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Lucca Horta
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Economics | Ph.D. student, LSE | M.A., FGV EPGE | B.A., Insper
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After a repeal of North Dakota's Sunday morning retail ban, morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel & shifting shopping to preferred times and stores.
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Map of Walmart Supercenter locations in North Dakota and neighbouring states. Sunday morning store closures impose significant costs on consumers, but supporters of such ‘blue laws’ argue these rules protect workers, family life, and small retailers. This column uses GPS data to study the effects of lifting North Dakota’s strict Sunday morning retail ban in 2019. After the repeal, Sunday morning visits to Walmart stores rose sharply, reducing cross-border travel and shifting shopping to preferred times and stores. The consumer welfare loss from the ban was equivalent to an extra 1.4 miles (2.25 km) per shopping trip, highlighting a trade-off between a day of shared rest and consumer flexibility.
September 12, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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🚨 New research, with @swatidhingra.bsky.social and Danyal Arnold

Brexit promised a “free” and more globally competitive UK. We take a closer look at what Brexit has meant for UK’s services exports using new data on trade barriers.

Five years on, we find the promise has not materialised.
July 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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amazing q&a with paul krugman
June 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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"This study estimates the carbon-efficient forest cover in the Brazilian Amazon. A $10/ton carbon tax could preserve 95% of the efficient carbon stock, avoiding 42B tons of CO2 & yielding $1.6T in welfare gains."

From @araujocrrafael.bsky.social , @franciscocosta.bsky.social & Sant'Anna

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May 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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🌬️ Just accepted 🇧🇷 in JAERE:

"The Effects of Renewable Energy Projects on Employment: Evidence from Brazil" by Danae Hernandez-Cortes (@hernandezcortes.bsky.social) and Sophie Mathes (@s-mathes.bsky.social)

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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April 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM