¿Jóvenes contra boomers? El debate está justificado: los datos muestran una brecha económica que no existía. Además, apuntan una causa de fondo: España no crece como antes. Cuatro gráficos para entender la tensión generacional 👇

Josep Pijoan-Mas has been awarded a research grant from the "la Caixa" Foundation www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

Homenaje a Javier Andrés nadaesgratis.es/javier-ferri... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Macro Recruiting Intensity from Micro Data" by Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Imagine all cars were electric, and then one Volkswagen engineer comes up with another idea … #EMobility

Habéis convertido Nada es Gratis en una basura nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

During the European #energy crisis, Spain & Portugal intervened directly in the wholesale market, decoupling electricity prices from gas. This lowered consumer bills, with little impact on public funds. N Fabra, @clmtleblanc.bsky.social @mateus-souza.bsky.social‬ cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

Banco de España, UC3M and CEMFI organize the 1st Madrid Mountain Macro Conference (MMM) www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Si se bajan los impuestos a los dividendos, ¿aumentará la inversión empresarial? Sobre esto escribo en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social, resumiendo un artículo de #Laurent_Bach, @antoine-bozio.bsky.social, @leroyclaire.bsky.social y coautores. Link al paper: parisschoolofeconomics.com/bozio-antoin...

The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.

Los peligros de confundir correlación con causalidad nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

whaaaat!? that's so cool! literally just: weird_trick = D * X iv_robust(weird_trick ~ D | Z) to get the mean of X among compliers!

Desgraciadamente, importantes partidos y medios de comunicación continúan dando eco y espacio a la idea de que la inmigración trae crimen. ¿Pero qué dice la evidencia? A esto respondo en mi nueva entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san...

I'm putting together a talk on a new applied micro paper, and I'm reminded that (I believe) it's very hard to outperform the structure proposed in this piece by Jesse Shapiro. shapiro.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

Víctor Sancibrián selected for the REStud North American Tour 2025 www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Palestina: la rentabilidad de un genocidio (II) nadaesgratis.es/hugo-rodrigu... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

The error that Borges exposed should be fully investigated so that the security holes can be patched. Or just get rid of the whistleblower . . .

📢 #CallForPapers To honour the memory of Ghazala Azmat, the Economics Department of SciencesPo is creating an award in her name. Junior researchers can submit a paper in economics of discrimination, gender, education & organizational #economics. Submit by 31 August. cepr.org/events/ghaza... #EconSky

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

Check out the new article "Expertise" by @davidautor.bsky.social and Neil Thompson @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

We have a new paper on the overstated effects of conventional monetary policy on output and prices. Results reported in the literature are plagued by p-hacking and publication bias, leading to inflated effect sizes of how interest rate hikes affect output and prices.

To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1D_Sv...

NEW: How aggregate and idiosyncratic shocks affect household income dynamics. 📗 Read @manoloarellano.bsky.social, Martín Almuzara, @richardblundell.bsky.social and Stéphane Bonhomme's new cemmap working paper: ifs.org.uk/publications... #econsky

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

He was also a fantastic teacher

Nobel prize winner George Akerlof (my former colleague) on the firing of statistics officials: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/03/o...

📢 Novedades para investigadores: ¿quieres analizar la evolución de los tipos de interés y de la estructura de balance de las Instituciones Financieras Monetarias españolas? Ya puedes realizar tu proyecto de investigación en el #BELab 👉 www.bde.es/wbe/es/para-... #bdeEstadísticas

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Christian Dustmann, Chiara Giannetto, Lorenzo Incoronato, @chiaralac.bsky.social, Vincenzo Pezone, Raffaele Saggio and @schoefer.bsky.social present micro-empirical evidence on the effects of wage-setting decentralization. 🧵👇

Forthcoming in the AER: "Consistent Evidence on Duration Dependence of Price Changes" by Fernando Alvarez, Katarína Borovičková, and Robert Shimer. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Gender Gaps in Access to Medical Intern Positions: The Role of Competition" by Marina Diez-Rituerto, Javier Gardeazabal, Nagore Iriberri, and Pedro Rey-Biel www.journals.uchicag... #EconSky

I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/

Daniela Solá shows that Pentecostal expansion in #Brazil driven by the Summer Institute of Linguistics - a 20th century US evangelical organisation focused on Bible translations - increased electoral support for evangelical and #far-right candidates. cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky

“La inmigración para España ya no es opción, sino necesidad” www.lavanguardia.com/lacontra/202...

En @nadaesgratis.bsky.social contribuimos al debate sobre políticas públicas con análisis rigurosos. Y hablamos de muchísimas cosas: Vivienda, educación, inmigración, política monetaria... y ahora nos vamos de vacaciones para cargar pilas. El resumen del año aquí: nadaesgratis.es/editores/par...

Congratulations to David Lopez-Salido, CEMFI PhD alumnus, for being appointed Director General of Economics at the Banco de España! www.bde.es/f/webbe/GAP/...

🔊CALL FOR PAPERS - EXTENSION OF DEADLINE🔊 SERIEs still welcomes submissions to the Special Issue on Randomized Impact Evaluation of Social Inclusion Policies in Spain - NEW deadline for manuscript submissions: ⭐30 September 2025⭐ link.springer.com/journal/1320...

¿A dónde miraría yo? A políticas que nos ayuden a mejorar la productividad y la empleabilidad del 50% que menos gana de nuestros trabajadores. Por ejemplo, por qué no: a invertir más dinero en FP, especialmente en el modelo dual, que ha mostrado beneficios interesantes.

This course is a unique opportunity to explore some of the key themes of 21st-century econometrics, led by a preeminent expert in the field.

Porque hoy es martes nadaesgratis.es/jordi-paniag... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

CALL FOR PAPERS Ghazala Azmat Award SciencesPo, Paris, France ⚠️ Paper submission deadline: 31 August 2025 ⚠️ cepr.org/events/ghaza...

Many congratulations @yaninadomenella.bsky.social!

CEMFI, together with the Bank of Spain and the UIMP, organised the 4th Conference on the Spanish Economy www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

❓Why do the Nordics & Dutch speak English so much better than the Germans, Italians & French? ➡️ New Working Paper: Out-of-School Learning: Subtitling vs. Dubbing and the Acquisition of Foreign-Language Skills w/ F. Baumeister & E. Hanushek www.nber.org/papers/w33984 A 🧵 1/12

¿Pueden las instituciones cambiar el comportamiento de los padres? Evidencia de la Reforma del Permiso de Paternidad en España nadaesgratis.es/libertad-gon... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

An international call for action just got louder: Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally 🧵 www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

My 14yo nephew asked me for a good book to read about economics. Any suggestions of approachable books that introduce the idea of economics to the general public? #econsky

La AIReF lanza “AIReF Divulga”, un nuevo espacio en su web para acercar la economía a todos los públicos www.airef.es/es/noticias/...

Olympia Bover has been awarded with AEET Award in Labor Economics 2025 www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...