⏳10 days to go! 📢#CallForPapers - 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration CEPR @EBRD @KingsCollegeLon & @SapienzaRoma are co-organising a workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration to be held on 28-29 May 2026 in Rome. Submit by 23 January 2026: ow.ly/g9EQ50XuJZJ @cevatgirayaksoy @micdimaio @CemOzguzel @sosakalli @SMGSequeira @pl_vezina

💡 Call for papers for the 4th HUMANS LACEA Migration Network is open. This year we will be joining the RIDGE 2026 May Forum. Submit your full papers on migration here: 👇 ridge.org.uy/date_forum/2026… Event Date: University of West Indies, Barbados | 21 to 22 May, 2026 Deadline for paper submission: 15 January, 2026 Scientific Committee: Antonella Bandiera, Dany Bahar, Jose Buchelli, @anamibanez , @Andr3sMoya , Santiago Pérez, Cynthia van der Werf, @a_velasquezg , and @svrozo .

Supermom launches today. This book grew from my heart and from my belief that mothers deserve fulfillment, balance, and care for themselves, not only for others. It offers simple tools and a hopeful message for women who give so much every day. Thank you to everyone who has supported this journey. Your encouragement has meant the world to me. You can order the book here: amazon.com/dp/B0FVWPJ53T?ref… Book’s website: super-mom.net

💡 What are the local development impacts of a purely humanitarian based model for forcibly displaced populations? 💡 We employ remote sensing and individual longitudinal data and compare areas and individuals located at different distances from the refugee camps before and after the arrival of the Rohingya in the Cox’s Bazar district of Bangladesh. Findings: Regions near the camps experienced higher economic growth after the arrival of the Rohingya. Individual level data confirms these results, showing that humanitarian support increased job formality, improved access to aid, and raised food consumption among local Bangladeshi communities. These gains are largely driven by the activities of humanitarian organizations. At the same time, the limited economic opportunities available to the Rohingya are associated with heightened safety concerns and a higher prevalence of viral diseases, including diarrhea, fever, and cough among nearby residents. Taken together, our results suggest that hosting displaced populations in camps while minimizing their economic integration generates local economic effects that are driven mainly by humanitarian assistance and the direct demand created by camp residents and humanitarian workers. Policy Research Working Paper: documents1.worldbank.org/cur… Research Brief (English): drive.google.com/file/d/1Anu… Research Brief (Bengali): documents.worldbank.org/en/p…

💡New paper out: Ethiopia has taken important steps to expand economic opportunities for refugees through the 2019 Proclamation and the 2024 directive, including permits that allow refugees to work and run businesses. Using document review, admin data, and interviews, we find strong progress and key challenges. Findings: (1) Only 5.2 percent of working-age refugees currently hold a permit. (2) Awareness of the system is low among refugees and employers. (3) High informality creates disincentives to apply for permits. The paper offers policy actions to help translate Ethiopia’s legal commitments into better labor market outcomes for refugees and hosting communities. Joint work with Ana María Pérez Patiño. Full paper: documents.worldbank.org/en/p…

New paper forthcoming at World Development. How do job permits granted through migrant regularization programs shape native voting behavior in the Global South? Using Colombia’s program for Venezuelan forced migrants, we find virtually no change in native voting patterns across municipalities. Why is this case so unique? (1) No negative economic effects (2) Low political and media salience (3) High cultural proximity (4) Stabilized migrant inflows after 2018 Our paper, is coauthored with María José Urbina Flórez and Alejandra Quintana Barrera. Link to the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

How do work rights granted through regularization programs shape fertility decisions among forced migrants in Colombia? Using panel data on more than 1,000 Venezuelan migrants and a difference-in-differences design, we find that legal status reduces childbearing relative to remaining irregular. Improved access to formal jobs and health insurance appears to be the key channel, likely facilitating access to family planning services. Our new paper with Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, @anamibanez , and Salvador Traettino is forthcoming at the Economic Development and Cultural Change Journal: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…

What is my book Supermom about? It is a guide for mothers to redesign their lives keeping front and center they are also deserving of joy, goals, rest, and love. E-book is available to pre-order: amazon.com/dp/B0FVWPJ53T?ref… All formats available on December 3, 2025 in Amazon.

📢Call for papers! We are organising 7th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration on 28-29 May 2026, in Rome! Keynotes: Paolo Pinotti (Bocconi University) and Vicky Fouka (Stanford University). Submit your papers before January 23, 2026: tinyurl.com/2fvf5j9p

Come work with @singhabhi @karthik_econ and me!

Thank you @vox_dev for inviting us to write about our research on extreme temperatures and migration in El Salvador!