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Guillermo Alves

@guillealves.bsky.social
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Urban and Development Economics. Research Economist at CAF Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. Personal opinions here. sites.google.com/site/guillealves

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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New Call for Proposals: CAF is looking for research on housing markets and policies in Latin America & the Caribbean. We welcome proposals on housing informality, rental markets, policy evaluation, and other topics. Details here: t.co/wVaTO9kIAa @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
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https://www.caf.com/en/work-with-us/calls/call-for-research-proposals-on-housing-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
New Call for Proposals: CAF is looking for research on housing markets and policies in Latin America & the Caribbean. We welcome proposals on housing informality, rental markets, policy evaluation, and other topics. Details here: t.co/wVaTO9kIAa @urbaneconomics.bsky.social
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https://www.caf.com/en/work-with-us/calls/call-for-research-proposals-on-housing-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Final week to send your papers!
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Final week to send your papers!
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out! FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025 Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU) Deadline for submission: Jul 15th @urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out! FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025 Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU) Deadline for submission: Jul 15th @urbaneconomics.bsky.social @fgvoficial.bsky.social
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Nicolás Lichtmaier @niqueco.ar · 31/01/2025
Mañana se marcha por el respeto irrestricto del proyecto de vida del prójimo.
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NBER @nber.org · 23/01/2025
Featured in the latest Digest: "The Impact of a Boston Desegregation Busing Program on Student Outcomes" www.nber.org/digest/202501/impact-b…
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Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 14/01/2025
"Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs...the returns to marginal audits...exceed the returns to average audits...Deterrence...results in the 12:1 return above the 90th percentile." academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
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A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution*
Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90
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Ludger Woessmann @woessmann.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
📢Just released: Results of PIAAC round 2⃣, the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies📝 11 years after round 1⃣, we learn how adults in 31 countries perform in literacy, numeracy + problem-solving How does your country do? 👉https://www.oecd.org/en/about/programmes/piaac.html
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Luis Monroy Gómez Franco @mgf91.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Mexicans are able to correctly estimate the magnitude of income inequality in the country but they overestimate (by a lot) the degree of intergeneracional mobility in the country. From the presentation by Aurora Ramírez
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Mathew Turner gives the first keynote lecture at the third workshop of LACEA's urban economics network 'LAUrban' at Banco de Mexico
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The program for next week's LACEA-LAUrban conference in Mexico City is now online! 🗓️📢 A big thank you to our local organizers Jorge Pérez Pérez (@jorpppp.bsky.social) & Lorenzo Aldeco. Check the program here: custom.cvent.com/C306D017CF72...
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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Just under two weeks till the submission deadline for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social Berlin conference. Please submit your papers or session proposals. Details here: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu... #EconConf
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UEA 2025 Berlin
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Guillermo Alves @guillealves.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Celebrating 20 years of google scholar with 20 things you didn't know about it blog.google/outreach-ini...
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20 things you didn’t know about Google Scholar
Google Scholar celebrates two decades of breaking down barriers to academic research and making it accessible to everyone, everywhere.
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Trade Diversion (Jonathan Dingel) @tradediversion.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Forward to the Special Issue “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Urban Economics”
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Arpit Gupta @arpitrage.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
The two most salient innovations to automobiles — EVs and autonomous vehicles — both make congestion pricing valuable: EVs will dry up gas revenues on which DOTs rely. While AVs will drastically increase vehicle miles traveled so everything will get congested absent pricing
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Pseudoerasmus @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
There are several reasons to be sceptical about the misallocation literature (which does not show but generally assumes that policy-induced distortions generate the wedges) but an underrated one is simply historical. The USA in the 19th century also had lots of 'misallocation'....
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Henry G Overman @henryoverman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A reminder of our current call for papers for @urbaneconomics.bsky.social next meeting in Berlin March 2025. Deadline to submit a paper is Monday 9th December: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...
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