Households in Latin America and the Caribbean face frequent and uninsured shocks that generate persistent vulnerability. With @Arteaga_Jul, @mboschIDB and Luis Tejerina, we explore this using panel data for 🇨🇴 🇸🇻 🇲🇽🇵🇪. We document five central facts 🧵
https://t.co/8kCgnISgkn
We have a new paper working paper out! "Farm Size Distribution, Weather Shocks, and Agricultural Productivity", joint with the amazing @Arteaga_Jul@mgafarog@anamibanez and @HPellegrina. https://t.co/2hZfNRCOGn. @EconomiaUAndes short thread 🧵👇
Can government restrictions on rural land markets benefit landless workers? Today's job market post by @Arteaga_Jul argues that large landholders have marketpower, so restrictions on land accumulation can increase wages and employment https://t.co/XeVegpTAyk
#NEUDC2023 session on Agriculture featured papers on land fragmentation, informal trade, training farmers to detect seed quality, and allocation of new technology, chaired by @afosterri.
🖇️Read the papers: https://t.co/OOLtdyANUE
Very excited that my paper co-authored with Ashish Shenoy @UCDavisARE is forthcoming at #JEBO and available for free download until Aug 13 2023 https://t.co/E1iMaJmsmD. Thanks to many, incl @JPAL_SA@AreBerkeley@UCSDEcon
What are "the long-term economic legacies of rebel rule in civil war"? In Colombia, a "positive relation between wartime rebel rule and the ability of households to cope with weather shocks in the post-war period."
https://t.co/zPsDpLJu7K by @anamibanez and others
Just published as open access article. With @ReemZaiour we characterize the big drop in immigration during the Covid crisis, 2020-2021, and show that the decline in foreign workers was not offset by change in internal mobility of US workers.
https://t.co/kT40kPulre
Is Latin America truly an exception to the global trend of rising income inequality?
Our paper combines a wide range of data sources to answer this question. The short answer is yes, but only if you don't count capital incomes.
https://t.co/JGsmZ1B0LO
Recomiendo el documental "El imperio de los chimpancés". Inquietante. Emotivo. Revelador. Poético.
Rinde un homenaje al científico colombiano Sebastián Ramírez Amaya quien murió mientras realizaba labores de investigación en una colonia de chimpancés en Ngogo, Uganda.
Happy to share that our paper with @HillerTatiana on the impacts of #migration🌎 on female labor supply👷♀️in the DR was just published in the Journal of Economic Geography. Check it out! 👇
🔗https://t.co/6bcTX7KNa4
Falta de mecanismos de manejo de riesgo climático empuja a hogares rurales en Colombia a vender sus tierras y fragmenta la propiedad. Política de tierras debe ir más allá de otorgar predios. Blog de @mgafarog sobre trabajo que estamos haciendo con @Arteaga_Jul y @nico_de_roux
Why some farmers in developing countries reach high levels of productivity while others remain in low-productivity subsistence farming? A few words on our cool paper with Heitor Pellegrina 1/
This is cool: when AI is better than humans, it makes humans better. In 2016, the Go world was shocked when AI beat the best human player. Since then, by playing against AI, professional players have gotten unprecedentedly better at the world's oldest game https://t.co/J3IPpektq6