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Samuel Bentolila

@samben8.bsky.social

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Labor economist at Cemfi https://sites.google.com/view/samuel-bentolila-home

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Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Lindsay M. Tedds, Samuel Bentolila , and 1 more Caroline Krafft, Lindsay M. Tedds, Samuel Bentolila, Lauren Hersch Nicholas

John A. List @johnlist.bsky.social · 2d

The econ PhD market will be difficult this year. The exact same thing happened when I went on the market years ago: I sent out 150 applications...and got 1 interview! Then I wrote a paper about it! ideas.repec.org/p/feb/natura...

Both sides of the market responded. Is this happening now too?

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NBER @nber.org · 6d

A broad shift to electric vehicles, which are quieter than traditional vehicles, could yield noise reduction benefits of $77.3 billion, concentrated among low-income families, from Enrico Moretti and Harrison Wheeler https://www.nber.org/papers/w34298

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Samuel Bentolila @samben8.bsky.social · 7d

I am really grateful to Cemfi for organizing this workshop and in particular to all the organizers, participants, and attendants. It was a high quality scientific event, full of warmth and fun. It was wonderful to get together with so many good friends

CEMFI @cemfi.es · 8d

The workshop "Labor Markets, Institutions, and Economic Policy: A Workshop in Honor of Samuel Bentolila" took place on Monday, September 29th, at CEMFI
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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 8d

The workshop "Labor Markets, Institutions, and Economic Policy: A Workshop in Honor of Samuel Bentolila" took place on Monday, September 29th, at CEMFI
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Samuel Bentolila @samben8.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations, Ivan!

CEMFI @cemfi.es · 15d

Congratulations to Ivan Lagrosa for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis at CEMFI!. Thanks to Franck Malherbert, Marcel Jansen @mjansen_madrid and Brînduşa Dana Anghel for serving in the Thesis Defense Committe and to Ivan’s advisor Josep Pijoan-Mas

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 15d

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 15d

Randomized controlled trials are a key tool to study cause and effect. Why do they matter and how do they work?

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Kiko Llaneras @kikollan.llaneras.es · 19d

¿Jóvenes contra boomers?

El debate está justificado: los datos muestran una brecha económica que no existía.

Además, apuntan una causa de fondo: España no crece como antes.

Cuatro gráficos para entender la tensión generacional 👇

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 21d

Josep Pijoan-Mas has been awarded a research grant from the "la Caixa" Foundation
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch, Carlos José

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 21d

Homenaje a Javier Andrés nadaesgratis.es/javier-ferri... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Homenaje a Javier Andrés

Por José E. Boscá, Rafael Doménech y Javier Ferri El grupo de investigación MaPPA (Macroeconomics and Public Policy Analyisis) de la Universitat de València inició el año 2024 la organización de un...

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Reposted by Dirk Pilat, Samuel Bentolila, Fabian Kosse

Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · 21d

This paper shows that children are significantly less likely to enter the academic track if they come from a low socio-economic status family. A low-intensity mentoring program can improve long-run education outcomes of disadvantaged children and reduce inequality of opportunity.

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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 22d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Macroeconomics: "Macro Recruiting Intensity from Micro Data" by Simon Mongey and Giovanni L. Violante. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Macro Recruiting Intensity from Micro Data

(Forthcoming Article) - We merge QCEW and JOLTS microdata to study recruiting intensity of firms in the cross section and over time. We show that vast establishment-level heterogeneity in vacancy fill...

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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch, Carlos José

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 22d

Habéis convertido Nada es Gratis en una basura nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Habéis convertido Nada es Gratis en una basura

No es sorprendente que el clima político de creciente crispación que estamos viviendo se haya filtrado hasta un espacio como Nada es Gratis. En los últimos años, diversas personas han expresado su des...

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · 23d

Banco de España, UC3M and CEMFI organize the 1st Madrid Mountain Macro Conference (MMM)
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Reposted by Carlos Gradín, Samuel Bentolila

OECD Social @oecdsocial.bsky.social · 23d

📢 Out now: “Gender Equality in a Changing World”

Key topics covered:
✅ Advancing equal opportunities in work, education, leadership, health, and care
✅ Addressing gender-based violence
✅ The digital and green transitions

Find out more 👉 oe.cd/6ag

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Reposted by Dirk Pilat, Dorothea Schäfer, Samuel Bentolila

VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 23d

During the European #energy crisis, Spain & Portugal intervened directly in the wholesale market, decoupling electricity prices from gas. This lowered consumer bills, with little impact on public funds.
N Fabra, @clmtleblanc.bsky.social @mateus-souza.bsky.social‬
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Graph of electricity prices in European exchanges of France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK. Spain had much lower electricity prices than the rest of the countries after implementing their solution of directly intervening in the wholesale market.

Europe’s recent energy crisis generated large windfall rents for electricity producers. Yet, most EU governments responded with costly downstream measures that left wholesale prices – and producer profits – largely untouched. This column shows that Spain and Portugal charted a different course by intervening directly in the wholesale market, decoupling electricity prices from gas. This substantially lowered consumer bills, with little impact on public funds. Crucially, the intervention provided proportionally greater relief to low-income households, highlighting how policy design can shape both efficiency and equity in times of crisis.

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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch, Carlos José

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 24d

Bajar impuestos a los dividendos: Mucho reparto y poca inversión nadaesgratis.es/miguel-almun... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Bajar impuestos a los dividendos: Mucho reparto y poca inversión

Cuando se debate sobre política fiscal, uno de los mantras más repetidos es que reducir los impuestos al capital incentivará la inversión y el crecimiento. El argumento suele presentarse como algo cas...

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 28d

The latest World Bank data counts 125 million more people as living in extreme poverty — but the world has not gotten poorer.

A line graph titled "A comparison of World Bank estimates of extreme poverty" illustrates the global number of people living in extreme poverty.

Two distinct lines are present: one in dark brown representing the previous estimates using a poverty line of $2.15 per day measured in 2017 prices, and another in blue for the latest estimates utilizing a new poverty line of $3 per day measured in 2021 prices. The brown line trends downward, starting around 2 billion in 1990 and reaching 692 million in 2024. The blue line, starting slightly higher at roughly 2.3 billion, shows a similar decline, reaching 817 million in 2024. The difference between the lines — 125 million — indicates the increase in the estimated number of people living in extreme poverty due to the new measurement criteria.

The note at the bottom indicates that data has been adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs using international dollars from 2017 and 2021. The data source is the World Bank (2025)

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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch, Carlos José

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · 29d

Los peligros de confundir correlación con causalidad nadaesgratis.es/santiago-san... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Los peligros de confundir correlación con causalidad

Como quizás sepan, la semana pasada publiqué en este blog una entrada sobre la investigación que estudia si la inmigración causa crimen. El texto resumía un trabajo de Marie y Pinotti sobre la literat...

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Reposted by Juan F. Vargas, Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch

Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · Sep 4

Desgraciadamente, importantes partidos y medios de comunicación continúan dando eco y espacio a la idea de que la inmigración trae crimen. ¿Pero qué dice la evidencia? A esto respondo en mi nueva entrada en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social
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Inmigración y crimen: lo que dice la evidencia

Entre otros temas, este verano ha estado marcado por la agitación del fantasma de la inmigración por parte de los partidos de ultraderecha. Primero alentando los progromos en Torre Pacheco, después ve...

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Reposted by Seema Jayachandran, Samuel Bentolila

Alex Coppock @aecoppock.bsky.social · Sep 3

whaaaat!? that's so cool!

literally just:

weird_trick = D * X

iv_robust(weird_trick ~ D | Z)

to get the mean of X among compliers!

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Reposted by Stephen P. Jenkins, Samuel Bentolila, Sona Golder

David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Sep 2

I'm putting together a talk on a new applied micro paper, and I'm reminded that (I believe) it's very hard to outperform the structure proposed in this piece by Jesse Shapiro. shapiro.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/file...

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Reposted by Fabián Muniesa, Gabriel Zucman, Magnus Johansson , and 4 more Fabián Muniesa, Gabriel Zucman, Magnus Johansson, Samuel Bentolila, Aaron Sojourner, Christian Chavagneux, Xavier Molénat

NBER @nber.org · Sep 2

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

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CEMFI @cemfi.es · Sep 2

Víctor Sancibrián selected for the REStud North American Tour 2025
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Reposted by Samuel Bentolila, Luis A. Puch, Carlos José

Nada es Gratis @nadaesgratis.bsky.social · Sep 2

Palestina: la rentabilidad de un genocidio (II) nadaesgratis.es/hugo-rodrigu... Vía @nadaesgratis.bsky.social #Economía

Palestina: la rentabilidad de un genocidio (II)

Escribía ayer que son hechos incontestables: (1) la ofensiva de Israel en Gaza desde octubre de 2023 arroja un número de víctimas civiles, y especialmente de niños, absolutamente intolerable y que con...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Aug 29

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.

Here is the text of his email shared with me:

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Reposted by Claudia Sahm, Menzie Chinn, Michael A. Clemens , and 8 more Claudia Sahm, Menzie Chinn, Michael A. Clemens, Trevon D. Logan, Kathleen J. Mullen, Samuel Bentolila, Dean Eckles, Simon Galle, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Louis D Johnston, Antonio Fatás

Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you think the attack on the Fed's Lisa Cook has nothing to do with you, you're wrong — any one of us may be next paulkrugman.substack.com/p/we-are-all...

We Are All Lisa Cook

Nobody is safe from weaponized government

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Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon.bsky.social · Aug 21

We have a new paper on the overstated effects of conventional monetary policy on output and prices. Results reported in the literature are plagued by p-hacking and publication bias, leading to inflated effect sizes of how interest rate hikes affect output and prices.

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jeeanews.bsky.social @jeeanews.bsky.social · Aug 21

Check out the new article "Expertise" by @davidautor.bsky.social and Neil Thompson
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Expertise

Abstract. When job tasks are automated, does this augment or diminish the value of labor in the tasks that remain? We argue the answer depends on whether r

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Reposted by Dani Rodrik, Jonathan Portes, Matthew Bunn , and 10 more Dani Rodrik, Jonathan Portes, Matthew Bunn, Stephen P. Jenkins, Caroline Krafft, Jesse Rothstein, Simon Wren‐Lewis, Raffaella Ravinetto, Samuel Bentolila, Aaron Sojourner, Georg Weizsäcker, Dietmar Fehr, Raphaël Soubeyran

Joseph E. Stiglitz @josephestiglitz.bsky.social · Aug 14

To Prime Minister Netanyahu, an open letter from 23 economists at universities in the US and Europe. We urge you to read it.

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Letter to PM Netanyahu from 23 economists.pdf

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