John Lourenze Poquiz

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01.08.2025 12:34 — 👍 11    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1

I did my PhD graduation ceremony the other day. Happy to see my friends, my better half, my parents, and both my supervisors offer their support. A big thank you to you all. I couldn't have done it without you guys. Now back to work.

01.08.2025 09:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How Do You Say Your Name? Difficult-to-Pronounce Names and Labor Market Outcomes (November 2024) - We test for labor market discrimination based on an understudied characteristic: name fluency. Analysis of recent economics PhD job candidates indicates that name difficulty is negat...

Interesting read.

Apparently, people with difficult-to-pronounce names are disadvantage in labor markets:

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

04.06.2025 14:43 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Train disruptions so early in the week.

27.05.2025 08:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🧵The US leads the G7 in GDP growth. But what if we strip out the top 1%? Is the picture still the same?

@johnlpoquiz.bsky.social & Nghi Nguyen analyse the data by excluding the income & spending of the top earners to reveal a more realistic picture 👇

17.05.2025 15:25 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

What happens to economic growth if we take out income from the top earners?

In this blog post, we examine what happens when we adjust GDP by removing income from the top 1% and top 10%. Our estimates paint a different story of growth.

15.05.2025 13:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It's bring your wife to work day.

29.03.2025 20:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The forthcoming Bennett School of Public Policy will launch a new Masters course in Digital Policy, & deliver Cambridge’s well-established Masters in Public Policy, to help foster a generation of tech-savvy & socially aware policymakers.

www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...

07.03.2025 09:22 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Trump Advisers Want to Strip Public Spending From GDP Tally. Why It Makes No Sense. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick suggests removing government spending from the overall calculation of inflation-adjusted GDP..

C + I + G + NX - G

06.03.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

FT headline saying record number of Americans applying for UK citizenship

Waiting for Reform to complain about unfettered immigration
And Birbalsingh to ask if "Americans can ever truly be English?"
Wonder what it is about Americans they don't object to? 🤔

04.03.2025 09:17 — 👍 133    🔁 51    💬 12    📌 14

We're pleased to announce the Bennett School of Public Policy opening this autumn.

It will be a flagship, multi-disciplinary policy school, that will integrate & expand the teaching, research & engagement activities of the Bennett Institute.

www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/blog/bennett...

03.03.2025 07:39 — 👍 19    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 2

Today, artists are calling on Government to protect Britain’s creative industries from AI.

It aligns with our latest research with @mctd.bsky.social & @ai.cam.ac.uk which urges caution against an opt-out approach to copyright and Generative AI.

➡️ www.bennettinstitute.cam.ac.uk/publications...

25.02.2025 09:25 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New working paper! Sharing with you my paper on measuring the depreciation of intangibles. In this
@escoeorg.bsky.social study, we used Google Trends as an indicator of obsolescence for certain intangible assets such as software and movies.

Link to the paper and accompanying blog post below

19.02.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0