Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile
Leonardo Maldonado

@ljmaldon

🇻🇪 | PhD @UMNews. STC @WorldBank. Interested in development policy, natural resource economics, and remote sensing.

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Luis Felipe López-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One in five people living in the European Union is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. Although monetary poverty risks are comparable across countries, there are important variations in multidimensional poverty trends, particularly in the incidence of non-monetary

One in five people living in the European Union is at risk of poverty or social exclusion.
 
Although monetary poverty risks are comparable across countries, there are important variations in multidimensional poverty trends, particularly in the incidence of non-monetary
Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🇻🇪 Nueva entrevista! Agradecido con OJO CON ESO TV 👀 #OCETV por la producción y José Manuel Serna por la invitación a su programa Inteligencia Económica. Conversamos sobre varios temas para Venezuela youtu.be/TwWrkvV9tvI

Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 I’m truly happy to share that my paper ‘Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse’ was accepted to be presented at the IARIW-World Bank Special Conference on Improving Well-Being Measurement in Data-Challenged Environments in Developing Countries for

🚨 I’m truly happy to share that my paper ‘Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse’ was accepted to be presented at the IARIW-World Bank Special Conference on Improving Well-Being Measurement in Data-Challenged Environments in Developing Countries for
Physics In History (@physinhistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The 2025 Abel Prize is awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician from Kyoto University, on March 26, 2025. He receives this prestigious award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," for his groundbreaking work in algebraic analysis and representation theory.

The 2025 Abel Prize is awarded to Masaki Kashiwara, a Japanese mathematician from Kyoto University, on March 26, 2025. He receives this prestigious award, often called the "Nobel Prize of Mathematics," for his groundbreaking work in algebraic analysis and representation theory.
Leonardo Vera (@leonardovera60) 's Twitter Profile Photo

En esta conversación en línea, estaremos brindando, junto a otros distinguidos académicos, nuestra lectura profesional sobre los eventos que han venido desatándose en el mercado cambiario en Venezuela.

En esta conversación en línea, estaremos brindando, junto a otros distinguidos académicos, nuestra lectura profesional sobre los eventos que han venido desatándose en el mercado cambiario en Venezuela.
Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Excited to share more good news! My paper 'Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse' was also accepted for presentation at the 11th Ecineq Conference, July 9-11, 2025, in Washington, D.C., co-hosted by World Bank and GW University. Honored to have this

🚨Excited to share more good news! My paper 'Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse' was also accepted for presentation at the 11th <a href="/ecineq/">Ecineq</a> Conference, July 9-11, 2025, in Washington, D.C., co-hosted by <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> and <a href="/GWtweets/">GW University</a>. Honored to have this
Peseteiro (@jpeseteirodt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

LA VINOTINTO SUB17 EMPATÓ CON URUGUAY Y SELLA SU CLASIFICACIÓN AL MUNDIAL. 🇻🇪 Segunda clasificación al Hilo para Venezuela en mundial de esta categoría. Hace algunos años esto era algo impensable. LOS CHAMOS DE VIZCARRONDO AL MUNDIAL. 🚬

LA VINOTINTO SUB17 EMPATÓ CON URUGUAY Y SELLA SU CLASIFICACIÓN AL MUNDIAL. 🇻🇪

Segunda clasificación al Hilo para Venezuela en mundial de esta categoría.

Hace algunos años esto era algo impensable.

LOS CHAMOS DE VIZCARRONDO AL MUNDIAL. 🚬
Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thanks so much David Evans for sharing my work! Honored to see this research on rural poverty in Venezuela being read and discussed. Using nighttime lights and gridded population data, I estimate rural poverty at municipal and state levels from 2000 to 2020.

UMN Economics (@umn_econ) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We are sad to announce that former faculty member and Minnesota Econ Ph.D. alum Patrick Bajari passed away on Monday. He will be deeply missed by all of his friends and colleagues. cla.umn.edu/economics/news…

Luis Felipe López-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

As we mark #InternationalLaborDay, I invite you to explore our newly released World Bank brief: "Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Jobs Update: Insights from Labor Force Surveys". Jobs constitute the primary mechanism for poverty reduction. In Latin America, jobs

As we mark #InternationalLaborDay, I invite you to explore our newly released <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> brief: "Latin America and the Caribbean Regional Jobs Update: Insights from Labor Force Surveys".
 
Jobs constitute the primary mechanism for poverty reduction. In Latin America, jobs
Luis Felipe López-Calva (@lflopezcalva) 's Twitter Profile Photo

People living in poverty are disproportionately settled in hazard-prone areas increasing their exposure to natural disasters. In addition, their lack of assets contributes to their vulnerability to shocks. This World Bank Policy Research Working Paper “Climate Risk and Poverty

People living in poverty are disproportionately settled in hazard-prone areas increasing their exposure to natural disasters.

In addition, their lack of assets contributes to their vulnerability to shocks.

This <a href="/WorldBank/">World Bank</a> Policy Research Working Paper “Climate Risk and Poverty
Joaquin Navajas (@joaconavajas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

¿Cuántos sesgos tenemos las personas? ¿Son infinitos? ¿Son todos distintos? ¿Todos son malos? Sobre esto, y cómo clasificar nuestros errores de razonamiento, escribí esta nota para #AlterEco LA NACION. lanacion.com.ar/economia/sesgo…

John B. Holbein (@johnholbein1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Researchers: need a pick-me-up? Check out the Stata package MOTIVATE; it gives you motivational quotes to inspire you while coding. And while you're at it, check out the DEMOTIVATE package too. :)

Researchers: need a pick-me-up?

Check out the <a href="/Stata/">Stata</a> package MOTIVATE; it gives you  motivational quotes to inspire you while coding.

And while you're at it, check out the DEMOTIVATE package too. :)
World Bank (@worldbank) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To create jobs, people need more than opportunity—they need health, education, training, and energy. From investing in nutrition to connecting millions to electricity, see how the World Bank Group is addressing the job creation challenge. wrld.bg/9jQZ50Wb7Rm

Leonardo Maldonado (@ljmaldon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨🇻🇪 Updated to May 2025: personal project on nighttime lights and % of lit area in Venezuela (country, state, municipal & parish levels), built with open satellite data for territorial analysis. leonardojmaldonado.com/project-1

🚨🇻🇪 Updated to May 2025: personal project on nighttime lights and % of lit area in Venezuela (country, state, municipal &amp; parish levels), built with open satellite data for territorial analysis. leonardojmaldonado.com/project-1
Ceteris Paribus Penn Podcast (@penn_ceteris) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Nuevo episodio de Ceteris Paribus: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde Jesús Fernández-Villaverde analiza la ineficacia de las sanciones petroleras, la geoeconomía del crudo y quién gana (y quién pierde) en el nuevo orden global. 🎧 Ya disponible en Spotify y YouTube.

Nuevo episodio de Ceteris Paribus: Jesús Fernández-Villaverde <a href="/JesusFerna7026/">Jesús Fernández-Villaverde</a> analiza la ineficacia de las sanciones petroleras, la geoeconomía del crudo y quién gana (y quién pierde) en el nuevo orden global.

🎧 Ya disponible en Spotify y YouTube.