With PhD applications due soon, thousands of young people are currently beginning their statements of purpose with the same cliché story, or the same anodyne statement Stop right now! Here are 10 thoughts for doing this right. Helps you, and helps admissions committees.👇

A propósito de Gilinski y Éxito, les recomiendo esta charla. El Éxito, aún hoy, es parte integral del ecosistema empresarial antioqueño

🚨🎙️Are you interested in Chinese politics/history? You should watch this fascinating conversation I had with Yuhua Wang. Yuhua wrote a magnificent book that helps us understand the last 1,000 years of Chinese history youtu.be/vgZCP9QX8MM #China

Keep calm and shift-share on! shorturl.at/ftAYZ

Thrilled to share our revised job posting. We offer USD 700/month for part-time (15h/week) work in Bogota 🇨🇴. We mixed up per week vs per month compensation 🙃. It happens. We'll email applicants whose materials we've already received to let them know. Please RT the new post!

-Mijo, ¿cómo así que hay una tasa de desempleo (TD) neutral a la inflación? - Si Abuela, el último RML explica cómo se calcula la Nairu, TD para la cual no hay presión al alza sobre la inflación. Hoy la TD<Nairu, pero pronto esto se revertirá. -eh! que no hay mundo perfecto, ¿no?

🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨 Since Hobbes, we assume that the natural institutional design is one intended to suppress violence Here, my coauthors and I provide a theory and historical evidence that shows how societies can choose a design that accepts violence nber.org/papers/w31501

🔍 Empecé a publicar más a menudo por acá porque me apasiona compartir lo que se y porque creo que no hay muchos lugares en los que se pueda arrancar en ciencia de datos en español. Pronto les contaré de un proyecto muy lindo en el que he venido trabajando sobre eso.

Mañana están súper invitados 🤓🤓

¡Y llegó el día! Luego de trabajarle un tiempo –y dudar mucho si lanzarlo–, hoy te quiero contar sobre un proyecto que armamos con maria fernanda. ¿Quieres aprender, conectarte y participar en una comunidad de ciencia de datos? Te presento a EntornoData. 🧵👇🏻

Job! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

A quienes les interesa las causas y consecuencias de la violencia política, les recomiendo este podcast. Hablo de nuestro trabajo sobre los orígenes históricos de la rebelión en COL. Qué puede aprender LatAm de esto? Relevante para esta coyuntura de procesos de paz

My StanfordECHOLab group is hiring a Research Data Analysis (aka pre-doc) to work with us full time starting next summer. Our RAs are co-authors and treated as colleagues. Strong programming background in R or python is required. Plz apply or RT! careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/research-…

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A 🧵 of new #DiD stuff that came out this year. Just putting it here mostly for myself since bookmarks are becoming a mess: Paper 1 by Callway, Goodman-Bacon, Sant'Anna 2024a: Difference-in-differences with a Continuous Treatment nber.org/papers/w32117

El viernes es este evento gratuito con la role model de Stephanie Majerowicz. Nosotros andaremos por ahi apoyando y charlando sobre la Maestría en Políticas Públicas de Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad de los Andes. ¡Caigan!

Happy to see this paper out! Along with my coauthors, Erika Londoño and maria fernanda, we use a spatial RDD to show that isolation is one of the reasons why students in remote, rural schools, are behind. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to see this paper come out in JFE (free access link below). It studies cyclical fluctuations in life insurance lapsation and the implications for the (mis)pricing of the policies. authors.elsevier.com/a/1inFA,6wzydg…

In Colombia, students in rural schools perform worse on exams, & it’s partly explained by teacher characteristics. “Monetary incentives to teachers in difficult access areas fails to attenuate the isolation effect.” sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Research from Bonilla-Mejía and others

Thank you to all involved; it was a delight to be a part of this The Atlantic podcast. Jerusalem, the host, is one of these socratic-method-but-for-reals journalists, one who makes you think and know more from the kinds of probing, deeply thoughtful questions she asks 🙏🤲