Back in Madrid after 3 months visiting UBC Economics. Thanks to students, faculty and my host Claudio Ferraz for making it a great experience!

Grateful to have had the chance to present my work on Indian boarding schools and to learn about the exciting new research being undertaken in Economic History at the CEPR Economic History Annual Symposium. Many thanks to participants and Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH) for an excellent two days!

Congratulations to Christian Maruthiah for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Andreas Stegmann, Margarita Machelett and Yarine Fawaz for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Christian’s advisors Dmitry Arkhangelsky and Tom Zohar

What is the cost of waiting for nationality? JMC Yanina finds that admin delays prolong periods of restricted mobility, limiting immigrants' access to better jobs and leading to much lower earnings over 10 years. sites.google.com/view/yaninadom…

How do contract types and worker characteristics influence individual income volatility? JMC @i_lagrosa develops a model to study income trajectories in dual labor markets, accounting for latent individual heterogeneity. ivanlagrosa.com

Did rising house prices contribute to the marital and cohabitation decline in the US? JMC Francesco Chiocchio finds that higher housing cost explain much of this decline, especially for non-college-educated, by making it harder to leave the parents' home fchiocchio.github.io

What determines optimal deposit insurance coverage? JMC Vedant Agarwal studies the effects of deposit insurance coverage on banks' exposure to runs, risk-taking incentives, fiscal costs, and welfare in a quantitative macroeconomic model with bank runs vedant-agl.github.io

How should we think about estimation uncertainty of heterogeneous responses when the sample is a large fraction of the population? Víctor Sancibrián explores this in repeated measurement problems, such as when documenting the extent of firm misallocation sancibrian-v.github.io

In his JM paper, "Marital Decline: The Role of House Prices and Parental Coresidence," Francesco Chiocchio from CEMFI links rising coresidence and declining marriage in the US to rising house prices. Check it out: fchiocchio.github.io