🚨Glad to share that our technical note 'Priorities for Private Investment in the Andean Countries' (with Osmel Manzano) has just been published by the Inter-American Development Bank. Full paper: dx.doi.org/10.18235/001...

Thanks so much @daveevansphd.bsky.social for sharing my work! Honored to see this research on rural poverty in #Venezuela being read and discussed. Using nighttime lights and gridded population data, I estimate rural poverty at municipal and state levels from 2000 to 2020. #poverty #development

🚨Excited to share good news! My paper 'Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse' was accepted for presentation at the 11th ECINEQ Conference, July 9-11, 2025, in Washington, D.C., co-hosted by the World Bank and George Washington University

#RDDers: check it out.

Donut Regression Discontinuity Designs

"While the donut approach is very popular in empirical practice, it is generally carried out in a heuristic fashion without much supporting statistical theory."

www.christophrothe.net/papers/donut...

🚨 I’m happy to share that my paper ‘Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse’ was accepted to be presented at the IARIW-World Bank Special Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam #poverty #Venezuela #latinamerica #inequality #remotesensing #economics

🇻🇪 Nueva entrevista! Agradecido con @OjoConEsoTV por la producción y José Manuel Serna por la invitación a su programa Inteligencia Económica. Conversamos sobre varios temas para Venezuela youtu.be/TwWrkvV9tvI

🚨🇻🇪📢 Agradecido con Jonatan Alzuru y Jose Rafael Herrera (quién no pudo estar presente) por la invitación a su podcast, para conversar sobre el uso de imágenes satelitales en países con nula o poca información oficial (como podría ser, el caso de Venezuela) youtu.be/XtaJRacKLr0

🚨🇻🇪📢 Agradecido por la invitación a conversar sobre el rol de las tecnologías de sensores remotos en el diagnóstico y la toma de decisiones informadas para Venezuela youtu.be/iaKc8q1iLYE

🚨🇻🇪 Great news! My paper, “Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse,” has been accepted at the 2025 Society of Government Economists Annual Conference!

How to produce animated maps in #rstats data and code innhhe video description youtu.be/ra3BrCW5o54?...

Thank you for the mention and amazing initiative @leightjessica.bsky.social !

@Safoura_Moeeni: education + family, focus on Iran
sites.google.com/site/safoura...
@raisasherif: environment + development
raisasherif.com
@ljmaldon @ljmaldon.bsky.social: poverty + natural resources
www.leonardojmaldonado.com

Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, including all the remarkable articles examining the many dimensions of inequality, published open access by OUP at academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3...

🚨🇻🇪 Actualizado a Nov2024. Luminosidad nocturna y % de área iluminada en Venezuela (a nivel país, estado, municipio y parroquia) | Updated to Nov2024. Nighttime light and % of lit area in Venezuela (at the country, state, municipality, and parish levels). www.leonardojmaldonado.com/projects

One year ago, I was defending my PhD dissertation in Minnesota. I truly miss my PhD program, but show must go on… “this part of my life, this little part is called Happyness.” #timepassby #phdlife #economics #Venezuela