The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

So Instacart showed different people different prices for eggs. Shocking? Before the outrage, ignore the Twitter press release. Look at what they actually found. Understand the facts and the economic theory to make sense of it www.economicforces.xyz/p/instacarts...

Olympia Bover has been appointed president of the Catalan Statistics Council www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Attending a session on the 50 years of the Simposio at the SAEe 2025 at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona to learn about how it and the Association were created

New evidence that short-term rentals--like those on Airbnb--increase neighborhood rodent infestations, traffic collisions, and crime.

VIII Premio TFG de la Asociación Española de Economía nadaesgratis.es/pedro-rey-bi... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

It has become received wisdom in Brussels and Washington that there is a new “euro-sclerosis”: that the EU economy is lagging the US This view is wrong A little primer on the measurement of productivity – and why reports of the economic death of Europe are greatly exaggerated🧵

Nada es Gratis pública al año unas 200 entradas sobre análisis económico con un rigor y claridad sin rival en España. Es un blog plural e independiente. Si lo piensas bien, es casi un milagro que exista. Y seguirá existiendo solo si personas como tú contribuis a ello. nadaesgratis.es/editores/por...

Update on JOE postings -- things are worse: paulgp.com/2025/12/10/q...

Si piensas que Nada es Gratis no se debería convertir en una especie en peligro de extinción, dona un importe, por modesto que sea. Estarás contribuyendo a un bien público

The ultra-rich escape taxation. Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population but fall sharply for billionaires and centi-millionaires.

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India" by Sarika Gupta. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

‪ With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga, we are happy to announce the CfPapers for the 4th edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on May 26-27, 2026 @uc3meconomics.bsky.social, Spain. Submit until February 1, 2026 on economig2026.sciencesconf.org

@nickbloom.bsky.social P Bunn @paulmizen.bsky.social P Smietanka, & G Thwaites estimate that by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6%-8%, w/ the impact accumulating gradually due to a combination of uncertainty, reduced demand, & misallocation of resources. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

NeG, la historia de un blog (parte II) nadaesgratis.es/admin/neg-la... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

NeG, la historia de un blog (parte I) nadaesgratis.es/admin/neg-la... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

🎓 CEMFI grads launch successful careers at the World Bank, IMF, ECB, KPMG, Santander, Oliver Wyman, Compass Lexecon, and top PhD programs like Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and LSE 👉 Learn more: cemfi.es/programs/mas... 🗓️ Applications deadline May 31, 2026

🎄 ¡Capítulo 3️⃣! 🖊️ @olgacanto.bsky.social y @elenacostas.bsky.social 🤱 Pobreza infantil 🔹 Con una de las tasas más altas de la UE, el sistema español de apoyos es insuficiente: poco impacto por baja generosidad y alto non take-up 🔹 IMV y CAPI son oportunidades: reforma, mayor cobertura y evaluación

🎄 Empieza el calendario de adviento de @ksnet.bsky.social! ¿Sabíais que hemos publicado un libro? 📘 "Diez políticas para una década. Evidencias para entender cómo ha cambiado España". Léelo en ksnet.eu/impactnet/ 📆 Os traemos el resumen de un capítulo cada día. ¡No os lo perdáis!

🗓️ 1/12/25 🕛 12:00h ⭕️ Presentamos junto a @BBVAresearch el Boletín no.15 del Observatorio Trimestral del Mercado de Trabajo. Contaremos con @samben8.bsky.social y Carmen Pagés Serra para hablar de cambios en la demanda de #empleo y el papel de la #FP. 📺 En DIRECTO www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTY...

The kids are Alt-right: la tolerancia de los jóvenes frente al autoritarismo nadaesgratis.es/cabrales/the... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

🚨 New working paper! How well do people predict the results of studies? @sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

New Working Paper! 📢 Read it here: cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2529....

China’s export machine is a wake-up call for other nations. But it requires targeted and separate responses for national security, innovation, and jobs—objectives that are too often conflated. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...

In this new working paper @yaninadomenella.bsky.social and I study how intensive support can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find jobs. Spoiler: it not only does but also significantly raises their well-being

How much does out-of-school learning influence foreign-language acquisition? Our new analysis shows that historical national decisions to subtitle imported TV content systematically result in a large positive effect on English-language skills. open.substack.com/pu...

There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries

Banco de España is hiring research economists on the academic jobmarket. Applications close on 16 November. #EconSky

Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil theconversation.com/the-unraveli...

Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption

The EU is running a tight race to the bottom with the US for fiscal insolvency. Here is a great summary of the situation, and how much fiscal adjustment is required by country: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

What limits agricultural mechanization in Africa? JMC Sophie Nottmeyer finds that digital monitoring reduces moral hazard between owners and operators in tractor rental markets in Kenya, improving spatial allocation and raising agricultural productivity. sophienottmeyer.github.io

How does after-school childcare affect children's human capital investment? JMC Sevin Kaytan finds that after-school childcare increases university graduation rates by reshaping children's beliefs and preferences through peer interactions in care centers sevinkaytan.com

La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

🚨Fascinating research alert 🚨 "This paper explores how the proportion of teenagers skipping school has changed following the COVID-19 pandemic across the developed world. We find that this problem is mainly confined to industrialised English-speaking nations, especially affecting teenage girls."

🎓 Thinking about grad studies in #Economics or #Finance? Applications to CEMFI’s Master and Doctoral programs open soon! 📅 Applications open Nov 11, 2025 💰 Funding deadline Jan 31, 2026 🕓 Final deadline May 31, 2026 👉 Learn more: www.cemfi.es/programs/mas... 📧 [email protected]

📢𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗝𝗣𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲! 📚It brings together research on: • Institutionalization and digitalization of evaluation • Employment and social protection policies • Care and gender equality • AI applied to evaluation 👉 polipapers.upv.es/index.php/jp...

Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...

Just out in the New York Times: My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o... @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com

New Working Paper! 📢 Read it here: www.cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2507....

How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ

Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball! This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers. paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...

Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church. doi.org/10.3368/jhr....

Rafael Repullo has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Málaga www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio nadaesgratis.es/admin/en-la-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

David Martinez-Miera & Carlos Sunyer examine how an increase in political polarisation impacts a region's capacity to attract human capital. They leverage Spain's centralised system of medical resident placements and the 2017 Catalonia referendum as a case study. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales. "Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."

Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵 www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 @cunef.bsky.social is hiring Assistant Professors in Economics and related fields. Application deadline: November 15 ⏰ More info: econjobmarket.org/positions/11... Apply to join one of Europe’s most dynamic Economics departments!

In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty. This increase starts before bills are signed into law. Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.