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Labor economist at Cemfi
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Michael Clemens
6 days ago
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paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas.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...
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Brian Albrecht
7 days ago
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...
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Instacart's price discrimination isn't price discrimination
On the meaning of price discrimination
https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/instacarts-price-discrimination-isnt
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CEMFI
6 days ago
Olympia Bover has been appointed president of the Catalan Statistics Council
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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
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John Holbein
10 days ago
New evidence that short-term rentals--like those on Airbnb--increase neighborhood rodent infestations, traffic collisions, and crime.
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Nada es Gratis
9 days ago
VIII Premio TFG de la Asociación Española de Economía
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VIII Premio TFG de la Asociación Española de Economía
Por Ana I. Moro-Egido (@anaimoro) y Pedro Rey Biel (@pedroreybiel) Como en años anteriores (aquí y aquí), escribimos estas líneas mientras preparamos nuestra asistencia al Simposio de la Asociación E...
https://nadaesgratis.es/pedro-rey-biel/viii-premio-tfg-de-la-asociacion-espanola-de-economia
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Gabriel Zucman
12 days ago
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🧵
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Santiago Sanchez-Pages
12 days ago
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.
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Porque Nada es Gratis
Junta Directiva (Antonia Díaz, José Penalva, José Luis Ferreira y Beatriz González López-Valcárcel) y equipo editorial (Cristina Bellés, Andreu Arenas, Jordi Paniagua, Luis Puch y Santiago Sánchez-Pag...
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
14 days ago
Update on JOE postings -- things are worse:
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Economics Job Market Update: December 2025 - Still Very Bad
https://paulgp.com/2025/12/10/quick-update.html
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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
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Philipp Heimberger
13 days ago
The ultra-rich escape taxation. Effective income tax rates climb steadily for most of the population but fall sharply for billionaires and centi-millionaires.
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AEA Journals
13 days ago
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.
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Perils of the Paperwork: The Impact of Information and Application Assistance on Social Benefit Take-Up in India
(Forthcoming Article) - Governments worldwide administer social programs for vulnerable groups, yet many eligible citizens fail to benefit. This paper studies barriers to take-up of an unconditional c...
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20240212&from=f
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Joël Machado
about 1 month ago
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
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VoxEU @ CEPR
19 days ago
@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...
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Nada es Gratis
19 days ago
NeG, la historia de un blog (parte II)
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NeG, la historia de un blog (parte II)
Por Andreu Orestes @AndreuOrestes En la primera parte de esta entrada sobre la historia de Nada es Gratis me centré en explicar brevemente el análisis que había hecho con técnicas de análisis textu...
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Nada es Gratis
20 days ago
NeG, la historia de un blog (parte I)
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NeG, la historia de un blog (parte I)
Por Andreu Orestes @AndreuOrestes El 16 de junio de 2009, un reducido grupo de académicos interesados en la economía española puso en marcha lo que después se convertiría seguramente en el blog de ec...
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CEMFI
22 days ago
🎓 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
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KSNET
23 days ago
🎄 ¡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
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KSNET
28 days ago
🎄 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!
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KSNET Knowledge Sharing Network - ImpactNET
En ImpactNET centralizamos las actividades de divulgación de KSNET. Para ello, utilizamos distintos canales como conversaciones, debates y reflexiones de
https://ksnet.eu/impactnet/
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Fedea
28 days ago
🗓️ 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
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Presentación Observatorio Trimestral del Mercado de Trabajo 2025-T3
YouTube video by socialfedea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwTYOpAcTys
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Nada es Gratis
29 days ago
The kids are Alt-right: la tolerancia de los jóvenes frente al autoritarismo
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The kids are Alt-right: la tolerancia de los jóvenes frente al autoritarismo
El jueves me desperté con una noticia muy triste: una cuarta parte de los jóvenes ve preferible en determinadas circunstancias un régimen autoritario. Y buscando un poco en la literatura, me doy cuent...
https://nadaesgratis.es/cabrales/the-kids-are-alt-right-la-tolerancia-de-los-jovenes-frente-al-autoritarismo
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Eva Vivalt
30 days ago
🚨 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.... 🧵👇
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CEMFI
about 1 month ago
New Working Paper! 📢 Read it here:
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Dani Rodrik
about 1 month ago
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.
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How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/chinese-economy-manufacturing-exports-how-others-should-respond-by-dani-rodrik-2025-11
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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
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CRC Rationality & Competition
about 1 month ago
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.
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Our World in Data
about 1 month ago
There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
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Rolf Campos
about 1 month ago
Banco de España is hiring research economists on the academic jobmarket. Applications close on 16 November.
#EconSky
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Dani Rodrik
about 2 months ago
Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil
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The unraveling of workplace protections for delivery drivers: A tale of 2 workplace models
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
https://theconversation.com/the-unraveling-of-workplace-protections-for-delivery-drivers-a-tale-of-2-workplace-models-268164
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Our World in Data
about 2 months ago
Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption
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Jonathan A. Parker
about 2 months ago
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:
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CEMFI
about 2 months ago
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
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CEMFI
about 2 months ago
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
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Nada es Gratis
about 2 months ago
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española
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La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española
Por: Jorge García Hombrados y María Hernández-de-Benito En Nada es Gratis hemos hablado muchas veces de cómo la economía, más allá de los precios, los mercados o los tipos de interés, sirve para en...
https://nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia/la-economia-del-desarrollo-se-hace-un-hueco-en-la-academia-espanola
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Joshua Goodman
about 2 months ago
🚨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."
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CEMFI
about 2 months ago
🎓 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...
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[email protected]
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KSNET
about 2 months ago
📢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 👉
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Dani Rodrik
about 2 months ago
Official publication day
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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate|Hardcover
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s...
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-prosperity-in-a-fractured-world-dani-rodrik/1147215491?ean=9780691268316
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Maximilian Kasy
about 2 months ago
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...
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Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/opinion/ai-privacy.html
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CEMFI
about 2 months ago
New Working Paper! 📢 Read it here:
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Quantitative Economics
about 2 months ago
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
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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham
about 2 months ago
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...
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Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
https://paulgp.com/econlit-pipeline/index.html
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The JHR
about 2 months ago
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....
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CEMFI
about 2 months ago
Rafael Repullo has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Málaga
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Nada es Gratis
about 2 months ago
¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio
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¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio
Por Javier Adrián López Artero (Universidad de Alicante), Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano (Universidad de Alicante y Universidad de Valencia) y Daniela Vuri (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) En las últimas dé...
https://nadaesgratis.es/admin/en-la-salud-y-en-la-enfermedad-cuando-los-problemas-de-salud-ponen-a-prueba-el-matrimonio
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VoxEU @ CEPR
about 2 months ago
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...
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John Holbein
about 2 months ago
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."
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Corinne Low
about 2 months ago
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...
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Miguel Almunia
3 months ago
🚨 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!
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John Holbein
2 months ago
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.
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