@femdias.bsky.social
🇧🇷 Predoc at Cornell's CIDER. Econ MA at UBC. Undergrad FEA-USP. Interested in development, education and crime https://femdias.github.io
Our new interview with Nicolás de Roux is out! We talked about his research on production in developing countries, the usage of models and causal estimation together, and how his research influences policy in Colombia. #Econsky #ETRM
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/09/etrm...
Nice to see at least one democracy preserving the rule of law. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
11.09.2025 19:16 — 👍 1348 🔁 273 💬 41 📌 14
Your latest interview is out! Kristina Manysheva talks about the importance of using macroeconomics to study development, innovation in a development context, and engaging with stakeholders. Check it out!
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/06/etrm...
#ETRM #EconSky
Check out our newest interview! @oyebolaoo.bsky.social talks about taxation policy in developing countries, working at the World Bank and advice for PhD students
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/05/etrm... #ETRM #EconSky
🚨 FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) offers grants for foreign researchers or Brazilians abroad to work in Brazil!
🔹 Thematic: up to R$6M, 5 yrs → deadline June 30, 2025
🔹 Young Investigator: up to R$2M, 4 yrs → deadline June 3, 2025
More: fapesp.br/17526 | fapesp.br/17473
#Research #Brazil
Just published! Don't miss our interview with Dean Karlan on his path in development economics, the current funding uncertainty, and the value of development aid. Read it here: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/04/etrm... #EconSky #ETRM
30.04.2025 14:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0seeing some joke comments about the subject matter of this paper so it seems important to clarify that studying competition between platforms and the effect of regulations in a setting with potentials for truly massive externalities is just a very high value added activity for economists to do
25.04.2025 18:28 — 👍 61 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
New interview on the blog! Claudio Ferraz talks about the importance of understanding local context and political constraints when studying development policies, among other insights into his career research. Read the full interview here: www.econthatmatters.com/2025/04/etrm... #EconSky
23.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1The share of apartments that are vacant is the highest its been since 2010. This is especially true in Dallas, Austin and Houston where many new apartment buildings have been built recently. This makes now a good time to negotiate a deal on your rent.
03.04.2025 13:20 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
We continue with our interview series. This time we interviewed Meredith Startz to discuss development, trade, and the challenges of collecting data to answer questions in these fields
www.econthatmatters.com/2025/03/etrm... #econtwitter #DevelopmentEcon #innovation #firm
A nossa produtividade está no mesmo nível em que estava quando apenas 3,4% d adultos tinham ensino superior. O único setor que tem aumento contínuo produtividade é a agricultura, que emprega cada vez menos gente. Naércio Menezes via @jmf7.bsky.social
21.03.2025 12:06 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Greg Mankiw, who has been teaching econ 101 for decades, scolds Hassett for causally interpreting an accounting identity and pretending it’s econ 101 gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2025/03/kevi...
10.03.2025 01:33 — 👍 320 🔁 68 💬 15 📌 13
Call for papers:
The Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime - one of the best conferences in this area - will be held in Berlin, Sep 26-27.
** Deadline for paper submissions: May 2 **
bit.ly/4183vJ8
Check out this video interview with Fabiano Dal-Ri (@fabianodalri.bsky.social), Postdoctoral Associate at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social, about his #ASSA2025 poster on the skills needed to start a successful business. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/conference/v...
21.02.2025 13:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets what’s at stake…
19.02.2025 21:38 — 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
This is a bizarre, unhinged, totally made-up conspiracy theory.
Immigrants who are not lawfully present in the United States get zero dollars of Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
This is very disappointing. @aeacswep.bsky.social operates in the service of the whole profession, including the fabulous newsletters with great career advice. Even resources targeted at women benefit the profession, as it increases the quality of the pool of economists we all hire from.
17.02.2025 15:04 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism
16.02.2025 12:50 — 👍 24093 🔁 5918 💬 466 📌 142I swear to God I told my daughter this very week that this was coming: some GOP politician was going to propose that. There’s a race to the bottom in showing fealty — and there is no bottom.
16.02.2025 16:06 — 👍 60 🔁 8 💬 2 📌 2📢o pacote {geocodebr} v0.1.0 para geolocalização de dados brasileiros em #rstats está no CRAN ! O #geocodebr é a maneira mais rápida e barata 🗺️📍🚀de geolocalizar endereços no 🇧🇷 ipeagit.github.io/geocodebr/ #rspatial
12.02.2025 22:18 — 👍 44 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3
The 'feeling' that X under Musk is a different place than before is quantified in this new study titled 'Substantial Hate'
1️⃣ hate speech up to 50% higher;
2️⃣ hate speech increase persistent;
3️⃣ no reduction in inauthentic accounts
#commsky @polcomm.bsky.social
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“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
― Benito Mussolini
The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers.
https://buff.ly/42ReSrr
The white-spotted pufferfish (Torquigener albomaculosus) is known for its unique and complex courtship display which involves creating large, geometric circles in the sand. These circles are constructed in an effort to attract females for copulation.
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🚨🚨NEW WORKING PAPER🚨🚨
Drawing on 25 stakeholder interviews, this study explores the social protection and humanitarian emergency nexus in Zambia.
Stepping out of my comfort zone, this was a very cool project to work with an excellent group of co-authors.
www.wider.unu.edu/publication/...
New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening
The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Screenshot from my backup ForeignAssistance dot gov site, with links to different USAID datasets
Screenshot from a live map that uses data from the backup API
Screenshot of foreign aid by country
The data at USAID's ForeignAssistance dot gov was removed over the weekend, but it seems to be back (for now). As a backup, I've uploaded the data both as static CSV files and a queryable API
- Details: andrewheiss.github.io/foreignassis...
- API: foreignassistance-data.andrewheiss.com
Trump’s tariffs are a bully strategy. Bullying doesn’t win over time on the playground or in the international arena. This self-inflicted supply shock is a strategic gift to Xi Jinping. 1/4
02.02.2025 14:55 — 👍 207 🔁 72 💬 9 📌 13Holy forking shirt balls
"Denial of a wanted abortion has both immediate and lasting effects. It increases a woman’s risk of death by 2.5 p.p within nine months, mainly due to unsafe abortion procedures, and raises the likelihood of carrying the pregnancy to term by 31 p.p. "
