The alpha political male Recorded live at the CEPR Annual Symposium. We seem to be talking about the behaviour of alpha males on social media a lot recently. But what happens when we put them in charge of a country? The work ...

@ecapuab.bsky.social professor Mario Carillo @mariocarillo.bsky.social has been interviewed by CEPR’s VoxEU Talks about his research on the alpha political male.
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New @ecapuab.bsky.social working paper by professor Mario Carillo @mariocarillo.bsky.social "The Effect of Migrant Regularization on Labor Exploitation"
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¿Qué es la banalidad del mal, que decía Annah Arendt?

La banalidad del mal es estar viendo tranquilamente Gran Hermano mientras tu gobierno masacra a una población indefensa.

(Y esto son unas activistas israelíes interrumpiendo la emisión. Ellas representan la dignidad frente a la frivolidad)
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Unlike Western Europe, Russia entrenched serfdom as an extractive institution rooted in frontier defence. To secure its borders, the state granted land to servicemen who leveraged their role to restrict peasant mobility—hardwiring coercion into law.

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Our department’s Serra Hunter fellows: Riccardo Turati, Jan-Luca Hennig, David Castells-Quintana, Mario Carillo and Manuel Flores. Missing in the picture is @alessioromarri.bsky.social.
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Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.

Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @saralowes.bsky.social as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk!

Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs!

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Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.

Maria Cubel

Next seminar at @ecapuab.bsky.social Maria Cubel (City U London, @cubel.bsky.social ), “Braggart or humble? The effect of self-reports on performance”
Thursday, March 6 15:00 at Sala de Graus FEiE @uab.cat

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Terra dei fuochi - Bonifiche a rilento, i casi di cancro e lo studio da 30 milioni di euro di cui non sa più niente - Il Fatto Quotidiano Bonifiche a rilento, i casi di cancro e lo studio da 30 milioni di euro di cui non sa più niente

Finalmente si parla della terra dei fuochi e di come lo Stato abbia abbandonato i cittadini www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2025/01/30/t...

Our "Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A Field Experiment on #EconTwitter" with Pedro Sant'Anna and @brunoferman.bsky.social is now forthcoming in the

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American Economic Review Insights (@AEAjournals )

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