Guillermo Alves
@guillealves.bsky.social
Urban and Development Economics.
Research Economist at CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. Personal opinions here.
https://sites.google.com/site/guillealves
Research Economist at CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. Personal opinions here.
https://sites.google.com/site/guillealves
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Final week to send your papers!
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Final week to send your papers!
Final week to send your papers!
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Final week to send your papers!
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The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th
@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
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Mañana se marcha por el respeto irrestricto del proyecto de vida del prójimo.
January 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Mañana se marcha por el respeto irrestricto del proyecto de vida del prójimo.
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Featured in the latest Digest: "The Impact of a Boston Desegregation Busing Program on Student Outcomes"
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes
January 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Featured in the latest Digest: "The Impact of a Boston Desegregation Busing Program on Student Outcomes"
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes
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"Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs...the returns to marginal audits...exceed the returns to average audits...Deterrence...results in the 12:1 return above the 90th percentile." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution*
Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90
academic.oup.com
January 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs...the returns to marginal audits...exceed the returns to average audits...Deterrence...results in the 12:1 return above the 90th percentile." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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📢Just released:
Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝
11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving
How does your country do?
👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html
Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝
11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving
How does your country do?
👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html
December 10, 2024 at 10:17 AM
📢Just released:
Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝
11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving
How does your country do?
👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html
Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝
11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving
How does your country do?
👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html
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Mexicans are able to correctly estimate the magnitude of income inequality in the country but they overestimate (by a lot) the degree of intergeneracional mobility in the country.
From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez
From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez
December 9, 2024 at 5:47 PM
Mexicans are able to correctly estimate the magnitude of income inequality in the country but they overestimate (by a lot) the degree of intergeneracional mobility in the country.
From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez
From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez
Mathew Turner gives the first keynote lecture at the third workshop of LACEA's urban economics network 'LAUrban' at Banco de Mexico
December 5, 2024 at 8:53 PM
Mathew Turner gives the first keynote lecture at the third workshop of LACEA's urban economics network 'LAUrban' at Banco de Mexico
The program for next week's LACEA-LAUrban conference in Mexico City is now online! 🗓️📢
A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco.
Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...
A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco.
Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...
November 28, 2024 at 1:41 PM
The program for next week's LACEA-LAUrban conference in Mexico City is now online! 🗓️📢
A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco.
Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...
A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco.
Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...
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Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf
UEA 2025 Berlin
urbaneconomics.org
November 26, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf
Celebrating 20 years of google scholar with 20 things you didn't know about it
blog.google/outreach-ini...
blog.google/outreach-ini...
20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
blog.google
November 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Celebrating 20 years of google scholar with 20 things you didn't know about it
blog.google/outreach-ini...
blog.google/outreach-ini...
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The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Forward to the Special Issue “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Urban Economics”
www.sciencedirect.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM
The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The two most salient innovations to automobiles — EVs and autonomous vehicles — both make congestion pricing valuable:
EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing
EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing
November 17, 2024 at 10:34 PM
The two most salient innovations to automobiles — EVs and autonomous vehicles — both make congestion pricing valuable:
EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing
EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing
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There are several reasons to be sceptical about the misallocation literature (which does not show but generally assumes that policy-induced distortions generate the wedges) but an underrated one is simply historical. The USA in the 19th century also had lots of 'misallocation'....
November 14, 2024 at 6:41 PM
There are several reasons to be sceptical about the misallocation literature (which does not show but generally assumes that policy-induced distortions generate the wedges) but an underrated one is simply historical. The USA in the 19th century also had lots of 'misallocation'....
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A reminder of our current call for papers for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social next meeting in Berlin March 2025. Deadline to submit a paper is Monday 9th December: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
UEA 2025 Berlin
urbaneconomics.org
November 14, 2024 at 5:42 PM
A reminder of our current call for papers for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social next meeting in Berlin March 2025. Deadline to submit a paper is Monday 9th December: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...