Economist | Interested in macroeconomics and development economics
Heredia, Costa Rica
Joined July 2020
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Pablo Slon retweeted
🚨New @MigrantLife_ERC working paper with Hill Kulu! Q: Does the association between family formation and employment differ by gender and migration background in France? (1/8)
🔗: tinyurl.com/5n8ax2ef
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1/ Inverse Selection, new paper with @MarkusEconomist and Carlos Segura-Rodriguez.
With the advent of Big Data, AI and Machine Learning, should we think about standard screening models, eg. used for insurance or credit markets, differently?
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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The Nobel speeches are up. Check it out to hear Angrist, Card and Imbens speak. youtu.be/DV4IjRfjTs0
The FED has played a key role for recoveries after pandemic-induced dips by cutting borrowing costs according to NYT
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We are launching a brand new and joint PhD program between @LSEEcon and @LSEManagement. The program follows the Business Economics PhD programs model such as the @BerkeleyHaas or @HarvardHBS.
Full funding is guaranteed!
Please help us share the news. #EconTwitter
Call for Applications:
PhD Econ/Management at LSE
- Based at the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group
- First years joint with Econ Dpt
- Scholarships available
- Application deadline: 14 January 2022
#EconTwitter
More details here: lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Gradu…
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FRED has over 800,000 data series collected by over 100 sources, but also gives flexibility in showing the data. A Page One Economics Data Primer explains how choosing the right units can help you reveal the story behind the numbers ow.ly/vtbo50GTQiV
ALT A bar chart shows changes in population in San Diego County, California, and in the U.S. from 2015 to 2020
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A higher minimum wage can provide higher income for low-wage workers but also can reduce job opportunities for those workers. The latest Page One Economics essay looks at the possible effects of raising the minimum wage ow.ly/2owo50GCObV
ALT A line chart from the FRED database shows the real versus the nominal federal minimum hourly wage in the U.S. from 1947 through August 2021.
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Here is a link to a short blog post summarizing our research (with @JacopoMazza and @ABicakova) on the benefits of starting college during bad economic times 🙂
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Headlines today trumpet the record high number of job vacancies in the UK. Labor market tightness, though, is only just back to pre-pandemic levels. It's still early days, but the recent data can also be read as an outward shift of the Beveridge curve, which is never good news.
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Private consumption in India this Apr-Jun has fallen to the level 4-years ago, to Apr-Jun 2017-18. Excellent analysis by Gurbachan Singh shows by raising tax on oil (paid by all) & lowering corporate tax (paid by the rich) the cost of govt deficit is being shifted to the poor.
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Online sales reaching record highs - but still only 36% (and 42% for non food). Still some hope left for the high street?
The record proportion spent online was 36.1% in February 2021.
This is compared with 35.2% in January 2021 and 20.0% reported in February 2020 ow.ly/QraZ50E92gT
ALT Online retail reached a record proportion of total retail in February 2021 at 36.1%
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New working paper: Competition in Signaling
Link: arxiv.org/abs/2103.05317
Question: “How and how much information is revealed when two equally informed senders with conflicting interests provide advice to a decision maker?”
Comments are welcome! (1/12)
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“More advantaged families are better able to access and utilize programs, even when universally available. If there is one overarching conclusion from this study, it is that formal equality in access does not guarantee equality of opportunity.” bit.ly/30HnAr6 @nberpubs
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BREAKING NEWS:
The 2020 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to Paul R. Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson “for improvements to auction theory and inventions of new auction formats.”
#NobelPrize
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Mega exciting opportunity - fully funded PhD looking at @dmuleicester civic response to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Application deadline 19th October.
dmu.ac.uk/doctoral-college/s…
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I am surprised by the heterogeneity of views of European economic experts on the desirability of a dual mandate for central banks, i.e. output and inflation. (Question C in bit.ly/32YTHoc ) . To me, it is a no brainer.
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New UK monthly GDP figures out just today: GDP grew by 6.6% in July, continuing its 8.7% growth in June. However...
However, the UK economy is still 11.7% smaller than it was in February before the full impact of the #coronavirus pandemic hit ow.ly/vmrA50BnNXb
ALT Gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6.6% in July 2020, the third consecutive monthly increase, but it has still only recovered just over half of the lost output caused by the coronavirus.
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INEI, the statistical agency of Peru has released poverty maps for big cities (at the block level) that look like the Charles Booth's 1889 poverty map of London. Amazing job.
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Esta apreciación es claramente engañosa. Para hacer esta afirmación habría que calcular el R0 en un mundo contrafactual sin cierres ni restricciones de movilidad.
Antes de que me manden al carajo, ojo que la publicación tiene datos: Los cierres y las restricciones no sirvieron. Fuente: ccp.ucr.ac.cr/
