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Big new survey, big new report, short new blog introducing and summarizing it all, with Dung Doan and Matt Dornan. More on this in the coming days. Happy Sunday everyone. https://devpolicy.org/new-data-to-inform-big-decisions-around-pacific-labor-mobility-20231119/

We're very grateful to the Minister for Immigration for his kind words about our work on the Pacific and migration at the Development Policy Centre. I couldn't be more proud to lead the ANU's Pacific migration research, we have a great (but small) team. minister.homeaffairs.gov.au/AndrewGiles/...

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Nods from Australia, home of the refugee detention centres

Put together a simple economic defense of a robust, growing immigration program with Steve for the papers Australia doesn’t need to keep thinking, being small https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/look-at-the-evidence-cutting-immigration-would-be-a-mistake-for-australia-20231030-p5eg5l.html

polisky data people! The latest core research release from AidData for international aid commitments only covers aid up to 2013. Is there a newer/better source for data on foreign aid from OECD countries? www.aiddata.org/data/aiddata...

Who’s gonna tell them

Thanks for this, really helpful

Econometrics Thread (#EconSky) Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions. +