isabel busom
isabelbus.bsky.social
isabel busom
@isabelbus.bsky.social
PhD in Economics
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⚠️La (muy) preocupante situación de la docencia en España:

En 2007, el 4% de los docentes trabajaba con cierta indiferencia y cansados de tantos problemas en su profesión.

Apenas tres lustros después (2023), ese porcentaje aumentó hasta el 51%‼️

www.esade.edu/ecpol/es/pub...
August 30, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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In a study of professors, women got 378 new work requests over 4 weeks vs 118 for men. Women spent more time on service, advising & teaching; men on research. Orgs should track who is taking extra duties & ensure they are rewarded and distributed fairly. www.forbes.com/sites/kimels...
Being Too Helpful At Work Can Hurt Your Career—Here’s How To Say No
Women are more likely to take on behind-the-scenes duties at work—extra tasks like onboarding or event planning—and it's hurting their careers. Here's how to say no.
www.forbes.com
July 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset." My piece in @theeconomistevents.bsky.social this week on how zero-sum thinking arises and why it matters so much for policy and politics. Based on our research at the Social Economics Lab. www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva
Young people and city-dwellers are among those most likely to see one group’s gain as another’s loss
www.economist.com
July 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Kudos to @justinwolfers.bsky.social. Great way to put it!
"the President has a pronoun problem."
July 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?

This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.

See our paper: osf.io/preprints/ps...
May 15, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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🆕#WorkingPaper: “Do voice and social information contribute to changing views about rent control policy?” by Jordi Brandts, @isabelbus.bsky.social and @cristinalm.bsky.social.

Read the full text👉🏻https://f.mtr.cool/ivyueridke

#EconSky #PoliticalCulture #PoliticalSociology @aqrirea.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Don't be fooled by the compliance theater. The Trump administration is not complying with court orders or the law. They are pretending to comply just enough to allow everyone to pretend the crisis is not already upon us.
March 20, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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... others say 18 months. I think 18 months is generous but it may have been more than 53 days. I doubt that American democracy, or what's left of it, will last another 16 months at the current speed of unraveling. www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/art...
How did Adolf Hitler seize control of Germany by 1934? - BBC Bitesize
Revise the events which lead to Hitler's control of Germany including the Reichstag Election, the Enabling Act and how opposition was eliminated.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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The question arises whether Musk is moving faster than Hitler in 1933? I am not sure. Some estimates say Hitler took 53 days www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... ....
March 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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The Trap of Zero-Sum Thinking

Zero-sum beliefs hinder collaboration. Viewing gender progress as a competition fosters division, turning shared goals into battles instead of opportunities for mutual success.
January 9, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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⚠️Tener vivienda incrementa la fertilidad. Al facilitar el acceso a esta:

✅ Aumenta 3,8% probabilidad tener un hijo.
✅ Aumenta 3,2% prob. tener más de uno.
✅ Efecto >30% en jóvenes <30 años.
✅ Efecto mayor en zonas de alquiler elevado.

Estimaciones causales Brasil:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
January 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Belief in misinformation is now an official requirement for employment—an anti-democratic loyalty test
"prospective occupants of high posts inside the Pentagon & the intelligence agencies" are being asked what they think about Jan. 6 and if the 2020 election was stolen www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/u...

what happens when people who pass this test are asked to do what past officials wouldn't?
Want a Job in the Trump Administration? Be Prepared for the Loyalty Test.
Applicants for government posts, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, say they have been asked about their thoughts on Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.
www.nytimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Bien voilà!😬
Interventions to counter misinformation are less effective for polarizing content.

We found that crowdsourcing accuracy judgements by adding a "Misleading count" (next to the Like count) reduced sharing inaccurate information about partisan issues by 25% royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10....
December 11, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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‪Next seminar at @ecapuab.bsky.social, Mario Carillo (UAB): “The Alpha Political Male”
Tuesday 10 Dec 13:30, Seminari A, Facultat Economia i Empresa UAB.
sites.google.com/site/mariofc...
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December 9, 2024 at 3:57 PM
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New @ecapuab.bsky.social working paper by Isabel Busom (@isabelbus.bsky.social), Jordi Brandts and Cristina Lopez-Mayan (@cristinalm.bsky.social).
"Do giving voice and social information help in revising a misconception about rent–control?"
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uabwpr...
#econbsky #econsky
EconPapers: Do giving voice and social information help in revising a misconception about rent–control?
By Jordi Brandts, Isabel Busom and Cristina Lopez-Mayan; Abstract: Citizens’ ability to make informed and thoughtful choices when voting for policy proposals rests on their exposure to
econpapers.repec.org
December 4, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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New working paper by @ecapuab.bsky.social professors Javier Asensio (@asensiojavier.bsky.social) and Anna Matas: "Competition effects of intercity bus tendering reforms in Spain"
econpapers.repec.org/paper/uabwpr...
#econbsky
EconPapers: Competition effects of intercity bus tendering reforms in Spain
By Javier Asensio and Anna Matas; Abstract: Spain operates a ‘competition for the market’ system to award the regulated monopoly rights to run intercity bus
econpapers.repec.org
December 12, 2024 at 10:59 AM
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Aquí el informe recién publicado:

www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es/inee/evaluac...

Y aquí un buen resumen del mismo, por @olgarsanmartin.bsky.social:

www.elmundo.es/espana/2024/...
TIMSS 2023
TIMSS 2023
www.educacionfpydeportes.gob.es
December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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⚠️Preocupante. Evaluación internacional nivel de Matemáticas en primaria (10 años) muestra que España:

❌ Está en la cola de la OCDE.
❌ Empeora su rendimiento desde 2015.
❌ Cada vez hay más % alumnado con nivel bajo o muy bajo.
❌ Cada vez hay menos % alumnado con nivel alto o avanzado.
December 4, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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I often think about this: younger people in the US and other wealthy nations are far more likely to have a zero-sum mindset—the idea that someone’s gain means a loss for others—compared to older generations. From our paper on zero-sum thinking (full 🧵 x.com/S_Stantcheva...)
November 12, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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The book "Beyond Ivory Tower. Navigating Higher Education in the Future", coordinated by Antonio Cabrales & Juan José Ganuza, is already available online. The book addresses major challenges in higher education.

Complete 📚 www.funcas.es/libro/beyond...

Our 📃 www.funcas.es/wp-content/u...
Beyond Ivory Tower. Navigating Higher Education in the Future - Funcas
Incluyen básicamente aquellos trabajos de naturaleza informativa que tienen por objeto facilitar los datos necesarios para un mejor conocimiento de la economía española.
www.funcas.es
November 22, 2024 at 8:42 AM