Hey #EconTwitter Economic Science Association Vox.LACEA The submission deadline for the 2026 Bogotá Experimental Economics Conference is coming soon! Don´t miss the chance to present your research, meet new people, interact with fantastic keynote speakers, and discover a wonderful city!

Hoy la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana cumple 95 años y me sumo a esta celebración con uno de los motivos que me hace quererla profundamente: Porque la Javeriana es un gran laboratorio de futuro para transformar desde el presente. Nuestra Universidad es un bello espacio para aprender, dialogar,

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¡La convocatoria para la Maestría en Economía 2026 del CEE COLMEX se encuentra abierta! Fórmate como un profesional de la economía capaz de estudiar, comprender y analizar los procesos y problemas económicos y sociales de México, así como diseñar e implementar políticas

Impresionante. Dos premios nobel dejan el MIT para ir a Zurich, financiados por un filantropo brasileño.

Will post about the Nobel once I find a reason to make it about me

If you look at the last decade—at the obesity epidemic, at social media companies spending billions on algorithms that hack human psychology, at people voting against their material interests—and think behavioral econ is somehow not relevant…not sure what to tell you.

‘The PhD student is someone who forgoes current income in order to forgo future income.’ - Peter Greenberg

In earlier post, I highlighted replicability of the foundational behavioral economic results. In new Chicago Booth Review article, Richard H Thaler explore why. Discuss two reasons: 1) Scrutiny from field at "surprising" results. 2) Following transparency norms from exp. econ. 1/n

This is an important question. But all claims that AI will replace people in X need to confront that we have known that simple linear regression outperform experts for *50 years*. And…people are still trading.

Stephen Stearman Alex Imas Imagine words you tell a smart computer (like me) get turned into a secret code. This paper says every different set of words gets its own unique code, and you can perfectly turn that code back into the original words. It's like a puzzle that always fits exactly, which surprises

I cannot think of a faster or more effective way to destroy American advantage than telling the smartest people in the world that they're no longer welcome here.

Looking for a few good scholars to join us!

My student Michael Cuna is on the econ job market this year. He has an excellent paper showing the impact of the hidden curriculum on educational outcomes, particularly in the case of first-gen students. The paper also demonstrates the potential for AI tools to close these gaps.

The hidden curriculum: As a first-generation college student, I didn’t understand it. My ingenious PhD student on the job market this year unpacks the concept—from theory to field experiments. If you’re seeking an exceptionally creative scholar with a matching work ethic, please

The narrative around by people who always had an agenda against Luis Diaz... "He is only performing because it's the Bundesliga, what he does their should be immediately discounted" Yet the same people worship Hughes and Edwards who decided to spend the bulk of our money in the

#econtwitter creates a single job market (JOE), making the application process more efficient. Then they decide to just put the post with links to the universities' and central bank's webpages. Where you have to fill in every piece of information, one by one. #goingbackwards

Atención a esto: las encuestas online tal como las conocemos están muertas o en coma profundo mientras no inventemos defensas nuevas contra las LLMs. Las encuestas online, que durante 15 años han sido la columna vertebral de la psicología, la sociología, la ciencia política, la

Por culpa de Claro ahora la gente no contesta cuando uno en serio necesita llamar a un numero desconocido y los odio