Santiago Cantillo-Cleves @SCantilloC
Econ PhD candidate @UCSDEcon On the 2026-27 Job Market! santiago-cantillo.github.io Joined December 2011-
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What determines the adoption of modern financial institutions? In China, @CatoRiccardo finds that Christian missionaries contributed to modern banking, but these advantages disappeared under central planning and re-emerged with market reforms. Read more: riccardodicato.com
Can informal markets complement public workers in service delivery? Torsha studies a staffing expansion in India to find citizen demand for informal brokers increase with higher public workers. Read more: torshachakravorty.github.io #EconJobMarket
How does intergenerational persistence shape structural transformation? @johnjuneau_econ JMP shows both inherited skills and inherited preferences explain persistence, but only skills have lasting impact on US industrialization. Read More: johnjuneau.github.io #EconJobMarket
📜In my JMP, I explore how an organizational innovation of news agencies (e.g. AP) in 1800s removed supply barriers of info, allowed political news to reach audiences elsewhere, and incentivized politicians to visit places they would've otherwise ignored santiago-cantillo.github.io/files/Cantillo…
How did expanding media networks reshape presidential campaigning? In his JMP, @SCantilloC shows news agencies helped speeches travel farther, changed where candidates went, and which voters their messages could reach. Read more: santiago-cantillo.github.io #EconJobMarket
How do peers shape partisanship? In his JMP, Kurtis shows that voters conform to exogenously assigned LDS church peers. A 5 pp rise in peers' Republican (Democratic) share raises Republican (Democratic) affiliation by 1 pp. Read more: kgilliat.github.io #EconJobMarket
Does cash enable farmers to take on more risk? @vinnyarmentano applies Modern Portfolio Theory to crop choice in Mali and shows instead that an unconditional cash transfer reduced portfolio risk with no return penalty. Read more: vincentarmentano.com #EconJobMarket
Why do firm sizes vary so much? @ReniAbbott's JMP studies buyers and products. Buyers explain most of it, but the two are complements. Firms with 10% more buyers sell 5.6% more products. Her model untangles this link and finds spillovers. renataabbott.github.io #EconJobMarket
3/3 With @solenedelecourt , we discuss AI interviewers and gender gaps in hiring. She shares how a collaboration went from an initial idea to results in weeks, and how AI is changing both how experiments are run and the questions researchers can ask. open.spotify.com/episode/2skMG7…
2/3 How did economists end up studying ayahuasca? With @hmmlowe , we talk about how the project began, why trust with the ayahuasca center mattered, and how that relationship opened the door to a richer research design. open.spotify.com/episode/4YkSKn…
🎙️ Looking for something to listen to this weekend? Here are 3 recent @BackstoryUCSD episodes where I go behind the research with Claudio Ferraz on training politicians, Matt Lowe on psychedelics & well-being, and Solène Delecourt on AI interviewers & gender gaps in hiring. 🧵
Happy to talk w Dean Spears about his new book on Population with @MikeGeruso. We discuss where the idea comes from, how to bridge econ research with other disciplines and how to share findings w general audiences while keeping conversation evidence-based and non-politicized
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: Dean Spears on After the Spike: Population, Progress and the Case for People Listen now: ift.tt/9gIujFo
I had a great time talking to @DrNathanNunn about the backstory of his paper "Zero‑Sum Environments, the Evolution of Effort‑Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development." Definitely worth checking out!
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: Nathan Nunn on Zero-Sum Environments, the Evolution of Beliefs, and Development Listen now: ift.tt/eQ5FAOY
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: Raúl Sánchez de la Sierra on Unbundling Social Preferences At the Heart of a Major Armed Group in Congo Listen now: ift.tt/0cZVRhs
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: Natalie Bau on Long-Term Effects of School Quality in a Low-Income Country Listen now: ift.tt/NHFuXwt
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: David McKenzie on Problem Selection and Public Goods Creation Listen now: ift.tt/NMYH2rs
We are excited to share our latest episode 🎙️! Backstory: Francis Annan on the Economic Impacts of Financial Firms Listen now: ift.tt/UyO3F1Z
The paper is titled "Contracting in the Wild: How Political Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms" and is coauthored with Heikki Rantakari and Giorgio Zanzarone. You can find the working paper here: dropbox.com/scl/fi/7k1j3z5…
He also gives some advice on how to start building a model for junior researchers and some suggestions on building a research agenda, so make sure to tune into our latest episode!
🎙️ Happy to share a new episode with Gani Aldashev discussing the backstory of How Institutions Affect the Governance of Firms and how the “best practices” for firm governance vary according to the strength of political institutions open.spotify.com/episode/2Cvg93… #Podcast #EconTwitter
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