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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Sep 3

🚨 I'm looking to hire a Research Assistant based in the UK for a project on the “Political economy of AI.” If you know someone interested, please let them know that they can fill this form to apply: forms.gle/wjhiJQ2hz8oa... Feel free to share this with your students or those interested. Thanks!

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨A new version of my paper on automation, redistributive conflict and inequality can be found here: cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/re...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Apr 21

I have a become a big fan of using tikz in latex for doing Directed Acyclic Graphs and plot functions in Latex. While it has its learning curve, the figures are so pretty that I feel it has been worth it. Whenever I run into a problem, tikz.dev has been an invaluable resource.

PGF/TikZ Manual - Complete Online Documentation

Full online version of the documentation of PGF/TikZ, the TeX package for creating graphics.

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Apr 15

Some happy news: I have joined the Institute for the Future of Work in London as an Affiliate Research Fellow!

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Apr 4

Excellent book I devoured recently - the title is self-explanatory :) : cloudempires.org

Cloud Empires: How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control

A major new book by Vili Lehdonvirta, Oxford Professor of Economic Sociology.

cloudempires.org

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Apr 1

Nice review on digital economics: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Digital Economics

(March 2019) - Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics ex...

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Peter Egge Langsæther @peterla.bsky.social · Mar 24

Technological change has had important consequences for labour markets in recent decades. What about its electoral consequences? In this new article in EJPR, we use administrative data to follow nearly a million workers over 16 years to study this. 🧵

ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The gendered long‐term consequences of automation risk on electoral behaviour: Evidence from Norway

We examine long-run effects of automation risk on turnout. We expect gendered negative effects because men's turnout is more sensitive to job loss and earnings, but negative effects might be offset b...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Mar 11

Studies of persistence of early institutions may be making conclusions that might be false - "it's all about spatial intra-cluster correlation my friend" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The standard errors of persistence

Many studies of historical persistence find that modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However they…

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 19

On why the DAGs are so useful: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=... and academic.oup.com/edited-volum... For me they also present alternatives for connecting theory with empirics; e.g., I find them useful when explaining students how to think about testable hypotheses when they don't know formal models

Potential Outcome and Directed Acyclic Graph Approaches to Causality: Relevance for Empirical Practice in Economics

(December 2020) - In this essay I discuss potential outcome and graphical approaches to causality, and their relevance for empirical work in economics. I review some of the work on directed acyclic gr...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 19

Absolutely, I just did so

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 15

🚨New working paper alert 🚨: In a model, I show that automation can increase political mobilization from workers and distributive conflict, but that this may not necessarily lead to lower levels of inequality unless the labor share is high. cfbalcazar.github.io/files/pdf/re...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 15

Practical guide to shift share instruments: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 11

Follow up on recent debate on non-linearities in full interaction effects arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05717

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Ricky Clark @rickyclark.bsky.social · Feb 11

My book, Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance, is out today! You can order it from @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social for 20% off with the discount code CLARK24. The purchase link and a short thread on the book follow 🧵

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 11

🚨Looking for an RA🚨I'm looking to hire a Research Assistant based in the UK for a project on the “Political economy of AI.” Please find the relevant information in the dropbox link. Please feel free to share this with your students or those you think may be interested. Thank you!

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Feb 2

Oh yes, and I left out stuff. But, essentially expecting reshoring, plus adding tariffs on recently nearshored goods - big facepalm

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Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Jan 28

Six days left to apply! 👇Come join us in Oslo.

Department of Political Science, University of Oslo @statsvitenskap.bsky.social · Dec 9

📣We are hiring! Please share!
👉2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science
🇳🇴 Department of Political Science, University of Oslo
📅 Deadline: February 3rd, 2025
🔗 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034) | University of Oslo

Job title: 2-4 Associate Professors in Political Science (271034), Employer: University of Oslo, Deadline: Monday, February 3, 2025

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · Jan 27

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Jan 22

In the context of a emerging "new gilded age," I think this is perhaps one of the most relevant books I have read in the past few years - recommended to everyone: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

The Great Reversal — Harvard University Press

A Financial Times Book of the YearA ProMarket Book of the Year“Superbly argued and important…Donald Trump is in so many ways a product of the defective capitalism described in The Great Reversal. What...

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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · Jan 20

Hi folks, a good day to join BlueSky! Here is my causal inference starter pack for you. go.bsky.app/Fa2XSDH

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Jan 20

Hi Paul, could I please be added to this starter pack? I do work in this area, and would love to keep connecting with other folks working in it. Thank you!

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Clément de Chaisemartin @cdechaisemartin.bsky.social · Jan 16

Are you estimating a first-difference (FD) regression, assuming that treatment changes randomly assigned? Happy to share new paper with two simple pieces of advice.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Advice 1: start by regressing treatment change Delta D on baseline treatment D1.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · Jan 16

The time of starter packs has almost faded, but as more and more European Think Tanks are arriving with their official accounts, I put together a starter pack of them:

go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU

Likely missed a few - especially from CEE and Northern Europe - so further suggestions welcome!

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WarEffects @wareffectserc.bsky.social · Jan 14

Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network:

✨ Research grants
✨ Workshop opportunities
✨ Publication support

📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25
🔗 Apply now: www.wareffects.eu/get-involved...

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Felipe Balcazar @cfbalcazar.bsky.social · Jan 13

I wrote a syllabus about this last semester, maybe you will find some interesting readings in it: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/f512c...

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