To help Palestinians college students could spend summer in the West Bank, where Palestinians are under siege from settlers, to bear witness...nytimes.com/2024/05/01/opi….

Please say it again and again Joe. We are lucky to have immigrants. You're not sure? Go here: cgdev.org/blog/perils-de… Charles Kenny

So well said -- "passionate about the intersection of research and policy". And wonderful to have a leader that is "a lovely colleague". We look forward to welcoming you Rachel Glennerster !

For Center for Global Development 's incoming president: Rachel Glennerster : A good thread from the wonderful and wise senior fellow Kenneth Charles

An important article on the economics of where to fund climate mitigation by @rGlenner new head of Center for Global Development. (I read & saved it last summer.) Short answer: developing countries. pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.125… (Maybe gated?) Michele de Nevers

I like this from Center for Global Development incoming president Rachel Glennerster : ". . .and helping make sure that evidence gets incorporated into policy.”

This paper makes me happy. It's a new reaction to a paper in @REstat (!)

"For example, what’s the point of trying to tally up the potential economic costs of tariffs based on models that assume an even global playing field, when no country, certainly not a rich one with decent environmental and labour standards, could compete on price with China in

Honored to be invited to the @NBERpubs Summer Institute to present work with Ethan G. Lewis nber.org/conferences/si… We just updated our study of randomized work visas, doubling the original sample size under the same pre-analysis plan —> nber.org/papers/w30589

Lower employment of US scientists and engineers in the chip industry, fewer domestic students taking science and engineering courses, more offshoring to countries with better immigration rules… (caveat: d in d).

Great! But really you have to ask why it took so long: Where was the resistance? Just IMF board bureaucracy? (maybe gated) devex.com/news/imf-green…

Nice to see Michael Clemens quoted in front page Washington Post today: "Job Market could suffer with Trump's migrant plans."

Reminds me to ask: Fewer medical students in obstetrics applying to residencies in Texas & Florida & other red states?

A superb conversation on the results of India’s elections, with two of the best researchers on Indian politics Milan Vaishnav and Yamini Aiyar Hosted by Foreign Policy foreignpolicy.com/live/india-ele…

Getting whiplash when it comes to the Administration’s behavior toward refugees/asylum seekers but yay to this.

G20 recent & future hosts Indonesia, India, Brazil, South Africa are key to forging a 21st century Bretton Woods II model: cgdev.org/blog/financing… Brian Webster Brian Webster Nancy Lee

In sum, Biden should align his policy and his rhetoric. A firm commitment to ethics reform would focus attention on the ethical blunders of Thomas and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. It would also put Republicans on defense and build consensus for the idea. With public opinion

"Women's good financial behavior is penalized rather than prized." Terrific analysis of unusual data -- in Colombia but probably universal -- read and see why. cgdev.org/blog/undoing-g… Mayra Buvinic Center for Global Development

Congratulations to Amanda Glassman on the 10th anniversary of your "baby" ISDI cgdev.org/event/celebrat…

This sound right to me, though macro not my thing. View of @lhsummers? nytimes.com/2024/07/29/opi…