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Samuel Bentolila
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Labor economist at Cemfi
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drodrik.bsky.social
Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil theconversation.com/the-unraveli...
The unraveling of workplace protections for delivery drivers: A tale of 2 workplace models
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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ourworldindata.org
Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption
This scatter plot illustrates the relationship between political corruption and electoral democracy indices for various countries in 2024. The vertical axis represents the political corruption index, ranging from 0, indicating less corruption, to 1, indicating more corruption. The horizontal axis shows the electoral democracy index, also ranging from 0 to 1, where higher values suggest greater levels of democracy. The chart is titled "Countries that are more democratic tend to be less corrupt" Each country is represented by a point on the graph, with countries like Denmark and Singapore positioned closer to the lower end of the corruption scale and higher on the democracy scale, indicating they are less corrupt and more democratic. In contrast, countries like Myanmar and Russia are closer to the higher end of the corruption index. The data is sourced from V-Dem, with estimates based on expert evaluations. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.
November 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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profjaparker.bsky.social
The EU is running a tight race to the bottom with the US for fiscal insolvency. Here is a great summary of the situation, and how much fiscal adjustment is required by country:
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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cemfi.es
What limits agricultural mechanization in Africa?

JMC Sophie Nottmeyer finds that digital monitoring reduces moral hazard between owners and operators in tractor rental markets in Kenya, improving spatial allocation and raising agricultural productivity.

sophienottmeyer.github.io
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Reposted by Samuel Bentolila
cemfi.es
How does after-school childcare affect children's human capital investment?

JMC Sevin Kaytan finds that after-school childcare increases university graduation rates by reshaping children's beliefs and preferences through peer interactions in care centers

sevinkaytan.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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nadaesgratis.bsky.social
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española
Por: Jorge García Hombrados y María Hernández-de-Benito En Nada es Gratis hemos hablado muchas veces de cómo la economía, más allá de los precios, los mercados o los tipos de interés, sirve para en...
nadaesgratis.es
November 6, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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joshua-goodman.com
🚨Fascinating research alert 🚨

"This paper explores how the proportion of teenagers skipping school has changed following the COVID-19 pandemic across the developed world.

We find that this problem is mainly confined to industrialised English-speaking nations, especially affecting teenage girls."
November 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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cemfi.es
🎓 Thinking about grad studies in #Economics or #Finance?
Applications to CEMFI’s Master and Doctoral programs open soon!

📅 Applications open Nov 11, 2025
💰 Funding deadline Jan 31, 2026
🕓 Final deadline May 31, 2026

👉 Learn more: www.cemfi.es/programs/mas...
📧 admissions@cemfi.es
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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ksnet.bsky.social
📢𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗝𝗣𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲!

📚It brings together research on:

• Institutionalization and digitalization of evaluation
• Employment and social protection policies
• Care and gender equality
• AI applied to evaluation

👉 polipapers.upv.es/index.php/jp...
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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drodrik.bsky.social
Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate|Hardcover
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s...
www.barnesandnoble.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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maxkasy.bsky.social
Just out in the New York Times:

My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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cemfi.es
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: www.cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2507....
October 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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qe-editors.bsky.social
How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ
October 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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paulgp.com
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
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j-humanresources.bsky.social
Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that a reform abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced the religiosity of affected students in adulthood. It also reduced the religious actions of personal prayer, church-going, and church membership. Beyond religious attitudes, and consistent with a shift towards worldly norms and economic activities, the reform led to higher labor-market participation and earnings. By contrast, the reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes.
October 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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cemfi.es
Rafael Repullo has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Málaga
www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...
October 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Reposted by Samuel Bentolila
nadaesgratis.bsky.social
¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio nadaesgratis.es/admin/en-la-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio
Por Javier Adrián López Artero (Universidad de Alicante), Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano (Universidad de Alicante y Universidad de Valencia) y Daniela Vuri (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) En las últimas dé...
nadaesgratis.es
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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voxeu.org
David Martinez-Miera & Carlos Sunyer examine how an increase in political polarisation impacts a region's capacity to attract human capital. They leverage Spain's centralised system of medical resident placements and the 2017 Catalonia referendum as a case study.
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Graph showing average medical residents’ score in Catalonia vs rest of Spain. The points represent yearly mean residuals from an individual-level regression of score on province and specialty-year fixed effects, disaggregated by region. Lines represent the linear fit to the scatterplots, separately estimated before and after the shock. Given the growing prevalence of political and social polarisation, understanding its effects on society is of paramount importance. This column discusses the effects of an increase in political polarisation on a region’s capacity to attract human capital. The evidence shows how an increase in polarisation results in lower attraction of human capital, especially for individuals with higher human capital scores.
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales.

"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."
October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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corinnelow.com
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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miguelalmunia.bsky.social
🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨
@cunef.bsky.social is hiring Assistant Professors in Economics and related fields.

Application deadline: November 15 ⏰
More info: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

Apply to join one of Europe’s most dynamic Economics departments!
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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johnholbein1.bsky.social
In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty.

This increase starts before bills are signed into law.

Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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aeajournals.bsky.social
Forthcoming in the AER: "Gender Differences in Economics Seminars" by Pascaline Dupas, Amy Handlan, Alicia Sasser Modestino, Muriel Niederle, Mateo Seré, Haoyu Sheng, Justin Wolfers, and Seminar Dynamics Collective. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Gender Differences in Economics Seminars
(Forthcoming Article) - We assess whether men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. We collected data across thousands of seminars, job market talks and conferenc...
www.aeaweb.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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bde.es
Documento Ocasional: “¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados" www.bde.es/wbe/es/publi... #bdePublicaciones#bdePublicaciones
¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados
¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados
www.bde.es
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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cemfi.es
CEMFI is inviting applications for several positions at the Associate and Assistant Professors Level
www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM