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It is with great sadness that Sciences Po's Department of Economics announces the death of Professor Ghazala Azmat, who passed away this weekend. Ghazala was Professor of Economics at the Department since 2016.

Impact evaluation, used, for example, to test the effectiveness of public policies, is being massively captured by the digital giants, even though these tools were often created by academics with public money. Clément de Chaisemartin and co-author Xavier D’Haultfoeuille (CREST-ENSAE) pen an op-ed in Le Monde.

The Kiel-CEPR Conference on Geoeconomics is now in its 4th year and has become a premier event on the topic. In 2025 the Department of Economics will be hosting this event for the first time.

The Department of Economics’ first-time delegation made it to the final round at the University of Amsterdam’s Econometric Game, dubbed the World Championship of Econometrics.

Tariffs, the Dollar, and the US Economy

Welcome to Michela Boldrini, Post-Doctoral Fellow at IGIER-Bocconi who will be visiting with us this week.

JPAL's European Social Inclusion Initiative has attributed funding for her project 'Housing or Employment First? Experimental Evidence of a Counselling Program for Homeless Job Seekers'.

The “key and timely” insights of Julia and co-laureate David Yanagizawa-Drott, on “the critical role of media and social media in motivating political beliefs and actions, as well as the dangers posed by controlled media”, compelled the jury.

His award-winning paper proposes a novel conceptual framework revealing close interactions between redistribution and social insurance policies with important implications for the design of better tax-benefit systems.

The young doctoral student in economics looks back on his career and his research on the long-term effects of colonialism on health and nutrition.

Congratulations to Juan Sebastián Ivars, Gustave Kenedi, Leonard Le Roux, Itzhak Rasooly, and Diego de Sousa Rodrigues !

Sciences Po's Centre for Socio-Political Data (CDSP) is calling for applications for its 2025 Doctoral student ELIPSS panel modules and took the opportunity to take a peek at Constance's 2024 ELIPSS panel findings!

Congratulations to Felipe Lauritzen, Niklas Schoch, Sophia Praetorius, and Johanna Roth who have all been selected to further their research this Spring on the other side of the Atlantic.

Meet our candidates: Dániel Gyetvai, Juan Sebastián Ivars, Gustave Kenedi, Leonard Le Roux, Itzhak Rasooly, and Diego de Sousa Rodrigues.

How a deep data dive into how social networks impact individual behaviour can help improve public policies.

Three new ANR projects

Kate ORKIN (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

Matthew W. GRANT (Dartmouth)