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

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.

Read today's article to learn more w/ @billywoom.bsky.social:

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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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!

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📢 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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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. 🌆🌇🏙️