hive minds - I am looking for recommendations for good papers that use "big data" in innovative ways to measure or predict migration. Thanks!

In collaboration with Winrock, we are seeking to hire a survey firm in Bangladesh. The selected firm would carry out surveys as part of a State Department funded RCT testing ways to reduce human trafficking vulnerabilities in areas that are highly affected by the changing climate. The RFP can be found at https://hotjobs.bdjobs.com/jobs/winrock/winrock249.htm. Please share far and wide with your networks.

Devastated to hear about the tragic death of Francisco Cantu, a brilliant scholar, a loving husband to Lucero and loving father to Sol. Francisco was one-in-a-kind human being. My deepest condolences to his family and to Houston's public policy school.

if you indict the king, you better have the goods on him. an acquittal would be a huge blow to the rule of law.

One of my pet peeves is when academic journals place a large list of requirements (e.g., figures' formatting; endnotes instead of foortnotes) as a condition for sending a submission to review. Many of these requirements place unnecessary burden on authors.

Happy to update that my paper with Yang-Yang Zhou and Shuning Ge "Inclusive refugee-hosting can improve local development and prevent public backlash" was published today for first-view at World Development. Link at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X23000219#s0080

Please consider attending an online event this Wednesday -- organized jointly by the political science departments at Hebrew U. and Tel Aviv U. -- about the genuine dangers that Israel's democracy is facing from Netanyahu's government's that is determined to weaken the independence of the judiciary.