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 !

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 !

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Looking forward to our 2025 seminar series in the economics departement of UNamur !

We look forward to seeing you at the EUDN Development Economics conference that we organize @EconUNamur @UNamur !
Please find the program below:

Kudos to our in Economics Master's graduates from @UNamur/@UCLouvain_be ! We wish you success in both your professionnal and personnal endeavors. It was a privilege to have been your professor !

@EconUNamur

The child penalty in earnings event study graph :

Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark
(Henrik Kleven, Camille Landais & Jakob Sogaard), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

I watched Back to the Future 2 with the kids. The prediction of 2015 is quite off. But the alternate 1985 is not so far from actual 2024...

Over 10 years, total circulation in India has increased by 10% because of political determinants. Is this due to an increase in supply or in demand of newspapers ? After 10 years, politically motivated supply account for half of that effect. 8/12

This is driven by newspapers in the language of the state they are published in, ie, those more likely to cover state politics. 7/12

Markets who will become more politically important start diverging when the delimitation is announced. Circulation and number of titles increase in market who will become more politically important. 6/12

We take advantage of the redistricting (aka delimitation) of state constituencies: certain districts become more politically important (have more representatives) other, less, while some are left unchanged. 4/12

Is the media industry shaped by political determinants? Is supply of media politically motivated ? Short answer: yes, a lot. A 🧵 on our paper on India's newspaper market with amazing co-authors Julia Cagé and Francesca Jensenius