If you missed the VDEV seminar on my work with María Hernández-de-Benito on Female Firstborn and Family Structure, you can watch it here cepr.org/multimedia/vde… via CEPR , Georgetown Center for Economic Research

🫵Nice chat, indeed. It was the best Econometrics Therapy Session I could have hoped for.

Thank you, Jeffrey Wooldridge, for this super-productive conversation on selection issues in panel regressions, treatment reversals under individual heterogeneity, and computational issues for

Just back from NBER Political Economy (& Cultural Econ) meeting. Always very energizing for me. Got several young APs asking about outlook for the field & PE job market. 1/N

Thanks again for the invitation! I had a wonderful time with such smart and kind researchers. I’m energized! #TXDV

Manuela Angelucci Danila Serra Raissa Fabregas Rossella Calvi

Thrilled to have this out in print🎉 Original paper thread: x.com/EmilyNix100/st…

The paper is much improved since then with exciting new analysis added, so please check out the published version:)

In the meantime, busy working on related follow-up work. More coming soon!

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Hermoso paper
Las conexiones familiares impactan negativamente el desempeño gubernamental. A pesar de la legislación antinepotismo, los burócratas conectados todavía reciben salarios y ascensos más altos, lo que indica una eficacia limitada de estas leyes.

I got to attend Juan Felipe Riaño (@Georgetown) presentation 'Bureaucratic Nepotism' at the Inter-American Development Bank . This paper addresses the key question of how Nepotism works in the public sector in a systematic way using data from Colombia. A thread.
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Today (Monday) at 12 PM EST Juan Felipe Riaño (@Georgetown University) will present his paper 'Bureaucratic Nepotism' at the Inter-American Development Bank Research Department's EconNet seminar. Join us at: events.iadb.org/calendar/event…

Don't miss the new UPPER Policy Brief about Political Polarization in Latin America (upperesearch.org/policy-briefs/). Horacio Larreguy and Ernesto Tiburcio draw lessons for Latin America from US experience. #PoliticalEconomy Filipe Campante Matias Iaryczower

Program for the NBER POL program Spring meeting of April 19th nber.org/conferences/po…
organized by Raquel Fernandez & Nathan Nunn.
Open to everyone via streaming youtube.com/nbervideos

Finally posting a new paper on how diffusion estimates on networks (e.g. for epidemics, information spread, tech adoption) can be highly non-robust to even tiny (vanishing!) measurement errors. 🧵

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I'm sorry to hear about your experience, Sandra Aguilar-Gómez. I can relate to your situation as I also faced similar difficulties while traveling to the US with a Colombian passport. I had to undergo multiple 'second screenings,' which became a norm for almost seven years, before

Using 2019 Philippine Senatorial election results to show that directly engaging voters and providing them with policy information increases vote share, from Cesi Cruz, Julien Labonne, and Francesco Trebbi nber.org/papers/w32112

💫Congratulations, Doc🥂. I am excited to recognize so many fantastic colleagues and friends contributing to an already-due revision of the EH in Latin America and the Caribbean. I will include many of these chapters in my “Political Economy of Development” syllabus!