Do higher oil prices fuel conflict?
New column with Maximilian Herrmann and Jingke Pan: organized violence moves toward oil locations and away from nearby areas, while protests spread outward. Aggregation can hide the resource curse:
#econtwitter I'm teaching PhD Growth / Development at @EconomicsUCD next term, so if you have syllabi or reading lists from related courses you have taught or taken - please share 😊. Topics: growth models and data, PE of devt., culture, history, geography, globalization, etc.
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Never mind the other papers I retwitted—this is my first international publication, just out this month in EJPE!!!
A thread on how the legacy of Pinochet’s violence shaped the 2019 protests and the Chilean constitutional referendum, 30 years after democratization. 🧶 1/13
I'm thrilled to have my first paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Development Economics. It has been a long journey, beginning even before starting grad school. Tomorrow I'll write a thread about the paper. For now, I want to say thank you to some important people.
I wrote a small post on my website (~10 minutes reading), collecting practical tips from my personal experience for early-stage empirical researchers in economics.
Check it out here: https://t.co/kj8n0y3wVl
Comments/new tips are welcome! #research#empirics#economics#PhDlife
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🚨New Working Paper!
I'm happy to share the WP of this project, which presented some interesting results. We find evidence that including Financial Education in the math curriculum can improve not only financial literacy but also the performance and interest of students in math
Last day to submit to the GODAD workshop tomorrow! Join us in Göttingen in March! Please submit at https://t.co/ssIWsbw8TE. Full call for papers at https://t.co/9I9M809DHm