Yesterday, EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance hosted the inaugural RoME Alumni Conference, which I had the pleasure of co-organizing with @FrancescoBoninsegna (NYU)! The event brought together alumni of the Rome Master in Economics (RoME). 👇 A short thread highlighting this year's speakers! 1/n

New Anthropic Research: Project Vend. We had Claude run a small shop in our office lunchroom. Here’s how it went.

Thank you EIEF - Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance and Pizzanomics for a great month in Rome. Hope to be back soon!

🚼 What if making paternity leave mandatory could actually move the needle on gender equality? In a new working paper, we study Spain’s paternity leave reforms from 2017 to 2021 — and the effects are remarkable. 📄 cep.lse.ac.uk/_NEW/PUBLICATI…

Mandatory, non-transferable paternity leave of equal length as maternity leave in 🇪🇸. Potential to equalize gender norms around childcare. Aligns with casual observation of friends having babies back home. Very interesting work by Claudia Hupkau et al!

Just wrapped up three great days in Sintra at the ECB Forum. Below some of my take-home messages, focused on the EU-US productivity gap. Three main topics for me: public debt, labor mkts, capital mkts. 1/

Dice Borja Suárez (secretario de Estado de Seguridad Social): "El sistema no exprime a los jóvenes". Y sobre el informe de BBVA-IVIE sobre que los jóvenes tendrán que jubilarse a los 71 años: "Incita a los jóvenes a rebelarse contra el sistema".

Announcing the #ASSA2026 Distinguished Lecturer, Leah Boustan of Yale University. She will be speaking on her work related to migration, assimilation, and economic opportunity.

We’re excited to welcome Janet Currie to the Department and Tobin Center for Economic Policy! Her research shows how smarter policy—on education, health coverage, clean air, & mental-health care—can change the life-trajectories of kids and the families who raise them. economics.yale.edu/news/250709/we…

sweet new data - IPUMS released it's new version of decennial census links. you can now get links across all censuses from IPUMS super easily, and they link to the numident to get maiden names for women.

There is *so much* variation even across Europe on which immigrants come in and how their children do. Figure (Boustan et al) shows rank gap vs. native-born for immigrants and their children. One of the richest graphs around. What is going on here? 1/

Si la economía española crece, si como dicen los datos de PIB crece incluso si descontamos la inflación, si lleva años creciendo... ¿dónde está tu parte, que no la ves? Bueno: empecemos con un gráfico sencillo.

Resulta que el PIB por persona empleada de España es el que MENOS ha crecido entre las economías avanzadas 😦

Una manera de ver esto de Jorge Galindo: Lo que en 1991 se hacía entre ocho personas, tras… 🛜 el internet 💻 ordenadores 💶 el Euro 🤖 automatización 🎓 mucha más educación … lo pueden hacer ahora entre… *siete* personas. Eso es todo, de ocho a siete. 🤷🏻‍♂️

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Jaime Arellano-Bover and Shmuel San study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants' labor market success. rfberlin.com/network-paper/…

Join us in welcoming Leah Boustan to Yale! She joins as a Professor of Economics and Director of the Economic History Program at Yale Economic Growth Center. Learn more about her background and research in Yale University EGC's latest Faculty Spotlight: egc.yale.edu/research/leah-…

¿Por qué Benidorm es una ciudad modelo? 🏙️ Los esnobs desprecian sus torres. Pero es un ejemplo de urbanismo VERTICAL: su altura cumple una función brillante que no es vivir apretados. Vamos a verlo con mapas: