📝New research by @billywoom.bsky.social and @doniakamel.bsky.social uncovers how skin tone shapes player recognition in professional #football — even when performance is identical⚽️
These biases translate into lower market valuations for darker-skinned players.
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Two brand-new fascinating articles on the LAC region newly accepted in the JDE #econtwitter #econsky. . .first, this banger of a title for a paper by @billywoom that shows that skin tone, even within self-reported ethnoracial identity categories, predicts outcomes
Thanks for sharing my dearest Arturito! 🙌🏽
Striking and very important work! Keep your eyes on @billywoom.bsky.social — I learn a lot from him and so will you
Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility.
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Had a great time presenting one of my favourite research projects with my amazing friend @doniakamel.bsky.social 👇
Huge thanks to the organisers for including our paper!
Wait for the new draft coming soon 😮💨
One week left to submit your paper for the Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social.
Submissions 👇
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#econtwitter #econsky #callforpapers #workshop
Chagas disease control in Brazil increased GDP per capita by 11.1 percent, reduced income inequality, improved non-white upward mobility, and lowered public healthcare spending, from Jon Denton-Schneider and Eduardo Montero https://www.nber.org/papers/w33518
Excited to share the summary of our Regional Science and Urban Economics paper! 🤠 We study the enduring effects of colonial segregation on land prices in Mexico City.
Huge thanks to @jeffrlin.bsky.social for his great editorial guidance and to Emily Sellars for hosting us on Broadstreet!
#EconSky
📢 Broadstreet has relaunched its blog, now on Substack! We’re honoured to feature our research in the first post!
"Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation and Contemporary Land Values"
with @billywoom.bsky.social @tradecosts.bsky.social
Check it out ! 🌍
New Broadstreet post!
Featuring guest contributors @billywoom.bsky.social, @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social, and @tradecosts.bsky.social
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🚨New dataset alert 🚨
In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico!
Download here:
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#EconSky #Mexico
I set up this feed to tweet recent articles from JUE, RSUE, and JOEG. One per journal per day, from the publishers’ RSS feeds. Give it a follow if this seems useful to you! (Here’s an article that I edited at RSUE.)
Shout out to @tradecosts.bsky.social and co-authors for their fascinating work on ‘How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today’ via @voxdev.bsky.social
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🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today
Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...
📢 Excited to share new research with @billywoom.bsky.social, @pse.bsky.social, and Luis Baldomero Quintana L. @global-wm.bsky.social!
In this @voxdev.bsky.social post, we explore how colonial legacies shape spatial inequalities and their implications for urban development today. 🌆🌇🏙️