Valerie Mueller

@valmuellerasu.bsky.social

8.7K followers 2.5K following 670 posts

Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies, ASU
Work on climate change impacts, focusing on human mobility
#DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon
Non-resident fellow at IFPRI
Livin’ it up in Spain 2025-6 .. more

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Andre Groeger @andregroeger.bsky.social · 5h

Call for papers for the Migration Workshop of the BSE Summer Forum
bse.eu/summer-forum...

📅 Dates: 8-9 June 2026

Keynotes: Leah Boustan & Sam Bazzi

Organizers: L. Farré, J. Fernández-Huertas Moraga, A. Glitz, A. Groeger, J. Llull, J. Monràs

⏰ Deadline: 28 FEB

@bsebarcelona.bsky.social

Workshop on Migration

Find paper topics, past speakers, and the call for the next edition of the BSE Summer Forum Workshop on Migration

bse.eu

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 6h

Fairly damning evidence for fraternities in @J_HumanResource from Hopper: university moratoriums on fraternity activity + alcohol leads to substantial (30%) ⬇️ in *both* alcohol offenses + sexual assault on weekend. (But, no persistent effects after moratorium ends)

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Toman Barsbai @tomanbarsbai.com · 7h

📢 Fully funded PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics (Bonn)

Opportunity to work on the scientific evaluation of @malengo.org, an exciting RCT on international educational migration from Uganda to Germany, and join our great team.

www.povertyactionlab.org/careers/phd-...

PhD-position - Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Economics - Bonn, Germany | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

www.povertyactionlab.org

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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR) @mpidr.bsky.social · 11h

📢Job Offer‼️New Max Planck Research Group on Medical Demography
Marcus Ebeling will lead the team starting on 1 July 2026. The research group will be based at the MPIDR in Rostock. Read an interview with Marcus on his future research here: www.demogr.mpg.de/go/rgmd (including link to job) #postdoc

Job opening for postdoctoral researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic-Epidemiology.

The Medical Demography research group explains its goals for studying disease progression and its effects on health and the population.

We are looking for a PhD in demography, sociology, epidemiology, or related fields with experience in quantitative health data analysis.

Apply now: The application deadline is March 22, 2026. For more information, visit www.demogr.mpg.de/go/jobs.

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 16h

also, can we recognize how absolutely full of shit kristi noem's ICE threat was. they are so much weaker than they want you to believe. we are going to win.

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Amy W. Ando @awando.bsky.social · 18h

Holding us accountable for the shameful failure to restore power to PR

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𝐝𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞💝༝༚༝༚ @londonfog.swifties.social · 18h

PBS kids is sending me

A PBS kids post of buster from Arthur with sunglasses on waving with the caption “we always loved a bad bunny”

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d

www.mcknight.org/best-of-mn/

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 1d

Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?"

RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."

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Silvia Secchi @profsecchi.bsky.social · 1d

The US food system is highly dependent on the exploitation of immigrant labor from farms to processing plants - the trump administration is ratcheting up unjust policies that have been developed through decades. These workers are showing amazing courage under terrible circumstances.

The Food & Environment Reporting Network @thefern.org · 2d

The largely immigrant workforce at JBS's flagship U.S. plant, in Greeley, Colorado, is refusing to back down after accusing the company of poor working conditions. Reporting by Ted Genoways for FERN and Mother Jones. Photography by Maryanne Andrei.

thefern.org/2026/02/thes...

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody knows about the great Irish famine. TIL that the share of the 1845 potato harvest that was lost in Belgium (90%) was 3 times higher in Ireland - but the plague lasted much longer in Ireland. One of the numerous aspects of the plague that is hard to imagine for the modern mind, /

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 1d

I took my kid to free Saturdays at the art museum and painted this. A family came over to paint at our table and I heard the dad mutter “Jesus” angrily when he looked at it. I’m sorry but if you are bothered by anti-ICE signs, you probably shouldn’t come to Minneapolis these days, or ever. Go home!

Little watercolor painting that says Minnesota Nice Melts ICE

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 2d

We’ve got GREAT men here, but it’s overwhelmingly women caring for our community. On top of jobs & parenting.

I have hemorrhaged time & money on food, rental assistance, toys & books, grocery runs, & GoFundMe’s. And I’m not doing nearly as much as other women.

www.glamour.com/story/the-wo...

The Women Holding Minneapolis Together

In Minnesota, a community is coming together to push back against ICE and support their neighbors. It should surprise no one that much of this work is being led by women. Glamour reports from the fron...

www.glamour.com

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Gema Zamarro @gzamarro.bsky.social · 2d

The joke of the week in my causal inference methods course this week 😂

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 3d

What do you need?

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 3d

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school

A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

www.nbcnews.com

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d

Oh yeah. Gotta wait a week. Celebrate and then have feelings later.

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d

It’s also limited if it proves my mechanism but I can’t rule out 10 other mechanisms

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 4d

🆕 Why firms under-promote women – and how experimentation can fix it

Today on VoxDev, Rocco Macchiavello (LSE), @amenzelecon.bsky.social (Padova), @atonurabbani.bsky.social (Dhaka) & Chris Woodruff (Oxford) discuss correcting beliefs on female managers in Bangladesh: voxdev.org/topic/labour...

Why firms under-promote women – and how experimentation can fix it

In Bangladesh’s garment sector, firms often under-promote women because of biased beliefs and distorted learning about women’s managerial ability. However, temporary, low-risk trials can correct these...

voxdev.org

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 4d

We have untrained ourselves of interrogating the core problems of border migration because we have allowed the media di divest from good reporting from the front.

We only get to this conversation when tragedies like this happen, but it is not enough.

journals.sagepub.com/eprint/4RXS9...

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 4d

Nice explainer for anyone curious about how exactly the shingles vaccine can protect against dementia.
open.substack.com/pub/profbuba... #idsky #episky #medsky #neurosky

How The Shingles Vaccine Protects Against Dementia

The mechanisms behind varicella zoster virus-induced dementia pathology

open.substack.com

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 4d

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Heather Randell @heatherrandell.bsky.social · 5d

I wrote a song for our immigrant neighbors here in Minnesota.

Pardon my rusty guitar skills—it’s been over 10 years since I wrote my last song, but this moment called for music.

youtube.com/shorts/B7Csu...

In a Minnesota Winter by Heather Randell

YouTube video by Heather Randell

youtube.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 5d

The native workforces of today's wealthiest countries are rapidly disappearing due to fertility that is low and very unlikely to rise—ever, and certainly not in time to make a difference.

The brilliant Lant Pritchett spells out the implications for migration policy:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces

(Winter 2026) - Falling fertility and improved mortality create a powerful and inexorable demographic arithmetic of ageing in the coming decades around the world, with three patterns. The richest coun...

www.aeaweb.org

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Mirco Tonin @mircotonin.bsky.social · 5d

The Bolzano Applied Microeconomics #Workshop will be held at the #Bolzano Campus of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano @unibz.bsky.social, Italy on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2026. Deadline for submissions: February 15th inomics.com/conference/b...

Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop | INOMICS

The Bolzano Applied Microeconomics Workshop will be held at the Bolzano Campus of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy on Friday, March 27 and Saturday, March 28, 2026. 

inomics.com

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Glenn Is Being Obstreperous Again @glennsummers.bsky.social · 5d

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

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Tanisha Fazal @tanishafazal.bsky.social · 5d

Folks, Minnesota keeps going, including with work on climate change/environment. Please apply to the IonE postdoc - they are definitely interested in social scientists! sites.google.com/umn.edu/ione...

Overview

IonE Postdoctoral Fellowship Overview

sites.google.com

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Marcus C Sarofim @marcusmarcusrc.bsky.social · 6d

Some good news (though it is ridiculous that Congress needed to step in) (also, the Heritage Foundation makes it clear, once again, that they don’t understand how externalities justify government action) www.npr.org/2026/02/03/n...

Energy Star has emerged stronger after Trump's EPA tried to end it

The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.

www.npr.org

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Catia Batista @catiabatista.bsky.social · 6d

Apply to present your work at the @novafrica.bsky.social PhD Workshop on Development Economics.

Organized by the fantastic Econ PhD students at Nova SBE!

NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social · 6d

📢 Call for papers now open for the 4th @NOVAFRICA PhD Workshop on Development Economics

📍 Nova SBE (Lisbon, PT) | 📅 June 17, 2026

This is a pre-conference event ahead of the #NOVAFRICA2026 Conference.

📝 Submission Deadline: March 15, 2026

🔗 bit.ly/4qPvWHy

#DevEcon #EconResearch

Valerie Mueller @valmuellerasu.bsky.social · 6d

This is why we can't keep staff in our department.

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