Leonardo Monasterio
@lmonasterio.bsky.social
Brazilian Economist at @ipeaonline; professor at @SejaIDP; @CNPq_Oficial Opinions are solely mine (or stolen from others) https://sites.google.com/view/lmonasterio #econsky
This paper was accepted like 2 years ago, but nice to finally see it being officially published, particularly in light of the attacks on Fauci. jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4... @riacton.bsky.social
Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
LinkedIn histories aren’t fixed; 19 percent of users edit past jobs. These “time-travel” edits track job moves and reveal rising AI language after 2022, and fading DEI mentions after 2025, from @nickbloom.bsky.social, @gideonmoore.bsky.social, Simon, and Wilkie-Rogers www.nber.org/papers/w35546
nothing makes you question your beliefs more than seeing those who share them
Experts aren't always right. That's why I put my faith in morons who are never right
Tarifas de importação recam sobre o país que as impõe. Vale para os EUA e vale para o Brasil
Michael Clemens@mclem.org · 2d agoUS tariffs are taxes on Americans. The pass-through rate of the President's tariff spike in 2025 was 92%. Ninety two percent of the tariffs are paid by American consumers as higher prices. By Conservative and Liberal consumers—who have been lied to about that harm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
US tariffs are taxes on Americans. The pass-through rate of the President's tariff spike in 2025 was 92%. Ninety two percent of the tariffs are paid by American consumers as higher prices. By Conservative and Liberal consumers—who have been lied to about that harm. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Incidence of Tariffs: Rates and Reality
(Summer 2026) - In 2025, statutory tariff rates on US imports rose to levels not seen in over one hundred years. What were the implications for prices? On the one hand, shipping lags, exemptions, and ...
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Today I heard Professor David Card speak about obstacles he's observed to incorporating evidence into policy. events.iadb.org/calendar/eve... I think #2 is very important when we (economists) talk about high rates of return.
Interesting new QJE paper builds a global working hours database for 160 countries covering 97% of world population. Globally, 59% of people aged 15+ work, averaging 42 hours/week; women account for 35% of GDP-producing hours. Hours are only weakly related to development.
The Trump administration is so opposed to socialism that it has acquired — sometimes by coercion — equity stakes in 30 companies so far. www.cato.org/blog/governm...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoHassett: "After World War 2, bc we had centralized production to defeat the Nazis, there were a whole bunch of socialists in the UK and US that wanted to take over the economy bc they said, 'Look, we've already centralized production, so let's just be socialist.' That's why the CEA was created ... "
LLMs reduce the cost of writing. They do not reduce the cost of having something worth writing.
How has tariff confusion affected US imports? Kalina Manova talks to voxeu@voxeu.org about our research on the trade disruption caused by Trump’s 2025 tariffs
VoxEU @ CEPR@voxeu.org · 5d agoHow much does tariff confusion matter? In this #VoxTalks episode, Kalina Manova discusses new research showing that confusion about the tariff actually in place amplified the impact of tariff hikes on trade. Recorded at the PSE-CEPR Policy Forum. 🎧 Listen now: ow.ly/fKha50Zv6s9 #EconSky #Trade
This is an *excellent* video on iodine. I had learned about some of these stories from @ruben.the100.ci, but I wasn't quite aware of how much of a public health miracle iodized salt is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRcw...
The easiest way to make the world smarter
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At some point you realise most of academia is just people carefully not saying what they actually think
"Over time, I have reluctantly concluded that my optimism was naïve. I now see evidence-based medicine as a deeply ill enterprise." Manski throwing bombs 💣💣💣 arxiv.org/abs/2607.23660 #statssky 📈📉
“There are no sex scenes and all the food looks horrible” is destined to be a meme
Que maravilha a crítica da Emily Wilson ao filme do Nolan (ainda não assisti) Ri alto várias vezes. "...There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Surveys like this always alarm people Fortunately, recent research from cognitive psychology shows that the reason people are so wildly wrong when estimating the size of minority groups is largely NOT because of prejudice — but rather how humans think about unknown proportions of any kind
Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social · last wk.This actually explains something about how people talk about the Jewish community.
It's a superpower to know the names of many beautiful and interesting things in the age of AI. You can invoke Vaporwave, Muqarnas, Bauhaus, or Art Nouveau whiplash curves. Sfumato and Grisaille and Notan. Polysyndeton and Zeugma. You just have to know what to ask for. What a time for the humanities
For the first time in Brazil, two transplant centers in different cities carried out a paired kidney donation. a donor from São Paulo traveled to Juiz de Fora while the donor from Minas Gerais went to São Paulo. #econsky #Brasil #medicine marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/07/mult...
Multi-hospital kidney exchange in Brazil
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What happens when the informal sector isn't taken into account in policymaking? In our most recent episode of Economics Unpacked, @gulyssea.bsky.social illustrates this using minimum wage as an example. Link below ⤵️
VoxDev@voxdev.bsky.social · 2w ago🆕 The informal sector: Why some economies are almost entirely hidden 📢 Today on VoxDevTalks, @gulyssea.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk) explains why informality is so widespread in developing countries, and how it affects economic growth: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XkM...
E o vento sopra na direção oposta ao movimento do barco (notem as velas)
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 2w agoPresumably including a historically accurate cyclops
