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Leopoldo Fergusson
@LeopoldoTweets
Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, @EconomiaUAndes. Co-founder and Head of Research, TREES @treesuniandes PhD, MIT (2011).
Apr 8 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
New Working Paper Alert 📔
Do accents shape social and economic opportunity? With @miweintraub83 and @NGarbirasDiaz, we tested this in Colombia through an online experiment with 6,000 adults.

🧵 Image We discover a large “accent premium”: those with high-class accents are more likely to be seen as trustworthy, employable, and worth choosing as friends, coworkers, business partners, or bosses. We also show why this premium emerges. Spoiler: it is not only income or education. Image
Apr 16, 2021 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Venía acá a dejar un hilo con mis reacciones a la tributaria, y mi colega @mahofste se me adelantó con uno muy balanceado.

Complemento con algunas cosas adicionales de modo que en lugar 🧵 entero va medio 🧵

1/N No debieron extender, ni siquiera por un año más, las exenciones injustificadas (por ejemplo, hoteles y naranja y zonas francas que no son ni zonas ni francas). Especialmente ahora, no estamos para desaprovechar recursos valiosos en desnivelar la cancha a costa de todos.

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