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Jafet Baca
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Economics enthusiast. Fourth-year Ph.D. candidate at Emory University, Dept. of Economics. Nicaraguan.
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Forthcoming in AER: Insights: "Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census" by Christopher S. Carpenter, Donn Feir, Krishna Pendakur, and Casey Warman. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Nonbinary and Transgender Identities and Earnings: Evidence from a National Census
(Forthcoming Article) - We provide the first evidence from a large population Census on earnings disparities experienced by nonbinary people—those who do not exclusively identify as men or women—and t...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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📄 @fgilardi.bsky.social created this template for writing abstracts several years ago, and I’ve tried to follow Fabrizio‘s suggestions ever since.

PDF: fabriziogilardi.org/resources/pa...
Everyone agrees that this issue is really important. But we do not know much about this specific question, although it matters a great deal, for these reasons. We approach the problem from this perspective. Our research design focuses on these cases and relies on these data, which we analyze using this method. Results show what we have learned about the question. They have these broader implications.
June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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heimbergecon.bsky.social
Useful paper in the "Journal of Economic Literature" on how artificial intelligence may change the research process in economics, describing several use cases (e.g. ideation and feedback, writing, background, research, data analysis, coding, and mathematical derivations).
May 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Throughout American history, immigrants have consistently had similar or lower incarceration rates than US-born citizens, say researchers at Stanford, Princeton, Northwestern, and UC Davis. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...
The immigration–crime link
Nearly two centuries of data show that immigrants commit fewer crimes than US-born citizens.
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January 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM