In this post I briefly discuss the current WHO proposal for the global allocation of the COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility, as well as the February 3 interim distribution forecast for the initial allocation of vaccines to COVAX participating countries. Based on the latest available public information, my calculations for ...

There’s no shortage of dashboards and data-visualizations covering some aspect of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, but not having come across a tool that allowed me to easily compare countries myself, I developed this COVID-19 Tracker shiny app both...

In this blog post, I use the market value estimations from the Transfermrkt website to evaluate the influence of money in the top-tier of European football. I trace the evolution of market value for the top 5 European leagues, compute a measure of the market concentration as a proxy for competitiveness ...

In this post, I evaluate the performance of some popular supervised classification algorithms using caret and the Costa Rican Household Poverty (CRHP) dataset provided by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), by way of Kaggle. The challenge and the data In Latin America, as in many other parts of the world, ...

Within the field, Stata is the dominant software package for economists. I suspect a large portion of universities, like mine, still do alot of their teaching using it, and given its outsized influence, it’s probably still important to know how to us...