“Esta ley, que nos permite tener papeles, nos salva la vida”. Seis palabras explican el sentir de cientos de miles de migrantes y refugiados que estos días se afanan en formalizar sus papeles para obtener un permiso de residencia y trabajo https://t.co/o8OZYQ1bjJ
📣 Call for Papers: 4th Milan PhD Economics Workshop
We invite PhD students & early-career researchers to submit papers in all areas of economics, finance & accounting for presentation at @Unibocconi, 12–13 May 2026.
Paper Submission Deadline: 28 February.
Info below ⬇️
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Come and join us as predoc @Bocconi ! We are launching a new predoc programs joint @LEAPdevelopment@unit_crime to work on topics related to education, crime, development, disability and inclusion!
🚨 Job Market Paper
❓ Dispersion in firms’ capital intensity has widened. Why, and does it matter?
⚙️ Firms unevenly update the capital-intensity of their technology as capital goods get cheaper.
📊 This helps explain major US trends.
Paper: https://t.co/gqNc7uJ4FX
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I’m on the #EconJobMarket! 🎓
The wealthy earn high returns from their entrepreneurial activities, should we tax them?
My JMP shows a top wealth tax creates smaller distortions and stronger redistribution when high returns reflect market power, not just productivity.
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Hoy se cumplen 125 años del nacimiento de maestro del suspense. Un director que tenía una cierta tendencia en aparecer en sus propias cintas.
A ver si adivináis en que película podemos encontrar a Hitchcock:
Ya en librerías: «La desigualdad en España», coordinado por @JavierSoriaEsp, @javierccll y @berna_leon, con @cbamadrid.
En palabras de Thomas Piketty, «cualquier lector encontrará aquí los datos necesarios para comprender la desigualdad y los argumentos para hacerle frente».
The first Interactive Economics module on measuring inequality is now live! Please try it out, share it with your friends and leave us comments to let us know what you think! https://t.co/vAHAnkyhiy
#economics#measuringinequality#interactiveeconomics
Interactive Economics is now up and running! It was great to be part of this project. Now anyone can use this website to explore different ways to measure inequality with these beautiful interactive graphs (and more modules are yet to come)
The first @InteractiveEcon module on #measuringinequality is now live, please try it out, circulate widely, and send us comments:
https://t.co/RQQAofufr2
From @ICAE_UCM & @I4Replication we invite colleagues and master/doctoral students in Madrid and beyond to participate in MADrid replication games on Friday 17th May 2024 at 10. If you are interested, fill out the form in https://t.co/okj86zy3Vy and SAVE THE DATE! 🧵 1/7
📣 *JMP Alert*
I study how schools interact with housing and labor markets within cities. Not surprisingly, parents care a lot about schools. But I find schools also impact other markets, non-parents, and policy outcomes!
👉Full draft at https://t.co/XMChWgedBi
#EconTwitter