Nicolas Salamanca
Economist at The University of Melbourne
www.nsalamanca.com/
- How do you call a four alarm fire stack over several three alarm ones, a few two alarm ones and a tank or kerosene?
- University online instruction sucks, but more so for women, widening performance gender gaps. Awesome new field experiment by Backes-Gellner, Shan and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social !!
- 🚨 New working paper! 🚨 We ran a field experiment with >1,300 university students randomly assigned to online vs in-person lectures. What happens? Online instruction hurts performance, but only for women♀️📉 with Xiaoyue Shan & Uschi Backes-Gellner www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
- Also, I just found out that @xshan.bsky.social is on Bluesky :-)
- Not balanced in your (quasi-)experiment? No idea why? No problem! Looking forward to presenting this joint work with @adegendre.bsky.social tomorrow at UWA Econ in Perth. Drop by if you have the chance!
- Check out the latest version of the paper here: adegendre.github.io/papers/de_Ge...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaRe-upping my advice about how to write a good title and abstract for an academic paper, appropriately called: "How to Write a Title and Abstract" Feel free to share this thread, which will focus on titles. #EconSky #AcademicSky
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- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaOnce again, Australian election results prove how awful choropleth maps are for data visualisation. "Land doesn't vote, people do." #rstats code to reproduce animation here: github.com/emitanaka/oz...
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca🚨 Just published in the Annual Review of Economics: 👉 Skills and Earnings: A Multidimensional Perspective on Human Capital 👈 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... My review of what we know so far about the role of multidimensional skills for earnings @annualreviews.bsky.social 1/9
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaVery excited to present my work with @chriskarbownik.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social on the integration of minority children in the classroom using data from Taiwan at @crestumr.bsky.social @ipparis.bsky.social on Wednesday April 30 🔗 adegendre.github.io/papers/CEPR%...
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- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThe third-worlding of America How to destroy 80 years of credibility in less than 3 months (Paul Krugman) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-third-...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaI know this will surprise folks who bought cars based on promises they'll be self-driving "next year," but he's now admitting that DOGE will only deliver on 7.5% of the promised $2,000b, and even that is only coming "next year." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaBiggest mistakes I'm seeing in early reporting (thread): 1. Tariffmageddon isn't over: Lotsa tariffs to account for, but the average tariff rate is only down around one quarter. So most of the pain of Liberation Day is still with us.
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamancawill be hanging out at Uni Melbourne for the next week to do work and wrap up projects. Also presenting on Thursday work on teacher mental health with @jonasvlachos.bsky.social and others. If you're around come say hi! Thanks @adegendre.bsky.social and @nsalamanca.bsky.social for organizing this!
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaVery interesting interview with @sendhil.bsky.social on AI. Fresh perspective on several topics, including value of AI in education. youtu.be/z_svj3NP968
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThere isn’t much like ending the week with an R&R !!!! 🥂🤩🥳🥂🤩🥳
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaAnother R&R with @nsalamanca.bsky.social @econfeld.bsky.social and @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social What a week!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaNow heading to UNSW for ESCoE conference to present « Same-sex teacher effects in education » with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social @ulfzoelitz.bsky.social — paper here 👉🏽 adegendre.github.io/papers/deGen... — we even made a website with interactive effects ! www.role-model-effects.com
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaHoly crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaI'm thrilled to see this site building a serious community of researchers, writers and policymakers focused on education policy and economics. Below are links to 3 Starter Packs I've made to help you connect with such folks. Please let me know if I've missed you. The volume of requests has been 😮
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- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaNew WP w/ @adegendre.bsky.social, @nsalamanca.bsky.social, Zenou: www.nber.org/papers/w3242.... Using random assignment to classrooms, we show that exposure to minority peers ⬇️ student effort, parental investments, & teacher engagement & results in ⬇️ test scores. Check out our new model too.
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaSo happy and excited to release this WP with @econfeld.bsky.social @nsalamanca.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social ! Full thread on paper here 👇🏽
- Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaAre teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
- New work with awesome coauthors @adegendre.bsky.social , @econfeld.bsky.social and @superstudy.bsky.social exploring the generalizability of same-sex teacher effects by combining existing multi-country data and met analysis tools. Check out the thread below!
- Are teachers *generally* better at teaching students of their own sex? NO in primary education, YES in secondary education. A 🧵 generalizability and same-sex teacher effects www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/23...
- Our work with @adegendre.bsky.social , @chriskarbownik.bsky.social and Yves Zenou combines a simple model and awesome data to show how and why disadvantaged minorities in the classroom to affect behaviors of students, parents and teachers, and ultimately test scores. Check it out!
- New WP w/ @adegendre.bsky.social, @nsalamanca.bsky.social, Zenou: www.nber.org/papers/w3242.... Using random assignment to classrooms, we show that exposure to minority peers ⬇️ student effort, parental investments, & teacher engagement & results in ⬇️ test scores. Check out our new model too.
- Great work from a great team!!! Congratulations! Very well deserved
- Gifts arrived early this year. Happy to share that our paper (with @ajhollingsworth.bsky.social, @mthomasson.bsky.social, and @anthonywray.bsky.social) - The Gift of a Lifetime: The Hospital, Modern Medicine, and Mortality - is now conditionally accepted (subject to data replication) in the AER.
- This is very good advice! When you need it, use the slack. There’s lots of it around our lives and that’s what is there for.
- I am very very happy to see this paper by @econfeld.bsky.social out! Writing does matter, in quantifiable and important ways. We should all invest more in learning how to do it better.
- Is better writing rewarded in peer review? Our newly published suggests the answer is “Yes”! doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #EconSky 🧵 (1/7)
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaHi #EconSky my friend and coauthor @econfeld.bsky.social is on Bsky! Follow him for content on economics of education, personality traits, academic writing, meta-science and many other cool stuff!
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca"Two wheelers like e-bikes and electric mopeds] are actually displacing four times as much demand for oil as all the world’s electric cars at present, due to their staggering uptake in China and other nations where mopeds are a common form of transport" theconversation.com/the-worlds-2...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaNot sure I have the bandwidth to learn another social media platform, but here goes...my first post here:) Excited to share a new paper: 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐁𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐔𝐩 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐬𝐬: 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬, 𝐂𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬 w/ Dave Macdonald & Jerry Montonen. Abstract pictured below!
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaWe have a new working paper: “The (Un)importance of School Assignment”. 1/9 www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/wuizq...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaRe the IZA situation, you'll likely see a letter publicized soon, written initially by others with an even clearer sense of what's going on. I will be a signatory to that letter.
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaWe have another new DP out now! de Gendre, Feld and Salamanca replicate, test robustness, and test using different data Hanushek et al.'s (2021) 'Patience, Risk-Taking, and Human Capital Investment Across Countries' econpapers.repec.org/paper/zbwi4rdps/48.htm
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaIn favor of a ceasefire: Democratic voters 80% House Democrats 8% Republican voters 56% House Republicans 0% All voters 66% All House members 4% Chart by @stephensemler.bsky.social
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThis is one of the features I LOVED of EconTwitter, so glad people have imported to BlueSkye! ❤️🥰 Econ Job Market season is the best time of the year to discover what PhD Candidates are studying and how they do it! 🤩
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaReminder #econsky We at CREST-ENSAE-Polytechnique are hiring we have several positions at assistant/associate level, any field econjobmarket.org/positions/9867 Deadline for applications is next Wednesday, Nov 15
- Oh man, I yanked this 11/24. Much harder than it seems at first!
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaAn underrated benefit of being a professor is that you get paid to continuously LEARN stuff 🥰
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca🎉 Attend the inaugural Monash HELP (Health/Ed/Labor/Public) Workshop, Dec 11 & 12 in Melbourne! Program: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Details: stefaniejfischer.github.io/assets/docs/... Register by Nov 24 (conditional on space): events.humanitix.com/monash-help-...
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca✨Join Monash Econ as a postdoc! careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo... Deadline Nov. 23 Come work w/ faculty (labour/public/macro/IO/enviro/health) on policy-relevant projects using newly available linked Australian admin micro data. @ClaudioLaba @M_Gravoueille @corey_d_white @KMajlesi
- 🚨Hey #EconSky📉📈! We’re looking for a new Director at the Melbourne Institute!! 🚨 Fantastic position for a senior researcher to make an impact through evidence-based policy at a large scale. Check out the job posting below: jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91445...
- This is very very good news! And a lesson for all those programs that want to increase labor force participation in disability support recipients. It’s often a constraints, not incentives!
- The positive externalities of WFH www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThe positive externalities of WFH www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
- Welcome!!
- Welcome @biplab.bsky.social! We'd be delighted if you followed us for research updates and more from the Behavioral Insights and Parenting Lab at the University of Chicago.
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThis chart gives an overview of 3.4 million years of accelerating technological change. → We live at a time when the world can change dramatically within our lifetime. From my article on the history and future of technology: ourworldindata.org/technology-l...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaNew economics reproducibility project is seeking collaborators to conduct reproduction and robustness tests of published development economics findings. Contributors earn 2500 euros and co-authorship on the overall project paper. Details: www.rwi-essen.de/fileadmin/us...
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca"The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca🚨Volume 7 is out! Handbook of the Economics of Education Edited w/ Rick Hanushek & Steve Machin Great overview chapters on cutting-edge topics in the economics of education by top scholars Have a look! 👉https://www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/handbook-of-the-economics-of-education/vol/7 1/7
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaOne of the most striking charts from our paper imo is this one: The vast majority of Economics PhDs at top-ranked programs have a parent with a *graduate* degree - particularly among the American students. That is, we are drawing from an extremely narrow socioeconomic pool.
- "The Economics Profession's Socioeconomic Diversity Problem" w/ Robert Schultz is now out in the JEP Here's the paper: pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/... and the Twitter thread from Mar 2022 (aka before I was on Bsky - sorry!) twitter.com/annastansbur...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaOur first full research paper on the evaluation of the UK’s demand flexibility service. Upshot: these subsidies changed consumer energy demand and such subsidies have great value for money when the energy grid needs flexibility. Paper: www.centrefornetzero.org/wp-content/u... 📈📉
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaI am starting a new project with Mackenzie Alston on the academic job market. Hoping to informally chat with 5 econ PhDs and 5 PhDs from psych, sociology, or polisci who graduated last year. If you're available for a 15-minute Zoom convo in Nov., please DM or email mjalston@illinois.edu!
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaReally nice Emma Green New Yorker piece on the complexity of testing those who want to be public school teachers. It gets into many of the thorny issues: adverse racial impacts, what licensure requirements states should have, sources of inequity, etc. www.newyorker.com/contributors...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaVery happy to see our new paper published in Demography, in which we show that welfare reform had plausibly causal and substantively important negative effects on the quality of emotional support in the home environments of young children. read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
- Coverage of my recent work on barriers to higher education in Australia in the Times Higher Education bit.ly/40llU4K. The original article can also be found here: go.unimelb.edu.au/rs9s
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaTeachers matter a ton, but so do school counselors. Counselors can have big impacts on educational attainment, particularly for low income students. Thrilled to see Christine Mulhern's important work published this morning in the AER. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaWorks that - are available to everyone without needing a subscription that many university libraries in the world can no longer afford - went through open peer review so we can vet if reviews were thorough - include data and code for full reproducibility
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThe Melbourne Institute Univ of Melbourne Economic Outlook Conference Check out THE economics conference of the country, with PM, DepSecs, Opposition talking about important economic policy. melbourneinstitute.unimelb.edu.au/outlook
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca@AEACSWEP announces Maya Rossin-Slater as the 2023 Elaine Bennett Research Prize winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations! @maya_rossin, @StanfordHP
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaThe world has made real progress in bending down the curve of future emissions. While we remain far from on track to meet our climate goals, the positive steps we’ve made should reinforce that progress is possible and despair is counterproductive. carbonbrief.org/analysis-glo...
- Reposted by Nicolas Salamanca🚨Are you doing a PhD in Economics? Do you want to get feedback on your latest research? Connect with other PhD students and learn more about their work? Attend a keynote by the great Uwe Sunde (LMU & @rationalitycrc.bsky.social)? Then this👇is the right conference for you! Further info: t.ly/e7z6d
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaEconometric Thread (#EconSky): Today, I will briefly discuss a few recent papers expanding the synthetic control method (SCM). I will talk about three WPss: Abadie + L'Hour (2019), Grossi, Lattarulo, Mariani, Mattei + Oner (2020); Cao + Dowd (2019) and Cattaneo, Feng, Palomba +Titiunik (2023).
- Reposted by Nicolas SalamancaMachine Learning for Staggered Difference-in-Differences and Dynamic Treatment Effect Heterogeneity arxiv.org/abs/2310.11962 We combine two recently proposed nonparametric difference-in-differences methods, extending them to enable the examination of treatment effect heterogeneity in the s 📈🤖
