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So...I just scraped new State Dept data on student visas (F-1's), and it looks like student visa issuance fell by ~70% from FY2019 to FY2020. This is an astounding idiotic own-goal for America, given that education is one of our most successful exports.

New evidence on the determinants of extortion payments to gangs in El Salvador and the economic costs of extortion via pass-through, from Zach Y. Brown, Eduardo Montero, @cschmidtpadilla, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi nber.org/papers/w28299

Lasting effects of colonial-era resource exploitation in Congo: Concessions, violence, and indirect rule dlvr.it/RqKrcH

New VoxDev: colonial extraction & dev in #DRC "even a short exposure to extractive institutions can have a meaningful impact on development ... particularly when local institutions are integrated into supporting extraction" By sara lowes Eduardo Montero voxdev.org/topic/institut…

Thank you Torsten Bell for featuring our work with Zach Y. Brown Eduardo Montero and @cschmidtpadilla Even criminals raise their prices when they form cartels theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In a recent paper, Zach Y. Brown, Eduardo Montero, @cschmidtpadilla, and Maria Micaela Sviatschi measure extortion by using unique data covering over 50,000 extortion payments made to gangs in El Salvador. Full article on ProMarket ms.spr.ly/6018VTX7g #competition #extortion

Thank you Stigler Center and ProMarket for featuring our work! In this paper we try to understand how gangs determine extortion rates and how collusion among gangs may affect consumers

Grad students seem to get more hesitant about this over time, so just a reminder that you can still send me economic history ideas for feedback

Colonial French health campaigns that forcibly treated sub-Saharan Africans fed lasting mistrust in Western medicine that continues today, offering important lessons for modern vaccination efforts, say sara lowes and Eduardo Montero #ResearchHighlight aeaweb.org/research/afric…

Grupos criminales como MS-13 pueden limitar el desarrollo socioeconómico de la gente que vive bajo su control. El 27 de abril discutiremos con Eduardo Montero y Maria Micaela Sviatschi el impacto de treguas entre grupos criminales en El Salvador. Registro aquí: poverty-action.org/sites/default/…

My newest investigation -- on how Costa Rica's commitment to public health has given its people a life expectancy among the longest in all of the Americas. newyorker.com/magazine/2021/…

Registration for our virtual RIDGE Vox.LACEA EHN workshop on Historical Development is now open! zoom.us/meeting/regist… September 22, Montevideo times @MartinFiszbein María del Pilar López Uribe

Primera conferencia EconCR. Esta es una iniciativa para promover la investigación y la comunidad académica costarricense. Ver agenda y link para registrarse abajo 1/4

IPA's Peace & Recovery Program, w/funding from FCDO Pol,Conflict,Humanitarian Research Open Society Foundations, has become a major supporter of research on reducing crime, violence, and conflict. Our brief quickly summarizes several recent studies on crime and policing in Latin America 🧵 poverty-action.org/publication/ev…

Nathan Nunn James Alan Robinson Eduardo Montero and I are looking for a summer intern in DRC. Please apply! Fluency in French required; BA or MA; preferred field work experience. Appreciate retweets :) Job application info here: saralowes.com/resources.html Econ RA Listings

Was your morning coffee Fair Trade certified? How would this have affected coffee producers and workers? Pair this new paper with your next coffee to find out more ☕ Forthcoming in JEEA by Dragusanu, Eduardo Montero, and Nathan Nunn EEA @OUPEconomics

Thank you ⁦The Economist⁩ for featuring my “making a narco” work in Peru ! economist.com/graphic-detail…

2️⃣ Colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for resource extraction still negatively affect development in the DRC. In our second most-read article, sara lowes UCSDEcon & Eduardo Montero Harris Policy outline their research: ow.ly/haa350M6Z7J #VoxDevTop10

Abro convocatoria de asistentes de investigación en Economía Uniandes para ayudarme en distintos proyectos que estudian la economía política del desarrollo en Colombia - sobre paramilitarismo, reforma agraria, y/o política industrial. Por favor, compartir. 1/3