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Zoel Quiñónez

@pelonquin.bsky.social
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Proud son of Janitor and a Housekeeper; Clinical Associate Professor, Stanford University; Treasurer, Educator Collective for EJ. These are my personal views.

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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
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Zoel Quiñónez @pelonquin.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Congrats! It is great to see that someone doing liberatory work was recognized for their social impact.
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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
When people ask me why I don't care about my h-index, citations, etc., I point out that racism means that's a losing game. Cause this ain't just in economics. www.nber.org/papers/w33150
Screenshot of the article. Title: The Color of Ideas: Racial Dynamics and Citations in Economics. Authors: Marlene Koffi, Roland Pongou, and Leonard Wantchekon. NBER Working Paper No. 33150. Published November 2024. JEL No. A14, I23, J15. Abstract reads: This paper investigates the existence of racial disparities in the dissemination of ideas using the paper citation network in economics. Exploiting a comprehensive dataset of over 330,000 publications from 1950 to 2021, combined with manually collected data from the CVs of thousands of economists, we document that papers authored by non-White scholars (Black, Hispanic, or Asian) receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those authored by White scholars. The citation gap remains or even amplifies with increasing author seniority and conventional quality indicators and is especially pronounced for Black authors. Moreover, papers authored by non-White scholars are less likely to serve as citation bridges and are less often cited by highly cited papers as measured by the centrality indexes, limiting both their direct and indirect influence. Our analysis indicates that this disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. Rather, it is largely driven by homophily in citation patterns and racial clusters in networks, where scholars tend to cite authors from their racial group. These findings can be rationalized by a simple theoretical model where citation costs and peer-review preferences influence citation behavior. Then, we provide suggestive evidence that reducing information friction—thereby lowering the cost of citing—could reduce the racial citation gap by up to 50%. Finally, using natural language processing, we highlight the complementarity across racial groups in research and discuss potential losses from racial barriers to idea diffusion.
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Zoel Quiñónez @pelonquin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
When I travelled to Cuba in 2005, people there told me that they felt that we were not free, and oppressed by $$, propaganda and our “democracy”. Our “democracy” is one where $$ is speech and a corporation has the same rights as a person… and where Californians can vote to continue slavery.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I wonder too. 🤔
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/11/2024
The nonprofit killer has passed the house.
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House passes bill allowing Trump admin to declare nonprofits terrorists
This time, only 15 Democrats voted for it.
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The Democratic Party is an active participant in genocide. What does that make its supporters?
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