On Tuesday, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor @diegopuga.org (@cemfi.es) for BESTEPS Closing Lecture, “Research Products in Economics.”

🆕 Meet our 2025-2026 PhD #JobMarket Candidates!
🔺 @favredenoguera.bsky.social
🔺 Alejandra Paz Rivera Vicencio
🔺 Julia McGee
🔺 Alyvia McTague

Learn more about their profiles, including their research fields, and job market papers ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/zlktxlzgen

🗓️ On Monday, we had the pleasure of hosting Professor Albrecht Glitz (@upf.edu & Barcelona School of Economics) for BESTEPS Lecture 4, “Crafting the Job Market Paper.”

🚨 We’re delighted to announce the release of Volume 1 of The BESTEPS Guide: 7 Lessons Towards Effective Economics PhD Research — now available as an open-access resource!

📚 Introducing the new Applied Economics #ReadingGroup!

Organized by the IEB & @ub.edu’s Public Economics Section, this spring we explored:
📌 Baseline Regression Discontinuity
📌 Recent RD developments
📌 Difference‑in‑Discontinuities

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☕ Research Ideas Coffee Talk turned 1!

This season, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of this growing initiative! 🎉 Huge thanks to the organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and ‪@favredenoguera.bsky.social‬, who made this possible.

#EconPhD #EconSky #PhDCoffees #AcademicCommunity #PhDLife 🧵👇🏼

Plus, Catanzaro was truly a treat. From the talks to the trip and everything, I enjoyed every bit of it. Huge thanks to the amazing organizers!

It was an inspiring experience to take part in such a focused and high-caliber gathering of researchers in the economics of education. 🥂 Super grateful for the thoughtful feedback and stimulating discussions, as well as and the chance to reconnect with friends and meet new colleagues.

Last Monday, I presented our paper "Penalizing Failures at University" (joint with Andreu Arenas Jal and Jenifer Ruiz Valenzuela) at the 15th International Workshop of Applied Economics of Education (#IWAEE).

Needless to say, the city was incredible: full of energy, history, and, of course, amazing food 🍕 Huge thanks to the organizers for making this happen!

It was a great pleasure to present our work, Penalizing Failures at University, with Andreu Arenas and Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela at the #ESPE2025 in Naples last week!

Grateful for all the insightful feedback and inspiring conversations — and it was fantastic to catch up with friends.

☕Since January, we've been enjoying vibrant discussions around the research ideas of our Economics PhD candidates and visitors, through our Research Ideas Coffee Talk series. 

Huge thanks to our series organizers, @mengweilin.bsky.social and @favredenoguera.bsky.social, for making this happen!👇🏼🧵

It was only possible with the efforts of Marcella De Giovanni, Judit Farré, and Sergio Blanco, and support from @juditvall.bsky.social, Cio Patxot, @annachesa.bsky.social, @ruixizhang.bsky.social, Thompson Ogajah Tawiah, @sofiaballadares.bsky.social, @jingyangw.bsky.social & @zhenninghan.bsky.social

🥂 What an amazing session! Huge thanks to Professor @libertadgonzalez.bsky.social for delivering such a practical and engaging talk — we all learned so much! It was a real pleasure to organize it.

Huge thanks to Judit Farré, @annachesa.bsky.social, Thompson Ogajah Tawiah, @sofiaballadares.bsky.social, @zhenninghan.bsky.social, Àlex Izquierdo Nofuentes, @ruixizhang.bsky.social, and @jingwentan.bsky.social, among others, for the invaluable help and support in ensuring everything ran smoothly! 🎉

Many thanks to Professor Antonio Cabrales for the truly well-crafted and inspiring lecture! It was an honor to organize the event!

@saayushi.bsky.social @elisamuscarella.bsky.social 😃

It's an honor! Thanks very much for this recognition and for liking the paper!

Thanks everybody for the support! Looking forward to contributing to our #Economics PhD community! 🍺