In the latest episode of Ideas of India Mercatus Center I speak with Aarushi Kalra Aarushi Kalra, a PhD candidate Brown Economics, about the demand and supply of toxicity against minorities on social media , algorithms, user versus platform behavior, and much more. mercatus.org/ideasofindia/a…

AI in education in Brazil: Allowing "teachers to outsource grading & feedback tasks on writing practices of high school seniors..." The "technologies significantly improved students' essay scores in a large college admission exam." osf.io/preprints/soca… from Bruno Ferman et al

Listening to Joe Weisenthal and Tracy Alloway explain that the price of wings is the most volatile out of all parts of the chicken and... yeah that tracks.

Remembered that in Chile they call Santa Claus "the old Easter man" (el viejo pascuero) because they also call Christmas "Easter". And Easter is also called Easter

"Procrustination:" the tendency to either stretch out small tasks so they fill up the work day, or cut out and leave incomplete longer tasks so they end within the work day.

I’ll be giving at least 2 talks in São Paulo! So excited to meet and learn from Brazilian politicians, activists and researchers! Please do get in touch if you’d like to meet! 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🫶

🚨New Working Paper🚨 "Potato Potahto in the FAO-GAEZ Productivity Measures? Nonclassical Measurement Error with Multiple Proxies" by Rafael Araujo and Possebom Link: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12141

Helena Laneuville e eu escrevemos uma coluna na Folha a convite do Michael França. Nesse artigo, discutimos a literatura científica sobre quais políticas públicas são eficazes no combate à violência doméstica. www1.folha.uol.com.br/blogs/politica…

Here is Alice Evans lecture in Brazil. You gringos can jump to after her is presented in Portuguese, or enjoy our music-sounding Romance speech for a few minutes. youtube.com/live/AvupngvoT…

🧵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!

Em parceria com Helena Laneuville (sites.google.com/view/helenalan…), escrevemos um artigo no Nexo Jornal sobre como políticas públicas podem ajudar a combater violência doméstica. Também trazemos alguns dados sobre a prevalência desse problema no Brasil. Link: pp.nexojornal.com.br/opiniao/2025/0…

Governments invest a lot in public transit, but in developing countries transit is already privately provided. Examining how the private response shapes the impact of these investments, from Daniel Björkegren, Alice Duhaut, Geetika Nagpal, and Nick Tsivanidis nber.org/papers/w33899

#EconTwitter I am happy to share my new working paper, "Breakdown Analysis for Instrumental Variables with Binary Outcomes"!

Open position⚠️ Come join us in Zurich as a pre-doc/research assistant in a diverse team working on a number of research projects on public finance, political economy and social wellbeing in Tanzania, DRC, Ecuador and Chile. Applications here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/pre-do…

💡New Working Paper💡Nonlinear Treatment Effects in Shift-Share Designs with Luigi Garzon. Link: lnkd.in/ec_jCsSA Shift-share instruments are a widely used tool in Economics.

There are now so many papers in the thread — 73 of them! — that it’s become entirely unmanageable. I am starting a new thread here. Please consider sharing if you find economics interesting.

Is this a metaphor for something?

We thank Joao Garcia for presenting a seminar at the Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV). #economicsfgvsp #econtwitter

Much has been written about the trade-off between environmental protection and development. In the Amazon context, I’ve become more and more convinced that this trade-off is misleading.

In 1960, Brazil was receiving food aid from the US. Today, it is the world's bread basket. The key was creating a cutting-edge agriculture research institute, Embrapa – an icon of successful science policy that most people have never heard of. 🧵