LACEA's Urban Econ Network LAUrban is back with a call for papers for its 3rd Annual Meeting, now in Mexico City on Dec 5-6, 2024. the Keynote Speakers will be Paulina Oliva (USC Economics) and Matthew Turner (Brown University), organized with Banco de México as our local partner.

Está disponible este nuevo CHE sobre la historia de La Matuna en Cartagena. Pueden descargarlo aquí 👉🏾 doi.org/10.32468/chee.…

Slums in Chile: where they are and what can be done. Thanks Econ That Matters for highlighting this work 👏

🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/da… #EconTwitter #Mexico

It is official! 🙌🙌🙌 i am thrilled to join WFU Economics as an assistant professor. It is a wonderful and collaborative department. I am thankful to so many people that made this adventure a great one, particularly Paul Gertler MarcoGonzalezNavarro Stuart Rosenthal 👏. See you in NC

¡Felices por la mención honorífica junto a Emmanuel Chávez y María Montoya Aguirre! 🙌 Gracias, CEE COLMEX. Nuestro estudio muestra que modernizar catastros aumenta la recaudación del predial entre 10%-30% hasta 8 años después. Lee el artículo aquí: scioteca.caf.com/handle/1234567…

We have an additional position. See the JoE scramble for details! #EconTwitter #EconX #Econjobmarket

In Denmark, most intergenerational mobility variation is due to family location choices and random factors. Urban areas promote greater upward mobility than rural ones. New research brief from Steven Durlauf (Harris Policy)and co-authors. ow.ly/rw9q50UnGnR

📢 Estoy buscando un/a asistente de investigación para mi Fondecyt Iniciación sobre movilidad, comercio minorista y crimen en Chile 🚍🚔🇨🇱 🧑‍💻 Buen manejo de R, Stata o Python. 🚫 No es excluyente ser economista. 🧑‍🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la

¡Qué buena noticia! 😀 Nos han publicado un nuevo artículo en la revista Journal Sports Economics, un trabajo que hice con Gustavo Canavire Gustavo Canavire-Bacarreza y Joaquín Urrego Joaco A. Urrego; les comparto el enlace y un resumen del trabajo que hicimos: [Sigue] 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (Matthew Jackson ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: monash.edu/business/event…

🧵New survey paper: "Inference with Few Treated Units" Alvarez (Luís A. F. Alvarez), Ferman (Bruno Ferman) and Wüthrich Tired of referees saying your standard errors are wrong? This survey will help you understand if you really have a problem — and, if so, how to fix it!

Check out this great work!

This is a great opportunity for LAC economists + the team is amazing

I joined Tim Phillips Talk Normal on the VoxEU podcast about Barcelona’s Superblocks and their electoral effects CEPR DP: surl.li/fopbtu 👥 Joint work with the great team Cèlia Estruch, Filippo Tassinari & #AlbertSoleOlle 🙏 Thanks to Tim for the thoughtful conversation!

With Sebastian Fossati and Nico Trajtenberg 🐝 @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime. Now out in JQC (Springer Nature): link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Beyond happy that this one was my first conference as WFU Economics faculty and it was among great colleagues!

Se viene el XVII Congreso Colombiano de Ciencia Regional, organizado por ASCER, este año nos recibe la Universidad de Medellín. Cordialmente invitados a revisar el llamado y a enviar sus propuestas en la página: sites.google.com/view/conferenc…

We are hiring! Banco de la República is seeking to hire new graduates or experienced Ph.D. economists in the field of macroeconomics to join our team as researchers/economists. Come work for a leading institution producing top-quality research! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

No más No más, carajo, no más! O sea que queremos destruirnos como sociedad? O sea que deseamos que el odio sea nuestra canción de cuna? No señor Uribe. No puede condenar a un expresidente porque asiste silencioso a las honras fúnebres de un joven político. El nefasto Quintero