Alma Bezares

[Kenji Utagawa @utagawake0]

Experimental Methods in Development Research
https://t.co/A5tyOA1wOQ

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Sports betting is a scourge.

Legalization reduced food sufficiency by 2.1% among working-age adults without a college degree, especially during the NFL season.

That translates into an estimated 284,000 additional food-insufficient households in 9 states.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Are you thinking about running an experiment to study racial discrimination?

Are you going to use names to signal race?

If so, I have a new tool for you! [link below]

This tool helps you to choose the names you want to use in your study based on...

1.) the strength of the racial signal you want to send
2.) whether you want to hold other factors (e.g., class) constant

In the past, names have been chosen in an ad hoc basis. We're trying to add the heft of name pre-testing to the study of racial discrimination.

[The New York Times @nytimes]

From @TheAthleticFC: Finally, Raúl Jiménez gets his first World Cup goal! He was in tears as he pointed to the sky.

For Jiménez, today perhaps represents the pinnacle of an extraordinary journey. From a near-death experience to playing for Mexico at home. https://t.co/RAjHhGCCD3

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

Each ICE operation generates roughly $196,000 in monthly losses for nearby businesses and communities. (That's 11x the government's administrative cost of a deportation.)

Why?

ICE activity decreases foot traffic in those public areas.

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Tracking rural markets using satellite imagery offers a new way to monitor economic conditions in remote, data-scarce regions – as demonstrated by a new research paper and online dashboard.

[El Colegio de México @elcolmex]

El @CEHColmex invita a la tercera sesión del webinar Base de datos de Estadísticas Históricas.
📆 Únete el 11 de junio a las 12:00 horas en: https://t.co/elIPPVD6XA
Participa: Herbert Klein
Comentan:
Martín Wasserman, @UBAonline
Sergio Serrano, @CUNYLaw

[J-PAL LAC @JPAL_LAC]

📘 Novo Policy Insight | Neste #WorldEnvironmentDay, compartilhamos evidências sobre como proteger florestas sem perder de vista quem depende delas.

Incentivos econômicos para conservar podem ajudar, mas o desenho importa.

#AgoraPeloClima #ForNature

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

I'm always excited when @DMcKenzie001's post on the state of development journals comes out! https://t.co/5iAWCc9jqf He includes a discussion of AI policies, submission fees, and more!

[Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna @pedrohcgs]

My @EmoryEconomics colleague, Alexis Toda, has a very nice and thought-provoking paper on using AI to review papers.

https://t.co/5VXGXiplxY

I encourage all to check!

[Mateo Hoyos @mathoyos]

Enough with the bleak local politics for a minute. Very excited to share that pre-proofs are out for our JDE article, “Local and Spillover Effects of Trade on Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil,” with @JosecoronadoAr and @GuilhermeKlei11. Thread below. 1/9

[Juan Vargas @juanf_vargas]

It was so much fun to chat with @jenniferdoleac about my @restatjournal paper—with M.Prem and @DanielMejiaL—for the 126th episode of @ProbCausation!
Thanks Jen for the invitation (and for paraphrasing my complicated answers 🤣).
Listen to it here: https://t.co/eH9XrkW8vl

[Mark Koyama @MarkKoyama]

Very glad this paper is out in print https://t.co/S15bfEOF2a. Will do a thread/substack post at some point!

[Omar García-Ponce @o_garcia_ponce]

Qué triste noticia. Raúl fue un académico generoso e interdisciplinario, y un gran formador de estudiantes y comunidades. Descanse en paz.

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

What are the most common topics in development economics? Following on the analysis of what % are RCTs, I developed a Python script to assign topic fields. (All the code + results are public here - anyone is welcome to use it.) #econtwitter #econsky
https://t.co/NLnXP8jlR1

[FLACSO México @FlacsoMx]

La FLACSO México lamenta el sensible fallecimiento del Dr. Raúl Pacheco-Vega entrañable profesor-investigador, colega, amigo y miembro muy querido de nuestra comunidad académica.

Expresamos nuestras más sentidas condolencias a sus familiares, amistades, colegas, estudiantado y a las comunidades académicas de las que formó parte.

[Jeffrey Wooldridge @jmwooldridge]

I'd like to announce that drlate, a Stata module for doubly robust estimation of the local average treatment effect (LATE) and the local average treatment effect on the treated (LATT), is now available in SSC.

[Adrien Matray @AdrienMatray]

I wrote a full guide for economists who have never used Claude. Mental model, setup, hard rules, FAQ on the Dropbox mistake, common failures.

Take a look and tell me what is still missing.

https://t.co/98FD3Hhbo7

[Michael Weintraub @miweintraub83]

Estaré hablando de estos resultados de la primera vuelta y mucho más en un webinar de @StanfordCDDRL hoy a las 5pm hora de Colombia.

El webinar es en inglés, pero feliz de responder a preguntas en el chat en español :)

https://t.co/1SayiWiCVV

[Michael Weintraub @miweintraub83]

🧵 Análisis de la primera vuelta presidencial en Colombia, 31 de mayo de 2026.

Hilo larguito con datos municipales (obviamente preliminares por ahora), que bajé de la pagina de la Registraduría, entre otras fuentes.

1/ De la Espriella (ADLE) primero con 43,7% (10,36 millones), Cepeda segundo con 40,9% (9,69 millones). Diferencia: ~673.000 votos sobre 23,7 millones de votos válidos.