Our paper (with @msamahita.bsky.social) on social pressure and free speech is now available open access at JEBO: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Juan S. Morales
@juansemorales.bsky.social
Associate Professor, WLU Political Economy, Media, Conflict, Development, Applied Microeconomics http://sites.google.com/view/jsmorales
Ok maybe a Callaway and Sant’Anna DiD would have been a better model than the time-discontinuity design, but I wouldn't go as far as calling this a "Radical Left SCAM”
Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is the report the President is threatening a lawsuit over. #StreisandEffecting www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
💡Our new short article discussing the effects of violence against journalists, published today in VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social:
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 3mo ago🆕 How violence against journalists reshapes the profession – and what gets reported Today on VoxDev, José A. Jurado (Arizona State University) & Juan S. Morales (Wilfrid Laurier University) show how violence against journalists reduces media activity in Mexico: https://ow.ly/MP4A50Z62P8
🆕 How violence against journalists reshapes the profession – and what gets reported Today on VoxDev, José A. Jurado (Arizona State University) & Juan S. Morales (Wilfrid Laurier University) show how violence against journalists reduces media activity in Mexico: https://ow.ly/MP4A50Z62P8
How violence against journalists reshapes the profession – and what gets reported
In Mexico, violence against journalists reduces media activity in the months following an attack and, in the long run, reshapes the profession towards younger and less-established reporters – with lasting implications for local government transparency and electoral outcomes.
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A few questions about AI Innovation, Safety, and Regulation in Canada? Special Issue with Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques now available, with open access utppublishing.com/toc/cpp/52/S1
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @LeonardoBM_dev at the Central Bank of Colombia who works on topics related to education, health, environment + development
Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that. Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best. Welcome home, Integrity crew!
Our paper (with José A. Jurado) studying how attacks against journalists affect news media activity in Mexico is now available online and forthcoming at the JDE! Free access link here: lnkd.in/d4DqvRqU
Welcome @juansemorales.bsky.social! 🎉 We’re excited to introduce him as a new network member. He is an applied microeconomist specializing in political economy and development economics. 🌍 🏡 sites.google.com/view/jsmorales 💼 www.linkedin.com/in/juan-s-mo... ℹ️ www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ne....
Exciting guest this week! 👋 @juansemorales.bsky.social will be at the ifo Institute from January 19th – 31th! 🎉 His research focuses on Political Economy, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Media, Violence and Conflict. ℹ️ sites.google.com/view/jsmoral... 🔗 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/gu...
Sharing our recently published short policy article in EconPol Forum. We discuss how platform design and social incentives interact to amplify divisive content, and how a minority of users and inauthentic activity (like bots) can distort perceptions of opinion: www.ifo.de/en/econpol/p...
Matthew Facciani@matthewfacciani.bsky.social · 9mo agoTwitter/X's new location-revealing feature quickly exposed that many high-engagement, MAGA-branded accounts posing as patriotic Americans were actually operating overseas, in places like Eastern Europe, Thailand, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
"Social Media and Political Polarization in Canada: Perspectives from Political Science, Economics and Psychology" live blog /1
📢 New publication! 📢 Does political violence backfire in mature democracies? In this article, @kkrakows.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and @juansemorales.bsky.social (Wilfrid Laurier University) examine how the January 6 US Capitol Attack affected public support for US politicians.
🚨🚨🚨Announcing a special issue on “Political Violence in Democracies” published by @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social and edited by @andrearuggeri.bsky.social, U Daxecker, and me. In this very long 🧵, I will introduce the special issue with its 14 articles. doi.org/10.1177/0022...
Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025
It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...
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New article in Economía/LACEA: Legal Reforms, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Mexico. Gustavo J. Bobonis, Roberto Castro and Juan S. Morales study the relationship between divorce laws, CCT programs, and IPV in rural Mexico. economia.lse.ac.uk/en/articles/...
Legal Reforms, Conditional Cash Transfers, and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Mexico | Economía LACEA Journal
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The Laurier Economics Department’s faculty at are always doing great work, so it's been lovely to see so many getting recognized for their accomplishments in the last few weeks. The announcements are already out there, but it's worth collecting them all in one place. students.wlu.ca/programs/laz...
Congratulations @nikolaimcook.bsky.social, recipient of the 2024 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Economic Science! ontariosuniversities.ca/university-i...
If you're attending the 2025 @canadianeconoassoc.bsky.social Meeting this weekend in Montreal, keep an eye out for one of the 13 Laurier econ faculty that'll be there!
This paper was the first project I ever started working on and the last chapter of my dissertation. It took long but it's finally published! 🎉 We study how divorce laws and conditional cash transfers interact as determinants of intimate partner violence in Mexico: economia.lse.ac.uk/articles/502...
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At the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, we made a decision few weeks back to hold applications for grad study open for people in the US. www.wlu.ca/academics/fa...
U.S. Applicants | Lazaridis School of Business and Economics
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21 May CeDEx will host 2 seminars: 1st will be @juansemorales.bsky.social of @wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social 1-2pm A40 Sir Clive Granger Building. 2nd (joint with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Sch of Econ Senior Academic Seminar Series) Ernst Fehr of @econ.uzh.ch 3-4.30pm in A40 tinyurl.com/2aptkyjm
Canada is in an amazing position to attract as much world class international talent as it is willing to accomodate.
Friction is often proposed as a way to stem the spread of misinformation. This 2024 study suggests that it *does* decrease reshares of misinfo, but there's a big downside; it may reduce reshares of high-factual information even more. academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
Sharing News Left and Right: Frictions and Misinformation on Twitter
Abstract. On 20 October 2020, prior to the US presidential election, Twitter modified its user interface for sharing social media posts. In an effort to re
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Dean Karlan's job at USAID was LITERALLY to improve the efficiency of its programs. DOGE is clearly not actually after cutting fraud and waste. And its actions will clearly make the US weaker while also making the world a worse place. www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Why Dean Karlan, chief economist of USAID, resigned on Tuesday
He was hired in 2022 so the aid agency could get 'more bang for our buck' with its projects. He tried to reach out to help in the rebuilding of the agency. On Tuesday he tendered his resignation.
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If Canadian universities had a bit of vision, they would be launching a Manhattan project to poach every US-based top researcher. And the federal government would be drastically expanding tri-council funding and creating an expedited review process for those holding NSF and similar grants.
The WLU econ dept is excited to be hosting Economic Outlook 2025, which will focus on immigration in Canada. We have two exciting speakers: Pedro Antunes from the Conference Board of Canada and Jennifer Hunt from Rutgers University. Register now to save your seats! www.eventbrite.ca/e/economic-o...
Economic Outlook 2025
The latest economic research on relevant topics. In 2025, we discuss immigration with leading economics experts.
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A mapping of how Bluesky is becoming the new Scientific Twitter mikeyoungacademy.dk/bluesky-is-e...
Bluesky is emerging as the new platform for science - Mike Young Academy
Scientific Twitter is about to find its true successor. And it is not X. This, our latest release, shows that the Bluesky network of scientists is growing — and growing.
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