Guilhem Cassan
guilhemcassan.bsky.social
Guilhem Cassan
@guilhemcassan.bsky.social
Economist @UNamur. Development/Political econ/Identity and Gender in economics/Shameless self promotion. CEPR/CAGE/EUDN/CEPREMAP

https://perso.unamur.be/~gcassan/
I love how this pictures suggests that economists see themselves as ballet dancers in suits !
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November 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Start of the school year for undergrad students @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and master students in our joint Master @EconUNamur @econunamur.bsky.social and UCLouvain.
I wish you the best, and will do all I can to be of help as new head of the econ departement in Namur.
September 18, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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🆕 How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India

Today on VoxDev, @guilhemcassan.bsky.social (Université de Namur), Lakshmi Iyer (@ndecon.bsky.social @notredame.bsky.social) & Rinchan Ali Mirza (@kent.ac.uk) discuss the expansion of voting rights in India: voxdev.org/topic/instit...
How expanding voting rights shaped politics in India
Voting rights alone did not transform political participation or competition in India, but they did shift government priorities in favour of the newly enfranchised voters.
voxdev.org
August 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Congratulations, Mathieu !
May 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Yesterday, the students of our class "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" presented their posters under a wonderful sun ! Congratulations to all students for their wonderful work, and to the winners of the best poster prize !
May 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Only a few days left to hand in your application for the 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics!

👉A great opportunity for graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral researchers to further develop their skills through an intensive training course.
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May 7, 2025 at 1:22 PM

Thanks @jan_eeckhout @janeeckhout.bsky.social for such a great presentation of your book "the Great Paradox" ! What a chance to have you for the closing lecture of our new course "Using Economic Tools to Solve Global Challenges" taught with @ammapanin.bsky.social !
May 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship application is starting soon. Reach out if you're interested in joining UNamur's dynamic economics department! For details, visit marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-p.... Connect with us on @econunamur.bsky.social @econunamur @UNamur
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary…
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April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Julia Cagé & David Yanagizawa-Drott awarded the 2025 Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics for their important contributions on political economy & the media, based on deep historical research in France, the USA, and Africa.
Full info ℹ️https://eeassoc.org/awards/yrjo-jahnsson-award
March 31, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Trump Officials Accidentally Text Journalist War Plans
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March 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Looking forward to the 2nd session of our new methods seminar orgniazed with our colleagues from the Political Science department ! Sign up here to get the updates: marketing.egoi.page/1e2e84ny/sig... @EconUNamur
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March 27, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Given the current political news, this may not be top of mind, but my co-authors and I are looking for French-speaking RAs to join projects in the DRC that study the role of state capacity in economic development.

1-year predoc: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pred...
Predoctoral Field-Based Research Associate (One Year) – Democratic Republic of Congo, UC Berkeley | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
povertyactionlab.org
March 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Our paper (joint with Lakshmi Iyer and @RinchanMirza
) on the consequences of enfranchisement in colonial India is out in the Journal of Economic History. See below the podcast in which my friend and co-author Lakshmi Iyer @nd_econ @BIGLabND presents it.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India | The Journal of Economic History | Cambridge Core
Enfranchisement, Political Participation, and Political Competition: Evidence from Colonial and Independent India - Volume 85 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
March 21, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Looking forward to it !
@htetthihazaw.bsky.social will present early work on colonial legislatures and franchise expansion on Thursday in the virtual workshop in HPE! @guilhemcassan.bsky.social will discuss. Let me know if you want to attend and are not yet on our email list.
March 18, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I am looking forward to the papers measuring if there is a pet penalty. My (quite depressive) guess: much more gender balanced than the child penalty.
Cats or babies?

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March 17, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Un bouclier fiscal qui serait un bouclier pour l'équité, ça change !
Le bouclier anti-exil n'existe pas encore mais il pourrait voir le jour très simplement, car sa faisabilité technique est claire:

Depuis 2018 il existe un échange automatique de données bancaires, permettant de taxer les milliardaires exilés en Suisse ou dans d'autres paradis
February 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer.

Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
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February 6, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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If it's true that future collection of Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data "will cease," this would be a staggering loss to the global community. 1/6

www.science.org/content/arti...
February 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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The US has a weakness: its groveling, highly internationalized oligarchy

Why is it a weakness? Because it’s a tiny number of people, who rely, for their wealth, on accessing foreign markets—thus giving foreign countries sizable power on them

It’s now time to use that power 6/x
February 2, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
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January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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📢 Call for papers 📢

Submit your paper to the Nordic Conference in Development Economics

Where and when: Oslo, June 17-18

Submission deadline: Feb 28

Keynotes: Eliana la Ferrara and Kalle Moene

www.oslomet.no/en/about/eve...
Nordic Conference in Development Economics - NCDE 2025
Welcome to the 23rd Nordic Conference in Development Economics.
www.oslomet.no
January 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Looking forward to our 2025 seminar series in the economics departement of UNamur !
January 9, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM