Guo Xu
@guoxu.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at @BerkeleyHaas | Political Economy, Econ History, Organizations
www.guoxu.org
www.guoxu.org
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
September 20, 2025 at 9:15 AM
It's hiring season at @iast.fr!
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
- 2y research postdoc contract
- Full autonomy, you are your own PI
- Awesome multidisciplinary environment
- All social and behavioral sciences welcome
- Seed funding for projects and workshops
- Gorgeous city in the south of France
www.iast.fr/research-fel...
Excited to host the All California (formerly All UC) economic history JM conference tomorrow — proud to keep this tradition alive and looking forward to the papers! events.berkeley.edu/events/event...
October 3, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Excited to host the All California (formerly All UC) economic history JM conference tomorrow — proud to keep this tradition alive and looking forward to the papers! events.berkeley.edu/events/event...
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One of the basic rhetorical trick of Trumpism is to frame "accountability" to "being elected" rather than being answerable for your actions (which Trump avoids).
Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM
One of the basic rhetorical trick of Trumpism is to frame "accountability" to "being elected" rather than being answerable for your actions (which Trump avoids).
Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
Governments build many (perhaps too many) accountability mechanisms for non-elected officials.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/unelected-...
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The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”
Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”
Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!
The 4th entry in our Census Tree celebration 🎂🎉 is @guoxu.bsky.social & team's work that uses the CT to show that sudden ⬆️ in female public sector employment during WWI ⬆️ LFP among daughters of civil servants, suggesting that “temporary shocks can give rise to persistent changes in societal norms.”
Beyond the War: Public Service and the Transmission of Gender Norms
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
August 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Without CT we couldn’t have written the paper!
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Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Remember the "Highlights" that some Elsevier journals require? Dean Karlan and friends developed an amazing way to troll them: haikus!
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📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
briangknight.bsky.social
briangknight.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
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🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics!
🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school
📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...
🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school
📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...
summer school — Maximilian Auffhammer
www.auffhammer.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
🌎 PhD students: apply to 2025 Berkeley/Sloan Summer School in Environmental/Energy Economics!
🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school
📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...
🔗 Info + application: www.auffhammer.com/summer-school
📅 Deadline: May 14 | Program: Aug 18–22 at Berkeley
w @auffhammer.bsky.social @severinborenstein.bsky.social, TCarleton, MFowlie, KJack...
So happy to see this forthcoming! A fantastic paper from a former Haas BPP student! @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social Congrats @yasirkhan.bsky.social super well deserved!
Forthcoming in the AER: "Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan" by Muhammad Yasir Khan. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Mission Motivation and Public Sector Performance: Experimental Evidence from Pakistan
(Forthcoming Article) - This paper studies, through a randomized field experiment involving community
health workers in Pakistan, if public sector organizations can improve worker performance
by inves...
www.aeaweb.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:17 AM
So happy to see this forthcoming! A fantastic paper from a former Haas BPP student! @berkeleyhaas.bsky.social Congrats @yasirkhan.bsky.social super well deserved!
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Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
April 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Call for papers: @theigc.bsky.social/@yaleegc.bsky.social conference on Firms/Trade/Development, Oct. 24-25, 2025.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
The leading conference in the firms & development space!
Early decision deadline (to accommodate visa processing): May 30.
General submission deadline: July 18.
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We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵
Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin
Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵
Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin
Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin
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❗️We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of crime. @chtraxler.bsky.social
⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today.
See details in the thread below 👇
⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today.
See details in the thread below 👇
🥳 The 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime is coming to Berlin in 2025!
🎓 @chtraxler.bsky.social and I are excited to host the workshop on 26-27 September, with keynotes by Paolo Pinotti and Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard.
⏱️ Deadline to submit your papers: 02 May 2025!
More👇
🎓 @chtraxler.bsky.social and I are excited to host the workshop on 26-27 September, with keynotes by Paolo Pinotti and Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard.
⏱️ Deadline to submit your papers: 02 May 2025!
More👇
March 25, 2025 at 7:21 AM
❗️We are looking forward to receiving your submissions for the 16th #TWEC Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of crime. @chtraxler.bsky.social
⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today.
See details in the thread below 👇
⏳ Deadline: May 02 - five weeks from today.
See details in the thread below 👇
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.
Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.
Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.
Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.
Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
March 18, 2025 at 12:46 AM
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.
Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.
Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Brexit Conference, London, May 15, 2025.
Hosted at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London. Themes including labor markets, investment, innovation, trade and political economy.
Submit by March 30th here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Very excited about the first installment of the Berkeley Econ History Mini Conference — first edition being on econ history x political economy. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
March 14, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Very excited about the first installment of the Berkeley Econ History Mini Conference — first edition being on econ history x political economy. Looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow!
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Today about a thousand folks Stood up for Science at Berkeley, and I was honored to be among them. Great energy — and it’s just the beginning
#SUFS
#SUFS
March 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Today about a thousand folks Stood up for Science at Berkeley, and I was honored to be among them. Great energy — and it’s just the beginning
#SUFS
#SUFS
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Here is a link for those w/o FT subscriptions. The editorial is well worth reading.
on.ft.com/3DtbLM4
on.ft.com/3DtbLM4
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
on.ft.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Here is a link for those w/o FT subscriptions. The editorial is well worth reading.
on.ft.com/3DtbLM4
on.ft.com/3DtbLM4
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"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo: Foreign aid can be effective without the US
In the wake of USAID cuts, wealthy nations and individuals must take the reins
www.ft.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
"The world must now affirm that human lives matter, no matter where they are."
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
-- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo in today's FT.
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Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
March 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Berkeley and east bay folks - we will have a UC Berkeley campus event on Friday as part of this broader day of action — please join us and make your voice heard!
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
www.standup4scienceberkeley.com
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
18f.org
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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
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky
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
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky
January 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
📣 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
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky
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
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky
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Today's #Kuznets2025 mini-conference celebrated the scholarship and teaching of Oriana Bandiera, and featured a lineup of fascinating new research.
Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants:
egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants:
egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social
February 28, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Today's #Kuznets2025 mini-conference celebrated the scholarship and teaching of Oriana Bandiera, and featured a lineup of fascinating new research.
Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants:
egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social
Many thanks to all the presenters & discussants:
egc.yale.edu/events/kuzne... #EconSky @yaleeconomics.bsky.social
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Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
www.npr.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs.
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...