Ted Miguel
@tedmiguel.bsky.social
Economics Professor and Director Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA), University of California Berkeley (USA)
http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu
http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu
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If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
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consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
January 2, 2026 at 2:26 AM
If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov
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Africa in 2025: A Review: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...
2025: Year in Review
Political and economic divergence on the Continent continues apace
open.substack.com
January 1, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Africa in 2025: A Review: open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...
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Earlier this year, we hosted the 2025 WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki, celebrating #WIDER40!
Themes on growth, equity, and innovative solutions, the conference united leading minds to tackle global challenges. Looking forward to 2026 in New Delhi! #2025recap
Themes on growth, equity, and innovative solutions, the conference united leading minds to tackle global challenges. Looking forward to 2026 in New Delhi! #2025recap
December 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Earlier this year, we hosted the 2025 WIDER Development Conference in Helsinki, celebrating #WIDER40!
Themes on growth, equity, and innovative solutions, the conference united leading minds to tackle global challenges. Looking forward to 2026 in New Delhi! #2025recap
Themes on growth, equity, and innovative solutions, the conference united leading minds to tackle global challenges. Looking forward to 2026 in New Delhi! #2025recap
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We found that Wisconsinites that grew up around smelt mines during the 1940s had steeper rates of cognitive decline in later life. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35146115/
December 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
We found that Wisconsinites that grew up around smelt mines during the 1940s had steeper rates of cognitive decline in later life. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35146115/
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At the summit of Mount Fuji, hot bowls of udon soup await climbers. Many swear that the exhaustion makes the food taste better at 12,400 feet. Could a bowl of noodles and an unforgettable sunset justify the climb?
On Mount Fuji, summit udon is a lifesaver
Climbing Mount Fuji is a test of strength and stamina. Steaming bowls of curry udon await climbers who make the overnight hike.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
At the summit of Mount Fuji, hot bowls of udon soup await climbers. Many swear that the exhaustion makes the food taste better at 12,400 feet. Could a bowl of noodles and an unforgettable sunset justify the climb?
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What would it cost to end extreme poverty?
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
What would it cost to end extreme poverty?
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
"We estimate that reducing the poverty rate to 1% ... would cost $170B nominal per year."
"The results correspond to a cost of (approximately) ending extreme poverty of roughly 0.3% of global GDP."
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The networks of economists who frequently show up in the Economic Report of the President.
What stands out to you?
What stands out to you?
December 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM
The networks of economists who frequently show up in the Economic Report of the President.
What stands out to you?
What stands out to you?
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Pierre-Louis Vezina, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Piotr Lewandowski show that, far from displacing local businesses, Ukrainian refugees in Poland sparked an entrepreneurial boom as they inspired Polish entrepreneurs and created new supply chain opportunities.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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#EconSky
December 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Pierre-Louis Vezina, Cevat Giray Aksoy, and Piotr Lewandowski show that, far from displacing local businesses, Ukrainian refugees in Poland sparked an entrepreneurial boom as they inspired Polish entrepreneurs and created new supply chain opportunities.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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#EconSky
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The Govt of India is dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and that's a real shame.
P B Mehta writes: MNREGA was the ground beneath our feet. It’s slipping away
One of the principal arguments advanced against the MGNREGA is that it raises wages. This concern underlies the clamour to restrict the scheme to the agricultural off-season. But in the context of the...
indianexpress.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Govt of India is dismantling the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, and that's a real shame.
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Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
Why do I not feel happy?
December 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Scientists are supposed to be happy when their predictions are skillful, right?
Why do I not feel happy?
Why do I not feel happy?
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In other words, the research literature suggests a much better basis for modern policy:
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
In other words, the research literature suggests a much better basis for modern policy:
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
1. Labor wealth is a scarce, strategic asset
2. Skilled emigration an *investment* in a global network
3. Aid should help manage, not stop, migration
4. Migration is at the heart of successful development
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Less-educated labor is not broadly abundant anymore. In much of the world, the *native* working-age population will collapse over the next 20 years.
The global divide is not 'developing' and 'developed', but peope-poor vs. people-rich.
The global divide is not 'developing' and 'developed', but peope-poor vs. people-rich.
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Less-educated labor is not broadly abundant anymore. In much of the world, the *native* working-age population will collapse over the next 20 years.
The global divide is not 'developing' and 'developed', but peope-poor vs. people-rich.
The global divide is not 'developing' and 'developed', but peope-poor vs. people-rich.
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The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries.
In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.
www.iza.org/publications...
🧵 thread—>
In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.
www.iza.org/publications...
🧵 thread—>
December 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries.
In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.
www.iza.org/publications...
🧵 thread—>
In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.
www.iza.org/publications...
🧵 thread—>
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📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
📢 In a new paper with @alessandracassar.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social Christine Mbabaze Mpyangu @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social, we study how childhood abductions cast a long shadow into adulthood among women in northern Uganda.
Blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/childho...
#gender #conflict #mentalhealth
Blog: www.cgdev.org/blog/childho...
#gender #conflict #mentalhealth
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
📣What does life look like for the Ugandan women who were taken as children by the Lord Resistance Army in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, & are now adults raising families of their own? 📣
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
➡️ New @CGDev blog post, on our study @alessandracassar.bsky.social @eeshani.bsky.social @mirandainez.bsky.social
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All early-career researchers are welcome to apply! RT2 is designed for researchers in the social and health sciences, with particular emphasis on economics, political science, psychology, and public health, who use quantitative or mixed methods. @cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
All early-career researchers are welcome to apply! RT2 is designed for researchers in the social and health sciences, with particular emphasis on economics, political science, psychology, and public health, who use quantitative or mixed methods. @cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
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Princeton Economics (short) obituary for Kate Ho, great researcher, teacher, mentor and all around right guy. economics.princeton.edu/news/honorin...
Honoring the Life and Work of Kate Ho - Princeton University - Department of Economics
economics.princeton.edu
December 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Princeton Economics (short) obituary for Kate Ho, great researcher, teacher, mentor and all around right guy. economics.princeton.edu/news/honorin...
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🆕 Africa faces a climate-conflict poverty trap. Growth is the best solution.
Today on VoxDev, Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel & Solomon Hsiang outline their research on feedback loops between growth and conflict under climate change: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel & Solomon Hsiang outline their research on feedback loops between growth and conflict under climate change: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Africa faces a climate-conflict poverty trap. Growth is the best solution.
New projections highlight the feedback loop between lower growth and increased conflict risk in Africa under climate change.
voxdev.org
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 AM
🆕 Africa faces a climate-conflict poverty trap. Growth is the best solution.
Today on VoxDev, Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel & Solomon Hsiang outline their research on feedback loops between growth and conflict under climate change: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
Today on VoxDev, Joel Ferguson, Marshall Burke, Edward Miguel & Solomon Hsiang outline their research on feedback loops between growth and conflict under climate change: voxdev.org/topic/macroe...
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🆕 Ten key insights from development economics in 2025
The world is changing rapidly. Can research inform what comes next?
I spent a long time trying to condense everything I read this year at @voxdev.bsky.social into ten key insights, you can read the full blog here: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...
The world is changing rapidly. Can research inform what comes next?
I spent a long time trying to condense everything I read this year at @voxdev.bsky.social into ten key insights, you can read the full blog here: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...
Ten key insights from development economics in 2025
Research on VoxDev in 2025 has shed light on getting stuff done, paying for it, the changing development landscape, and a whole lot more.
voxdev.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🆕 Ten key insights from development economics in 2025
The world is changing rapidly. Can research inform what comes next?
I spent a long time trying to condense everything I read this year at @voxdev.bsky.social into ten key insights, you can read the full blog here: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...
The world is changing rapidly. Can research inform what comes next?
I spent a long time trying to condense everything I read this year at @voxdev.bsky.social into ten key insights, you can read the full blog here: voxdev.org/topic/ten-ke...
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Happy to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grant for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge". AutoKnow will study how authoritarian regimes and politics affect scientific progress, contents and topics in different fields.
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
Large EU-grant to Tore Wig to study the state of science in autocracies
- Department of Political Science
Will scientific progress slow down if more countries in the world become autocratic? That is one of the questions political science professor Tore Wig will seek to answer with two million euros from t...
www.sv.uio.no
December 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Happy to announce that I have received an @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grant for the project "Authoritarian Threats to Scientific Knowledge". AutoKnow will study how authoritarian regimes and politics affect scientific progress, contents and topics in different fields.
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
www.sv.uio.no/isv/english/...
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Noise pollution from electric passenger rail harms babies' health.
"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."
Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.
This is such a cool paper!
"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."
Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.
This is such a cool paper!
December 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Noise pollution from electric passenger rail harms babies' health.
"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."
Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.
This is such a cool paper!
"I estimate that the annual cost of noise pollution due to harms to health at birth is $9.8 billion."
Black, Hispanic, and the poorest Americans disproportionately bear these costs.
This is such a cool paper!
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Alan Auerbach & William Gale argue that after incorporating the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, debt-to-GDP is projected to rise to 183% by 2054, under conservative assumptions. Without a return to fiscal responsibility, adjustment will likely involve an external shock.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Alan Auerbach & William Gale argue that after incorporating the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, debt-to-GDP is projected to rise to 183% by 2054, under conservative assumptions. Without a return to fiscal responsibility, adjustment will likely involve an external shock.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
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Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Congratulations to @simine.com well deserved winner of the Einstein Foundation Individual Award for Promoting Quality in Research 2025 🎉 www.einsteinfoundation.de/en/media/pre...
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🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency.
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🗓️ Save the date: The next BITSS Annual Meeting is April 16, 2026! The conference will gather experts to discuss changes in academic publishing, AI, and current challenges to research transparency.
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
@cega-uc.bsky.social @tedmiguel.bsky.social
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Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Actual causes of death in the US and media coverage of same.
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...
And then we wonder why people have such a skewed understanding of the world.
@ourworldindata.org is a treasure. Thanks, @hannahritchie.bsky.social and colleagues.
ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...