Carlos Díaz
@carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social
Crime, Urban and Methods | Associate Professor of Economics at U Alberto Hurtado 🇨🇱 | Maxwell School 🇺🇸 Alumnus | 🌐 www.carlosddiaz.com
With J. Orozco (a brilliant graduate student at
@fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social).
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...
@fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social).
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
With J. Orozco (a brilliant graduate student at
@fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social).
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...
@fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social).
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...
With @sebafossati.bsky.social and @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime.
Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Objectives The tendency of businesses and residents to gravitate toward safer streets complicates efforts to assess the influence of informal surveillance (or eyes on the street) as a crime deterrent,...
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July 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
With @sebafossati.bsky.social and @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime.
Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Thank you all for having me!
Reading Sessions in Quantitative Criminology on street markets and crime at @criminologyuom.bsky.social with @carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Thank you all for having me!
📣 Se busca asistente de investigación para mi Fondecyt Iniciación sobre movilidad, comercio y crimen 🚍🚔🇨🇱
🧑💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python.
🚫 No es excluyente ser economista.
🧑🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la
@fenuah.bsky.social.
📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.
🧑💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python.
🚫 No es excluyente ser economista.
🧑🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la
@fenuah.bsky.social.
📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.
UAH - Universidad Alberto Hurtado | Universidad para el bien común
"Universidad acreditada parte del Sistema Único de Admisión (CRUCH). Conoce las carreras y becas, y simula tu puntaje para el proceso de admisión
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March 21, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📣 Se busca asistente de investigación para mi Fondecyt Iniciación sobre movilidad, comercio y crimen 🚍🚔🇨🇱
🧑💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python.
🚫 No es excluyente ser economista.
🧑🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la
@fenuah.bsky.social.
📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.
🧑💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python.
🚫 No es excluyente ser economista.
🧑🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la
@fenuah.bsky.social.
📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.
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March 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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The program for our upcoming annual European meeting is now online: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu....
#UEA2025, hosted by Humboldt University in Berlin, features keynotes by Nina Pavcnik & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and 60+ paper sessions.
To register, visit editorialexpress.com/conference/e...
#UEA2025, hosted by Humboldt University in Berlin, features keynotes by Nina Pavcnik & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and 60+ paper sessions.
To register, visit editorialexpress.com/conference/e...
March 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
¡Grande Joaquín! And congrats to @wfueconomics.bsky.social on this outstanding hire!
📢 We keep growing! 🎉 Another great year of hiring at Wake!
We’re excited to welcome Joaquin Urrego (UC Berkeley) as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He joins our applied micro group, bringing expertise in Urban, Crime, and Real Estate.
Let's welcome our new Deaconomist💛🖤 👏
We’re excited to welcome Joaquin Urrego (UC Berkeley) as an Assistant Professor of Economics. He joins our applied micro group, bringing expertise in Urban, Crime, and Real Estate.
Let's welcome our new Deaconomist💛🖤 👏
March 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
¡Grande Joaquín! And congrats to @wfueconomics.bsky.social on this outstanding hire!
Yes, Overleaf is down...
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December 3, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Yes, Overleaf is down...
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🎓📊 ¡Te invitamos a las Jornadas de Economía del Magíster en Economía UAH! 🌍📈
🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre.
🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs.
📍 Aula Magna.
Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM
🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre.
🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs.
📍 Aula Magna.
Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM
November 26, 2024 at 12:34 PM
🎓📊 ¡Te invitamos a las Jornadas de Economía del Magíster en Economía UAH! 🌍📈
🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre.
🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs.
📍 Aula Magna.
Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM
🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre.
🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs.
📍 Aula Magna.
Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM
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📰 CARTA AL DIRECTOR | @carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social Director del Magíster en Economía FEN-UAH, nos presenta "El costo del crimen", en @latercera.com .
November 27, 2024 at 7:46 PM
📰 CARTA AL DIRECTOR | @carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social Director del Magíster en Economía FEN-UAH, nos presenta "El costo del crimen", en @latercera.com .
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Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper to our 2025 European meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin is December 9th.
Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
November 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper to our 2025 European meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin is December 9th.
Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
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Call for papers! 6th annual Chicago-LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, in Chicago, May 8-9, 2025. Submission deadline Jan. 10: bit.ly/3V5VySA . Tell your friends!
#EconSky
#EconSky
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November 25, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Call for papers! 6th annual Chicago-LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, in Chicago, May 8-9, 2025. Submission deadline Jan. 10: bit.ly/3V5VySA . Tell your friends!
#EconSky
#EconSky
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New article by Sophie Martens and me in the British Journal of Criminology, exploring perceptions of safety among prisoners in England & Wales and Norway, and how they differ.
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Feeling (Un)safe in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of England & Wales and Norway
Abstract. While there is abundant literature on prison violence, much less has been written about how safety is perceived and conceived in prison. Even les
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October 6, 2024 at 6:19 AM
New article by Sophie Martens and me in the British Journal of Criminology, exploring perceptions of safety among prisoners in England & Wales and Norway, and how they differ.
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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My Op-Ed in @nytimes.com on why & how immigration detention is extremely harmful for child development. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/o...
Opinion | What Will Indefinite Detention Do to Migrant Kids? (Published 2019)
The evidence is clear: No detention center is safe and healthy for children.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
My Op-Ed in @nytimes.com on why & how immigration detention is extremely harmful for child development. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/o...
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Reviewing recent quantitative urban models, from Stephen J. Redding https://www.nber.org/papers/w33130
November 14, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Reviewing recent quantitative urban models, from Stephen J. Redding https://www.nber.org/papers/w33130
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Nice discussion with @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social about how worthless is atheoretical research in developmental psychology
bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes
Rings a bell to criminology...
www.fourbeers.com/114
bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes
Rings a bell to criminology...
www.fourbeers.com/114
Psychology Worth Doing (with Paul Bloom)
Paul Bloom joins the show to talk about a recent paper in which he argues that much of developmental psychology is not worth doing.
www.fourbeers.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Nice discussion with @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social about how worthless is atheoretical research in developmental psychology
bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes
Rings a bell to criminology...
www.fourbeers.com/114
bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes
Rings a bell to criminology...
www.fourbeers.com/114
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Regression is a tool for making comparisons
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
November 13, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Regression is a tool for making comparisons
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
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I put together a quick starter pack of people working on crime! Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed!
November 13, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I put together a quick starter pack of people working on crime! Let me know if you'd like to be added or removed!
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A great thing about OpenBook publishers is that we could publish a second edition of our book within 7 months after the 1st edition. So here we are: A second edition (quite improved!) of our book is available for free downloading at arielrubinstein.org/gt/arielDocs....
November 14, 2024 at 6:14 AM
A great thing about OpenBook publishers is that we could publish a second edition of our book within 7 months after the 1st edition. So here we are: A second edition (quite improved!) of our book is available for free downloading at arielrubinstein.org/gt/arielDocs....
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Candidates and employers: this year, the #EuropeanJobMarketforEconomists will experiment with a signaling function. Make use of it! And don't forget you still have AEA signals!
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November 14, 2024 at 5:57 AM
Candidates and employers: this year, the #EuropeanJobMarketforEconomists will experiment with a signaling function. Make use of it! And don't forget you still have AEA signals!
x.com/EEANews/stat...
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