See you at the next ASREC conference!

Keynote: Romain Wacziarg

Application deadline 15 June.

Mario’s work on fascist persistence is the perfect post to quote today 25 Aprile. Viva l’Italia antifascista. Chissà che la digos non mi chieda i documenti per sto tweet.

QJE x.com/andreamatranga… Here is a long thread explaining the paper, including some extras that were left on the cutting room floor in the interest of brevity.

Hi #Econtwitter Only one week left to send in your application for the 5th Naples Summer School in Economics and Finance. Do not lose the opportunity to be part of a fantastic summer school in Naples in June!!

Please circulate to potentially interested PhD candidates!

Very happy that our paper with Q. Ashraf, Oded Galor, B. Gershman and Erik Hornung is forthcoming at The Review of Economic Studies. We propose the complementarity between physical capital and effective labor as a mechanism to explain the decline of coercive labor institutions.

📣Thinking about a Master of Research in Economics?

⚠️The 2-year IDEA MRes in Economics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona is specifically designed to enhance your understanding of #econ #theory & #research #methods , including comprehensive training in #programming .

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📢 Exciting news! 🌍 Join us for the 1st Naples Trade and Development Workshop on Nov 18-19, 2024, at Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope". Do not miss Dave Donaldson, Amit Khandelwal, Alejandro Graziano, Julia Cajal Grossi, Rocco Macchiavello, and Beata Javorcik. #econtwitter #trade #development

🚨🚨🚨Our department DEF Tor Vergata is looking for a Full/Associate Professor (joining us by the end of this year)! 🚨🚨🚨 Please retweet and feel free to email me for any question. economia.uniroma2.it/en/def/present…

Lots of people are making jokes, but this is not funny. Therapy, particularly cognitive behavioral therapy, might be remembered as among the greatest inventions of the 20th century. There are few more effective, widely applicable, general purpose techniques for improving…

My latest article 'Labor scarcity, technology adoption and innovation: evidence from the cholera pandemics in 19th century France' rdcu.be/dz0Oe, is now published with Springer Nature in the Journal of Economic Growth Journal of Economic Growth.

⚠️Call for papers⚠️
UoNEconomics NICEP Conference!
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
When: May 13-14
Submit before March 25
Confirmed: Oriana Bandiera Oriana Bandiera, Ernesto Dal Bò, Garance Génicot Garance Genicot & Mathias Thoenig.
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Deadline is today!! 🚨🚨🚨

Still some days (til 28th Feb) to apply for the Barcelona School of Economics Summer Forum in Public Economics that I co-organise w/ Martin Besfamille, Pierre Boyer, Dana Foarta, Silvia Vannutelli.
We encourage women's (& theorists'😉) submissions
call: bit.ly/Public_Econ_Su… #EconTwitter

New forthcoming paper !! 🎉🎉🎉
Here’s a post with a summary of the main results: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

MIT University just released free online courses.

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📣New WP alert📣

Guillermo Alves, William Burton 🇺🇦 and I study Differences-in-Differences under SUTVA violations caused by resorting of agents btw treatment & control.

We offer a bridge btw reduced-form & structural approaches & propose guidelines for applied research.

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New utility for prototyping document digitization.
Website: github.com/MikeJGiordano/…
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🧵: Tabular data, cropping, grayscale, done quickly
Developed with Michael Giordano (Kellogg School)

Workshop Call 📢📢

Second edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop.

The organizers are Dídac Queralt and me and we'll have Ken Scheve (Yale) as Keynote speaker.

At Universitat de Barcelona on July 8 and 9, 2024.

Send us your papers by March 7: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…