Closing a fantastic IFS-ADBI-GHE Health Economics in LMICs workshop 🔝A huge thank you to all of you who joined us in London @theifs.bsky.social @papiteide.bsky.social

We are delighted to share the program for the IFS-ADBI-GHE Workshop on Health Economics in LMICs 2025! We are looking forward to a fantastic couple of days @theifs.bsky.social @adb.org @papiteide.bsky.social

De vuelta a casa / back home for LACEA-RIDGE at U del Pacifico, Lima, Peru! A pleasure to be part of this community of Peruvian/Latina Economists 💪🏽🇵🇪

Thanks for organizing! Amazing people and papers, with this view ⬇️

The windfalls particularly benefitted poorer rural areas, leading to:
🏡Household income and consumption gains.
📉Poverty reduction.

In addition to increases in public employment, we find private-sector improvements in:
✅Employment
✅Earnings and formal employment.
✅Microenterprise activity.
Particularly evident in non-extractive municipalities located farther from extractive activity.

We leverage the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues in Peru (2006–2018), following a fixed rule set by the central government:
💡65% is also redistributed to non-extractive municipalities, creating discontinuities in exposure along jurisdictional borders.

📢 New Working Paper Alert! 🧵
“Resource Windfalls, Public Expenditures, and Local Economies” with @juanpablorud.bsky.social

We study whether inter-governmental transfers to local governments can stimulate economic activity.

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