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Leonardo Maldonado

@ljmaldon.bsky.social

🇻🇪 Economist | Minnesota PhD & World Bank STC. Interested in development policy, natural resource economics, and remote sensing | 🔗 leonardojmaldonado.com

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Priorities for Private Investment in the Andean Countries The Andean countries are traditionally highly exposed to inter- national prices, primary exports, and foreign investment flows from developed economies. Since 2014, the global downturn has affected th...

🚨Glad to share that our technical note 'Priorities for Private Investment in the Andean Countries' (with Osmel Manzano) has just been published by the Inter-American Development Bank. Full paper: dx.doi.org/10.18235/001...

02.09.2025 22:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much @daveevansphd.bsky.social for sharing my work! Honored to see this research on rural poverty in #Venezuela being read and discussed. Using nighttime lights and gridded population data, I estimate rural poverty at municipal and state levels from 2000 to 2020. #poverty #development

10.04.2025 13:14 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Leonardo Maldonado Minnesota Venezuela Inequality

Leonardo Maldonado Minnesota Venezuela Inequality

Leonardo Maldonado Venezuela Inequality Theil

Leonardo Maldonado Venezuela Inequality Theil

🚨Excited to share good news! My paper 'Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse' was accepted for presentation at the 11th ECINEQ Conference, July 9-11, 2025, in Washington, D.C., co-hosted by the World Bank and George Washington University

01.04.2025 17:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#RDDers: check it out.

Donut Regression Discontinuity Designs

"While the donut approach is very popular in empirical practice, it is generally carried out in a heuristic fashion without much supporting statistical theory."

www.christophrothe.net/papers/donut...

25.03.2025 15:07 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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🚨 I’m happy to share that my paper ‘Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse’ was accepted to be presented at the IARIW-World Bank Special Conference in Hanoi, Vietnam #poverty #Venezuela #latinamerica #inequality #remotesensing #economics

21.03.2025 19:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
POBREZA ENERGÉTICA EN VENEZUELA
YouTube video by OJO CON ESO TV POBREZA ENERGÉTICA EN VENEZUELA

🇻🇪 Nueva entrevista! Agradecido con @OjoConEsoTV por la producción y José Manuel Serna por la invitación a su programa Inteligencia Económica. Conversamos sobre varios temas para Venezuela youtu.be/TwWrkvV9tvI

19.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Un pionero en la investigación económica en Venezuela: Leonardo Maldonado Salazar-Blanco
YouTube video by Venezuela como problema Un pionero en la investigación económica en Venezuela: Leonardo Maldonado Salazar-Blanco

🚨🇻🇪📢 Agradecido con Jonatan Alzuru y Jose Rafael Herrera (quién no pudo estar presente) por la invitación a su podcast, para conversar sobre el uso de imágenes satelitales en países con nula o poca información oficial (como podría ser, el caso de Venezuela) youtu.be/XtaJRacKLr0

16.03.2025 23:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
VENEZUELA EN OSCURIDAD TECNOLÓGICA
YouTube video by OJO CON ESO TV VENEZUELA EN OSCURIDAD TECNOLÓGICA

🚨🇻🇪📢 Agradecido por la invitación a conversar sobre el rol de las tecnologías de sensores remotos en el diagnóstico y la toma de decisiones informadas para Venezuela youtu.be/iaKc8q1iLYE

11.03.2025 21:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨🇻🇪 Great news! My paper, “Fading Lights in Venezuela? Regional Inequality During the Collapse,” has been accepted at the 2025 Society of Government Economists Annual Conference!

16.02.2025 22:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
R tutorial: How to create animated maps
YouTube video by Statistics Guides with Prof Paul Christiansen R tutorial: How to create animated maps

How to produce animated maps in #rstats data and code innhhe video description youtu.be/ra3BrCW5o54?...

04.02.2025 13:53 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you for the mention and amazing initiative @leightjessica.bsky.social !

09.01.2025 04:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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@Safoura_Moeeni: education + family, focus on Iran
sites.google.com/site/safoura...
@raisasherif: environment + development
raisasherif.com
@ljmaldon @ljmaldon.bsky.social: poverty + natural resources
www.leonardojmaldonado.com

06.01.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Dimensions of Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review @TheIFS The whole evidence volume of the Review, including all the remarkable articles examining the many dimensions of inequality, published open access by OUP at academic.oup.com/ooec/issue/3...

07.08.2024 08:10 — 👍 100    🔁 45    💬 2    📌 5
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LEONARDO MALDONADO - Projects PROJECTS

🚨🇻🇪 Actualizado a Nov2024. Luminosidad nocturna y % de área iluminada en Venezuela (a nivel país, estado, municipio y parroquia) | Updated to Nov2024. Nighttime light and % of lit area in Venezuela (at the country, state, municipality, and parish levels). www.leonardojmaldonado.com/projects

17.12.2024 22:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One year ago, I was defending my PhD dissertation in Minnesota. I truly miss my PhD program, but show must go on… “this part of my life, this little part is called Happyness.” #timepassby #phdlife #economics #Venezuela

05.12.2024 20:08 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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