@JulioSolis

Political economy & culture. PhD student @Harvard_GovDept

juliosolisar.github.io/
Joined April 2009
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Why are some choices harder than others? Space complexity measures the working memory required to make a choice. It predicts people’s errors—and shows how processing the same information in a different order can make choice much easier. @DepartamentoFAE econometricsociety.org/publi…
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A synthetic-control method to design experiments when only a handful of large units can be treated. Just Accepted new paper by Alberto Abadie and Jinglong Zhao zurl.co/qsoyG

Synthetic Controls for Experimental Design

Abstract. This paper studies how to design experiments when the experimental units are large aggregate entities (e.g., markets), and only one or a small number of units can be treated. We propose a...

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Dream On, Football. I still dream of playing football. That might surprise you, coming from someone who plays it for a living. But it’s true. I still dream of playing with my friends. Playing until sunset. Until dinner. Playing just because it was a game, long before it could become a career. I have followed this dream for as long as I can remember. Once again it has led me to one of the biggest changes in my life. Now, I find myself surrounded by innovators who dream of the same things I do. Of bringing foot as close as possible to ball. Of bringing the people as close as possible to the game. Of bringing the world as close as possible to play. I guess that’s the thing about dreams that refuse to change. They’re usually the ones that change everything. Dream On.
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Good paper-writing tips from Kosuke Imai imai.fas.harvard.edu/teachin…
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What happens when a society views nature as having agency? Recent paper asks this question -- it's great to see it in print (in a special issue of Evolution and Human Behavior). Very fun to work on, primarily because of the great team of coauthors... sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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VoxDev@vox_devSep 15
📢Public services in low- and middle-income countries have remained low quality for decades In this VoxDevLit launch event on September 30th, @claudferraz will review the evidence on the political economy of delivering public services Register➡️cepr-org.zoom.us/webinar/reg…
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Why do many businesses in poor countries look overstaffed? Experiments in Uganda show employers and workers prefer redistribution via work to cash even for no-value tasks. Workfare-like incentives, reciprocity, and dignity shape firm size and productivity. econometricsociety.org/publi…
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🚨 It's finally out! 🚨 This is the big one. 100 cultures, 12,000 people, 108 researchers. Why people (and our most-used surveys) get collectivism wrong and how to fix it. Join me for a fun thread! 🧵 @NatureHumBehav nature.com/articles/s41562-0…
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The idea behind this paper - a 60-country experimental survey on fairness - was the flagship project behind the FAIR Institute. Established in 2019 in Bergen, it's now (in my biased view) a world-class institution for labor and behavioral economics. Great progress!
Morten N. Støstad@MortenStostadSep 11
Great to see this groundbreaking paper by colleagues at NHH and FAIR published. Required reading for anyone interested in fairness or inequality. One of many notable findings: Meritocratic fairness views are particularly prominent in richer Western societies.
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Comparison points decrease decisions when tied to inputs and increase them when tied to outputs, consistent with comparisons serving as information about how to navigate tradeoffs, from Thomas Graeber and @BenjaminEnke nber.org/papers/w35694
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@cepr_orgSep 8
New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP21906 Male Dominance and Cultural Extinction Eleonora Guarnieri @El_Guarnieri @BristolUni @BristolUniEcon, Ana Tur-Prats @ucmerced ow.ly/Wb6U50ZKlP5 #CEPR_DE #CEPR_PoE #EconTwitter
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1/ What if what's wrong with our politics is culture, not institutions? 🧵
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How did culture evolve? What shaped the mosaic within and across societies? Ancestral migration, socioeconomic change, ecological mismatch, and prehistoric diversity shaped adaptation, from @GalorOded, @Marc_Klemp, and Daniel C. Wainstock nber.org/papers/w35656
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@GiuliaTura and I (@albertobisin) are happy: "Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy" by Alberto Bisin (@NYU) and Giulia Tura (LUISS), forthcoming in the American Economic Review 📄 Using the universe of marriages, births, and separations registered in Italy 1995–2012, we model cultural integration as an equilibrium outcome of who marries whom, and how much parents invest in passing on their culture. 🔗 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.12…

Marriage, Fertility, and Cultural Integration in Italy

(September 2026) - We study cultural integration as an equilibrium outcome of marital matching along cultural and education lines and intrahousehold investment decisions regarding fertility and...

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Great new review article from Pascaline Dupas, with a new take on the Jeff Sachs vs AJR debate: 20+ years of rigorous, empirical evidence point to a strong role for geography in shaping econ development outcomes
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that's my goat
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@Evolving_Moloch21 Sep 2020
'Where Have All The Cultures Gone?' - Marshall Sahlins
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Designing a method for measuring the risk preferences of agents in the deep past, from @remylevin and @daniela_vidart nber.org/papers/w35634
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Faces of the Ancient World: Masks Across 9,000 Years For thousands of years, humans have created masks for rituals, ceremonies, burial traditions, theater, and identity. From the Neolithic era to ancient civilizations, these faces offer a fascinating glimpse into how cultures across time saw themselves and their world.
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Applications open for the 2026 BREAD-IGC virtual course on Political Economy! Join leading economists for 12 lectures on state capacity, political agency, conflict & more. 📅8 Sep-24 Nov 2026 💻Online Register: theigc.org/events/bread-igc-…
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