🚨 Job alert!🚨 The Banco Central de Chile is looking for a new Head of the Economic Research Department. A key member of the management team to provide intellectual leadership on research. Apply by August 24th at bit.ly/3we1aOa.

Este estudio cuantifica el déficit de vivienda en Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, México, Perú y República Dominicana. Luego determina el efecto de la inversión en vivienda en el empleo y en el crecimiento económico. cepal.org/es/publicacion… a través de CEPAL

Académico @Flivert desarrolló un estudio para la Cepal: Construcción de viviendas como la salida para enfrentar la recesión después de la pandemia. cambiaelmundo.uahurtado.cl/construccion-d…

Big shout out to CASBS for early support of this work and to Political and Social Sciences at EUI for offering a lovely academic home to write

📣 Call for papers 📣 IGC (IGC Cities that Work), World Bank, The Elliott School, IIEP at GWU, and Millennium Challenge Corporation will be co-hosting the 8th #Urbanisation and Poverty Reduction conference on 7-8 March, 2024. Deadline to submit your paper? 17 November, 2023. More details below ⬇️ theigc.org/events/8th-urb…

Monday 25 seminar on #Resilience to #climatechange and #naturaldisasters at Politecnico di Milano with Prof. Zhong-Ren #Peng of Best Design College in 🇺🇸 FLORIDA and felipe livert of European University Institute

#OpenAccess from American Political Science Review - Bureaucratic Quality and Electoral Accountability - cup.org/48XQIvW - Tara Slough #FirstView

#Chile | 📊⚕️ ¿Cómo los #datos pueden contribuir a mejorar políticas públicas del sistema de salud en 🇨🇱? ✨ ¡Descúbrelo con el Primer Índice de Eficiencia, Acceso y Calidad en Salud, elaborado por @observafiscalcl! ✨ 💻 ¡Explora más detalles ACÁ! ➡️ bit.ly/1ND1C354LUDCH1…

🆕paper out in our Discussion Paper Series by Federico Fantechi , Ugo Fratesi , Felipe Livert showing that mayors of Italian municipalities severely affected by earthquakes and not getting financial support are electorally punished in the next election 👇 gssi.it/images/discuss…

Nice stuff! Pedro knows I'm competitive, and now he's thrown down the gauntlet. I'll to have to clean up my shared Dropbox (see pinned tweet). For starters, I finally have a new version of my extended TWFE paper -- posted there. It's shorter and hopefully more to the point.

Dark Side of Infrastructure: Roads, Repression and Land in Authoritarian Paraguay academic.oup.com/ej/article-abs…

"Excited to share our new publication with Paola Bordon and Julie Anne Weaver: «Rewarding Performance in Disaster Response: Evidence from Local Governments in Latin America». Check it out here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #DisasterResponse #Research"

More than 40 percent of #postdocs leave academia. Those who landed a coveted faculty position were more likely to have had a highly cited paper, changed their research topic between their #PhD and postdoc, or moved abroad after receiving their doctorate. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Extending the school day by 3.5 hours led to a significant increase in divorce rates, especially in municipalities with non-traditional social norms.

Since we're talking about the validity of close elections RDDs today, I thought I'd drop a few recent articles about issues that arise in this space so that folks can have them all in one place. #1. Hartman (2021) shows that most tests of covariate balance around close election

#OpenAccess from LAPSjournal - The Right and the Politics of Labor Informality Enforcement - cup.org/3F7tc5D - Xabier Gainza, Andres Espejo & felipe livert #FirstView

#RDDers: check it out. Donut Regression Discontinuity Designs "While the donut approach is very popular in empirical practice, it is generally carried out in a heuristic fashion without much supporting statistical theory."

#RDDers: check it out. "Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Regression Discontinuity Designs"

We have a new post! There's something for everyone: conditional triple-DiD, triple IV-DiD, covariate-balancing DiD, spatial Synthetic DiD, and updated DiD textbook (de Chaisemartin & D’Haultfœuille v2.0) (link in the replies)