Erick Alvarez Barreno

PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Politics @UiB 🇳🇴
Working on institutions, development and democracy

[NBER @nberpubs]

Using labor force surveys from 160 countries to build a new microdatabase on hours worked covering 97 percent of the world population to explore working hours determinants, from @amorygethin and Emmanuel Saez https://t.co/B720Hjqf7l

[Becker Friedman Institute for Economics @BeckerFriedman]

(1/2) Measuring global GDP is challenging, especially in middle- and low-income countries where reliable statistics are scarce.

In new research, @HansbergRossi combines nighttime lights, land use, emissions, and a random forest model to estimate subnational GDP.

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

Trump’s presidency can be viewed as a test of the effects of institutions on the economy. If institutions matter, Trump’s agenda will cost the US economy. The only catch is that these effects will take time to see.

[Daron Acemoglu @DAcemogluMIT]

What about the economy under Trump? I don’t expect great news for workers, and I see big risks from Trump’s overall agenda, both because of his approach to AI and Silicon Valley, and because of his (likely) impact on US institutions.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

#NobelPrize

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@EstebanOrtizMD @B_Gortaire_M 3700 citas y no puede separar correlación de causalidad… nos vendría bien menos soberbia ad verecundiam

[Department of Comparative Politics, UiB @UiB_sampol]

Congratulations to Team Sampol on completing this year's Stoltzekleiven Opp – the world's steepest race: 910 meters, over 800 steps climbing at an average grade of 34.5 per cent. Amazing!
@UiB @UiBsamfunn

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@eluniversocom Correción! Moi es el traspaso más caro de la historia de la Premier. El quinto más caro de la historia del fútbol.

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Bringing that La Tri passion to West London. 🇪🇨😤

#FIFAWorldCup | @MoisesCaicedo55

[Donia Kamel @Donia_Kamel_]

Excited to share a new WP with my good friend @billywoom, in time for this weekend's European football leagues kickoff ⚽️

“Skin Tone Penalties: Bottom-up Discrimination in Football”

Using football as a lab, we study colorism or skin tone discrimination.

Thread 🧵 #EconTwitter

[Tatsuya Amano @tatsuya_amano]

How hard is it to do science in a language that’s not your first language? We quantified the severity of #languagebarriers for non-native English speakers when reading/publishing papers and attending/presenting at international conferences.
https://t.co/Z6za22rMgg
1/9

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@Nichogachet Y finalmente, la literatura sugiere lo que comentas, no hay evidencia del argumento capacidades - democracia/desarrollo. Lo interesante es ver como diferentes configuraciones evolucionan históricamente y producen diferentes resultados: https://t.co/cmVeuTmAyu

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@Nichogachet 2. Un hecho irrefutable es que no hay casos exitosos de sociedades desarrolladas sin estado. Este paper se pregunta sobre el mecanismo causal, la respuesta es que el estado es una condición de supervivencia: https://t.co/sa0MsWDr3W

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@jpjaramillo25 Fuentes: https://t.co/cmVeuTmAyu
https://t.co/ofvSDMpRLX
https://t.co/sa0MsWDr3W

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@jpjaramillo25 2. Todavía no hay concenso sobre el argumento estado-primero, luego democracia/desarrollo. 3. En LATAM el argumento de Tily de que guerra=capacidad estatal no se sostiene (por falta de guerras inter-estatales), es una idea pensada para el contexto europeo

[Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs]

Using historic variation as IVs has become a fad in economics. This is an interesting paper reviewing the development over time. The push for IVs coincided with the advent of Cliometrics – the quantitative approach to history. https://t.co/chzBFV28eY

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

What paths or sequences of democratization & state building are more likely to end in democracies with capable states? Is there only 1 viable path? What determines progress toward a high-capacity democracy?

This long🧵summarizes claims related to these question made in 6 books👇

[Erick Alvarez Barreno @Erick_AlvarezB]

@jfcamino Siempre lo llevo conmigo XD