Milena Almagro
@MilenaAlmagro
Assistant Professor of Economics at @Chicagobooth. @NYUniversity Econ PhD. I use IO tools to study the best human invention: cities.
Meet Rabbit 🐶❤️ Adopted 13 yrs ago, found as a stray in Mississippi. Now I’m fostering her through @PAWSChicago & helping her find her furrever home Despite her age, she’s active, loving & still full of life DM if you or someone you know can give her the love she deserves.
Spread the word. The XII Annual @EconomiaDiTella Conference will take place in Buenos Aires on December 18-19, 2025. Application deadline: August 4th, 2025 Call for papers, submission form, previous programs: tinyurl.com/2y7slexo Scientific Committee: @MilenaAlmagro,…
Por ENFERMEDAD no puedo hacerme cargo de Bruno, y lo doy en adopción. Es un perrito de 4 meses. Muy dócil y amigable. Marta. Sevilla. Teléfono y WhatsApp: +34622452597 ¿Don Arturo @perezreverte, por favor, nos ayuda usted a difundir?. Gracias infinitas.
I am hiring 3 RAs to help build out a data set on state DOT infrastructure costs. Description attached. If you are interested in infrastructure and getting into the weeds with data please apply here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04891.
Submit and come to Buenos Aires :)
Spread the word. The XII Annual @EconomiaDiTella Conference will take place in Buenos Aires on December 18-19, 2025. Application deadline: August 4th, 2025 Call for papers, submission form, previous programs: tinyurl.com/2y7slexo Scientific Committee: @MilenaAlmagro,…
PhD students interested in urban economics: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23. Learn from leading scholars, including @baum_snow, @melaniemorten, @AlvinMurph. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists. urbaneconomics.org/workshops/summ…
🚨 Call for Papers: Spatial Dynamics 🚨 @YaleCowles research conference (Nov 14, 2025) & @JIntlEcon special issue! 📍📊 🔹 Submission deadline: June 30, 2025 📢 More info: sciencedirect.com/special-issue/…
We've just opened a new BFI pre-doc position through the International Economics and Economic Geography Initiative: job-boards.greenhouse.io/universityofch… Come work with us! The trade and spatial group at UChicago is a top-notch place to start your academic career!
📢Join us *Friday* at 11:30 ET for an @osus_info seminar! Andrii Parkhomenko (USC) presents “Dynamic Urban Economicsl” (osus.info) David Nagy and Tuuli Vanhapelto will be our panelists! Register here: shorturl.at/93eum
We have released new yearly measures of local GDP at the 1, 0.5, and 0.25 degree level. They are calculated using remote sensing data and a random forest model. All the data, documentation, and tests can be mapped and downloaded here: bfidatastudio.org/project/local-…
CityLab Daily: Early congestion pricing results are in trib.al/Yka7bTv via @citylab
Which sorcery is this? At last!!! washingtonexaminer.com/policy/infrast…
Oh well, that time of the year when I have to learn about baseball.... again
Had I known I would be teaching about baseball in my first class, I would have tried to stay more awake during that Yankees game back in 2015...
Best urban tweet of the year
These are 10 of my favourite #UrbanEconomics articles published in academic journals in 2024 (continues a tradition started in 2018, order is alphabetical by first author, no ranking implied):
Does anybody know if there is a centralized GTFS data source with a standardized file format?
It only took me four months to put together the first submission of my replication package - even with the help of an amazing RA 🫠🫠🫠🫠
Thanks for reading us in 2024. 🙏 Time to take a look at CBR’s most-read stories and videos of the year, starting with #10: The secret to better public transit? Make drivers pay for it (@MilenaAlmagro) (🧵👇) ms.spr.ly/6015oRYBN
For once in a lifetime, there is no traffic to O’Hare airport.