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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 8h

Escuchados todos los episodios. Mola.

Fernando Fernández @mrnandonandez.bsky.social · 1d

pues está muy interesante el podcast de numeritos @08181.es
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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 20h

Barça Femení is absurdly fun

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 22h

It fits my personal experience: my wife sacrificed a lot of her professional career (and earnings) when she moved with me after my PhD.

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

Event study coefficients that show that men's earnings rise more than women's among couples following a cross-commuting zone move (left panels). The pattern is muted or reverses among single men and single women (right panels).

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 1d

(1) banger
(2) i wish non-economists would realise just how much time each economics paper takes to write (because of our norms about how thorough each paper has to be)

Seema Jayachandran @seema.bsky.social · 1d

We just spent 6 months to add 1 figure to this paper. Some people said, "Couples aren't prioritizing men's careers. Men just have better earnings opportunities when moving."

Earnings effects of moves for couples on the left, singles on the right. Negligible gap between single men and women.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 23h

Funny sequence of skeets on my timeline 🙃

Thread about the abuse of “excellence” in academia followed by Defector’s skeet “Jack Grealish has rediscovered his excellence”

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 23h

Doing politics right

Audrey Truschke @audreytruschke.bsky.social · 1d

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations

Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

www.theguardian.com

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Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 1d

Why are people getting excited about the “Nobels”? Everyone knows that the only REAL one is the Sveriges @riksbank.se Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. The others are just self-aggrandising PR set up by Nobel himself.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.bsky.social · 1d

And here we go. I never wrote this article, and yet it is cited here.

www.liberalbriefs.com/geopolitics/...

And of course, it sounds so plausible, I seriously checked whether I had forgotten it, or the footnote was slightly wrong.

#AIisnotresearch

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

In Spain, what once seemed impossible is now widespread: the young are turning to the far right | María Ramírez

Migration is barely mentioned – instead, failed policies on housing, wages and employment are driving young voters into the arms of Vox, says María Ramírez, deputy managing editor of elDiario.es

www.theguardian.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

This morning is sponsored by "Frictions of having half the team coding in R and half the team coding in Stata."
Have a nice day.

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 1d

El Imperio caerá, pero fiel a su estilo: dando tremendo show

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

To no one's surprise, they picked the maximin option for the GOP's lead in districts www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Table showing the partisan lead by district for the 5 proposed maps. The most competitive district in option C is District 3 with an expected R+6 (the other options had most competitive district at R+0.7, D+0.7, R+1.5, and R+2.2)

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

"Definir la experiencia que he vivido desde la madrugada del jueves hasta el domingo es muy difícil. Pero inhumana y extrema son dos adjetivos que se ajustan a la realidad. Humillaciones, maltrato psicológico, agresiones físicas, intimidaciones (...)".

EL PAÍS @elpais.com · 2d

El periodista de EL PAÍS en la flotilla de Gaza relata en primera persona los malos tratos sufridos durante su detención: “Los guardias israelíes nos dijeron que no había médicos para animales como nosotros”

El periodista de EL PAÍS en la flotilla de Gaza: “No hay médicos para animales como vosotros’, nos dijeron los guardias israelíes”

Carlos de Barrón narra las humillaciones, el maltrato psicológico, las agresiones e intimidaciones que él y el resto de la tripulación sufrió durante su cautiverio de tres noches en la cárcel de Israel

social.elpais.com

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undercoverhist.bsky.social @undercoverhist.bsky.social · 5d

Beth Berman's interview should be read alongside the historical work by Antoinette Baujard on how economists have mostly endorsed, sometimes resisted, utilitarianism, welfarism and consequentialism as a basis for decision making

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

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

“War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.”

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 2d

President Trump called the deadly U.S. military strikes on boats in the Caribbean Sea “an act of kindness,” claiming that the attacks had halted drug trafficking via those waters into the United States.

Trump Calls Deadly Strikes on Boats in Caribbean an ‘Act of Kindness’

The president, speaking aboard an aircraft carrier off Norfolk, Va., repeated his claims that the boats were trafficking drugs bound for the United States.

nyti.ms

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

Put me on the Margaret Atwood wagon for this year's Nobel Prize in Literature. It would be well-deserved and particularly timely. And, yes: I've read more of her than "The Handmaid's Tale" or "The Testaments."

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

I wish my university (and US higher ed in general) were in the news for different reasons. Thanks to @advincensorship.bsky.social for speaking up eu.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A university censorship conference gets censored? This is Trump's America. | Opinion

A Weber State University censorship conference was canceled after a state anti-diversity law led to – you guessed it – censorship.

eu.usatoday.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

pero que no se sume a la moda de adelantar Halloween cada vez más, cagontó

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 2d

Yo hoy también estoy pensando en pasarme a la NFL o al curling esloveno

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Javier Mejia @javiermejiac.bsky.social · 2d

🌍 New episode of the EPH Podcast!

I talked with Kimberly Bowes about the Roman economy.

How was the life of the 90% in Antiquity?

🎧 Listen or watch:

▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/gBB0YQjTfec?...

🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4g6a...

🍎 Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Professor Dr Richard S.J. Tol FREcon MAE @richardtol.bsky.social · 3d

Some more words on Energy Economics open.substack.com/pub/richardt...

Autopsy

Lessons for editors

open.substack.com

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

The worst is that I could guess the person before looking at the disclosing skeet

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Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

Must be the leader of the Radical Left Miller is denouncing

Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 3d

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies. For @reuters.com:

Pope Leo, after Trump critique, urges Catholics to help immigrants

Pope Leo urged the world's 1.4 billion Catholics on Sunday to care for immigrants, pressing ahead with a message of welcome for migrants days after criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump's hard-line anti-immigration policies.

www.reuters.com

Álvaro La Parra-Pérez @alvarolaparra.bsky.social · 3d

9:16 am

View from a window. Laundry drying in several balconies

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 3d

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

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