Richard Jaimes

Ass. Prof. @JaverianaEcon. Ph.D. Econ @TiUEconomics. Co-founder @labsoste_PUJ. Macro+climate change+demographics. 🇨🇴 Writer & Poet. Check the link below ⬇️

[Economía Javeriana @JaverianaEcon]

🌎¿Cómo cambian las políticas climáticas cuando el mundo envejece?

Un paper de Richard Jaimes (@rjaimesb), profesor del Departamento de Economía, junto con Reyer Gerlagh y Ali Motavasseli, estudia el vínculo entre el cambio demográfico, las tasas de ahorro y el cambio climático.

[Dan O'Brien @danobrien20]

Populists in government make people poorer, with left wing populists doing most damage. That’s the finding of new study covering most of the world from 1900 to 2020.

[Stefan Schubert @StefanFSchubert]

"The collapse of the econ PhD job market"

[Banco República 🇨🇴 @BancoRepublica]

Decisión de política monetaria:
En su reunión de julio la #JuntaBanRep decidió por mayoría mantener inalterada la tasa de interés de política monetaria en 9,25%. Cuatro directores votaron a favor de esta decisión, dos por una reducción de 50 pb y uno por 25 pb.

Más información en el comunicado de prensa 👉 https://t.co/vIF5RreQRW

[Jonatan Pallesen @jonatanpallesen]

I suspect that fertility rates are too abstract for people. What is the difference between a fertility rate of 1 and 1.7 exactly? Is it a big deal? Yes

With a fertility rate in the vicinity of below 1, the country's young population will dwindle away to close to nothing in just 3-4 generations.

After that, over some decades, the old people will gradually die off. And then you have nothing. Abandoned towns and abandoned homes. A ghost country.

[Florian Ederer @florianederer]

Academics from poorer socio-economic backgrounds are more likely to
- not publish
- have outstanding publication records
- introduce more novel scientific concepts
- less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations, and awards.

[Ismael Sanz @sanz_ismael]

Suecia apuesta por volver a lo básico: libros de texto, papel y bolígrafo. Gobierno de Suecia ha decidido dar un paso atrás en su estrategia de digitalización educativa. Parte de una reflexión sobre cómo las pantallas estaban afectando negativamente al aprendizaje de los estudiantes https://t.co/Bg2fSRyK8S

[Robert Metcalfe @RDMetcalfe]

In all of the debates on inflation, I’ve noticed that commentators have overlooked this fantastic 2001 AER paper on preferences over inflation and unemployment.

“the well-being cost of a 1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate equals the loss brought about by an extra 1.66 percentage points of inflation.”

Some student should try to update this analysis and see if this trade-off is currently in the same ballpark.

https://t.co/tZ9CaQKHzq

[Kareem Carr, Ph.D. @kareem_carr]

This is one of the deepest and most beautiful equations in all of statistics in my opinion.

[Cesar Mantilla @CesarMant]

En un proyecto con @adiazescobar y @Danielf_Parra estamos buscando un Investigador Júnior y un Asistente de Investigación:

https://t.co/o37E2blk7M

https://t.co/RwyFqRwr48

Por favor, RT.

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The No. 1 mistake PhD students make when reading papers...

(And the 11-step solution that changed everything for me)

They read without structure.
The Beatles sang: All you need is love.
But really they meant: All you need is structure.

11 steps to extract key insights

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

PhD students — Do these 10 things in the first year of your PhD.

With this, 90% of your PhD problems will disappear.

𝟏. 𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐢𝐜: Many PhD students struggle to narrow down their research topic to a concrete research gap. Learn how to perform a gap analysis. Read more secondary studies. Make sure that you don't end up doing something that already exists.

𝟐. 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐚 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐬: Understand how your supervisors work. If they expect something in a written form in each meeting, make sure to follow accordingly. Learn the best communication ways and clarify expectations.

𝟑. 𝐃𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐬: Certain skills and habits are quite common across all types of research. For example, how to read a research paper, how to be consistent, and how to do a literature review. Develop them as early as possible.

𝟒. 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐦𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫: This will really help you in the confirmation of your candidature if you have a paper published or at least submitted. Try to publish as soon as possible. If it happens, it will give a big boost to your confidence level.

𝟓. 𝐌𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐡𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡: The early you understand the importance of your mental and physical health in your PhD, the better it is for you. Don't think that if you never exercised before, you don't need it in your PhD either. You do need it.

𝟔. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐬: Once your gap research a matured level, start identifying and following the most relevant researchers, conferences, and journals. This will help to be updated and understand the expectations.

𝟕. 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠: Within 6 months or so into your PhD, start reflecting on what skills I am lacking. These skills could include networking, collaborations, presentation, and so on. Start developing them from there on.

𝟖. 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡: Some students take too much teaching load right away. Don't do it. It will impact your PhD progress. Once your PhD path is laid out, then you can teach in the later years.

𝟗. 𝐃𝐨 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐨𝐨 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐲: Some students start in a very relaxed way - oh I have a lot of time. Start it with a full swing as later you might not be as energetic as you might be at the start. The first year is the most crucial year. Start it well and your life will be easy later.

𝟏𝟎. 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟: At the start, most of the PhD students are directionless - what to do, what's going on, days are passing by, and I am not doing anything. Learn how to find your way forward right from the start.

Anything you'd like to add?

[hillaryvipond @hillaryvipond]

This was legit the most entertaining mild ridicule of the standard production function I've seen. Here are its elements:

[Laboratorio de Sostenibilidad Empresarial @labsoste_PUJ]

Hablemos de Oportunidades y retos laborales en la #descarbonización de la #economía y cómo esas transformaciones tienen efectos sobre el #empleo. transmisión en vivo por nuestras redes sociales.
¡Te esperamos!

@UniJaveriana @FCEAJaveriana @MintrabajoCol @ELTIEMPO @elespectador

[Banco República 🇨🇴 @BancoRepublica]

Conozca el Programa de Estudios en el Exterior ✈️ del @BancoRepublica y aplique a uno de los patrocinios que se ofrecen para posgrados en esta versión 2024.
No olvide cerrar su postulación, inscripciones hasta el 14 de abril de 2024 👉🏼 https://t.co/rKyWQZ0GiL

[Richard Baldwin @BaldwinRE]

New data set! Free!
👉This @voxeu column overviews the evolution of central bank independence of 155 countries, 1923-2023 ✍️Davide Romelli @ucddublin
🔗 https://t.co/giXovFz5qj cc: @cepr_org @ecb @pdegrauwe @bweder @CharlesWyplosz @ojblanchard1 @JustinWolfers

[Pontus Rendahl @pontus_rendahl]

Why teaching evaluations as a metric of quality makes education worse.

1, Usual stuff ofc: students are not equipped to eval a topic they obviously don’t know. They reward likeableness, and penalise toughness. Conveying knowledge, or quality of teaching, might be secondary. 1/7

[Luz Karime Abadia @luzka_abadia]

En Colombia cada vez hay menos primíparos en los programas de pregrado. Los invito a leer mi columna 👇 https://t.co/zT462lhTAn