Economist @the_IDB. Trained at @uchile, @Georgetown, and @GC_CUNY. Views are my own.

Cauquenes y Washington DC
Joined January 2009
Interested in spending 2 years at the Stone Center in NYC, studying inequality? See our call for postdoc applications. Two 2-year positions, starting Aug 2027. One focused on wealth inequality, the other more broadly on economic inequality. Apply by Nov. 2! 🍎 go.bsky.app/redirect?u=https…
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The new updated version of All the Ginis dataset with almost 7,000 Ginis compiled from household surveys (mostly micro data) from 183 countries or territories over the period 1950-2024 is out. Ginis are distinguished by being calculated using income or consumption; gross or net income; per household or per capita. The most significant contributors to the dataset are @lisdata and World Bank's Poverty and Inequality Platform. stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/publ…
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Paul Novosad
@paulnovosadAug 3
Excellent reading (in 🧵) for younger researchers—two papers with near-identical core results, framed in very different ways. Kudos to @jasonmfletcher for the thoughtful discussion, it would be cheap, easy (and viral) to say "prestige is the only thing that matters in econ."
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📢 Hiring a Research Assistant Consultant for the Poverty Group at the @the_IDB in DC! Work on rigorous, data-driven research to reduce poverty & promote inclusive growth in Latin America & the Caribbean. 🗓️ Apply by July 2: jobs.iadb.org/job/Research-A…
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📢 Call for papers: 2nd Conference ECINEQ-Latin American Chapter, Montevideo, Oct 28-29 2026 Submissions welcomed with theoretical and empirical analysis on inequality, mobility, employment, poverty, and exploitation. 📝 Submission by: 30 June 2026 🔗 buff.ly/wvlSEkt
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📢 Call for submissions: Columbia Gender in the Global Economy Conference! For economists in any subfield working on the role of gender in the economy. 📍 Columbia University, NYC 🗓️ Oct 30, 2026 ⏰ Deadline: July 15, 2026 Assistant profs & postdocs especially encouraged 👇
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📢 Second Conference @ecineq – Latin American and Caribbean Chapter. Montevideo, October 28–29, 2026 🇺🇾 Send your submissions on theoretical and empirical analyses of inequality, mobility, employment, and poverty, broadly defined. #ECINEQ #Inequality #Economics #LAC
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Q2 CLOCK SPEEDING TO ZERO. WEMBY SHOOTS IT FROM HALF-COURT. NOTHING BUT NET. 👽
WEMBY BEATS THE Q2 BUZZER FROM HALF-COURT 👽 22 PTS 5 REB 3 AST 2 BLK Spurs lead by 12 at the break in Game 4!
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Chilenos salen a celebrar el Día del Completo EN VIVO #T13Tarde » T13.cl/en-vivo
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After childbirth, mothers take off 7 weeks on average, while fathers take off 3 days by Rebecca Jack, Daniel Tannenbaum, and Brenden Timpe minneapolisfed.org/research/…
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IT WAS WEMBY'S NIGHT. 41 PTS. 24 REB. 49 MIN. SAS W.
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Claude's first day at Dunder Mifflin
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“SHE’S MY HERO.” Shoutout to the real MVPs... happy Mother's Day ❤️
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I’m hoping I live to see the day where I no longer see researchers, upon computing the nonrobust Hausman test for comparing FE and RE — often with the wrong degrees of freedom — report p-value = 0.096 and conclude the test is “telling me” to use RE.
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🌎 Lima welcomes the world. A vibrant setting where culture, innovation, and experience come together to host a global academic community 🍽️🏛️ 📍 Nov 12–14, 2026 #LACEALAMES2026
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Valioso y bello testimonio de una doctora en la revista JAMA. La autora, sana, no fumadora y con una vida estable, es diagnosticada inesperadamente de cáncer de pulmón. Eso rompe prematuramente la percepción de control que tenía sobre su vida. La enfermedad introduce de forma concreta la posibilidad de morir y, sobre todo, de no ver crecer a sus hijos. Asimismo, reflexiona sobre cómo la medicina, al fomentar el sacrificio, posterga la vida personal y normaliza así una existencia de agotamiento. Creo que cuando la enfermedad irrumpe en el cuerpo desenmascara nuestras verdaderas prioridades. El testimonio de esta doctora pone de manifiesto, con una claridad poco común, que la medicina puede dar sentido, pero no puede sustituir la presencia. Cuando la finitud se hace presente -y deja de ser abstracta-, lo que más importa ya no se aplaza. El tiempo, al revelarse finito, hace que la vida deje de ser prorrogable. Entonces se ha comprendido que el trabajo, cualquier trabajo, por vocacional que sea, no es el hogar
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The True Size of Chile 🇨🇱
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At the Graduate Center CUNY, two days ago: some well-known people showed up.
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