Carlos Díaz

Great to have Martin Bouchard (@sfucriminology.bsky.social) with us this week! His session on social network analysis applied to crime and illicit markets was a highlight of the 2026 Summer School and Workshop of our Millennium Nucleus on Criminal Complexity (@anid-chile.bsky.social).

Randomization inference for before-and-after studies with multiple units: an application to a criminal procedure reform in Uruguay Abstract. Learning about the immediate causal effects of large-scale policy interventions poses a significant challenge for quasi-experimental methods that

Joint with M. Cattaneo and R. Titiunik, we develop a randomization inference framework for before-and-after studies with multiple units, tailored to short-term causal inference. We present an application to a criminal procedure reform in Uruguay. Now out in JRSS Series A: doi.org/10.1093/jrss...

With J. Orozco (a brilliant graduate student at
@fenuah.bsky.social), we study how drug-fueled violence shaped Colombia’s growth (1976–1993), as the Medellín and Cali cartels intensified the armed conflict. Now in Defence and Peace Economics (@tandfresearch.bsky.social).

🔗 doi.org/10.1080/1024...

When ‘Eyes on the Street’ Are Not Enough: Insights from Itinerant Street Markets - Journal of Quantitative Criminology Objectives The tendency of businesses and residents to gravitate toward safer streets complicates efforts to assess the influence of informal surveillance (or eyes on the street) as a crime deterrent,...

With @sebafossati.bsky.social and @nicotrajtenberg.bsky.social, we leverage the staggered rollout of Montevideo’s itinerant street markets as a quasi-experimental setting to identify the causal effect of retail activity on crime.

Now out in JQC: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Nuuuuuu 🫠 Igual lo bueno de “Becker” es que en las plazas la gente normal y razonable me pregunta si es por Gustavo Adolfo o Boris, y yo muevo la cabeza dejando la duda así no se nota tanto lo mal que estoy… 😂

Grande David! Congrats!

Thank you all for having me!

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📣 Se busca asistente de investigación para mi Fondecyt Iniciación sobre movilidad, comercio y crimen 🚍🚔🇨🇱

🧑‍💻 Manejo de R, Stata o Python.
🚫 No es excluyente ser economista.
🧑‍🎓 Idealmente, interés en hacer el Magíster en Economía de la
@fenuah.bsky.social.

📩 Consultas a cadiazg at uahurtado.cl.

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See you in Berlin! 🇩🇪

#UEA2025

¡Grande Joaquín! And congrats to @wfueconomics.bsky.social on this outstanding hire!

University website professor photo: /// When you meet them in real life:

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🎓📊 ¡Te invitamos a las Jornadas de Economía del Magíster en Economía UAH! 🌍📈
🗓 9 y 10 de diciembre.
🕒 09:45 a 13:00 hrs.
📍 Aula Magna.
Economistas internacionales y nacionales presentarán sus últimos trabajos.
🔗 Inscríbete aquí:https://bit.ly/3Os6aHM

📰 CARTA AL DIRECTOR | @carlos-d-diaz.bsky.social Director del Magíster en Economía FEN-UAH, nos presenta "El costo del crimen", en @latercera.com .

Reminder: The deadline to submit your paper to our 2025 European meeting at Humboldt University in Berlin is December 9th.

Submit: urbaneconomics.org/meetings/emu...

Events | BFI

Call for papers! 6th annual Chicago-LSE Conference on the Economics of Crime and Justice, in Chicago, May 8-9, 2025. Submission deadline Jan. 10: bit.ly/3V5VySA . Tell your friends!
#EconSky

Feeling (Un)safe in Prison: A Comparative Analysis of England & Wales and Norway Abstract. While there is abundant literature on prison violence, much less has been written about how safety is perceived and conceived in prison. Even les

New article by Sophie Martens and me in the British Journal of Criminology, exploring perceptions of safety among prisoners in England & Wales and Norway, and how they differ.
academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...

Opinion | What Will Indefinite Detention Do to Migrant Kids? (Published 2019) The evidence is clear: No detention center is safe and healthy for children.

My Op-Ed in @nytimes.com on why & how immigration detention is extremely harmful for child development. www.nytimes.com/2019/08/27/o...

¡Muy bueno!

Reviewing recent quantitative urban models, from Stephen J. Redding https://www.nber.org/papers/w33130

#EconSky seems to be active; regarding who to follow, you can try the “starter packs.” For example: bsky.app/profile/schw...

Psychology Worth Doing (with Paul Bloom) Paul Bloom joins the show to talk about a recent paper in which he argues that much of developmental psychology is not worth doing.

Nice discussion with @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social about how worthless is atheoretical research in developmental psychology

bonus: hypothetical explanation, a selection effect because less bright minds are more attracted to more appealing themes

Rings a bell to criminology...

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Regression is a tool for making comparisons

If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running

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