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.

Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Documento Ocasional: “¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados" www.bde.es/wbe/es/publi... #bdePublicaciones

CEMFI is inviting applications for several positions at the Associate and Assistant Professors Level www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

¡Muchas gracias, Antonio! Estoy abrumado por un texto tan cariñoso de un gran amigo

Studying how exposure to scientific research in university laboratories influences students’ pursuit of careers in science, from Ina Ganguli and Raviv Murciano-Goroff www.nber.org/papers/w34244

⭐Este 21 de octubre organizamos en @cunef.bsky.social un taller sobre cooperación al desarrollo basada en evidencia para reflexionar sobre las necesidades de evaluación en la cooperación al desarrollo española y explorar vías de colaboración entre academia y agentes de cooperación. 1/N

Premio Nobel de Economía 2025: La innovación como motor del crecimiento económico nadaesgratis.es/admin/premio... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

This new QJE paper finds: excessive mobile app use among the youth is contagious and costly. Roommates’ app use boosts your own. Heavy app users get lower Grade Point Averages, earn less, sleep less, skip more class. Extending gaming limits to college students could raise wages.

🚀 La setmana passada vam firmar un conveni amb @j-paleurope.bsky.social, l’organització impulsada pel Premi Nobel d’Economia 2019 Abhijit Banerjee, per col·laborar en l’avaluació rigorosa de les polítiques socials.

#QJE Nov 2025, #2, “Distributional Growth Accounting: Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019,” by Amory Gethin: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

El Banco de España abre sus puertas con una propuesta única: explorar su emblemática sede de Cibeles. Descubre como el arte y la arquitectura reflejan nuestra historia económica 🎨 🏦 www.bde.es/wbe/es/notic... #bdeBlog #bdePuertasAbiertas

The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura... Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?

A broad shift to electric vehicles, which are quieter than traditional vehicles, could yield noise reduction benefits of $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families, from Enrico Moretti and Harrison Wheeler https://www.nber.org/papers/w34298

I am really grateful to Cemfi for organizing this workshop and in particular to all the organizers, participants, and attendants. It was a high quality scientific event, full of warmth and fun. It was wonderful to get together with so many good friends

I tried this on a manuscript—I’m impressed! It flagged: - A missing variable in a first-order condition - An outdated manual calc (“drop from X to Y is not Z%”) - Inconsistent notation - Miscellaneous typos (“and and”, “+ +”) - Missing subscripts - Several unclear passages

Research active faculty teach classes that are significantly closer to the knowledge frontier.

Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work?

📢 Out now: “Gender Equality in a Changing World” Key topics covered: ✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care ✅ Addressing gender-based violence ✅ The digital and green transitions Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag

Congratulations, Ivan!

¿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...