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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jul 29

Excellent papers and excellent weather in Lund for the #WEHC2025. Looking forward to more!

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jul 14

Thank you for these kind words!

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · May 23

These attacks on Harvard have a flavour of Orbán’s slashing of the CEU. Nauseating.

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · May 21

Continuando con la semana de anuncios...
🎙️ ¡Nuevo episodio de Capital y Trabajo!
Conversamos con @valerueda.bsky.social sobre Billy Elliot. Hablamos de desigualdad regional, desindustrialización y roles de género en una película tan conocida como cargada de temas.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

T10E3: Billy Elliot

Podcast Episode · Capital y Trabajo · 05/21/2025 · 53m

podcasts.apple.com

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POLECONUK Webinar @poleconukinar.bsky.social · May 19

This seminar is in a few minutes.
Learn about crisis bargaining in international relations, surplus extraction, and... salami-slicing.

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Resolution Foundation @resfoundation.bsky.social · May 15

Public investment in the UK has lagged behind average OECD levels for over two decades.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/iPgoNzv

Chart showing total gross fixed capital formation as a proportion of GDP: advanced OECD economies and G7, 1995 to 2022. It is only relatively recently that the UK has surpassed the public investment levels of even low investors such as Germany and Italy.

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · May 14

"Migrants.... are overall more likely to be in work and have slightly higher wages. It follows almost automatically that their short-term impact is to boost, not reduce, GDP per capita. Indeed, that’s exactly what the ONS says.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There’s one slight issue with Labour’s immigration plans: they’re completely untethered from reality | Jonathan Portes

The government’s new policy will take us back to an uglier, more dangerous place – and it’s not even supported by the data, says professor of public policy Jonathan Portes

www.theguardian.com

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · May 14

Oh and don’t say that the goal is to only make it harder for low-skilled migrants. These reforms trigger difficult and expensive processes for all migrants, which particularly discourages skilled migrants who have other options in more welcoming countries just on the other side of the channel.

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · May 14

On the fiscal impact of migrants to the UK: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · May 14

Fact: Migrants have an average positive impact on the economy. Cutting immigration is costly.
It will make it *harder* to revert austerity, create growth, and reduce inequality. Wasn’t that the government’s goal?
Starmer’s new rhetoric is based on lies. Excellent explainer here :

Simon Wren-Lewis @sjwrenlewis.bsky.social · May 13

New post: Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks
mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/05/star...
As with austerity in the 2010s, if none of the main parties can be honest about immigration then the public debate will be equally dishonest.

Starmer’s Disgraceful and Damaging Remarks

I’m on holiday, and wasn’t going to write a blog post this week. But after a splendid day out on the Northumbrian coast I made the mistake...

mainlymacro.blogspot.com

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · May 14

On the fiscal impact of immigrants: migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/br...

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Santiago Sanchez-Pages @sanpages.bsky.social · May 5

En el tercer episodio conversaremos sobre desigualdades regionales, desindustrializacion y roles de genero junto con @valerueda.bsky.social a proposito de "Billy Elliot".

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Guillaume Blanc @guillaumeblanc.bsky.social · Mar 19

🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia"

Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history

Deadline: April 15

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Mar 3

Deadline today!

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Mar 1

Submit before this Monday!

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Feb 25

Don’t forget to submit your papers before next Monday!

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

📣 CALL FOR PAPERS 📣
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
📆 May 12-13 -- Submit before March 3rd
📍 Nottingham, UK
Confirmed: Diego Gambetta, Maria Petrova, Sandra Sequeira & Stéphane Wolton
sway.cloud.microsoft/IKXaLZCiPkJh...
#EconSky

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Jan 24

"Opposition to identity politics is often built not by the culturally and ethnically diverse working class who benefit but by lower-ability economic elites who feel that their advantage is under threat."

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CITP @thecitp.bsky.social · Jan 20

Congratulations @boesevanessa.bsky.social from @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social, @valerueda.bsky.social

CITP @thecitp.bsky.social · Jan 20

We’re thrilled to announce that 6 outstanding projects have been awarded funding in Round 3 of the CITP Innovation Fund! These projects were selected from an impressive pool of applications showcasing a diverse range of #tradepolicy topics. Read the project descriptions here: citp.ac.uk/round-3-2025

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Dec 17

It's happened to me for the first time. A number of students complained about having to read 1 full book for the semester. Am I antiquated in feeling this is a problem? www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books

To read a book in college, it helps to have read a book in high school.

www.theatlantic.com

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POLECONUK Webinar @poleconukinar.bsky.social · Nov 29

On Monday, you are cordially invited to this timely talk by Arianna Ornaghi
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POLECONUK Webinar @poleconukinar.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our last talk this year is on Monday, 2 Dec 2024. Arianna Ornaghi (Hertie) will present "The Returns to Viral Media: The Case of US Campaign Contributions", based on joint work w/ Johannes Böken, Mirko Draca, and Nicola Mastrorocco

This is Arianna's homecoming as she was one of our organisers!!!

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Nov 20

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Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Mar 20

Don’t miss the deadline for submitting your papers! Submit before Sunday March 25th

Valeria Rueda @valerueda.bsky.social · Feb 27

⚠️CALL FOR PAPERS⚠️
NICEP Conference
What: Interdisciplinary research in Econ & Politics
When: May 13-14
Submit before March 25
Where: Nottingham UK
Confirmed: Oriana Bandiera, Ernesto Dal Bò, Garance Génicot & Mathias Thoenig
sway.cloud.microsoft/jISSEa24z948...
#EconSky

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POLECONUK Webinar @poleconukinar.bsky.social · Mar 16

And here is the link to the seminar on Monday 3pm UK time: mailchi.mp/e9c8659a3242...

POLECONUK Webinar @poleconukinar.bsky.social · Mar 12

Our next seminar is by Aurélie Ouss (Pennsylvania) who will present "Officer-Involved: The Media Language of Police Killings" (with Jonathan Moreno-Medina, Patrick J. Bayer, and Bocar A. Ba). See you all next Monday, 18 Mar 2024 at 3 pm UK time.

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