Associate Professor @ucatolica - Editor @interseccionesO
Santiago, Chile
Joined June 2018
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Glad to see that my paper with C.Scartascini (@the_IDB ) “Willingness to pay for crime reduction: The role of information in the Americas” was accepted at @JpubEcon.
For details, see the thread below
Just published in @JPubEcon:
"Willingness to pay for crime reduction: The role of information in the Americas"
By @pdomingr (@ucatolica) & Carlos Scartascini (@the_IDB)
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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On the Econ Job Market? 📊
@the_IDB is hiring an Economist at the Institutions for Development sector in Washington, D.C.
🔗 Apply here: jobs.iadb.org/job/Economist-… #EconTwitter #JobMarket #DevelopmentEconomics
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Google is trying to use its monopoly power to force AI into our public schools.
No corporation should have the power to dictate how we teach our children.
Our public schools exist to serve students, not to grow the profit margins of Big Tech.
nytimes.com/2026/11/03/us/go…
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The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.
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Hello @elonmusk and @tylercowen ,
You have just decided to publicly attack our research, six days before the vote on the California billionaire wealth tax.
Your attempt to discredit our work and that of our numerous academic colleagues is pathetic.
Let’s take a look. 🧵
Cómo escribir un análisis de una política pública?
Primer párrafo resume el argumento, sin detalles.
Luego, cada párrafo agrega un argumento autocontenido, que conecta con el anterior.
..Está tan bien escrita que se podría leer conectando la primera frase de cada párrafo.
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🧵1/10 Given the recent reactions of mathematicians over rapid advances in AI, I think it is important to remember that technological change has historically been a very personal event for people.
Over the history of technological progress, looms have fallen silent, switchboards have gone dark, and factory lines have shrunk bringing with them a human crisis of identity and what it means to be a master of one's craft.
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UC Berkeley researchers found that just 10 minutes of relying on an AI tool to solve math and reasoning problems significantly affected people's ability to focus and persist with difficult tasks — highlighting the importance of designing AI tools that build on human abilities rather than replace them.
bit.ly/3UiDYh5
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The classic case: you start with a weak idea. If you talk and think about it with others, you make progress to better ideas.
If you talk and think about it with AI, it dresses up your idea in economic jargon, contract theory etc., now you have the same bad idea, but it's expressed in enough jargon that it's a little harder to tell that it's a bad idea.
It also looks very impressive, look at all that economic logic! You feel like you're really progressing as an academic thinker and writer, but in fact you're in a much worse place than when you started. 4/
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Data project (AI-able) and exam (paper, no aids) score distribution on the undergraduate Development Economics course I have been teaching at Stockholm University, 2022-2026.
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Eduardo Engel, Ph.D del MIT y experto en concesiones, explica por qué es una mala idea rebajar el TAG latercera.com/pulso/noticia/…
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🚗 Nuestro director Eduardo Engel advierte sobre las implicancias fiscales de reducir los peajes mediante la extensión de concesiones: "Sienta un precedente que abre la puerta a nuevas rebajas por parte de este gobierno y de los siguientes, sobre todo en años electorales" @__elmercurio 👇🏽
Eneas a Ascanio, quien había sufrido infortunios, en la Eneida: “aprende de mi, hijo, a ser hombre y a enfrentar el trabajo verdadero, aprende de otros a ser feliz”.
open.spotify.com/episode/2ly…
Interesante experimento aleatorio (RCT).
Prohibir celulares en clases mejoró rendimiento y …. -ojo profesores -
“Students who experienced the in-class phone bans became significantly more supportive of such restrictions”
Restricting student access to phones is associated with significantly higher academic performance.
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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📰🆕️ | Me entrevistaron en @La_Segunda sobre el momento político de la oposición y los dichos de Michelle Bachelet. Creo que la tarea es profundizar la reflexión y orientarse hacia lo programático para salir del barro, no adelantar definiciones que ocultan más que aclaran.
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🤔 ¿Qué ideas necesita la socialdemocracia para proyectarse hacia el futuro?
José Joaquín Brunner, @cristobalkarle y @Carolina_Toha abordaron los desafíos de esta tradición política en la primera sesión de nuestro ciclo «Socialdemocracia: ideas para el futuro».
📺 Revive la conversación ⬇️
youtube.com/live/5eBm79UmeUA
