization and Development Conference 2026 📅 Dates: December 14–16, 2026 📍 Location: Singapore ⏰ Submission deadline: September 4, 2026 Jointly organized by the The World Bank Group, George Washington University, and the 2026 SMU-Jinan Conference on Urban and Regional Economics. Research on cities, housing, transportation, local public goods, real estate, and the spatial distribution of economic activity. Call for papers here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

Opportunity for recent graduates and early-career professionals with strong quantitative and STEM skills. The University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy is now accepting applications for the 2027–2028 Harris Social Impact Fellowship—an 11-month program that combines advanced academic training with hands-on research experience to prepare the next generation of evidence-driven leaders. The fellowship includes: • $75,000 living and healthcare stipend • Full tuition for the UChicago fellowship credential ($21,000) • Mentorship and professional development • Research placements at leading policy institutes across the University of Chicago Application details here: info.harris.uchicago.edu/soc…

Call for Papers | Escaping the Middle-Income Trap The Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Journal of Development Economics (JDE) are inviting submissions for a conference in Tokyo and a related JDE Special Issue on the determinants of sustained growth in middle-income economies. The call welcomes both completed working papers and research proposals on topics including: • Firm productivity and innovation • Industrial policy and government interventions • Competition, market structure, and structural transformation 📅 Submission deadline: September 15, 2026 📍 Conference: Tokyo, Japan | May 6–7, 2027 (travel support available for one author of selected papers) 📖 Selected conference papers will be invited to submit to the JDE Special Issue through an expedited review process. This is an excellent opportunity for researchers working on economic growth, productivity, industrial policy, and development. I encourage interested scholars to submit their work and share this opportunity with colleagues. Link here: adb.org/adbi/research/call-f…