Our next online talk is on Monday, 3 Nov 2025. 💥Leah Boustan💥 (Princeton) will present "Intergenerational Mobility of Immigrants in 15 Destination Countries". This is a joint work with many co-authors (👇). Visit our webpage to learn more sites.google.com/view/polecon...
Valeria Rueda
@valerueda.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UoNottingham. Econ, History, Politics, & Development. I like chocolate and maps. Colombian & French enjoying the British sun. ☮️
NEW - Activism and the Electoral Participation of Women - https://cup.org/48U2YAk "Our findings highlight that women’s activism can drive political participation even in the virtual absence of women politicians." - Mona Morgan-Collins & @valerueda.bsky.social #OpenAccess
These attacks on Harvard have a flavour of Orbán’s slashing of the CEU. Nauseating.
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
This seminar is in a few minutes. Learn about crisis bargaining in international relations, surplus extraction, and... salami-slicing.
Our next seminar is on Monday, 19 May 2025. We welcome Germán Gieczewski (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social), who will present "Noisy Screening and Brinkmanship". We will send the usual email with the Zoom link on Thursday.
Public investment in the UK has lagged behind average OECD levels for over two decades. Read more ➡️ buff.ly/iPgoNzv
"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
theguardian.com
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 :
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.
En el tercer episodio conversaremos sobre desigualdades regionales, desindustrializacion y roles de genero junto con @valerueda.bsky.social a proposito de "Billy Elliot".
🚨 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
Deadline today!
📣 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
Submit before this Monday!
📣 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
Don’t forget to submit your papers before next Monday!
📣 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
📣 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
📣 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
"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."
Congratulations @boesevanessa.bsky.social from @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social, @valerueda.bsky.social
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
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.
theatlantic.com
On Monday, you are cordially invited to this timely talk by Arianna Ornaghi ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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!!!
Don’t miss the deadline for submitting your papers! Submit before Sunday March 25th
⚠️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
And here is the link to the seminar on Monday 3pm UK time: mailchi.mp/e9c8659a3242...
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.
⚠️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
📢Exciting News Alert! Calling all female researchers in Political Economics! Join our network of Women in Political Economics 🖥️ Website: sites.google.com/view/women-i...
Our next talk is on Monday, 27 Nov 2023 Margherita Negri (St Andrews) presents "The Political Economy of Open vs Closed Borders: Theory and Evidence on the Role of Electoral Rules", with Matteo Gamalerio and Massimo Morelli
WP Alert 🚨 We show that the Women's Suffrage Movement increased women's political participation. We leverage the 1913 Pilgrimage for the Vote and show that women exposed to this nationwide march increased their registration to elections. 🧵1/3 Get here: cepr.org/publications...
Hey #EconSky, check out Cristina's JMP! Sur uses unique survey data to estimate the Phillips Curve across sectors. Extremely topical now that #inflation is back. #JMP #EconJM
🚨Excited to share my 𝐉𝐨𝐛 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫🚨 Estimating Sectoral Phillips Curves, a positive inflation response to firms' costs challenges the widely debated Phillips Curve disconnect. This effect is amplified with sectoral linkages via input-output tables. Link to JMP: github.com/cgriffa/JMP/...
The much anticipated new biography of Milton Friedman by Jennifer Burns is out; her recent op-ed highlights “a long history of women who have worked, often quietly and without proper recognition, to shape the field” of economics. #econsky #historians #skystorians
Opinion | Behind the Most Famous Men in Economics There Have Always Been Women
Consider the case of Milton Friedman.
nytimes.com
Per Capita Cheese Consumption by Country, 2022/23
Hi, time for me to get active on #EconSky I am an economist at the research institute VIVE in Copenhagen 🇩🇰 and at Uni of Bristol 🏴. I work on topics in education, health, and gender. To introduce myself I will live-tweet from a research project. It will be a slow thread. [1/n]