📣 Submit your paper to the Leibniz Open Science Day! I will be there to talk about our recent experience with replicating Ciacci (2024) about impacts of the Swedish legislation that banned sex purchases. Call for papers: www.zbw.eu/de/ueber-uns...

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! We study how international migration affects well-being over time, using European data & an economic valuation approach. Published in Journal of Happiness Studies, with Leonidas Hernandez, Diana Romero Espinosa & Francisco Rowe. 📄 doi.org/10.1007/s10902…

EALE @eale-office.bsky.social is now on Bluesky. Let’s give it a warm welcome! #EconSky 📉📈

Call for papers: The Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime - one of the best conferences in this area - will be held in Berlin, Sep 26-27. ** Deadline for paper submissions: May 2 ** bit.ly/4183vJ8

👏 Good news for researchers working with Swedish register data and who want their research to be reproducible 👉 If you include in your ethics application/research plan that replication may be part of the project, then external replicators (e.g. data editors) can be given access to the data!

🎉 Happy to share my first PhD research publication "Socioeconomic Well-Being in the Face of Commodity Price Shocks: Evidence from Chile" forthcoming in the Journal of Development Studies! Read here doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Deadline feb 15 for applying to the PhD program in Economics at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden www.nationalekonomi.se/wp-content/u...

Last week finished my PhD research visit to the @vuamsterdam.bsky.social, hosted by the Spatial Economics Department. I am deeply grateful to the university, the department, and specially to Steven Poelhekke for the kind invitation and warm hospitality.

I've decided to collect my DiD materials in a single place. psantanna.com/did-resources There, you will find - 14 lectures of my comprehensive DiD course - Shorter lectures/talks I have given on DiD - My DiD R/Stata/Python packages - Some DiD checklists - DiD materials from my friends Enjoy!

First R&R of 2025 🍾🎊

Our department continues to grow. Today we are extremely happy to welcome our new post doc Erwan Dujeancourt! Erwan has been granted a three-year Wallander Scholarship by Handelsbankens Research Foundation. More about Erwan and his fascinating research here sites.google.com/view/erwandu...

#econsky an unusual but cool way to get our research off the pdf format. Watch if interested in urban conflict and ways to prevent recruitment by gangs.

Happy to have attended the 8th CEnSe workshop these last two days!! The presentations were very interesting. Grateful for the opportunity to learn and share ideas with amazing researchers !! @sebaritter.bsky.social @mariaabreu.bsky.social @carolinaguinesi.bsky.social @dariadenti.bsky.social

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Heterogeneous Impacts of Sentencing Decisions" by Andrew Jordan, Ezra Karger, and Derek Neal www.journals.uchicag... @ChicagoJournals #EconSky

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More good publication news! Congratulations to @hansgronqvist.bsky.social for having their paper "The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration" (with Susan Niknami, Mårten Palme and Mikael Priks) accepted for publication in The Economic Journal! 🎉

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Thrilled to share that my paper “Spatial Diffusion of Local Economic Shocks in Social Networks: Evidence from the US Fracking Boom” was accepted at JOLE earlier this year. Full article here👉 doi.org/10.1086/732300. A short 🧵 below - my first on 🦋! @jlaborecon.bsky.social @sofi.su.se #econsky 1/7

New Working Paper! "How Early Career Choices Adjust to Economic Crises" by Julien Grenet, @hansgronqvist.bsky.social, Edvin Hertegård, Martin Nybom and Jan Stuhler: ekonomihogskolan.lnu.se/vxesta/24-13...

On #DayForTheEliminationOfViolenceAgainstWomen, our research shows that women’s income in rural Colombia (2009–2013) reduces domestic violence in most sectors, except services. Education & local economic growth also help lower violence. ideas.repec.org/a/taf/femeco...

Episode 84: Emily Nix on Violence Against Women at Work. #EconSky Listen now at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

PhD students - look here! 👉 In the spring, our department will give a PhD course on Equality of Opportunity. The course is open to any PhD students in Economics and free of charge! Schedule allows for commute from e.g. Stockholm-Uppsala, Gothenburg and Copenhagen-Lund. Apply and/or spread the word!

Last week, two new, very complementary chapters by Steve Redding outlined pretty much everything you need to know about Quantitative Urban Economics (QUE) and Spatial Economics (SE) today. They even have citations to papers not yet to be out! www.nber.org/papers/w33130 www.nber.org/papers/w33125

Interested following the people behind Spatial Economic Analysis? This is our starter pack (which will be continuously updated): go.bsky.app/8gDLPXT

Applications are open for our 2025 Graduate Student Summer Associate Program, a paid internship that pairs students with RAND mentors to collaborate on research projects. 🗓️ Apply by December 2. www.rand.org/jobs/summer-...

Happy to present this Thursday at the spatial economics department seminar at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social my work with Jonna Rickardsson about the labor markets effects of mining activity in Sweden.

Teaching, the noble act of passing knowledge to hungry minds

I created a starter pack of Economics Journals, but how can I remove myself from the pack 😅? #EconSky 📉📈 go.bsky.app/3HgLqsU

The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Newbie to Bluesky? This finder has helped to find folks who I was following on Twitter. Very useful. Hope you find it helpful too: bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

It took us three years to build up a community on X. Please help us find our community here, too 🤗 #academia

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

🚨📜I am excited to share my Job Market Paper, where I study the effects of youth clubs on education and crime. The paper highlights the broader value of after-school activities and the potential benefits of public provision. 1/10

Our work on artisanal gold mining (#ASgM) is conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal! ASgM provides livelihoods for 130-270 million people. We assembled new data to estimate its (large) deforestation footprint. 🎇 📈📉 🌳 novafrica.org/wp-content/u...

My (draft) starter pack for my Topics in Regional and Urban Economics module (that one day will exist!) 🙏flag more to add, I know I'm missing loads go.bsky.app/LHQB6NW

Episode 83: Santiago Tobón on the Governance Provided by Organised Criminal Groups. #EconSky Listen now at: www.thevisiblehand.uk/episodes/epi...

I now closed twitter for good. Please help me connect :)! Researcher here working at the intersection of educ & crime, polisci & econ trained!

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Understanding the Effects of Granting Work Permits to Undocumented Immigrants" by Ferran Elias, Joan Monras, and Javier Vazquez-Grenno www.journals.uchicag... @ChicagoJournals #EconSky

To all the new #EconSky people whi may be dealing with the Econ Job Market: *There is an #EconJMP feed *I have a PhD Job Market Starter Pack go.bsky.app/4icnwxi. If you are a candidate or an institution posting *many* openings, reach out and I will add you.

BlueSky migrants. Starter packs are a great way to meet new people. I like feeds. They are a really useful way to get information. Here are a few nice ones #EconSky #EnergySky #GreenSky #AcademicSky. When you mention a feed, your post automatically appears there.

Exciting News! 📢 I am happy to share a new working paper, "Spatial Diffusion of Economic Shocks in the Labor Market: Evidence from a Mining Boom and Bust". Joint work with Jonna Rickardsson. Please feel free to read the full paper here: doi.org/10.31219/osf.i…