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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales

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Assistant Professor of Economics @ieseg.fr and researcher @cnrs.fr. Interested in labor, development, and economics of education. Research affiliate @iza.org and @Lem. 🇨🇴, 🇺🇸 trained, and living in 🇫🇷. Website: https://www.juansmunoz.com/ #EconSky

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Feb 25

📢 New Paper Acceptance Alert! #EDCC

Natural disasters widen the urban-rural education gap.

📚🌧️ Colombia's 2010-2011 floods increased dropout rates & lower learning outcomes for a decade, while urban students remained unaffected.

#Education #ClimateImpact #EconSky @dynarski.bsky.social

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Sergio Ocampo @socampdi.bsky.social · 16d

We are hosting the Canadian Macroeconomics Study Group at @westernu.ca!
This year's keynote is Kjetil Storesletten @hellerhurwicz.bsky.social

Program 👉 baxter-robinson.github.io/CMSG2025_Pro...
Registration is 100 CAD (70 for students!) 🔗https://economics.uwo.ca/about-us/workshops/index.html

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Sep 1

Starting today I will be visiting the economics department at @sciencespo.bsky.social. Send me an email if you are around and/or interested in having a coffee or lunch!

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Carlos Rondón-Moreno @charlieecon.bsky.social · May 27

🚨 Excited to share insights from a paper I co-authored with @juanherreno.bsky.social on why emerging economies often face financial crises or "Sudden Stops"! Just published in Journal of International Economics (@jintlecon.bsky.social )

📝 Link: shorturl.at/JdJhr

#Econsky #Macroeconomics

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David A. Jaeger (econ) @davidajaeger.bsky.social · Apr 17

„There’s gonna be a brain drain like you’ve never seen. A big, beautiful brain drain. People are saying it might be the world‘s best brain drain, I dunno, but that’s what they‘re saying.“

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Apr 13

In São Paulo, I presented what I call “the Latin American paradox”

Why is it that Latin Americans are actually quite supportive of gender equality, and yet we see high femicides?

My answer: a weak state, drug wars & conflict give rise to generalized violence

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IÉSEG Research @iesegresearch.bsky.social · Apr 11

Lille Economics and Management (LEM, CNRS UMR 9221) and
@ieseg.fr invite applications for a fully funded #PhD position in Economics of Migration and Migration policy, based at our #Lille campus.

▸https://bit.ly/4lslNhL #IESEGresearch #IESEGiflame #Econsky @simori.bsky.social

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Matthew Gordon @mdgordo.bsky.social · Apr 10

One of my best students just had his funding offer for a PhD in the US withdrawn. Meanwhile we've had a massive surge in applications to our program from really strong US and international students. It feels like a shift is already underway.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · Apr 4

NEW 🧵

A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:

1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.

These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

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Stefanie Stantcheva @s-stantcheva.bsky.social · Apr 4

1/19: Seems timely to share a paper which explores how people perceive & understand trade and trade policies. Which factors shape the support for different trade policies? Thread below with the key takeaways #EconTwitter 🧵, and full paper here: socialeconomicslab.org/understandin...

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Peterson Institute for International Economics @piie.com · Apr 3

"There is really no methodology there," Mary Lovely says. "It is like finding you have cancer and finding the medication is based on your weight divided by your age. The word 'reciprocal' is deeply misleading."

Trump's tariff formula confounds the world, punishes the poor

Ridiculed for imposing trade tariffs on frozen islands largely inhabited by penguins, Donald Trump's formula for calculating those levies has a serious side: it is also hitting some of the world's poorest nations hardest.

www.reuters.com

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Simone Moriconi @simori.bsky.social · Mar 19

Hi #EconSky 🎓 multiple (3) #CallsForApplications #PhDScholarship at @iesegresearch.bsky.social #IESEGIflame
@Lem. The successful candidates will develop his/her PhD dissertations on #Migration #Economics #PoliticalEconomy and/or using historical data 📷Deadline: May 4th, 2025. Details below 👇

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Mar 15

“An estimated 1,650,000 people could die within a year without American foreign aid for H.I.V. prevention and treatment.”

U.S. oligarchs and their blindness to what goes beyond their borders 😢.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

www.nytimes.com

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NBER @nber.org · Mar 14

Featured in the latest Digest: "Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Reform in Colombia"

https://www.nber.org/digest/202503/unintended-consequences-merit-based-teacher-reform-colombia

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Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social · Mar 14

Have we passed peak intelligence?

In international tests, student scores for reading and maths sunk to a new low.

US teens are struggling to concentrate & evaluate information.

The excellent @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

Warning: this thread is dark 🧵

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Mar 6

Nice program for those working on migration!

UB School of Economics @ubeconomics.bsky.social · Feb 28

‼️Applications open for the Summer School 2025 "The Political Economy of Immigration – Economics, Attitudes, and Votes: Unpacking Immigration Dynamics"

☀️ 30 June-4 July, 2025

📅 Application deadline: June 15th | Scholarships available until April 30th.

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Simone Moriconi @simori.bsky.social · Mar 6

📢📢Hi #Econsky! You are a PhD or postdoc student interested in the #Economics of #Labor #Family and #Migration. Please submit your work to our thematic workshop. Check the fantastic line up of speakers of the 4th edition.
www.anr-malynes.com
please retweet 👇👇👇👇

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Mar 4

Link to published version @jpube.bsky.social :
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Link to @iza.org brief:
wol.iza.org/opinions/hid...

Link to @voxdev.bsky.social brief:
voxdev.org/topic/educat...

Link to op-ed (in Spanish):
www.lasillavacia.com/red-de-exper...

The unintended consequences of merit-based teacher selection: Evidence from a large-scale reform in Colombia

Teacher quality is a key factor in improving student academic achievement. As such, educational policymakers strive to design systems to hire the most…

www.sciencedirect.com

Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Mar 4

Happy to see a nice summary of our paper on the March issue of @nber.org digest:

“The Unintended Consequences of Merit-Based Teacher Reform in Colombia.”

Can merit-based selection of public teachers necessarily leads to student’s learning gains?

Not always

#EconSky
www.nber.org/digest/20250...

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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · Mar 4

📢 Call for papers: 📢

@cesifo.org Area Conference on Economics of Education
(co-organized with Rick Hanushek)

5-6 Sept 2025, Munich

Keynote: @raffasadun.bsky.social

👉 www.cesifo.org/en/event/202...

Submission deadline: 18 May 2025

Past programs: sites.google.com/view/woessma...

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Ukraine Insights @ukraine-insights.bsky.social · Mar 3

The Marco Rubio of 2025 seems to have amnesia about who is at fault here. Perhaps he should listen to his past self.

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Notre Dame Economics @ndecon.bsky.social · Mar 3

The Society for Computational Economics is hosting its 31st Conference on Computing in Economics and Finance in Chile this summer. Our former PhD student Carlos Rondon Moreno is one of the conference co-chairs and our colleague Christiane Baumeister is one of the plenary speakers

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Juan S. Muñoz-Morales @jmunozmorales.bsky.social · Mar 3

“We’re going to drill, baby, drill and do all of the things that we wanted to,” Mr. Trump said...

This is so worrying.

‘Full on Fight Club’: How Trump Is Crushing U.S. Climate Policy www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

How Trump Has Undermined U.S. Climate Policy

President Trump has quickly transformed America’s approach to the environment, withholding funds and stretching the limits of presidential power.

www.nytimes.com

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · Mar 2

Who do you think has “taken” more good American jobs this year, undocumented workers or DOGE?

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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · Feb 28

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Feb 28

“Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office.”

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