Guillermo Alves

Final week to send your papers!

Final week to send your papers!

The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!

FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th

@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social

The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out!

FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025
Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU)
Deadline for submission: Jul 15th

@urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social

Mañana se marcha por el respeto irrestricto del proyecto de vida del prójimo.

Featured in the latest Digest: "The Impact of a Boston Desegregation Busing Program on Student Outcomes"
https://www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-boston-desegregation-busing-program-student-outcomes

A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution* Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90

"Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs...the returns to marginal audits...exceed the returns to average audits...Deterrence...results in the 12:1 return above the 90th percentile." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

📢Just released:
Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝

11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving

How does your country do?
👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html

Mexicans are able to correctly estimate the magnitude of income inequality in the country but they overestimate (by a lot) the degree of intergeneracional mobility in the country.

From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez

Mathew Turner gives the first keynote lecture at the third workshop of LACEA's urban economics network 'LAUrban' at Banco de Mexico

The program for next week's LACEA-LAUrban conference in Mexico City is now online! 🗓️📢

A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco.

Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...

Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf

20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Celebrating 20 years of google scholar with 20 things you didn't know about it

blog.google/outreach-ini...

Forward to the Special Issue “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Urban Economics”

The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The two most salient innovations to automobiles — EVs and autonomous vehicles — both make congestion pricing valuable:

EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing

There are several reasons to be sceptical about the misallocation literature (which does not show but generally assumes that policy-induced distortions generate the wedges) but an underrated one is simply historical. The USA in the 19th century also had lots of 'misallocation'....

A reminder of our current call for papers for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social next meeting in Berlin March 2025. Deadline to submit a paper is Monday 9th December: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...