Forthcoming article by Claudio Ferraz Frederico Finan and Mònica Martínez Bravo "Political Power, Elite Control, and Long-Run Development: Evidence from Brazil" EEA @OUPEconomics doi.org/10.1093/jeea/j…

"La propuesta del presidente Gustavo Petro de convocar una Asamblea Constituyente parece ser un caso más de la tentación populista", dice Pablo Querubin, profesor de política y economía de la Universidad de Nueva York, en nuestra revista #CartaFinanciera. Léalo aquí👉

🚨Job alert🚨Edoardo Teso and I are looking for a predoc, for 1 or 2 years, to start immediately. Work with us on political economy, economic history, and machine learning. Apply here: facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MTkzNA== PREDOC.org

Yesterday’s election in Venezuela is not over. A couple of key details that I think are important to remain vigilant about 🧵:

Amazing opportunity! NYU Politics Department is a wonderful place, apply!

My work on immigrant integration considers policies that either remove structural barriers to integration without imposing cultural ones or that make specific accommodations for cultural diversity Really happy to share a piece of this work AJPS onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

One happy family! 🎉 New economic sciences laureate James Robinson celebrates the news of his prize with his family, wife Maria Angélica Bautista and son Adrian. Listen to our interview with him, coming soon. #NobelPrize

James Robinson no solo es una mente brillante que junto a D.Acemoglu y S.Jhonson merecen este premio. J.Robinson es un ser bondadoso y generoso, ha sido mentor, colega, coautor de mucha gente de Colombia, siempre con un compromiso por que se fortalezca nuestra academia.

Reflecting on the honor of winning a Nobel Prize, Prof. James A. Robinson said Monday at his home: “It’s a little bit emotional. I’m super happy obviously, but very proud and honored,” Robinson said. “It hasn’t quite sunk in yet.”

In the early 2000s a group of friends (shout out Alvaro Riascos for making this happen) had ad online economics magazine (blog?) called Webpondo.org. One of my favorite sections was the one where we interviewed “big names”. 👇🏽

Jim Robinson was our first interview (thanks Michael Clemens for reminding me!). We interviewed Jim in 2002 with Leopoldo Fergusson and Pablo Querubin. Here is an excerpt of Jim’s thoughts about and agenda that was then just taking off…👇🏽

it's a good thing for everyone to tweet about how they were personally inspired by fancy award winners since it reminds us of the importance of community building and mentorship in research even among the most productive researchers

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 Excited to share that "Private response to exclusionary welfare policy: Evidence from Italian municipalities" is finally out in Journal of Public Economics! OPEN ACCESS at: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… A thread to summarize it for those interested 🧵(1/7) #econtwitter

Neural networks (e.g., LLMs) make often imperfect predictions, introducing biases into analyses that rely on them. Common empirical economics scenarios fall outside the existing literature on debiasing “black-box AI”. Our paper (with Jake Carlson) on robust and efficient