Holocaust museum, Amsterdam

Is it "good" or "bad" when skilled people leave low-income countries? We summarized the evidence in favor of "brain gain" vs. "brain drain": science.org/doi/epdf/10.11… Ungated PDF: johanneshaushofer.com/research

Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard. hrvd.me/IntStudents25t

Es curioso, o tal vez no tanto, que la mayoría de las noticias sobre el Informe Trimestral del Banco de México gire en torno a lo que menos le compete y en lo que no destaca precisamente por su acierto: sus pronósticos del PIB.

Having poor classmates makes rich students... ■ more prosocial, generous, & egalitarian AND ■ less likely to discriminate against poor students.

Como se ha sentido esta semana

if you're feeling a little uneasy about the state of global geopolitics tonight remember to spend as much time on your phone as possible. the more information you ingest as you scroll the calmer you will become

Presenting a broad set of stylized facts about developing country labor markets, synthesizing the recent literature, and highlighting promising directions for future work, from Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur nber.org/papers/w33908

Surprising result from Mexico with implications for other developing countries (eg India?) Banning firms from outsourcing workers to staffing companies — a common way to skirt labor regulations — had big positive effects on wages with no loss of employment or output.

“Where men’s honour depends on women’s seclusion, cross-gender friendships are rare”. This also predicts low female employment. Great coverage of my favourite new paper in The Economist

The G7 is exempting American multinationals from the global minimum tax. It’s pathetic and scandalous.

Esta semana se votó la desaparición del CONEVAL. El mayor avance registrado por ellos, se dio entre 2014 y 2016; más de 2 millones de personas salieron de la pobreza extrema. Coincidió con la Estrategia Nacional de Inclusión, diseñada con base en evidencia y datos verificables.

🚨 New paper alert: Economists in 🇫🇷 France, 🇨🇦Canada, and 🇬🇧the U.K. just released what looks like a tour-de-force on the economics of artwork. It's big. 🎨📉📈 Here’s what they did. First, they collected and digitized 630,000 paintings dating from the year 1400 to the

🚨Excited to announce a free mini-course on Modern Difference-in-Differences Designs, taught by Kirill Borusyak (UC Berkeley), hosted by Economía ITAM & Vox.LACEA's Impact Evaluation Network! 🚨 🗓️ Sept 26–27, 2025 📍 ITAM's Santa Teresa campus, CDMX Details 👇 #EconTwitter

PS1. Think of common intelligent retaliation not just by EU, but EU+Japan+Canada+Brazil+whoever is willing to participate. The more countries, the better the common intelligent retaliation list. By cutting more sources, common tariffs on some products hurt the US more; by

Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.

Hoy presentamos la Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares #ENIGH 2024, la segunda encuesta con la muestra más grande que levanta INEGI. En 2024, los hogares reportaron un ingreso corriente promedio trimestral de $77,864, es decir, $25,955 mensuales. (1/5)

Por primera vez México obtuvo medallas de oro en la Olimpiada de Economía que en este año se realizó en Azerbaiyán. Felicidades Christina Cornejo VLuit ITAM

How do people update their views when they suspect news coverage to be tainted by manipulation? In the latest Econometrica, Ricardo Alonso & Gerard Padró I Miquel propose a model on the competitive capture of public opinion. Read the full article here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.3982/EC…

Este video es histórico. Es el fin de las salas. Es el fin de una Suprema Corte que sí pudo ser contrapeso y sí defendió derechos. Laynez se despide al borde del llanto. Y no es para menos. Lo que viene tras la #ReformaJudicial será brutal. Al tiempo.