Leopoldo Fergusson
@LeopoldoTweets · joined 05 Oct 2012
Professor of Economics at Universidad de los Andes, @EconomiaUAndes. Co-founder and Head of Research, TREES @treesuniandes PhD, MIT (2011).
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Agradecido por esta conversación amplia y variada. Además de algunas de mis investigaciones, compartí de dónde vienen mis inquietudes, buenos ejemplos y consejos que me han dado, y cómo conecta todo esto con los desafíos de Colombia y Latinoamérica.
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Muy agradecido con esta conversación pausada y sin afanes de @MPFinanzas sobre temas que no dejarán de preocuparnos en Colombia, y en donde, creo, debemos charlar con receptividad a las ideas distintas aunque contradigan nuestras creencias previas. Les invito a oírla y comentarla
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🎙️@LeopoldoTweets, profesor de #EconomíaUniandes y codirector de @treesuniandes, conversó en @MPFinanzas sobre cómo se reproduce la desigualdad, qué tienen que ver la educación, el acento, los impuestos y las instituciones con nuestras oportunidades👇https://t.co/FneNHo4qww
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Check this cool opportunity. Apply to the Coase Institute’s workshop in CDMX at Itam.
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Tengo mucha expectativa de esta charla en la que tengo el gusto y honor de participar. Ojalá nos puedan acompañar.
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📢 ¡Te invitamos a podcast en vivo!
Un episodio de Terrenal con @jccardenas1965 y @LeopoldoTweets para entender por qué importa la desigualdad.
🎙️ Conducen: @AndresMejiaV y @andrescarob
📅 Jueves 18 de junio
🕔 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
📍 Edificio Mario Laserna, auditorio ML-C | http
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Muy triste por esta dura noticia. Raúl irradiaba alegría y entregaba amistad y generosidad como pocas personas. Lo extrañamos.
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We are sharing the following message on behalf of EGAP's Executive Director, Daniel Rubenson and Leopoldo Ferguson, Director of EGAP's Latin America Hub. https://t.co/6kGYPTZ8tJ
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@LeopoldoTweets “Cualquier diferencia reconocida, aceptada como legítima, funciona por eso mismo como un capital simbólico”. https://t.co/knf32uHIzh
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@LeopoldoTweets @miweintraub83 @NGarbirasDiaz In the case of Chile, discrimination based on speech patterns is brutal.
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Bottom line: accents function as a form of capital, culturally specific signals that open & close doors. Inequality gets reproduced not just via income or education; also subtly through accents. We call this “segregation by sound.” Paper link with more!👇
https://t.co/XJf9XxXFTq
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A key test of the interpretation: if this were just universal “confidence” or “professionalism,” it should appear for foreign high-class accents.
It does not: when Bogotanos evaluate Santiago (Chile) accents, the premium mostly disappears. These cues are culturally specific. htt
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What do accents signal, if not income and education?
Our evidence points to social and cultural capital. Respondents associate high-class accents with higher social class, more influential networks, upper-class tastes in leisure and music, and with deferential treatment. https://
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A second major result: the accent premium is much larger among high-SES survey respondents. While everyone prefers high-class accents, high-SES listeners do so much more strongly. That is consistent with in-group favoritism and high-status listeners acting as gatekeepers. https:/
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So what explains this? Do people hear an accent and simply infer income or education?
We test this by removing income and education, then decomposing the effect into a direct and an “eliminated” effect. The direct effect remains positive and large across almost all outcomes. http
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To isolate the impact of accents, we hired professional actors to record audio clips, then randomly assigned profiles to high- or low-class accents. Respondents in an experiment then ranked paired profiles, with income, education, and personality traits randomized independently.
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The baseline result is big. High-class accents increase perceived empathy by 6.5 pp, trustworthiness by 16.1 pp, friendship by 14.6 pp, preferred business partner by 13.4 pp, preferred colleague by 15.1 pp, perceived boss by 12.6 pp, and expected job offer by 19.3 pp. https://t.c
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Importantly, these effects are not just a reflection of money or schooling. In fact, income and education often increase profiles’ labor-market status but hurt perceived social warmth. High-class accents, by contrast, raise both workplace and interpersonal evaluations. https://t.
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Why should we care? Accents are among the earliest cues people perceive. They signal not only where someone is from, but also where they stand in a society’s class structure. If the way we pronounce words changes how others treat us, accents likely help reproduce inequality.
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We discover a large “accent premium”: those with high-class accents are more likely to be seen as trustworthy, employable, and worth choosing as friends, coworkers, business partners, or bosses. We also show why this premium emerges. Spoiler: it is not only income or education. h
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New Working Paper Alert 📔
Do accents shape social and economic opportunity? With @miweintraub83 and @NGarbirasDiaz, we tested this in Colombia through an online experiment with 6,000 adults.
🧵 https://t.co/nTPTDGHKLS
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Against accounts of the same size
3 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. shown to more people than peers of the same size.
Median views4 672this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %16.69%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %1.19%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 4 672 | 924 | 5.06× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 16.69% | 3.62% | 4.61× |
| Engagement rate | 1.19% | 1.52% | 0.78× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
4.4K8 Apr
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30011 Apr
7.9K2 Jun
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4.5K10 Jun
4.1K17 Jun
2.4K19 Jun
7.5K16 Jul
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.93%8 Apr
0.89%
1.61%
0.22%
0.67%
2.33%11 Apr
1.03%2 Jun
1.41%
0.58%10 Jun
0.73%17 Jun
0.54%19 Jun
0.38%16 Jul
1.19%18 Jul
1.37%25 Jul
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes57.9%1 751 in total
Reposts12.7%383 in total
Replies2.2%65 in total
Quotes3.9%118 in total
Bookmarks23.4%706 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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