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Dear son. You can read any book you want. Any. We’ll discuss it afterwards.
September 20, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Dear son. You can read any book you want. Any. We’ll discuss it afterwards.
New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 (with Hanchen Jiang and Xi Yang). Thread.
August 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
New Publication. 🏙️📈 Thrilled to share that our paper, “𝘿𝙤𝙚𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝘾𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙐𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙮𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩?”, has been published in the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐔𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐬!!! 🚀 🚀 🚀 (with Hanchen Jiang and Xi Yang). Thread.
We have spots left for our @jhu.edu Chile Global Immersion – Sustainability and Business in Latin America in January. If you are a student at our masters programs consider enrolling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pja9...
blog.carey.jhu.edu/article/26-m...
blog.carey.jhu.edu/article/26-m...
Global Immersion at Carey: Building connections in Chile
YouTube video by JHUCareyBusiness
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August 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
We have spots left for our @jhu.edu Chile Global Immersion – Sustainability and Business in Latin America in January. If you are a student at our masters programs consider enrolling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pja9...
blog.carey.jhu.edu/article/26-m...
blog.carey.jhu.edu/article/26-m...
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Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
July 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Does anyone else find it crazy that you can walk into a bookshop and be charged £9.99 for a paperback novel that took the author a year to complete, but £17.99 for a completely blank notebook?
Freezing rent increases in New York City is relatively (politically) simple. Making apartments affordable is a much more daunting task, @foxjust cites our work on rent stabilization (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in this new article: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality: Evidence from New York City
Amid a renewed interest in rent control due to the housing affordability crisis, the scope and distribution of its benefits remain underexplored. Usin…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Freezing rent increases in New York City is relatively (politically) simple. Making apartments affordable is a much more daunting task, @foxjust cites our work on rent stabilization (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in this new article: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The call for papers for the 4th Annual #LAUrban Meeting is out! Amazing speakers on cities in an amazing city! submit here: urbanlacea@gmail.com
(no reg fee; accommodation covered!)
(no reg fee; accommodation covered!)
July 1, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The call for papers for the 4th Annual #LAUrban Meeting is out! Amazing speakers on cities in an amazing city! submit here: urbanlacea@gmail.com
(no reg fee; accommodation covered!)
(no reg fee; accommodation covered!)
OMD is a criminally underrated band. It is way more than the hits. Experimental electro pop at its best.
May 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
OMD is a criminally underrated band. It is way more than the hits. Experimental electro pop at its best.
Attending a seminar by Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown) at @idb. In a global survey, Argentina ranks 1st in financial literacy. Wow. An unexpected consequence of crises. (the paper is about using stylized facts on inflationary expectations to improve macro models... but this fact really stood out).
May 19, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Attending a seminar by Francesco D'Acunto (Georgetown) at @idb. In a global survey, Argentina ranks 1st in financial literacy. Wow. An unexpected consequence of crises. (the paper is about using stylized facts on inflationary expectations to improve macro models... but this fact really stood out).
Inspired by Nina Buchman's presentation on Paternalistic Discrimination in labor markets I have been thinking about this in housing programs that restrict recipients from selling their received units. Is there any reason for this other than being a homeowner has benefits they may not internalize?
Nina Buchmann
egc.yale.edu
May 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Inspired by Nina Buchman's presentation on Paternalistic Discrimination in labor markets I have been thinking about this in housing programs that restrict recipients from selling their received units. Is there any reason for this other than being a homeowner has benefits they may not internalize?
Starting now! Do not miss it!
Christophe Spaenjers presenting Race, rental yields, and housing decay in Manhattan
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We look forward to your participation and a great discussion to kick off the new seminar series!
Christophe Spaenjers presenting Race, rental yields, and housing decay in Manhattan
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We look forward to your participation and a great discussion to kick off the new seminar series!
May 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Starting now! Do not miss it!
Christophe Spaenjers presenting Race, rental yields, and housing decay in Manhattan
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We look forward to your participation and a great discussion to kick off the new seminar series!
Christophe Spaenjers presenting Race, rental yields, and housing decay in Manhattan
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
We look forward to your participation and a great discussion to kick off the new seminar series!
trying to get work get out of the way to actually work.
May 2, 2025 at 2:21 PM
trying to get work get out of the way to actually work.
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Join us next Wednesday, May 7, at 11:00 (ET), for our Virtual Seminar! #econsky
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May 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Join us next Wednesday, May 7, at 11:00 (ET), for our Virtual Seminar! #econsky
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
New #chatgpt model offered to describe me based on our chats and came up with:
You're Luis Quintero — part urban economist, part policy sage, part literary soul.
You're Luis Quintero — part urban economist, part policy sage, part literary soul.
April 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
New #chatgpt model offered to describe me based on our chats and came up with:
You're Luis Quintero — part urban economist, part policy sage, part literary soul.
You're Luis Quintero — part urban economist, part policy sage, part literary soul.
Join our team and help us analyze the effects of Quito's first Metro line using causal inference techniques and spatial models, suing census data, administrative records, satellite imagery, and official surveys. #QuitoMetro #SpatialAnalysis #IDB
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
Inter-American Development Bank hiring Consultant for evaluation and data analysis in Ecuador | LinkedIn
Posted 6:56:21 AM. Post of Duty: Ecuador The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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February 19, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Join our team and help us analyze the effects of Quito's first Metro line using causal inference techniques and spatial models, suing census data, administrative records, satellite imagery, and official surveys. #QuitoMetro #SpatialAnalysis #IDB
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
January 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Excited to share insights from @the_IDB Economists Network Seminar! Michel Peter (Yale University) presented his paper Spatial Structural Change, exploring how local economic development intersects with aggregate structural change in the U.S. economy (1880–1920). 🧵
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December 9, 2024 at 6:06 PM
Excited to share insights from @the_IDB Economists Network Seminar! Michel Peter (Yale University) presented his paper Spatial Structural Change, exploring how local economic development intersects with aggregate structural change in the U.S. economy (1880–1920). 🧵
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To finish off the day #LAUrban @javieraselman presents Take up Barriers in Rental Voucher Programs: Experimental Evidence from Chile evaluating an online counseling platform called learn and rent in Chile.
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December 5, 2024 at 11:31 PM
To finish off the day #LAUrban @javieraselman presents Take up Barriers in Rental Voucher Programs: Experimental Evidence from Chile evaluating an online counseling platform called learn and rent in Chile.
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Joaquin Urrego #LAUrban @Banxico work on slums in Chile (In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Housing Policies) sheds light on whether we should fix slums or move their inhabitants to formal neighborhoods.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Joaquin Urrego #LAUrban @Banxico work on slums in Chile (In-situ Upgrading or Population Relocation? Direct Impacts and Spatial Spillovers of Slum Housing Policies) sheds light on whether we should fix slums or move their inhabitants to formal neighborhoods.
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The first keynote by Matthew Turner #LAUrban presenting Sewers and Urban Development. How does sewer construction affect the development of cities? A core tenet of urban economics is that we are more productive when we work closer. But we bump into congestion costs.
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December 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM
The first keynote by Matthew Turner #LAUrban presenting Sewers and Urban Development. How does sewer construction affect the development of cities? A core tenet of urban economics is that we are more productive when we work closer. But we bump into congestion costs.
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Now, we have Miguel Zerecero – UC Irvine #LAUrban presenting No More Limited Mobility Bias: Exploring the Heterogeneity of Labor Markets. In the Abowd, Kramarz and Amrgolis AKM model of wages, bias increases from noise in OLS when we do not have many workers moving.
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December 5, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Now, we have Miguel Zerecero – UC Irvine #LAUrban presenting No More Limited Mobility Bias: Exploring the Heterogeneity of Labor Markets. In the Abowd, Kramarz and Amrgolis AKM model of wages, bias increases from noise in OLS when we do not have many workers moving.
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Second paper in the session is by Kensuke Teshima: From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo. #LAUrban Taller buildings have a larger footprint. Could lowering transaction of costs of integrating lots promote tall buildings?
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December 5, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Second paper in the session is by Kensuke Teshima: From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo. #LAUrban Taller buildings have a larger footprint. Could lowering transaction of costs of integrating lots promote tall buildings?
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@marcoglenznav is now presenting Uber versus Trains? Worldwide Evidence from Transit Expansions. What happens to Uber ridership as a result of a new metro station? Ex-ante one could think that metro could be a substitute or a complement of Uber. #LAUrban
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December 5, 2024 at 4:41 PM
@marcoglenznav is now presenting Uber versus Trains? Worldwide Evidence from Transit Expansions. What happens to Uber ridership as a result of a new metro station? Ex-ante one could think that metro could be a substitute or a complement of Uber. #LAUrban
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Excited to finally see our paper in print at Management Science! Together with @vadimelenev.com,
@arebucci1, and Emilia Simeonova. We look at spillover effects of place-based policies. Take a look at the paper pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... and the thread below.
@arebucci1, and Emilia Simeonova. We look at spillover effects of place-based policies. Take a look at the paper pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... and the thread below.
December 4, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Excited to finally see our paper in print at Management Science! Together with @vadimelenev.com,
@arebucci1, and Emilia Simeonova. We look at spillover effects of place-based policies. Take a look at the paper pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... and the thread below.
@arebucci1, and Emilia Simeonova. We look at spillover effects of place-based policies. Take a look at the paper pubsonline.informs.org/doi/abs/10.1... and the thread below.
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Builds and never ends. Heard of it endlessly but had not listened to it. Mind blown.
November 26, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield. Builds and never ends. Heard of it endlessly but had not listened to it. Mind blown.