Professor and Researcher at @uees_ec • Organizer member of IHEA 2027 in #Chile @healtheconomics #LATAM • Health & Dev Econ • Public Policy Design & Evaluation
🇪🇸 | El Papa bendice a las parejas a punto de casarse y llama al matrimonio: “Si antes dije no tengáis miedo en pensar en una vocación, el matrimonio también es una vocación. No tengáis miedo del matrimonio y de formar una familia”
New NBER WP on NewSpace: the space sector’s shift from state-led technical performance toward a market where innovation itself becomes the organizing logic shaping firms, costs, prestige, and competition. Interesting lens for understanding the rise of private space🚀@EcuadorSpace
Proposing a theory, called Innovatisation, to explain the recent transformations of the space sector and the observed rise of innovation, from Benoit Cornet, Marc-André Chavy-Macdonald, and Dominique Foray https://t.co/5gXkQ1EvxP
Our paper “Difference-in-Differences Designs: A Practitioner’s Guide” is now published in the Journal of Economic Literature. It took us a while but we are happy!
We put together a lot of material to make the paper useful in practice: https://t.co/30TbAgihlz
Hope you like!
Open call for papers, Long-Term Budget Deficits: Economic Effects and Potential Responses. Conference to be held in Washington, DC on May 20–21, 2027. Submit papers by 11:59pm EDT on August 31, 2026. More information: https://t.co/euZGe2C9aK
We're building a Moon Base!
@NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions.
Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: https://t.co/IJXA7xYwju
"Don't let other people write your paper."
Economic sciences laureate Daron Acemoglu spoke to nine students around the world and shared his best career advice.
Watch the full conversation: https://t.co/WTO2wjwXFP
Adverse local labor market shocks that reduce employment hasten cognitive decline, from Noah Arman Kouchekinia, @NeumarkEcon, and Tim A. Bruckner https://t.co/Bowqu8VVaT
Forecasts of how AI will affect the US economy, from @ezrakarger, Otto Kuusela, @jabaluck, @afinetheorem, @basilhalperin, @toddrjones, @connacher_, Philip Trammell, Matt Reynolds, Dan Mayland, Ria Viswanathan, Ananaya Mittal, Rebecca Ceppas de Castro, Josh Rosenberg, and Philip Tetlock https://t.co/4ebTlA0C3K
Not all health spending is equal. 🌍
New data from 121 districts in Mozambique shows that domestic funds + local budget support are the keys to child survival. 🏥
The secret? Local governance makes international aid more effective.
https://t.co/hOA4hxDQIv
Forthcoming in the AER: "Germs in the Family: The Short- and Long-Term Consequences of Intra-Household Disease Spread" by N. Meltem Daysal, Hui Ding, Maya Rossin-Slater, and Hannes Schwandt. https://t.co/2xhvWd57Yl
Studying how global warming affects deforestation and agricultural land use, from @AllanHsiao, Jacob Moscona, @ben_olken, and Karthik A. Sastry https://t.co/ZsnUpJDcne
🇫🇷‼️ | El Santuario de Lourdes se convirtió en el epicentro de una de las mayores manifestaciones de fe en la Europa moderna. Más de 20.000 católicos se congregaron para celebrar el Domingo de Ramos, dando inicio a una Semana Santa que destaca por un fenómeno inesperado: el notable incremento de adultos que deciden bautizarse y abrazar el catolicismo.
Brisket and cobbler and quiche, oh my!
Curious what astronauts eat on a 10-day trip around the Moon? Read about how we design and prepare meal plans for Artemis II: https://t.co/eVNGSQpM04
How does agricultural policy shape climate damages? @AllanHsiao, Jacob Moscona, and Karthik Sastry show that governments move to protect consumers when extreme heat causes food shortages, redistributing damages within and across countries. https://t.co/rMStOd0T2r