Viral: vendedores chinos dicen que no uses AliBaba qué está lleno de intermediarios y te dan estas 5 opciones.

The Paris School of Economics Stone center on Global Wealth Dynamics is offering fully-funded PhD fellowships for students working on inequality. Deadline May 4. Details and applications here 👇👇👇 stone-center-pse.eu/grants/phd-fel…

The call for papers for the 2025 LACEA conference is out. The conference will be in Recife, Brazil, Nov 20-22 lacea2025.org. Please submit your paper before May 30th Vox.LACEA UFPE PIMES - Pós Graduação em Economia UFPE

Marcelo Díaz post triunfo en el Clásico Universitario 🥵🔥 📹 Universidad de Chile #VamosLaU💙❤️

Check out our new paper. We explore how housing booms and pension withdrawals reshaped wealth inequality from 2007-2021 in Chile. A story of macroeconomic shifts and extreme inequality.

Happy to share that my paper "Intergenerational Educational Mobility within Chile" has been accepted at Estudios de Economía Revista Estudios de Economia 🤗 Working paper here: dx.doi.org/10.18235/00135…

I am working on a guide to all possible scenarios that someone who wants to implement DiD might face, like "what estimator should I use?". Questions to ask include: timing of treatment, nature of a) treatment effect & b) treatment variable, data structure, assumptions/violations

Last month, I stepped down as an editor after 6.5 years (4 REStud; 2.5 JEEA). I have gathered a few suggestions that can help you avoid unnecessary negative referee reports.

I read *a lot* of scientific abstracts that are missing key elements. Here are the 5 things an abstract needs: 1. Introduce the topic, 2. State the unknown, 3. Outline the method used to answer the question, 4. Preview the findings, and 5. Tell us what your work teaches us.

This (recently updated) free textbook on difference-in-differences looks amazing! It comes with practitioner checklists and practice data + code. A teaching/research goldmine! by Clément de Chaisemartin and Xavier D'Haultfoeuille.

esse foi o artigo que tinha mencionado há um tempo atrás. Nele avaliamos o piloto do programa "Conjunto de Estratégias de Prevenção", política de prevenção a crimes de rua que implementamos em um hotspot no Méier.

1/ Week 28: Theory paper in focus this week is the seminal article by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph E. Stiglitz that is now famously referred to as the "zero commodity/capital taxation" benchmark in public economics. It has led to much technical & policy debates. Let's find out.

📣 This is a (very) short thread on a recent paper with the great Orazio Attanasio and Alessandro Toppeta on “Intergenerational Mobility in Socio-Emotional Skills” (forthcoming at Journal of Public Economics )! UCL Economics UCL Policy Lab Yale Department of Economics Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies 1/7

Congratulations to Claudio Agostini Claudio Agostini for being appointed as an International Tax and Public Finance associate editor. We are delighted to have them on our team!

Forthcoming in the AER: "Managers and Public Hospital Performance" by Pablo Muñoz and Cristóbal Otero. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Somo el mejor país de Sevilla 😅🇨🇱

If you haven't read "AI Agents for Economic Research" by Anton Korinek , you should drop everything and do it right now. Get up to date or get left behind. Link in the next post.

This new study shows: in Germany, it has become much harder for children to earn more than their parents, now about as hard as in the US: "parental income has become much more important for educational outcomes of children"

Using longitudinal administrative data covering all North Carolina public school students to document five facts about first-generation academic excellence gaps, from Uditi Karna, @econ_4_everyone, Andrew Simon, and Haruka Uchida nber.org/papers/w34228

Dada la discusión sobre el salario mínimo que se ha dado las últimas semanas, con Pablo Muñoz Henríquez escribimos este ensayo: ciperchile.cl/2025/09/20/que… Resumen: el debate es harto más complejo de lo que se plantea. Reducir la discusión al efecto empleo no permite un análisis riguroso.