Luis E. Quintero
@leqonomics
Economist interested in cities. @JHUCarey @JohnsHopkins @bmorecollab @the_IDB. Wondering and wandering.
Freezing rent increases in New York City is relatively (politically) simple. Making apartments affordable is a much more daunting task, @foxjust cites our work on rent stabilization (sciencedirect.com/science/articl…) in this new article: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. science.org/doi/full/10.11…
Pre-order link for my collection of essays -- "On The Housing Crisis" -- is now live! shorturl.at/uwW89
The Atlantic is publishing several of my essays (with a new introduction) in a book this fall! On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy will hit the shelves just in time for you to argue with your various relatives over the holidays.
The Call for Papers for the 4th meeting of LACEA's Urban Economics Network is out! FGV São Paulo, Dec 5-6, 2025 Keynotes: Gilles Duranton (Wharton) & Ingrid Gould Ellen (NYU) Deadline for submission: Jul 15th Big thanks to our local organizers @DaMataDan & @cirobiderman!
I'm excited to share my job market paper (for the 2025-26 market)! It introduces a new extension of RDD where outcomes are entire distributions: Regression Discontinuity Design with Distributions (R3D). Thread below 👇 (1/)
Great paper about key practical considerations in event study designs and their estimation in Stata.
Our paper with Simon Freyaldenhoven, Christian Hansen, Jesse Shapiro, and Constantino Carreto about panel event study designs and their estimation with Stata is now published in the @Stata Journal! Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Stata Package: github.com/JMSLab/xtevent
Join our team studying the effects of the Quito metro! Applications will be open until March 4th.
Join our team and help us analyze the effects of Quito's first Metro line using causal inference techniques and spatial models, suing census data, administrative records, satellite imagery, and official surveys. #QuitoMetro #SpatialAnalysis @the_IDB linkedin.com/jobs/view/4155…
Join our team and help us analyze the effects of Quito's first Metro line using causal inference techniques and spatial models, suing census data, administrative records, satellite imagery, and official surveys. #QuitoMetro #SpatialAnalysis @the_IDB linkedin.com/jobs/view/4155…
this is great work Nico. Glad it is being shared widely.
ma, sali en el economist
"You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once." This Polish proverb has been so important to me. It keeps me grounded and helps me feel better every day. Maybe this will help you, too.
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!
"Managers use RTO mandates to reassert control over employees and blame employees as a scapegoat for bad firm performance. Also, our findings do not support the argument that managers impose mandates because they believe RTO increases firm values."
Trump: "I don't think you can work from a home. Nobody is gonna work from home. They are gonna be going out, they're gonna play tennis, they're gonna play golf, they're gonna do a lot of things. They're not working."
I can’t believe it - after years of advocacy, exclusionary zoning has ended in Cambridge. We just passed the single most comprehensive rezoning in the US—legalizing multifamily housing up to 6 stories citywide in a Paris style Here’s the details 🧵
Congrats @juliana_londono . Very timely paper!
Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and their Children,” by Londoño-Vélez (@juliana_londono) and Saravia: doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…
New 🚨 Research Brief on adjusting for undercounting of recent immigrants in the CPS 1⃣ I show that the CPS undercounts recent immigrants. For ex., the sample population of the 1994 cohort continues to rise until 1998 or even 2002. This shouldn't be... tinyurl.com/ms4pvk67
