With J. Orozco (a brilliant graduate student at @fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social). 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...

With @sebafossati.bsky.social and @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime. Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you all for having me!

📣 Se busca asistente de investigación para mi Fondecyt Iniciación sobre movilidad, comercio y crimen 🚍🚔🇨🇱 🧑‍💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python. 🚫 No es excluyente ser economista. 🧑‍🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la @fenuah.bsky.social. 📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.

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See you in Berlin! 🇩🇪 #UEA2025

¡Grande Joaquín! And congrats to @wfueconomics.bsky.social on this outstanding hire!

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🎓📊 ¡Te invitamos a las Jornadas de Economía del Magíster en Economía UAH! 🌍📈 🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre. 🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs. 📍 Aula Magna. Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos. 🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM

📰 CARTA AL DIRECTOR | @carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social Director del Magíster en Economía FEN-UAH, nos presenta "El costo del crimen", en @latercera.com .

Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper to our 2025 European meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin is December 9th. Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

Call for papers! 6th annual Chicago-LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, in Chicago, May 8-9, 2025. Submission deadline Jan. 10: bit.ly/3V5VySA . Tell your friends! #EconSky

New article by Sophie Martens and me in the British Journal of Criminology, exploring perceptions of safety among prisoners in England & Wales and Norway, and how they differ. academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

My Op-Ed in @nytimes.com on why & how immigration detention is extremely harmful for child development. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/o...

Reviewing recent quantitative urban models, from Stephen J. Redding https://www.nber.org/papers/w33130

Nice discussion with @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social about how worthless is atheoretical research in developmental psychology bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes Rings a bell to criminology... www.fourbeers.com/114

Regression is a tool for making comparisons If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running

I put together a quick starter pack of people working on crime! Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed!

A great thing about OpenBook publishers is that we could publish a second edition of our book within 7 months after the 1st edition. So here we are: A second edition (quite improved!) of our book is available for free downloading at arielrubinstein.org/gt/arielDocs....

Candidates and employers: this year, the #EuropeanJobMarketforEconomists will experiment with a signaling function. Make use of it! And don't forget you still have AEA signals! x.com/EEANews/stat...

Hi @bsky.app!