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⭐️Send your papers to the Spanish Development Workshop (SPANDE)! This year organized by the Development team at the great Alicante Economics Department!
📣 #CallForPapers 📣
The Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) is organizing the 4th Workshop on Development Economics in Spain at the Universidad de Alicante☀️
📅 October 26–27, 2026
⏰ Submission deadline: June 20
🗣️ Keynote speakers: @cbatista_econ @HjortJ
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🚨New Working Paper! What survives when a successful education pilot becomes a government program? Excited to finally share this after all the hard work! 👇👇
May 19
New Discussion Paper!! 📰
Can effective tutoring programs survive being scaled up by governments with different staff, no researcher oversight of the implementation, and real budget constraints? We ran an RCT in Spain to find out. Short answer: yes, but with caveats.
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Aprovechando el boom de San Isidro, la tradición y el neocasticismo en Madrid y como mucha gente no entiende como hemos llegado hasta aquí ni la relación de los madrileños con sus fiestas voy con él hilo definitivo para entender que pasa con las verbenas y los chulapos
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Congrats @jorgeghombrados and the rest of the team!! Super cool and policy-relevant paper 👇👇
This paper has been in my head for years. From my time at 3ie and JPAL, wondering why the evidence we produce as researchers so often fails to translate into policy, and what role ideology plays. Very happy to see it now published in the @AEAjournals. Let me tell you the story 🧵
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Apr 12
A fascinating paper about the evidence to policy pipeline from @jorgeghombrados a large team (he was a cool young researcher! You heard it here first)
Bonus points: the policy recommendation involves updating Wikipedia. I love this
Apr 10
Forthcoming in the AER: "Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption" by Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Angel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, and Antonio Roldán-Monés. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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Apr 11
Bueno, pues aquí tenéis el que es mi primer (y probablemente último) paper. Un trabajo de años mano a mano con @jorgeghombrados y el resto de coautores, para mostrar los sesgos en la implementación de políticas públicas, con un experimento a miles de alcaldes españoles.
Apr 10
Forthcoming in the AER: "Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption" by Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Angel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, and Antonio Roldán-Monés. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…
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6 Nov 2025
Hoy en @nadaesgratis presentamos la Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) 👇👇
6 Nov 2025
La Economía del Desarrollo se hace un hueco en la academia española nadaesgratis.es/jorge-garcia… Vía @nadaesgratis #Economía
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28 Oct 2025
Cuánta gente hemos salido hoy de casa con los auriculares con Berghain a todo volumen y de repente el mundo parecía una pintura estoy obsesionada perdón!!!
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24 Oct 2025
👇👇👇 This week we hosted a great policy event discussing the importance of impact evaluation at @CUNEF and a wonderful third Spanish development academic workshop at @FundacionAreces . Stay tuned!
24 Oct 2025
A great week for the Spanish Network in Development Economics (#SPANDE)
On Tuesday, we met at @CUNEF with policy makers from NGOs and Spanish Cooperation Evaluation Office to discuss how to strengthen impact evaluation. Fantastic discussions and new collaboration opportunities.
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17 Oct 2025
Will put in a plug for this cool paper that analyzes patterns of daughter versus son preference across SSA, incl comparing patrilineal matrilineal areas, from @GGenicot @MariaHdzdB
nber.org/papers/w33505
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8 Oct 2025
📢 Este 21 de octubre organizamos en @CUNEF un taller sobre cooperación al desarrollo basada en evidencia para reflexionar sobre las necesidades de evaluación en la cooperación al desarrollo española y explorar vías de colaboración entre academia y agentes de cooperación. 1/N
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22 Sep 2025
.@MariaHdzdB and I are excited to share the program of the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics, at @FundacionAreces on October 21–22 in autumnal Madrid.
Check the amazing line-up and stellar keynotes by Sylvie Lambert (PSE) and Raul Sanchez de la Sierra (U Chicago).
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18 Aug 2025
Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @teremolin
@DepartamentoFAE who works on topics including education, health social protection
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2 Jun 2025
Deadline: June 15th. Submit your best development econ paper and join us in beautiful autumnal Madrid!
19 May 2025
🚨 The call for the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics is out!
Organized by the Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) and hosted by @FundacionAreces on Oct 21–22 in Madrid.
Keynotes: Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (UChicago) & Sylvie Lambert (PSE). 1/2
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3 Jun 2025
✨ Just out on @voxdev.bsky.social: our blog on firstborn daughters, son preference, and family dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa — co-authored with @MariaHdzdB Take a look 👇👇👇
🆕 The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa
Today on VoxDev, @GGenicot (@GCER_Georgetown @Georgetown) & @MariaHdzdB (@CUNEF) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health/hidd…
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3 Jun 2025
🧵 ¿Sirve la historia económica para entender el presente? Sí, y cada vez más.
@GalofreVila y yo analizamos 25 años de publicaciones en las top-5 del campo usando análisis de redes y NLP.
Descubre lo que revela el análisis en este post de @nadaesgratis nadaesgratis.es/admin/es-el-… 1/
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3 Jun 2025
🆕 The hidden cost of a firstborn daughter in Africa
Today on VoxDev, @GGenicot (@GCER_Georgetown @Georgetown) & @MariaHdzdB (@CUNEF) discuss the impact of a firstborn daughter on the trajectory of a woman's life: voxdev.org/topic/health/hidd…
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19 May 2025
🚨 The call for the III Spanish Workshop on Development Economics is out!
Organized by the Spanish Network of Development Economists (SPANDE) and hosted by @FundacionAreces on Oct 21–22 in Madrid.
Keynotes: Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra (UChicago) & Sylvie Lambert (PSE). 1/2
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8 Feb 2025
Dear followers, please see my bad-case scenario for where the US economy may be heading in the Financial Times
The real threat to American prosperity via @FT
on.ft.com/3CQUkon
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25 Nov 2024
Look at the gender breakdown of who speaks in popular films!
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