Mauricio Romero
@marome1
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🇨🇴in🇲🇽. Mountaineer, cyclist, and climber. Econ & math @Uniandes → Ph.D. @UCSDEcon → Assoc. Prof @ITAM_MX. Views are my own.
Distrito Federal, México
Joined July 2010
2019 brought some bad idiosyncratic health shocks (a car hit me while biking+I fell bouldering and had to get knee surgery to fix an unhappy triad). 2020 brought a bad macro health shock. I hope these giant pacific mantas on Jan 1st are a good sign of what 2021 lays ahead.
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Few days left to apply. A few pics of what life in Mexico looks like
We (@EconomiaITAM_) are hiring: https://t.co/aES5pv3alq Pay is competitive with the US (in absolute terms), working language is English, virtually no service work, spend ~80% of your time in research, and you get to live in one of the coolest cities in the world. #econtwitter
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So this is public now, so: I’m officially starting a Works in Progress-style magazine focusing on the developing world! It is called In Development, and first call for pitches will be coming at the end of the year.
Emergent Ventures winners 48th cohort
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Come work with @singhabhi @karthik_econ and me!
🚨 Job alert: I’m hiring a postdoc in Stockholm to work with me, @marome1 @karthik_econ on edu policy in India Flexible duration: 1 yr (if you have an AP job lined up) or 2 yr. The aim is to coauthor high quality papers. https://t.co/2SMPvhKxRX More details below ⬇️ (1/4)
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🚨 Job alert: I’m hiring a postdoc in Stockholm to work with me, @marome1 @karthik_econ on edu policy in India Flexible duration: 1 yr (if you have an AP job lined up) or 2 yr. The aim is to coauthor high quality papers. https://t.co/2SMPvhKxRX More details below ⬇️ (1/4)
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My student, Petter Berg, is on the Econ job market this year. He’s fantastic, multiple published papers already (EJ, JPubE) and a terrific job market paper that’s on Marginal Revolution today! Anyone hiring in edu/labour/public, def interview Petter! https://t.co/ABd7bQFti6
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Petter Berg
Educational for-profit charter schools do worse in Sweden
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Educational for-profit charter schools do worse in Sweden
marginalrevolution.com
I estimate the long-run earnings impacts of for-profit and non-profit charter high schools in Sweden. Since the 1990s, privately managed schools have expanded dramatically—driven entirely by for-pr...
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Mientras algunos siguen con una narrativa equivocada sobre la ciclovía de Tlalpan 🚲, da gusto ver cómo la obra avanza 🤩 ¿Y qué viene? ✅ Más estaciones de ECOBICI ✅ BiciEscuelas en la zona ✅ Biciestacionamientos en el Metro ✅ Operativos contra la invasión de 🏍️ ✅ Aforos
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Di que el Paseo Nocturno necesita ampliar su ruta sin decirlo. Porque no hay necesidad de confrontar a ciclistas y peatones.
El Paseo Nocturno por el #DíadeMuertos presenta una alta afluencia de pedalistas, a la altura del Ángel de la Independencia, sobre Paseo de la Reforma. Video. Karla Ayala
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Hoy acompañamos al BiciBus 💙 rumbo a la escuela. Qué maravilla ver a tantos peques empezar el día moviéndose diferente. Ellos crecerán sin ese chip de que "todo se hace en 🚘", sin esa dependencia. Ojalá hubiera BiciBuses en todo 🇲🇽 ... ¡qué digo México, en todo el mundo!
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Bicyclist deaths in the US are up 89% (!) since 2009. Biking on public roads doesn’t have to be this dangerous. This is a policy choice.
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Felicitamos a Alejandro Chávez Rodríguez quien obtuvo, con mención especial, su título de licenciado en economía con el trabajo “Dormir para Triunfar: El Impacto del Sueño en el Desempeño Académico” ¡Te deseamos mucho éxito! #OrgulloITAM @ITAM_mx
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🚨 WE @UNSWEcon ARE HIRING! 🚨 JMC: apply and email/DM for any question! A short 🧵 on @UNSWEcon and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇 https://t.co/XYxVQcXhlp
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This paper is a good example to bring up when someone claims that economists have all moved on from 1970s, before imperfect info and game theory became cannon. Actually, they’re out there, and still writing crazy papers!
This terribly misguided paper is making the rounds. This thread is to make it common knowledge what is wrong with it. The basic thing: all modern economic theory allows for a gap between individual maximization and efficiency, whatever you mean exactly by each of these. 1/
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BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having explained innovation-driven economic growth” with one half to Mokyr
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Se critica la idea de “mestizaje” en América Latina. Más allá del mito o realidad, el problema es creer que la mezcla nos igualó. Las desigualdades siguen ahí, generación tras generación. Va 🧵 sobre mi nuevo artículo en el Journal of Development Economics (link abajo) 👇🏽
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Y es una de las razones por la que no se construye más metro en la CDMX. Simplemente no hay incentivos políticos para hacerlo.
En un debate donde se le atribuian hasta los problemas geológicos de CDMX al gobierno de Clara Brugada, me atreví a decir la verdad: Que si bien CDMX tiene muchos problemas, Brugada es una de las gobernadoras mejor evaluadas del país e incluso, en seguridad, se le aprueba
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