Michael Clemens

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I'm an economist who studies the causes and effects of international migration. Professor of Economics at George Mason University and Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Also IZA Bonn, CReAM~UCL, and the Center for Global Development. Personal views exclusively.
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I'm honored to be elected to the editorial board of my favorite academic journal, the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

And excited to work with so many people I deeply admire at
@aeajournals —> https://www.aeaweb.org/journals/jep/editors

Editors of the Journal of Economic Perspectives

In İzmir, Turkey there is a monument to the idea of an independent judiciary

It was erected in 2006 to celebrate institutions increasingly under threat from authoritarian corruption & violence

At some silent point, in 21 years of dictatorship, it became a tombstone

https://maps.app.goo.gl/PP7aMxDBHc16fs5N9

Bevor Sie zu Google Maps weitergehen

🗣️ Call for papers: 6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of #migration

May 22–23 in Madrid

Keynotes by the brilliant @leah_boustan &
Dean Yang

Submissions due January 26th —> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIZoPeewBmYnTHiy_D5O1iSGlR34criN3WjcJ3SYNbbyWt2g/viewform

6th Workshop on the Economics and Politics of Migration, 22-23 May 2025, Madrid

organised by the EBRD, King’s College London, Ramón Areces Foundation, and Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

Google Docs
By Bruce Eric Kaplan

Die Massendeportationen in den Vereinigten Staaten werden als Maßnahmen gegen undokumentierte Migranten dargestellt.

In Wirklichkeit handelt es sich jedoch um eine militärische Aktion gegen Millionen US-Bürger, sagte ich zu @FAZNET —>

https://zeitung.faz.net/faz/wirtschaft/2024-11-04/0f404d9d43f9a26ce9d2269520913e5c/?GEPC=s3

USA droht ohne illegale Migranten die Rezession

The premier conference on the economics of migration in Latin America

Submissions due Dec. 15 — held in April 2025 at ITAM in CDMX

From the all-stars Ana María Ibáñez, Sandra Rozo, Anna Maria Mayda, Felipe Gomez, Patricia Cortés, Cynthia van der Werf, Horacio Larreguy, Marcela Melendez

Thank you Iffath Sharif and your fantastic team for inviting me to talk at the World Bank yesterday.

Global Skill Partnerships were just a dream on my whiteboard 12 years ago. Now you’re building them. The world needs your bold and brilliant leadership. 👏👏👏

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/jobs/can-migration-address-workforce-needs-care-sector-aging-populations

Can migration address the workforce needs in the care sector for aging populations?

Amidst the ebb and flow of life, Felix and Cris, an elderly couple in their mid-90s in Pinilla Trasmonte, a remote village in Spain, find themselves at a pivotal moment.

World Bank Blogs

What a privilege to learn from some of the economists I most admire at the 3rd Macroeconomics of Migration Conference, Mexico City

https://globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/events/2024macro_migration

Thank you UC Davis, ITAM, SF Fed, Banco de México, & Bank of Canada

3rd Workshop on Macroeconomic Implications of Migration

Third Annual Workshop on Macroecon

Global Migration Center

Today’s Nobel laureate James Robinson has close ties to Colombia.

He offered this policy proposal to promote stability and economic development in Colombia, to the online magazine Webpondo in 2002.

It struck me then, and still strikes me, as both visionary and serious.

“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who, in time of moral crisis, preserve their neutrality.”

When Jack Kennedy read this Dante-inspired dictum, he was paraphrasing Inferno III.31 (Musa trans.)