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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez

@sandraguilarg.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor - Universidad de los Andes | Postdoc - UCSD | Ph.D - Columbia | Environmental, Development, Health Economics. 🇲🇽Mexicana en Colombia. 🤩NEW website sandraaguilargomez.com

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
🆕 Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico Today on VoxDev w/ IEA, Sandra Aguilar-Gomez (Technologico de Monterrey) discusses why a one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico: voxdev.org/topic/energy-environment…
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Climate adaptation and vulnerability in Mexico
A one-size-fits-all approach to climate change won’t work in Mexico, where climate adaptation is highly unequal. Currently, private responses such as air conditioning, migration, and financial adjustment play a central role. These mechanisms are often more accessible to higher-income households while exacerbating inequality and shifting climate risks onto poorer, informal, and rural populations, as well as overburdening health, labour, and financial systems.
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Traveling to @aereorg.bsky.social in NM tonight. I was not able to check in online despite having a return flight w/ the same airline. Here I am, stressed as hell at the airport, hoping that I can make it to the conference. I might attend the European version until 2029 if today does not go well.
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
🤩🥂 thrilled that this paper with Eva Arceo and Elia de l Cruz will be out soon at JDE! Also, this makes two published/accepted dissertation chapters and one in RR. Can’t complain!
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
This framing is all wrong Our international students are not a “crucial funding source” They are our STUDENTS They are the reason we EXIST We teach STUDENTS
By Michael S. Schmidt and Michael C. Bender
May 22, 2025
Updated 2:17 p.m. ET
The Trump administration on Thursday halted Harvard University's ability to enroll international students, taking aim at a crucial funding source for the nation's oldest and wealthiest college in a major escalation in the administration's efforts to pressure the elite school to fall in line with the president's agenda.
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joseph francis @joefrancis.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I wrote a short essay reflecting on what “AI” means for academia. All my academic friends should probably now disown me. open.substack.com/pub/thepoorr...
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Now Is Existential Question Time for Academia
The rise of the machines means that academics must ask themselves “Why Do I Exist?”
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
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ClimateFran @climatefran.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Very cool opportunity - PhDs in environmental econ definitely consider applying!
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Philanthropic organizations after universities? Again if you have paid attention to Russia and Hungary a decade ago, you should expect this to happen soon.
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s out! My first book chapter 🥰 📖 I loved the process of finding my voice to write this piece. 🔗 www.routledge.com/Equity-in-th...
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Thank you so much for sharing our research! This working paper is the result of two years of work and hundreds of information requests. More findings soon 🔜
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 09/04/2025
If only there were a group of prestigious universities that could coordinate. A "league" of sorts. Given the classic ivy draping buildings on college campuses maybe we could use that type of symbol to unite them.
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
And in Mexico, @sandraguilarg.bsky.social shows that drought ⬆️ IPV in multiple admin data sources (even in a middle-income country)! publications.iadb.org/en/droughts-... A lot here to dig into in terms of understanding this important climate/violence relationship
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VoxEU @ CEPR @voxeu.org · 26/03/2025
Extreme heat events are not only a direct #health threat, but also a systems-level shock to #healthcare delivery. Addressing the indirect effects of #climatechange is an essential component of climate adaptation. @sandraguilarg.bsky.social, J Graff Zivin, M Neidell cepr.org/voxeu/column... #EconSky
Graph of changes in triage of emergency department patients. The graph shows that as temperatures increase, the share of patients sent home increases.

As extreme heat events become more frequent and severe, rising temperatures will increase the incidence of heatstroke, kidney damage, and cardiovascular stress. This column considers extreme heat as not only a direct health threat, but also a systems-level shock that will expose and exacerbate existing vulnerabilities in healthcare delivery. To prepare for a future of acute heatwaves, policymakers and healthcare leaders must ensure that hospitals operate effectively during these crises. Addressing the indirect effects of climate change is an essential component of broader climate adaptation efforts.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A pie graph worth keeping in mind as the NIH budget plummets jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... for 356 new FDA drugs approved
graph of NIH basisfor new drugs
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Khoa @khoavuumn.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
"Very thrilled to share my new working paper on..."
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Excited to be at LAERE 2025 Conference! Interesting opening keynote by @juanpablorud.bsky.social on natural resource-deriven cash windfalls and local economic development in Peru 🇵🇪
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
New WP alert! 🚨
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Err, guys, we’ve done this. It went really bad.
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NBER @nber.org · 23/02/2025
Extreme heat leads to surges in healthcare demand that generate hospital congestion and spillover impacts on other patients, from Sandra Aguilar-Gomez, Joshua S. Graff Zivin, and Matthew J. Neidell www.nber.org/papers/w33491
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
New WP alert! 🚨
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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
#Environmental degradation poses a #publicpolicy challenge, particularly impacting the Global South, where women & girls often experience greater burdens from #climatechange & #airpollution than men & boys. Read more: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... Subscribe: www.ssrn.com/link/U-Andes...
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Domingo 12pm. Alguien pidió UN PAN por Rappi. ¿Cuál es el ingreso del repartidor para que el viaje valga la la pena? ¿Qué desigualdad existe para que a alguien le convenga tercerizar bajar por el pan? ¿Qué indolencia ambiental dado que quizá ese viaje se hizo en coche o moto?
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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Esteban J. Quiñones, Ph.D. @estebanjq.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
What can you do about the assault on USAID? Share this far and wide. Do your part! Please do retweet 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
USAID What’s Happening & Why it Matters
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)
Photograph of a warehouse in Kinshasa where unboxed tuberculosis medications are going undistributed due to the stop work order by the Trump Administration.
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
This is fantastic: a 68 country data set with perceptions of science, science communication and climate attitudes. Featured in @nature.com Led by the formidable @nielsmede.bsky.social What a resource! Now we ‘just’ need a 2025/26 update given how it’s all changing. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Perceptions of science, science communication, and climate change attitudes in 68 countries – the TISP dataset
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Proofs day!! It’s proofs day!!! 🚨 This manuscript that took a year for us to review will self-destruct in 48 hours if you don’t return proofs within that period!! 💣 (Still, proofs day 🥂!)
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Jorge Pérez Pérez @jorpppp.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
🚨New dataset alert 🚨 In collaboration with a stellar team at Banxico, Harvard, the World Bank, and ITAM, we built a dataset of demographics and labor market variables at the local-labor-market level for Mexico! Download here: www.banxico.org.mx/DataSetsWeb/... #EconSky #Mexico
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
#EconSky are people clustering SE by running variable in their RDDs these days? I am finding conflicting advice in recent textbooks… e.g Cattaneo et al 2024 handbook explains how to do it but Cunningham’s Mixtape and Huntington-Klein’s The Effect say DON’T!!
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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
@sandraguilarg @sandraguilarg.bsky.social: environment + gender sandraaguilargomez.com @Dweepobotee @dweepobotee.bsky.social: applied econometrics + machine learning sites.google.com/view/dweepob... @sallyzhangecon @sallyzhangecon.bsky.social: intrahh dynamics www.zhangsally.com
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
No hay otra 🏙️
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
me, editing
A person in a Hello Kitty costume bashes a computer
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Pavlos Roufos @proufos.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
A pretty straightforward explanation of what is to be gained from dismantling the US federal administrative state via DOGE (from Tooze's latest Chartbook)
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Woke up 5:30 ☀️ Biked through ciclovía 🚲 Breakfast: tinto, arepa’e’huevo & caldo de papa ☕️ I deserve the dual nationality 🇨🇴 🇲🇽
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Still getting much more impressions and interactions on the other place, contrary to what some other (mostly US-based) economists have experienced. This is your weekly reminder that Econsky is very US-biased and still disconnected from the general public.
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are thrilled to have Jim Robinson visiting Universidad de los Andes for a tribute to his continuing alliance with the university and the country, and to hear insights about his motivations and trajectory. #EconSky
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
We would call this a burn SHEINBAUM: “President Trump, it isn’t with threats or tariffs that we resolve the migratory phenomenon or the abuse of drugs in the United States.” CANADA: “Our relationship today is balanced and mutually beneficial, particularly for American workers” surl.li/euarhh
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Mexico and Canada push back against Trump’s tariff threats
Mexico is the top U.S. trading partner, and Canada is not far behind. Mexico’s president has vowed to retaliate with her own tariffs on American goods.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/11/2024
“One tariff would be followed by another in response, and so on until we put at risk common businesses,” Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum said, warning that tariffs would cause inflation and job losses in both countries. “What sense is there?”
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Mexico president vows to retaliate with own tariffs against Trump’s tax threat
Claudia Sheinbaum rebukes Trump and says his plan would do nothing to stem flow of migrants or drugs bound for US
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Laura Martínez 🥑 @miblogestublog.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Latinos: the glass once contained delicious mole
photo of a container of Mole Doña María, a typical Mexican dish
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Can someone over here please tell me a decent Trump’s cabinet appointment? I need a bit of hope (?)
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Papers written by non-white economists receive 5.1% to 9.6% fewer citations than those written by white economists. This disparity is not attributable to differences in research quality, author ability, or visibility. However, this racial gap has declined by quite a bit in recent years.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/11/2024
Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
a cartoon with two panels

panel one is a stick figure saying "oh! a fossil fuel!!" standing above a crudely drawn black lump under a brown ground

Panel two is them walking away and saying "I'll just leave it there"

The head of the person is not a drawn circle but the letter O, because the random software I used to draw it did that for unexplained reasons
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Simon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 19/11/2024
+++NEW ANALYSIS: China’s CO2 emissions have now caused more global warming than EU+++ Our new analysis comes as the "principle of historical responsibility" is being cited in #COP29 talks on a new climate finance goal THREAD with details, caveats + bonus chart www.carbonbrief.org/... 1/12
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Robert Metcalfe @rmetcalfe.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
I’m thrilled to introduce six outstanding economics job market candidates from the PhD program in Sustainable Development at Columbia. Each of them brings a unique perspective and cutting-edge research in environmental economics and applied topics. #EconTwitter #EconJMP #EconJMC #EconJobMarket
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
Nothing ever compares to Mexican breakfasts. Scrambled eggs with morita chile and maguey worms sauce, with a side of pickled nopales 🌵.
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 27/09/2024
Presentation day!
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 30/08/2024
Seeing your work (in progress) in print >>>>>>
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Sandra Aguilar-Gomez @sandraguilarg.bsky.social · 27/08/2024
Help! #academicsky
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