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Nacho González
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Economist. Assistant Professor at American University. Washington DC - Madrid. https://www.ignacioglz.com/
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sameyler.bsky.social
I wrote up a policy brief on a migration workshop I attended for Standard Error last month. There is not a single more important line of social science research for making sense of our times. Read it!
June 18, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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📢 New CEPR #eBook out NOW! 📚
"The Economic Consequences of the Second Trump Administration: A Preliminary Assessment"
Editors: Gary Gensler, @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social, @upanizza.bsky.social, @wederdim.bsky.social
Free download: cepr.org/publications...
#EconSky
June 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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leahstokes.bsky.social
The Republican controlled Senate has released their Finance committee text. On energy policy, it improves slightly over the House bill — but it will still gut clean energy projects, killing jobs largely in Republican districts. This is a garbage bill. THREAD. 🧵
www.finance.senate.gov/tax-reform-2...
Tax Reform 2025 | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Tax Reform 2025
www.finance.senate.gov
June 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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edwincpark.bsky.social
Thread: Senate Republicans released initial bill language for their #Medicaid cuts. I am reading the bill now and will highlight key changes from House-passed bill. Topline is provider tax restrictions are worse, will devastate expansion state finances (1/x) www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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June 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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larrylevitt.bsky.social
When the House budget resolution first came out, moderate Republicans raised concerns about Medicaid. But, the House-passed bill cut Medicaid by $793 billion.

There was an expectation the Senate might moderate cuts. Now, they're looking at even bigger Medicaid cuts.
June 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
nacho2g.bsky.social
Nuestro post en @nadaesgratis.bsky.social sobre salario mínimo y consumo
June 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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josephestiglitz.bsky.social
Reposting with correct handle this time...With
@nacho2g.bsky.social and Juan Montecino, our latest in European Economic Review on optimal corporate tax policy www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Equity prices, market power, and optimal corporate tax policy
We study the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a textbook life-cycle model featuring two key deviations: (i) firms are imperfectly competitive…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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pedrotrivin.bsky.social
1/8 🚨 New paper alert!: "Consumption Responses to a Major Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from Spain" (w/ @nacho2g.bsky.social & Hector Sala). We study how a historic 22.3% minimum wage (MW) rise affected household spending. Key findings below!
May 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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kedseconomist.com
My second in a two-part series on the perils of the GOP tax bill.

Last week's explained how the bill is exactly wrong for the economic moment of higher prices and potential recession.

This week's focuses on the Medicaid and SNAP cuts.
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www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The GOP Tax Bill Ignores Decades of Economic Research
Assistance to the poor should be seen less as spending on people and more as investment in people.
www.bloomberg.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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nacho2g.bsky.social
Our analysis on the long-term effects of cutting federal R&D funding is featured in today’s @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
nacho2g.bsky.social
Our analysis on the long-term effects of cutting federal R&D funding is featured in today’s @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...
Trump’s Cuts to Science Funding Could Hurt U.S. Economy, Study Shows
Reducing federal support for research and development could cause long-run economic damage and reduce government revenue.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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🚀 Kicking off IMPA’s Bluesky with big news!
Join us this Wed, April 23, as we host @josephestiglitz.bsky.social @ikuziemko.bsky.social @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social & more for a timely conversation on U.S. economic policy.
🕥 10am–12pm 📍 AU SIS
🔗 RSVP: impa.american.edu/tax-policy-i...
Tax Policy, Inequality, and the Future of the American Economy | April 23, 2025 – Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis
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April 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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josephestiglitz.bsky.social
A paper I wrote with Ignacio Gonzalez and Juan A. Montecino out on @nber.org
nber.org NBER @nber.org · Mar 12
Studying the optimal design of corporate tax policy in a life-cycle model with imperfectly competitive firms and households that save by purchasing equity shares in a stock market, from Ignacio González, Juan A. Montecino, and Joseph E. Stiglitz https://www.nber.org/papers/w33544
March 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
nacho2g.bsky.social
Thrilled to share that Vasudeva Ramaswamy is on the job market! 🎉 His research spans macroeconomics, economic history, and public economics. Vasu is a brilliant economist and a wonderful person, and I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to collaborate with him.
November 27, 2024 at 8:58 PM
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pgonalon.bsky.social
Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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marielza.bsky.social
With new dataset, researchers show that low-income students remained a tiny percentage of the pop enrolled in US elite colleges for over 100 years.
dynarski.bsky.social Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Nov 18
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

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The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
November 18, 2024 at 1:10 PM