

Javier Boncompte G.
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@jiboncom
Economist | PhD(c) @EconUCL | @TheIFS | @IngenieriaUC.



My first NBER Working Paper is out! We study a district-wide phone ban in Rio de Janeiro middle schools and find that it led to improvements in learning. nber.org/papers/w35233


Angela Merkel has shifted the blame for Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine onto Poland and the Baltics. In reality, her choices paved the way for Moscow’s aggression in Georgia (2008) and Ukraine (2014/2022). She is the true architect of the crises Europe now fights to survive. First, she denied Georgia's Membership action plan in NATO at the Bucharest summit in April 2008, which led Russia to ramp up Military confrontation in May of the Same year, leading to the full-blown invasion in August. After that, Merkel then used the German-created Tagliavini commission, partially blamed Georgia, and not only opposed sanctions on Russia, intensified Germany’s and Europe’s energy dependence on Russia by closing German nuclear stations and advancing the Nord Stream pipelines that emboldened Putin and lowered the barriers to Russia’s actions in 2014 and 2022. Political correctness shielded Merkel from criticism back then, which allowed her catastrophic policies to go unchecked. Instead of being honored by Europe for a legacy that brought misery to millions, she belongs in a prison cell next to Putin.





emailed someone with ‘hope you had a good weekend’ in the intro and they actually told me a bit about it in the reply.



Distintos estudios (Eyzaguirre, Gazmuri y San Martín, 2021; Fajnzylber, Lara y León, 2019; González y Johnson, 2018) sostienen que respondería, en parte, a la incorporación del ranking en admisión universitaria, lo que generó incentivos para que colegios elevaran calificaciones.