Gabriel Burdin
@GabrielBurdin
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Associate Professor in Economics @DepsUSiena | @iza_bonn Research Fellow | @FCEA_UdelaR Affiliated Researcher | Views are my own.
Firenze -Siena
Joined January 2015
Los nexos tupamaros del gobierno de Bukele. https://t.co/xLsjLrbSTR
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Very much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation! I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
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Giving kids a laptop doesn't improve their academic performance.
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Recently accepted by #QJE, “Bargaining and Inequality in the Labor Market,” by Caldwell (@SydneeCaldwell), Haegele, and Heining:
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Abstract. We use novel surveys of firms and workers, linked to administrative employer-employee data, to study the prevalence and importance of individual
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A timely, important read for educators and teen parents
Anxiety about their kids falling behind may be driving parents' decisions to adopt AI technology, despite personal support for restrictions, from Leonardo Bursztyn, @alexoimas, Rafael Jiménez-Durán, Aaron Leonard, and @cp_roth
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Honored to introduce Samuel Bowles' Public Lecture The Origin and Future of Inequality. Sam has been an inspiration, both intellectually and morally, to me as well as to many, many other scholars. In my opinion, there is no economist who has contributed more to understanding
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A bicycle designed in 1946 known as the Spacelander, which didn’t enter production until 1960. Only around 500 were ever produced.
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“Hurry up and finish so I can get on with my work.” It is said that Marie Skłodowska Curie uttered these words to the photographer during this photo session in her laboratory. This photo depicting the trailblazing scientist was taken at the beginning of the 20th century.
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The British right desperately hoped a Muslim was involved in the train attack. Turns out there was. But he was saving lives.
This is Samir Zitouni – a Muslim rail worker who saved multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train. Zitouni blocked the attacker from stabbing a girl, leaving him with a gash on his head and neck A hero
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What happens when online job applicants start using LLMs? It ain't good. 1. Pre-LLM, cover letter quality predicts your work quality, and a good cover gets you a job 2. LLMs wipe out the signal, and employer demand falls 3. Model suggests high ability workers lose the most 1/n
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Fascinating paper by @grattonecon, @bartonelee2, and Hasin Yousaf! The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions? They argue that what matters is not only institutional
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📢THIS WEEK @DepsUSiena Research Seminar! @Roberto__Iacono (@NTNU) "Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform" 🗓️⏲️ Nov 5, 15:00, Goodwin Room #Siena
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🚨1/N Really excited to announce a new working paper, “Interviews” 🚨 We demonstrate that interviews allow workers to screen firms and preview whether the job is a good match for them—using ~500k Glassdoor reports + a randomized field experiment. 🧵
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One more step in the destruction of US scientific preeminence. Madness.
DeSantis to Florida Universities: ‘Pull the Plug’ on H-1B Visa Workers Complaining about professors from China, Europe and “supposed Palestine,” the Republican governor called for his state’s public universities to end the use of the visa program. https://t.co/oUqEAqoLPz
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Another banger from Finnish admin data thanks to @anarodriguezg_ @J_HumanResource: robust evidence of ⬆️ relative female education leading to ⬇️ marriage + fertility, due to mismatches in educational dist btw men and women
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I wrote a long blot post on the economics of AI, prompted by two great workshops (Windfall and NBER), and me leaving OpenAI for METR: TLDR: we driving in the fog. 1. There is no standard model of AI’s economic impact. Economists have been using a wide range of assumptions to
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This is such a cool paper and nicely highlights the strength of economic theory. If hours worked are capped, what will happen? If firms have monopsony power, as they often do, then both compensation and total employment can *increase*!
I am on the #EconJobMarket ! My JMP evaluates what happened to these workers⏬ This is a coal mine in Belgium 🇧🇪 in 1907. They are working more than 10 hours per day. Then, the government imposed a maximum 9h workday. What happens to wages and employment? A JMP🧶(1/12)
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Men and women are treated differently when presenting their economics research. "Within a seminar series, women are interrupted more than men... Interruptions that are negative in tenor or tone, or cutoff the presenter mid-sentence, increase for women presenters." New AER paper
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