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Samuel Bentolila
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Labor economist at Cemfi
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Carlos José

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Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 22h
The kids are Alt-right: la tolerancia de los jóvenes frente al autoritarismo nadaesgratis.es/cabrales/the... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
The kids are Alt-right: la tolerancia de los jóvenes frente al autoritarismo
El jueves me desperté con una noticia muy triste: una cuarta parte de los jóvenes ve preferible en determinadas circunstancias un régimen autoritario. Y buscando un poco en la literatura, me doy cuent...
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Eva Vivalt @evavivalt.bsky.social · 1d
🚨 New working paper!

How well do people predict the results of studies?

@sdellavi.bsky.social and I leverage data from the first 100 studies to have been posted on the SSPP, containing 1,482 key questions, on which over 50,000 forecasts were placed. Some surprising results below.... 🧵👇

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

drodrik.bsky.social
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 4d
China’s export machine is a wake-up call for other nations. But it requires targeted and separate responses for national security, innovation, and jobs—objectives that are too often conflated. My latest. www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/c...
How to Respond to Chinese Imports
Dani Rodrik explains what governments should be doing to address the risks to national security, innovation, and jobs.
www.project-syndicate.org

samben8.bsky.social
Samuel Bentolila @samben8.bsky.social · 4d
In this new working paper @yaninadomenella.bsky.social and I study how intensive support can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities find jobs. Spoiler: it not only does but also significantly raises their well-being
cemfi.es CEMFI @cemfi.es · 6d
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2528....

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 5d
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2529....

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 6d
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2528....

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 14d
There are huge differences in death rates from road injuries, even across high-income countries
Horizontal bar chart showing number of deaths from road injuries per 100,000 people in 2021 for 16 high-income countries; deaths include drivers and passengers, motorcyclists, cyclists, and pedestrians. Highest is Saudi Arabia at 45 per 100,000, followed by Oman 36 and United Arab Emirates 20. United States 11, Chile 9.5. Mid-range examples: Australia 4.8, Italy 4.8, Canada 4.4, France 4.4, Spain 3.7, Germany 3.3. Lower end: Japan 2.2, United Kingdom 2, and Norway, Singapore, and Sweden each 1.9. Annotation states that death rates in Middle Eastern high-income countries are 10 to 24 times higher than in those with the safest roads. Data source listed as IHME, Global Burden of Disease (2024); note that the metric is age-standardized for cross-country comparisons; image marked CC BY.

Reposted by Ludger Woessmann, Samuel Bentolila, Georg Weizsäcker

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CRC Rationality & Competition @rationalitycrc.bsky.social · 14d
How much does out-of-school learning influence foreign-language acquisition? Our new analysis shows that historical national decisions to subtitle imported TV content systematically result in a large positive effect on English-language skills.

open.substack.com/pu...

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 18d
Depressing new evidence on work conditions for Amazon delivery drivers (and interesting comparisons with UPS), by Danny Schneider and David Weil theconversation.com/the-unraveli...
The unraveling of workplace protections for delivery drivers: A tale of 2 workplace models
A first-of-its-kind study finds Amazon’s delivery drivers earn less and face more instability than their unionized counterparts.
theconversation.com

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

ourworldindata.org
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 18d
Democracies tend to have lower levels of corruption
This scatter plot illustrates the relationship between political corruption and electoral democracy indices for various countries in 2024. The vertical axis represents the political corruption index, ranging from 0, indicating less corruption, to 1, indicating more corruption. The horizontal axis shows the electoral democracy index, also ranging from 0 to 1, where higher values suggest greater levels of democracy. The chart is titled "Countries that are more democratic tend to be less corrupt" Each country is represented by a point on the graph, with countries like Denmark and Singapore positioned closer to the lower end of the corruption scale and higher on the democracy scale, indicating they are less corrupt and more democratic. In contrast, countries like Myanmar and Russia are closer to the higher end of the corruption index. The data is sourced from V-Dem, with estimates based on expert evaluations. The chart is licensed CC BY to Our World in Data.

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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Jonathan A. Parker @profjaparker.bsky.social · 19d
The EU is running a tight race to the bottom with the US for fiscal insolvency. Here is a great summary of the situation, and how much fiscal adjustment is required by country:
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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Joshua Goodman @joshua-goodman.com · 19d
🚨Fascinating research alert 🚨

"This paper explores how the proportion of teenagers skipping school has changed following the COVID-19 pandemic across the developed world.

We find that this problem is mainly confined to industrialised English-speaking nations, especially affecting teenage girls."

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Carlos José, Elisabetta Aurino

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Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 19d
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española
Por: Jorge García Hombrados y María Hernández-de-Benito En Nada es Gratis hemos hablado muchas veces de cómo la economía, más allá de los precios, los mercados o los tipos de interés, sirve para en...
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

cemfi.es
CEMFI @cemfi.es · 20d
How does after-school childcare affect children's human capital investment?

JMC Sevin Kaytan finds that after-school childcare increases university graduation rates by reshaping children's beliefs and preferences through peer interactions in care centers

sevinkaytan.com

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Aaron Sojourner

drodrik.bsky.social
Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 21d
Official publication day www.barnesandnoble.com/w/shared-pro...
Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate|Hardcover
New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s...
www.barnesandnoble.com

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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KSNET @ksnet.bsky.social · 21d
📢𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗳 #𝗝𝗣𝗘𝗩𝗔𝗟 𝗶𝘀 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲!

📚It brings together research on:

• Institutionalization and digitalization of evaluation
• Employment and social protection policies
• Care and gender equality
• AI applied to evaluation

👉 polipapers.upv.es/index.php/jp...

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

cemfi.es
CEMFI @cemfi.es · 21d
🎓 Thinking about grad studies in #Economics or #Finance?
Applications to CEMFI’s Master and Doctoral programs open soon!

📅 Applications open Nov 11, 2025
💰 Funding deadline Jan 31, 2026
🕓 Final deadline May 31, 2026

👉 Learn more: www.cemfi.es/programs/mas...
📧 [email protected]

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 21d
What limits agricultural mechanization in Africa?

JMC Sophie Nottmeyer finds that digital monitoring reduces moral hazard between owners and operators in tractor rental markets in Kenya, improving spatial allocation and raising agricultural productivity.

sophienottmeyer.github.io

Reposted by Branko Milanovic, Miles Corak, Samuel Bentolila , and 2 more

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Maximilian Kasy @maxkasy.bsky.social · 23d
Just out in the New York Times:

My op-ed on the limits of data-privacy and the need for democratic control in the age of AI.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/o...

@nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Deciding Who You Are
In the age of A.I., personal data is anything but personal.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Diane Coyle, Richard S.J. Tol, Alistair Munro , and 12 more

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Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham @paulgp.com · 23d
Dropping a beta version of this page while everyone is up and processing baseball!

This tool lets you search the full text of papers from the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal series, and over 30,000 NBER working papers.

paulgp.com/econlit-pipe...
Economics Literature Search
Full-text search across 15,000+ papers from top economics journals and NBER working papers. Track how empirical methods have evolved over time.
paulgp.com

Reposted by Richard Blundell, Samuel Bentolila

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Quantitative Economics @qe-editors.bsky.social · 25d
How do durables affect consumption smoothing? Asymmetric information lowers their value as a smoothing tool. We measure lemons penalty for cars using Danish data and show income shocks sustain used car market @richardblundell.bsky.social @ran-gu.bsky.social buff.ly/3j30eyQ

Reposted by Ludger Woessmann, Samuel Bentolila

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The JHR @j-humanresources.bsky.social · 27d
Can schools change faith? Benjamin Arold, @woessmann.bsky.social & Larissa Zierow find that ending mandatory #ReligiousEducation reduces adult #religiosity by 7%. Students earn more, work longer hours, but pray less and skip church.
doi.org/10.3368/jhr....
Can Schools Change Religious Attitudes? Evidence from German State Reforms of Compulsory Religious Education Benjamin W. Arold, Ludger Woessmann and Larissa Zierow We study whether compulsory religious education in schools affects students’ religiosity as adults. We exploit the staggered termination of compulsory religious education across German states in models with state and cohort fixed effects. Using three different datasets, we find that a reform abolishing compulsory religious education significantly reduced the religiosity of affected students in adulthood. It also reduced the religious actions of personal prayer, church-going, and church membership. Beyond religious attitudes, and consistent with a shift towards worldly norms and economic activities, the reform led to higher labor-market participation and earnings. By contrast, the reform did not affect ethical and political values or non-religious school outcomes.

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 27d
New Working Paper! 📢
Read it here: www.cemfi.es/ftp/wp/2507....

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Antonio Fatás

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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 27d
David Martinez-Miera & Carlos Sunyer examine how an increase in political polarisation impacts a region's capacity to attract human capital. They leverage Spain's centralised system of medical resident placements and the 2017 Catalonia referendum as a case study.
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
#EconSky
Graph showing average medical residents’ score in Catalonia vs rest of Spain. The points represent yearly mean residuals from an individual-level regression of score on province and specialty-year fixed effects, disaggregated by region. Lines represent the linear fit to the scatterplots, separately estimated before and after the shock. Given the growing prevalence of political and social polarisation, understanding its effects on society is of paramount importance. This column discusses the effects of an increase in political polarisation on a region’s capacity to attract human capital. The evidence shows how an increase in polarisation results in lower attraction of human capital, especially for individuals with higher human capital scores.

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Carlos José

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Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 27d
¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio nadaesgratis.es/admin/en-la-... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía
¿En la salud y en la enfermedad? Cuando los problemas de salud ponen a prueba el matrimonio
Por Javier Adrián López Artero (Universidad de Alicante), Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano (Universidad de Alicante y Universidad de Valencia) y Daniela Vuri (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) En las últimas dé...
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila

cemfi.es
CEMFI @cemfi.es · 28d
Rafael Repullo has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Málaga
www.cemfi.es/all_news_blo...

Reposted by Steven N. Durlauf, Samuel Bentolila

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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 29d
Hi! Since others are talking about my book, thought I'd share a little about it. The book is a love letter to women everywhere wondering why their time just isn't adding up. It turns out, it's not you! We are getting massively squeezed by structural changes! 🧵
www.amazon.com/Having-All-T...

Reposted by Anne Applebaum, Samuel Bentolila, Francesco Nicoli

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 29d
Elon Musk's involvement in politics really hurt Tesla sales.

"Without the Musk partisan effect, Tesla sales between October 2022 and April 2025 would have been 67-83% higher, equivalent to 1-1.26 million more vehicles."

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Clark Gray

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Oct 22
In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty.

This increase starts before bills are signed into law.

Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.

Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Raquel Fonseca

bde.es
Banco de España @bde.es · Oct 22
Documento Ocasional: “¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados" www.bde.es/wbe/es/publi... #bdePublicaciones#bdePublicaciones
¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados
¿Qué políticas son efectivas para reducir la exclusión social? Evaluación de cinco proyectos piloto de inclusión social a través de ensayos aleatorizados
www.bde.es