Eduardo Montero
@emontero_CR
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Costarricense 🇨🇷, development economist, Assistant Professor - University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy.
Joined December 2010
Excited to begin my term as a visiting graduate student at @HarrisPolicy @UChicago hosted by @emontero_CR 🙌🏽 My work focuses on the political economy of development, historical and cultural/social economics. If you’re around, feel free to reach out for a coffee!
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Abro convocatoria de asistentes de investigación en @EconomiaUAndes para ayudarme en distintos proyectos que estudian la economía política del desarrollo en Colombia - sobre paramilitarismo, reforma agraria, y/o política industrial. Por favor, compartir. 1/3
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2️⃣ Colonial-era concessions granted to private companies for resource extraction still negatively affect development in the DRC. In our second most-read article, @sararlowes @UCSDEcon & @emontero_CR @HarrisPolicy outline their research: https://t.co/prrb0d9ETb
#VoxDevTop10
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Thank you @TheEconomist for featuring my “making a narco” work in Peru !
economist.com
Kids who grew up in coca-growing areas were unusually likely to be imprisoned for murder as adults
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Was your morning coffee Fair Trade certified? How would this have affected coffee producers and workers? Pair this new paper with your next coffee to find out more ☕ Forthcoming in @JEEA_News by Dragusanu, @emontero_CR, and @DrNathanNunn
@EEANews @OUPEconomics
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@DrNathanNunn @JamesAlanRobin1 @emontero_CR and I are looking for a summer intern in DRC. Please apply! Fluency in French required; BA or MA; preferred field work experience. Appreciate retweets :) Job application info here: https://t.co/qZegtinbwz
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IPA's Peace & Recovery Program, w/funding from @FCDOREDGCSD @OpenSociety, has become a major supporter of research on reducing crime, violence, and conflict. Our brief quickly summarizes several recent studies on crime and policing in Latin America 🧵 https://t.co/r3Ng5tVsav
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Primera conferencia EconCR. Esta es una iniciativa para promover la investigación y la comunidad académica costarricense. Ver agenda y link para registrarse abajo 1/4
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Registration for our virtual @RIDGE_uy @voxlacea EHN workshop on Historical Development is now open! https://t.co/WkrYD2Byrq September 22, Montevideo times @MartinFiszbein @marialopezuribe
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My newest investigation -- on how Costa Rica's commitment to public health has given its people a life expectancy among the longest in all of the Americas.
newyorker.com
We’ve starved our public-health sector. The Costa Rica model demonstrates what happens when you put it first.
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Grupos criminales como MS-13 pueden limitar el desarrollo socioeconómico de la gente que vive bajo su control. El 27 de abril discutiremos con @emontero_CR y @micasviatschi el impacto de treguas entre grupos criminales en El Salvador. Registro aquí: https://t.co/mSrbvdkjv8
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Colonial French health campaigns that forcibly treated sub-Saharan Africans fed lasting mistrust in Western medicine that continues today, offering important lessons for modern vaccination efforts, say @sararlowes and @Emontero_CR #ResearchHighlight
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To what extent did French health campaigns from 70 years ago feed modern day mistrust in Central Africa?
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Grad students seem to get more hesitant about this over time, so just a reminder that you can still send me economic history ideas for feedback
Grad students with #econhistory ideas: I’ll send you feedback if you email me 1 page about the question, data (available or acquirable), research design, main concerns, and how you aim to address those. Multiple 1-pagers better. All encouraged, please spread word. #EconTwitter
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In a recent paper, Zach Y. Brown, @emontero_CR, @cschmidtpadilla, and @micasviatschi measure extortion by using unique data covering over 50,000 extortion payments made to gangs in El Salvador. Full article on @ProMarket_org
https://t.co/4DrbkZPoa1
#competition #extortion
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Thank you @StiglerCenter and @ProMarket_org for featuring our work! In this paper we try to understand how gangs determine extortion rates and how collusion among gangs may affect consumers
In a recent paper, Zach Y. Brown, @emontero_CR, @cschmidtpadilla, and @micasviatschi measure extortion by using unique data covering over 50,000 extortion payments made to gangs in El Salvador. Full article on @ProMarket_org
https://t.co/4DrbkZPoa1
#competition #extortion
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Thank you @TorstenBell for featuring our work with Zach Y. Brown @emontero_CR and @cschmidtpadilla Even criminals raise their prices when they form cartels
theguardian.com
In El Salvador, violence and murders fell after rivals agreed a non-compete deal, but extortion rates soared
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New @vox_dev: colonial extraction & dev in #DRC "even a short exposure to extractive institutions can have a meaningful impact on development ... particularly when local institutions are integrated into supporting extraction" By @sararlowes @emontero_CR
https://t.co/RqRgN7tPay
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Lasting effects of colonial-era resource exploitation in Congo: Concessions, violence, and indirect rule
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New evidence on the determinants of extortion payments to gangs in El Salvador and the economic costs of extortion via pass-through, from Zach Y. Brown, @emontero_cr, @cschmidtpadilla, and @micasviatschi
https://t.co/nwcNeIzJ5z
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So...I just scraped new State Dept data on student visas (F-1's), and it looks like student visa issuance fell by ~70% from FY2019 to FY2020. This is an astounding idiotic own-goal for America, given that education is one of our most successful exports.
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