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Our paper Discrimination in the Formation of Academic Networks: A field Experiment on #EconTwitter has just been published in the American Economic Review: Insights.

with @brunoferman.bsky.social and Pedro Sant'Anna

Some early learnings analyzing conversations:
- Kai led with 35% initial engagement > than human counselors (28%)
- Kai responded faster & more factually focused. Kai and humans covered = number of topics per conversation.
- Kai seems more efficient: simillar info, similar engagement, shorter time

Elige Educar’s “Quiero Ser Profe” program in Chile tackles teacher shortages by offering personalized WhatsApp counseling to highschoolers, encouraging them to pursue teaching.

It works (JPE Micro forthcoming). It increased actual enrollement in teaching majors.

BUT...

🚨 Call for papers! The second edition of the Transatlantic Political Economy Conference (T-PEC) will be in November in London. Organized by @clpennec.bsky.social Cevat Aksoy and me.

The submission deadline is July 4, 2025. Apply here (and RT!):

sites.google.com/view/tpec-mo...

Our "(Successful) democracies breed their own support" is out on the last edition of Restud :)

academic.oup.com/restud/artic...

🚨🚨 We are hiring!! 🚨🚨

Come work with us at McGill Econ Department in Montreal!

Apply here:
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(below a picture of a friend of mine on campus)

Glad to see our paper "Immigration, Crime, and Crime (Mis)Perceptions" with P. Dominguez and R. Undurraga finally in print in AEJ: Applied Economics!

link: www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...