Reposting here for folks who left X permanently. So happy to see this paper finally published. And so cool that it found a home at @jpube.bsky.social ! This is paper summarizes what is perhaps the most policy relevant piece of research I’ve conducted so far. A 🧵:

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...

🆕 Climate change, natural resources, and conflict: Navigating a complex nexus Today on VoxDev, Oliver Vanden Eynde (@pse.bsky.social)‬ & @jvargas.bsky.social (Collegio Carlo Alberto) discuss how extreme weather and the green transition are reshaping global conflict: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Landmines: The local effects of demining" By Mouno Prem, Miguel E. Purroy, & @jvargas.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky

New paper out in @science.org! “Brain drain” or “brain gain”? Effects of high-skilled international emigration on origin countries doi.org/10.1126/scie...

I am keeping a diary of daily events, as they unfold open.substack.com/pub/adamprze... It is available to everyone. I am new to Substack, so please let me know if something is wrong with the link or the file.

This is a deeply stupid and offensive article. The @nytimes.com is failing to rise to the moment in spectacular fashion.

Los invito a leer mi Op Ed en El Tiempo (con Daniel Mejía y Andrés Rivera) que resume los resultados de un paper que estudia el efecto de los ceses al fuego decretados por el gobierno colombiano sobre los niveles de diferentes tipos de violencia. t.co/prKTktWwyl

Can’t think of a better choice.

This is great. Florian is an amazing colleague. 👏🏾👏🏾

Also my department. Follow us!

"The whole field of economics, or what used to be called political economy, was really founded by people who thought they should be telling other people what to do." This recent talk by Nobel laureate David Card at @rfberlin.bsky.social, on Immigration and Minimum Wages, is magisterial.

Crime economists: CAF-Development Bank of Latin America released this call for proposals to develop policy documents on organized crime in LAC: t.co/Rs0JYvjApm @jenniferdoleac.bsky.social

A thread about whether the global – and American – center-left needs a different kind of liberalism. These are thoughts triggered by Trump’s victory in the United States and the swing against mainstream incumbents in many other elections around the world.

Not every world leader pardons the hunter

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Krugman bets Bluesky is the new old Twitter. Let’s hope he is right.

Every 2 years, Collegio Carlo Alberto awards the Carlo Alberto Medal to the best Italian economist under 40 “for their outstanding contributions.” Nominations for the 2023 Medal are closing this Wed. Economists from all nationalities can nominate. Do it here: www.carloalberto.org/about/the-ca... !

“six hours worth of work on the writing–done by an outside nontechnical editor who probably didn’t fully understand the technical economics–led to economist-readers believing that the paper was of higher quality.” Lots of good specific advice at the end for how to improve writing.

Thinking is difficult! I made a post: open.substack.com/pub/rottenan...