Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
@roxanagutz.bsky.social
Prof of Policy & Quantitative Methods at Queen Mary University of London.
PhD Economics, University of Cambridge. Political economy, conflict, migration, gender violence, applied economics.

In my free time, I run, swim, cycle, row & play tennis.
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🚨 Updated paper on femicide laws in Mexico.

After years of work, I find no evidence these laws reduced femicides, female homicides, suicides, or disappearances using dif-in-dif, even after testing
✅ Sentence severity
✅ Parallel reforms (unilateral divorce, divorce asset compensation, abortion) 🧵
Reposted by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
October 3, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin.
Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722
Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...
September 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Ahora voy a leer 👇Aborda cómo detectar a psicópatas integrados: personas que no cometen delitos graves de violencia, pero causan daños significativos en la vida personal y en instituciones de la sociedad, incluyendo la política.
#PEACELA
www.amazon.co.uk/psic%C3%B3pa...
July 28, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Minorities in academia are expected to overperform, stay silent, and endure stereotypes (e.g, you don’t know how to write, are poorly educated). This is a minority tax: taking extra unpaid labour and diversity duties that don't count towards promotion.
bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
July 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Easily my favourite book on mastering Shiny: building interactive apps, reports, and dashboards using R.

And it's free
👉 mastering-shiny.org/basic-app.html
#rstats #Shiny #DataViz
July 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)
From humble beginnings, Carl Friedrich Gauss reshaped science, from number theory, celestial mechanics to probability, statistics, and geometry.

A mind of rare depth and clarity.
🎬 Watch the full documentary:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6r...
Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)
YouTube video by BMResearch
www.youtube.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Women with names perceived as masculine are less likely to be omitted from citations than those with feminine names. Men with feminine-sounding names are more likely to be omitted than men with masculine names, suggesting citation bias based on gender perceptions.
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
July 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Summer project: reading 👇 and building new maps. A very good guide for spatial thinking in criminology and R.

#PEACELA
July 15, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Did you know that the widely used method of least squares was born chasing comets?
Legendre published it in 1805 to estimate their orbits
Gauss claimed he’d used it privately since 1795
Legendre: I published it first
Gauss: I published why it works… in 1809.
archive.org/details/nouv...
July 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The U.S. Consolidated Counterdrug Database (CCDB) is unclassified but little known or used by drug policy researchers.
Kendra McSweeney’s fab paper focuses on its cocaine module, explaining how this U.S. dataset is built, accessed, and what it reveals.
tinyurl.com/mry7a84n
July 10, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is violence learned or inherited? Is it written in our genes or shaped by experience? Can anyone become violent?

Roberto Colom and Antonio Andrés Pueyo tackle these big questions in 👇
My next weekend book. 📘
#PEACELA
www.amazon.es/C%C3%B3mo-ac...
July 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
In 1874, Francis Galton, father of regressions & cousin of Charles Darwin, wrote a book based on a questionnaire sent to scientists about their childhood, families and mental traits.
Praised for pioneering survey methods but criticised as paving the way to eugenics
Book: galton.org/books/men-sc...
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Want to understand how probability and statistics became science?
Stephen Stigler's The History of Statistics is a brilliant, readable dive into the origins of statistical thinking before 1900.
📚 [Free online version] 👉 archive.org/details/hist...
#Statistics #HistoryOfScience #Econsky
July 9, 2025 at 9:05 AM
🚨 Updated paper on femicide laws in Mexico.

After years of work, I find no evidence these laws reduced femicides, female homicides, suicides, or disappearances using dif-in-dif, even after testing
✅ Sentence severity
✅ Parallel reforms (unilateral divorce, divorce asset compensation, abortion) 🧵
July 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Last week I said I’d buy those stats books 📚
Today they arrived!
You also can find them for free here:
📕 Intro to the Theory of Statistics (Mood & Graybill)
archive.org/details/in.e...

📗 Probability: An Introduction (Grimmett & Welsh)
archive.org/details/prob...
July 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The best book for breaking the “I’ll write when I feel like it, or when I finally find time” curse is
How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia.

No fluff. No excuses. Just a system that works.
Buy it, read it, reread it. Highly recommend.
tinyurl.com/5t44w8y8
July 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Government spending can boost long-run growth but only if it shifts toward R&D, which raises productivity, as seen in the case of military spending in the US (eg Apollo, tech diffusion, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency leading to creation of internet)
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
July 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Weekend read 👇
A brilliant sociological and political economy analysis of how mafias operate, consolidate power, and thrive.
#PEACELA #organizedcrime

books.google.co.uk/books/about/...
July 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero
Love that my MAGA neighbor flies the thirteen colonies flag. In California. From when we were Mexico.
July 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Most asked question in mentoring groups, from students to senior academics: How to network?
My rec 👇
Even if you’re shy, even if some academics are hard to talk to, this book helps. Start conversations. Be curious about others. Don’t stop trying; it's a skill.
www.amazon.co.uk/Coffee-Lunch...
July 3, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Reading of the week: An informed look at how criminal networks infiltrate political and financial systems around the world. Essential if care about corruption, state capture, and alternative reform paths. 💸 #OrganizedCrime #PEACELA #LavadoDeDinero
www.penguinlibros.com/mx/biografia...
July 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Probability: An Introduction
Short, sharp, and well-structured.
Rigorous but accessible if comfortable with basic real analysis.
Good mix of theory and examples.
books.google.fm/books?id=ivu...
July 1, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Looking forward to presenting tomorrow at the 9th Workshop on the Economics of Organised Crime.

Grateful to the organisers for superb event & excited to learn from such a strong lineup!
#OrganisedCrime #EconCrime
June 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Más de 500 asesinatos políticos en México durante los últimos 20 años:

Arrestos o ejecuciones del crimen organizado por Estado → más asesinatos políticos (represalia)

Decomisos de droga → más amenazas a políticos, extorsión y narcomenudeo local (recuperan pérdidas) tinyurl.com/4pbz9y2j
Violencia política y economía criminal: captura local y reconfiguración del delito
El crimen organizado se diversifica en sus actividades, y utiliza la violencia política como manera de controlar a los gobiernos locales. Esta reconfiguración refleja que los cárteles regulan la econo...
tinyurl.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM