Migration and Development Economists
This incomplete (!) starter pack includes a handful of the economists on BlueSky who research the interface between migration and development. The list is sparse; many of us are not here yet. And I am 100% sure that I have missed people, so please don't hesitate to suggest yourself or others.
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@mclem.org
@davidkhoudour.bsky.social
Senior Development Economist & Human Mobility Expert – Migration & Forced Displacement Morse College Fellow @Yale.edu | PhD Economics @sciencespo.bsky.social | Fulbright Program alumnus @UCBerkeleyofficial.bsky.social Ex @UNDP.org @OECD-OCDE.bsky.social
@tomanbarsbai.com
Economist at the University of Bristol. Development, migration, culture, and behavior. tomanbarsbai.com
@markregets.bsky.social
Economist who writes on immigration, education, and labor markets. Senior Fellow at National Foundation for American Policy, IZA, GLO. Formerly NSF's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics.
@gdeejay.bsky.social
Applied economist working in international development policy 🇹🇴🇸🇧🇻🇺🇫🇯🇦🇺🇲🇲 (etc), Mostly memes. Sometimes post about #publicpolicy, research, data science, #PFM and #Rstats Economist | Independent Consultant All views my own
@guygrossman.bsky.social
Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
@adebrauw.bsky.social
Economist- I study value chains, food systems and nutrition, migration, and to some extent agricultural finance. Work at IFPRI, posts do not reflect views of my employer.
@felixstips.bsky.social
Economics PostDoc at Institute for Employment Research (IAB). Mostly academic content from migration, labor, econometrics. Website: felixstips.github.io.
@davidajaeger.bsky.social
Professor of Economics at University of St Andrews. 🇺🇸 Born/bred, NJ/NYC Labor, education, immigration, conflict, applied econometrics. Plus some nice pictures. Posts orthogonal to my employer(s).
@sarasgnr.bsky.social
Assistant professor of economics at CREST - Ecole Polytechnique. Labor, technological change, migration, innovation. Personal website: https://sites.google.com/view/sarasignorelli/home
@liser-cb.bsky.social
Research based at @liser.lu on global #migration & #mobility. Producing knowledge on the #economics of #humanmigration + informing policy-making & public debate. Learn more: https://www.liser.lu/crossing-borders
@andreassteinmayr.net
Econ Prof @ Uni Innsbruck ⛰️🇦🇹, fan of evidence-based policymaking, #migration #econometrics #policyevaluation, AE Empirical Economics, opinions are my own. Posts in English and German.
@jruhose.bsky.social
Professor of Economics @ Kiel University, CESifo, and IZA // Interested in migration, labor, and education
@fontenla.bsky.social
Econ Prof @ Univ of New Mexico. Return Migration and Development. From Argentina. Messi & River Plate!
@descamillag.bsky.social
AP @econstandrews, economic history, labor, and development. ResAff @iza_bonn & @OxfordESH https://www.escamilla-guerrero.com/
@morganraux.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @amseaixmars Research on International Migration and Xenophobia. @iza_bonn Research Affiliate #EconSky www.morganraux.com
@kristianrose.bsky.social
Research Director, International Studies and Migration, NIBR - Oslo Metropolitan University.🇳🇴 SOPEMI-correspondent. Sample size=1, not statistically significant or representative
@lucastella.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at University of Milan | Faculty Member @bseberlin.bsky.social | Fellow @jfki-econ.bsky.social @fu-berlin-vwl.bsky.social | Fellow @iza.org
@lpenaloza.bsky.social
Economist | Migration | Labor | Development | Latin America | 🇨🇴🇦🇷 Econ. Ph.D. Candidate @Cornell | @CEDLAS | @UNLP Alumnus | (He/Él) 🏳️🌈
@catiabatista.bsky.social
Professor of Economics NovaSBE Founder and Scientific Director NOVAFRICA @novafrica.bsky.social International migration, economic development & policy evaluation https://catiabatista.org/
@jrbucheli.bsky.social
Assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at El Paso. Interested in migration, education, and economic development.
@yajnagovind.bsky.social
Assistant Prof in Economics (Copenhagen Business School ECON) Working on migrants' integration (citizenship) & racial inequality French, Mauritian Fellow WIL & ICM Research: Inequality & Migration | PhD: PSE & INED
@valmuellerasu.bsky.social
Associate Professor at ASU #DevEcon #EnvironEcon #AgEcon #EnvironDemography #PoliticalEcon Non-resident fellow at IFPRI Member of AERE Org Board of Directors Deputy Editor at Climatic Change
@tilmanbrueck.bsky.social
Zero Hunger. And Peace. For All. @ IGZ, HU & ISDC. www.linkedin.com/in/tilmanbrueck
@nicomorales.bsky.social
Economist working on labor, trade and immigration. University of Michigan alumni, currently at the Richmond Fed. Views are my own https://nicolasmoralesg.github.io/
@ckrafftc.bsky.social
Economist, Associate Prof. @ Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota Education/Labor/Development/Gender/ECD/Inequality in the Middle East and North Africa.
@heidland.bsky.social
Econ prof studying migration, international finance, international economics, and their roles in development. @kielinstitute and @kieluni. RT ≠ endorsement.
@plvezina.bsky.social
Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
@kevinshih.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics, UC Riverside & IZA Labor Economist, Economics of Immigration and Education, Trade Adjacent. BJJ Purple Belt www.kevinyshih.weebly.com
@aahrens.bsky.social
Senior Researcher, @immigrationlab.bsky.social, ETH Zurich | AP CERGE-EI from Sept '25 | Software: http://statalasso.github.io | Applied econometrics, ML, migration, labour | https://achimahrens.de/
@joelmachado.eu
Researcher at LISER, Luxembourg, working on the economics of migration. Research Fellow: IZA, IRES/LIDAM (UcLouvain), DEM (Uni.lu) More on: http://www.joelmachado.eu
@inaganguli.bsky.social
Economist at UMass Amherst. Labor, science & innovation, gender, immigration. 🪷🌻 websites.umass.edu/iganguli
@marajunge.bsky.social
Research Fellow/Doctoral Researcher | University of Bremen & German Center for Integration and Migration Research (DeZIM)| Migration, Social Policy, and Civil Society.
@sschneiderstraw.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Exeter. Political Economy, Labor Economics, Migration, Gender. PhD from Paris School of Economics. 🇫🇷🇨🇭🇺🇾 in 🇬🇧. https://sites.google.com/view/sarah-schneider-strawczynski/accueil
@jordanloper.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Université Clermont Auvergne, @cerdi.bsky.social #FirstGen Political Economy, Development Economics, Social Media, Institutions, Cultural Economics, Climate Change https://sites.google.com/view/jordanloper/home
@aalrababah.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
@jeromevalette.bsky.social
Economist at CEPII Head of the Dynamics department at ICM Associate professor at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne https://sites.google.com/view/valettejerome
@zuchowskidavid.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at Universitat Rovira i Virgili @urv.cat (Catalonia, Spain) | Migration, Development & Public Econ | https://sites.google.com/view/zuchowskidavid
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Columbia Political Science - Political Economy, Migration, Crime, Environmental https://www.gemmadipoppa.com/
@ollehammar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Economics @linnaeus-econ.bsky.social. Researcher @futures-studies.bsky.social. Affiliate @iza.org. PhD from Uppsala University. Research on inequality, culture and migration. http://www.ollehammar.com
@akib.bsky.social
Stockholm School of Economics ex-EconTwitter enthusiast Immigration, Human Capital, Development https://sites.google.com/view/akibkhan/home
@mzavodny.bsky.social
Economics professor at Univ of North Florida, immigration & labor economics
@dleblang.bsky.social
Husband. Father. Professor. @UVA studying #migration and #displacement with #bigdata. Unrepentant #Mets #Springsteen fan.
@drew-johnston.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Research Scientist @Meta. I like computers, cities, and social networks. https://drew-johnston.com
@anamibanez.bsky.social
Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge IDB Vicepresidenta de Sectores y Conocimiento BID
@bodanieli.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics at Queen’s University Belfast. Interested in public economics, policy evaluation, education. https://sites.google.com/view/danielborbely/home
@rmckenzie.bsky.social
Econ Lecturer at University of Dundee | Applied Micro | Labour & Migration https://sites.google.com/view/rossmckenzie/home
@aysegulkayaoglu.bsky.social
Researcher on migration, political economy, gender, labour economics, conflict and policy evaluation / #FirstGen / RT≠endorsement
@chriswblair.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at Princeton Politics | Ph.D. at UPenn| Alum at UVA | Borders, Militancy, Forced Displacement, Climate Change, Foreign Policy http://www.chriswblair.com
@andreavelasquez.bsky.social
Orgullosamente Colombiana 🇨🇴 Associate Professor of Economics at @CUDenver working on crime and migration She/Her/Ella andreapvelasquez.com
@giovannifacchini.bsky.social
Prof at UoNottingham. Econ, Political Economy, Migration and Trade. Italian
@martinfs23.bsky.social
Research associate at LISER-Luxembourg. Doing research on migration issues, history, and culture & contributing to evidence-based policy. https://sites.google.com/view/martinfernandezsanchez/
@voxdev.bsky.social
Where research meets practice; a platform for development enthusiasts to discuss key policy issues. Powered by CEPR, IGC & PEDL.
@marimendola.bsky.social
Professor of economics at University of Milano Bicocca. Development economics and Migration, Passionate explorer, Proud mom 🦉
@dmckenzie.bsky.social
Lead Economist at the World Bank’s Development Research Group Development Impact blogger https://sites.google.com/site/decrgdmckenzie/
@deanyang.bsky.social
Professor at U. Michigan. Co-Editor, Journal of Development Economics. Born and raised in Manila, Philippines. On sabbatical (2024-25) at CEMFI in Madrid. https://deanyang-econ.github.io/deanyang
@mushfiq-econ.bsky.social
Professor of Economics, Yale University | Development Economics | Bangladesh | Y-RISE
@mclem.org
Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively. Web: http://mclem.org ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965