Urban Demographics

Dear readers, I will be out of office for about two weeks (for “ honeymoon reasons ”). So I scheduled a few posts to run in the meantime. ps...

( Read below for further details) I've read in the last few weeks an interesting tentative debate on " Why do Brazilians emigrate...

Facebook v. Twitter Demographics (update!) The placebook - worldwide Facebook user distribution mapped (via mpdt ) Anatomy of twitter usage...

this is a self-promotion post Our study on Skilled Labor Shortage in Brazil was reported by Knowledge Wharton this month. The full stor...

Talking about the Ghost City of Zhengzhou it seems it's alive ! Read about it here . (Thanks to Leonardo Monasterio for the tip) by th...

I was working on the project " Scenarios for the Brazilian labor market " when I bumped into this paper: " Projection of po...

The Brookings Papers are now entirely open access (via Freakonomics . Hat Tip: MR ) Glaeser on Minority Populations Grow in the USA Edgar...

Another video on China's Ghost Cities (this one by Adrian Brown from SBS). As David Levinson s aid: "If people believe that othe...

The Economist Magazine updated its house-price index ( here ), They also published a chart of Robert Shiller’s index of real (ie, in...

Nelson Rodrigues (a great Brazilian playwright, journalist and novelist) once said: "Love is eternal. If it ends, it wasn't love....