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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢 QMUL AHRC Doctoral Landscape Award: 5 fully funded PhD studentships for Oct 2027 cohort. Interested in working with me on development? Get in touch: r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk 📅 Webinar: 14 Oct | Deadline: 1 Dec 2026 More info: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3b5a52... qmul.ac.uk/about/hss/re...

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International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Join us for the first IDEA Research Seminar, featuring Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University). Register here: idea.devecon.org Professor Mookherjee will be following up on his NBER invited lecture, which you can watch TOMORROW, Tuesday, July 28 at 9 AM US EDT here: www.youtube.com/@NBERvideos/...

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Ana-Maria Dimand @anadimand.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

The Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke seeks an associate or assistant professor of public administration: www.higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?... #PAJobMarket

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Thanks a lot of the feedback from the managing editor and six reviewers, and outstanding research assistance from Constantino Carreto, Daniel Chavez and Tania Rodríguez.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Michele's blog mentions causal identification on my side took a while as we patiently ruled out several potential confounders. Plus cleaning the highway traffic dataset was no small task. Great to finally see all those years of work in print, open access! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Despite a 154% increase in vehicle trips, violence eliminated 110 million daily intermunicipal trips (49% highway traffic in 2015). We identify this effect using changes in number of drug trafficking organisations as instrument for homicide rates.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Using network analysis, Michele also compared changes in daily vehicle traffic flows on Mexico’s federal highways in 2005 and 2015. This allowed us to analyse how the complex network of vehicle trips in the entire country changed🚗

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

We instrumented homicide rates using changes in fuel prices & municipal distance to fuel pipelines, factors driving violence from gasoline theft. Rising violence led to stronger emigration networks, 1.12 million additional domestic emigrants, 50,200 fewer returnees from the US during 2005-2020.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Michele used the Noise-Corrected approach he developed with Frank Neffke to quantify extent to which each municipality's migration network was changing, taking into account the multiple migration flows each municipality sends and receives from the rest of the country and abroad.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

What happens to migration and regional connectivity when violence becomes part of everyday life? My fab coauthor Michele Coscia @mikk.datasci.social.ap.brid.gy wrote a blog about our recent article combining network analysis & IV michelecoscia.com?p=2545

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International Development Economics Association @ideadevecon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

IDEA on the World Bank's Development Impact blog. Board member Owen Ozier introduces the association — why development economics needs a global professional home, and what IDEA is building. Read it, then join us: idea.devecon.org blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

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Introducing IDEA – the International Development Economics Association

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Thank you! The recent workshop we co-organised on Organised Crime: Local Roots & Global Reach was inspired by a very successful event organised by @angeltguevara.bsky.social and @geraldinebustos.bsky.social a couple of years ago at @uniessexgov.bsky.social Looking forward to more collaborations

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Interested in pursuing a PhD using linked administrative data to address important policy challenges? I'm happy to support applications for the ADR PhD Studentships at Queen Mary University of London. Deadline 15 Sept👇 If interested, contact me r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk www.adruk.org/news-publica...

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Funding opportunity: ADR UK PhD Studentships

ADR UK is inviting applications from Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) to host a cohort of PhD studentsh...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Open access journal article sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Presentation is based on my ongoing work on political violence and two existing publications. Coming book chapter in Oxford University Press, open access. Killing for control: How drug traffickers capture the state and expand their criminal economies global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Updating my coming presentation on 500+ politicians killed in Mexico, list sadly grows. Last night: incumbent mayor of San Miguel Amatitlán, Oaxaca, shot dead. He'd formally requested state protection weeks ago. Ignored. World Cup: Pan y circo. Slides: dropbox.com/scl/fi/swnsn...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Many thanks to participants of the "Organised Crime" workshop held yesterday made possible thanks to co-organiser Ángel Torres generosity of @qmul.bsky.social @uniessexgov.bsky.social At end of event we were admiring this view of London when realised had not taken the group photo, so few ppl missing

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

We just started the workshop, transmitting presentations via this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Looking forward to hosting this workshop on Organised Crime: Local Roots and Global Reach on 10 June. If you would like to attend in person, email me at r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk Places are limited. You can also join Zoom, in this link essex-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi... #OrganisedCrime

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Looking forward to presenting today along with Monica Beeder and Angel Torres-Guevara, at FIAP Jean Monnet, Rome+Dubliln Room, 7:00-8:30pm. #LASA2026 Paris.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Interested in contributing a chapter to a book on Drug Trafficking? Meet us at: Lobby of the Paris Marriott Hotel during #LASA2026 🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026 ⏰ 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM Or contact co-editors at: M.Beeder@soton.ac.uk, r.gutierrez@qmul.ac.uk, a.torresguevara@essex.ac.uk

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

📢 Excited to be presenting at #LASA2026 in Paris! 🗓️ Thursday, May 28 | 7:00–8:30 PM CT #LatinAmericanStudies #PoliticalEconomy global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Takeaway: Violence acts as a spatial friction. It concentrates activity in safer hubs while peripheralising violent areas. Thus, responses to criminal violence should consider their general-equilibrium spatial effects.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Analysing daily traffic in highways 2005 vs 2015, violence also affected regional connectivity. Despite a 154% rise in national traffic, rising homicides eliminated ~110M daily intermunicipal trips connecting violent areas to the rest of the country.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

But net flows miss the full story. Across 6M+ migration links across municipalities, violence strengthened emigration networks, people fled to a wider range of destinations.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Identification: we instrument homicide rates using fuel price changes × distance to pipelines. As prices rose, cartels expanded into fuel theft, fighting violently over fixed pipeline routes, an exogenous shock.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Rising homicide rates caused ~1.12M extra domestic emigrants & kept 50,200 Mexicans from returning from the US. That's nearly 6% of all domestic emigration, attributable to violence alone.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

How does violence reshape migration? Using 🇲🇽 census data 2005–2020 and network analysis across 6M+ migration links, we show violence drove displacement and reduced 🚗 highway traffic linking violent municipalities to the rest of the country www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 03/10/2025

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Looking forward to presenting 👇 at Fragile Lives 2025: Gender, Institutions, and Fragility in Berlin. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2407.06722 Programme: zerohunger.de/fragile-live...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Aquí hay una breve explicación del autor, Vicente Garrido, sobre qué señales hay que buscar para detectar psicópatas integrados y las diferencias con los narcisistas. No hay que ignorar a la intuición, el gut feeling y evaluar siempre acciones no promesas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEA...

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Cómo DETECTAR a un PSICÓPATA INTEGRADO: 5 Señales A Tener En Cuenta

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Ahora voy a leer 👇Aborda cómo detectar a psicópatas integrados: personas que no cometen delitos graves de violencia, pero causan daños significativos en la vida personal y en instituciones de la sociedad, incluyendo la política. #PEACELA www.amazon.co.uk/psic%C3%B3pa...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I love the book and reactive programming! I wish I could apply that kind of programming more frequently. How do I manage? I practise a tonne with the book. Read a chapter at a time and interact with R at the same time. Try to create my own examples as well.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This is one of many reasons I’ve refused, for decades, to accept performative diversity roles. Being a brown migrant woman does not make me uniquely qualified to fix institutional failures rooted in centuries of neglect.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Minorities in academia are expected to overperform, stay silent, and endure stereotypes (e.g, you don’t know how to write, are poorly educated). This is a minority tax: taking extra unpaid labour and diversity duties that don't count towards promotion. bmcmededuc.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Oh yes, I love it! It gets me unstuck every time. The whole package is amazing. Thanks.

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Easily my favourite book on mastering Shiny: building interactive apps, reports, and dashboards using R. And it's free 👉 mastering-shiny.org/basic-app.html #rstats #Shiny #DataViz

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855) From humble beginnings, Carl Friedrich Gauss reshaped science, from number theory, celestial mechanics to probability, statistics, and geometry. A mind of rare depth and clarity. 🎬 Watch the full documentary: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PC6r...

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Carl Friedrich Gauss: The Prince of Mathematics! (1777–1855)

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Women with names perceived as masculine are less likely to be omitted from citations than those with feminine names. Men with feminine-sounding names are more likely to be omitted than men with masculine names, suggesting citation bias based on gender perceptions. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Summer project: reading 👇 and building new maps. A very good guide for spatial thinking in criminology and R. #PEACELA

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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Astronomers had noisy observations of comet positions and needed to estimate their orbits, like ellipses or parabolas. But errors made this tricky. In 1805, Legendre introduced least squares to find the orbit that best fit the data by minimizing squared errors.

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