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How the War on Drugs got us... blueberries : Planet Money Ever wondered why you can buy fresh Peruvian blueberries in the dead of winter? The answer, surprisingly, is tied to cocaine. Today on the show, we look at how the war on drugs led to an American trad...

A fascinating podcast on how economic statecraft—through tariff cuts and foreign aid—helped replace cocaine cultivation with asparagus and blueberries.
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05.04.2025 14:36 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

IU debate team discussing Trump's proposed tariffs.

Just wrapped up a fantastic debate in my int'l trade class! Two IU debate team members discussed Trump's proposed tariffs, starting with opening speeches for & against, then leading class discussions to refine arguments using course material. A highly-recommended class activity!

12.12.2024 17:37 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Here is the Podcast about our paper created using NotebookLM (Some aspects are explained MORE elaborately than I could!) @olgatcaci.bsky.social #patents #regionaleconomics #occupationmatching drive.google.com/file/d/1F9eP...

21.11.2024 16:36 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

What are causal effects of regional innovation on income and employment? New WP with @olgatcaci.bsky.social and S.Schweitzer
Using PATSTAT and SOEP, we match patenting activity to occupations. We find innovative region is good, innovative occupation is better! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

09.11.2024 15:40 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

Do Science Kardashians Get Citation Premium? Self-Fulfilling Effects of Social Media on Citations We analyze whether the social media popularity of scientists affects the number of academic citations. We use the COVID-19 global pandemic as a quasi-natural experiment exogenously increasing public a...

Revised WP with @econlessmann.bsky.social
shows it actually pays to be a "Science Kardashian" on social media! Kardashian virologists' pre-COVID papers started to get significantly more citations after COVID compared to their coauthors' papers during COVID. www.cesifo.org/en/publicati...

18.09.2024 06:04 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Does performance-based public funding pay off for university research? We apply Arkhangelsky et al.'s (AER, 2021) synthetic DiD to UK's REF. We find significant and causal effects in UK univs' Economics and Business research output since REF in 2009. Available as WP: ideas.repec.org/p/pbs/ecofin...

19.11.2023 09:02 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

New paper with @jvoth.bsky.social
"From the Death of God to the Rise of Hitler"
Click (pdf) 👉 lnkd.in/g2wtSvUm

20.10.2023 21:58 — 👍 95    🔁 35    💬 6    📌 7

Whether it is Bluesky or Twitter or whatever platform may be popular at the time, showcasing research pays off in terms of academic citations. Not only showcasing research, showcasing yourself --hence visibility-- brings home citations. More details in my VoxEU column:
cepr.org/voxeu/column...

08.10.2023 14:17 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0