With the World Cup around the corner, happy that @doniakamel.bsky.social and I won the 2026 BeNA Innovative Research Award for our paper on skin tone discrimination, using football as a lab: dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn... Thanks to I. Kesternich @benjaminarold.bsky.social & @berlinlabor.bsky.social 🙌🏽

BeNA@berlinlabor.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last Friday, the BeNA Summer Workshop gave young economists the chance to present and discuss their research. @billywoom.bsky.social won the BeNA Innovative Research Award. Congrats! Thanks to our keynotes @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Iris Kesternich and organizers Eliana Coschignano & @agrawe.eu!

Last Friday, the BeNA Summer Workshop gave young economists the chance to present and discuss their research. @billywoom.bsky.social won the BeNA Innovative Research Award. Congrats! Thanks to our keynotes @benjaminarold.bsky.social & Iris Kesternich and organizers Eliana Coschignano & @agrawe.eu!

BeNA Summer Workshop – 05/2026 - Berliner Netzwerk Arbeitsmarktforschung

On May 29, 2026, the Berlin Network of Labor Market Research (BeNA) hosted its BeNA Summer Workshop at DIW Berlin. The one-day workshop provided young labor economists the opportunity to ...

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📝New research by @billywoom.bsky.social and @doniakamel.bsky.social uncovers how skin tone shapes player recognition in professional #football — even when performance is identical⚽️ These biases translate into lower market valuations for darker-skinned players. Read more ▶️ wid.world/news-article...

Skin Tone Penalties: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Colorism in Football - WID - World Inequality Database

This paper studies skin tone discrimination in men’s professional football by comparing shots that narrowly score with those that narrowly miss the goal.

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Two brand-new fascinating articles on the LAC region newly accepted in the JDE #econtwitter #econsky. . .first, this banger of a title for a paper by @billywoom that shows that skin tone, even within self-reported ethnoracial identity categories, predicts outcomes

Striking and very important work! Keep your eyes on @billywoom.bsky.social — I learn a lot from him and so will you

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 How skin tone still shapes inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Today on VoxDev, @billywoom.bsky.social (@pse.bsky.social) presents evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggesting that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggests that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility. Read today's article to learn more w/ @billywoom.bsky.social:

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · last yr.

🆕 How skin tone still shapes inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean Today on VoxDev, @billywoom.bsky.social (@pse.bsky.social) presents evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean suggesting that skin tone is a powerful predictor of intergenerational mobility: voxdev.org/topic/instit...

Had a great time presenting one of my favourite research projects with my amazing friend @doniakamel.bsky.social 👇 Huge thanks to the organisers for including our paper! Wait for the new draft coming soon 😮‍💨

Ye Yuan@ye-yuan.bsky.social · last yr.

Session 1 on Discrimination begins with Guillermo Woo-Mora (PSE), presenting research on "Skin Tone Penalties: Bottom-up and Algorithmic Skin Tone Discrimination in Football". #DHC2025 @uofebusiness.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @climent.bsky.social @vatsalecon.bsky.social @rabbiatariq.bsky.social

One week left to submit your paper for the Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social. Submissions 👇 hhdi.co.uk/nide-qub-joi... #econtwitter #econsky #callforpapers #workshop

HHDI-NIDE Joint Workshop

HHDI-NIDE Joint Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence This workshop aims to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of frontier research on the persistence and transmission …

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Arcangelo Dimico@quartino.bsky.social · last yr.

The deadline for submissions for the Workshop on Cultural Transmission and Persistence at @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in June 2025 is in 3 weeks. Kynotes: @ingelaalger.bsky.social @saralowes.bsky.social. Submissions 👇 hhdi.co.uk/nide-qub-joi... #econtwitter #econsky #callforpapers #workshop

Chagas disease control in Brazil increased GDP per capita by 11.1 percent, reduced income inequality, improved non-white upward mobility, and lowered public healthcare spending, from Jon Denton-Schneider and Eduardo Montero https://www.nber.org/papers/w33518

Excited to share the summary of our Regional Science and Urban Economics paper! 🤠 We study the enduring effects of colonial segregation on land prices in Mexico City. Huge thanks to @jeffrlin.bsky.social for his great editorial guidance and to Emily Sellars for hosting us on Broadstreet! #EconSky

Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone@alicirone.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Broadstreet post! Featuring guest contributors @billywoom.bsky.social, @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social, and @tradecosts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

📢 Broadstreet has relaunched its blog, now on Substack! We’re honoured to feature our research in the first post! "Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation and Contemporary Land Values" with @billywoom.bsky.social @tradecosts.bsky.social Check it out ! 🌍

Dr. Alexandra “Ali” Cirone@alicirone.bsky.social · 2y ago

New Broadstreet post! Featuring guest contributors @billywoom.bsky.social, @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social, and @tradecosts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

New Broadstreet post! Featuring guest contributors @billywoom.bsky.social, @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social, and @tradecosts.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Infrastructures of Race? Colonial Indigenous Segregation and Contemporary Land Values

By Enrique de la Rosa Ramos (King’s College London; UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs), Guillermo Woo-Mora (Paris School of Economics), and Luis Baldomero-Quintana (William & Mary)

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🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico

I set up this feed to tweet recent articles from JUE, RSUE, and JOEG. One per journal per day, from the publishers’ RSS feeds. Give it a follow if this seems useful to you! (Here’s an article that I edited at RSUE.)

#urbanecon@urban-econ-papers.bsky.social · 2y ago

New in RSUE: Infrastructures of race? Colonial indigenous segregation and contemporary land values, by Luis Baldomero-Quintana, L. Guillermo Woo-Mora, Enrique De la Rosa-Ramos. #econsky #urbanecon

Shout out to @tradecosts.bsky.social and co-authors for their fascinating work on ‘How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today’ via @voxdev.bsky.social voxdev.org/topic/instit...

How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today

Colonial segregation policies in Mexico City entrenched divisions between Spaniards and indigenous communities, shaping modern economic inequalities because of weak property rights, unequal provision ...

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🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...

How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today

Colonial segregation policies in Mexico City entrenched divisions between Spaniards and indigenous communities, shaping modern economic inequalities because of weak property rights, unequal provision ...

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📢 Excited to share new research with @billywoom.bsky.social, @pse.bsky.social, and Luis Baldomero Quintana L. @global-wm.bsky.social! In this @voxdev.bsky.social post, we explore how colonial legacies shape spatial inequalities and their implications for urban development today. 🌆🌇🏙️

VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2y ago

🆕 How colonial segregation policies impact land values in Mexico today Today's article by Luis Baldomero-Quintana @global-wm.bsky.social, Guillermo Woo-Mora @pse.bsky.social & @enriquedlrosa.bsky.social King's College London ⤵️ voxdev.org/topic/instit...