Mariya Sakharova
@msakharova.bsky.social
AMSE PhD student. UC Berkeley and TSE alum. I greatly enjoy eating food and not as obsessed with sandwiches as people think.
https://sites.google.com/view/mariyasakharova/home
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Super interesting research!
🚨 The Economist has been telling you for years that polygamy causes civil war by locking men out of marriage. A new article with @rebeccasear.bsky.social and @anthrolog.bsky.social explains that the demography of marriage markets doesn't actually work that way. 🧵
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market | PNAS
There is a widespread belief, in both the scholarly literature and the popular press,
that polygyny prevents large numbers of men from marrying by ...
www.pnas.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Super interesting research!
Reposted by Mariya Sakharova
Happy to have this out (joint with @paolosantini.bsky.social & Ellora Derenoncourt). Stay tuned for more!
Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013
July 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Happy to have this out (joint with @paolosantini.bsky.social & Ellora Derenoncourt). Stay tuned for more!
Reposted by Mariya Sakharova
🎙️ We sat down with @antoinelacombe.bsky.social who's visiting from @amseaixmars.bsky.social
Antoine told us about his PhD and current research projects at GHECO, how life compares between the UK & France, what he likes to do in London, and more!
Read the interview 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Antoine told us about his PhD and current research projects at GHECO, how life compares between the UK & France, what he likes to do in London, and more!
Read the interview 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
March 12, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🎙️ We sat down with @antoinelacombe.bsky.social who's visiting from @amseaixmars.bsky.social
Antoine told us about his PhD and current research projects at GHECO, how life compares between the UK & France, what he likes to do in London, and more!
Read the interview 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
Antoine told us about his PhD and current research projects at GHECO, how life compares between the UK & France, what he likes to do in London, and more!
Read the interview 🔽
www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/cen...
I'm doing my PhD here. I don't know the details of this program, but can attest that living in Southern France is pretty great!
Dear US colleagues,
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
In response to the Trump administration, my university @univ-amu.fr is setting up a new program dedicated to welcoming American scientists wishing to pursue their work in France.
There are several M$ in the budget.
www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...
Safe Place For Science: Aix Marseille Université ready to welcome American scientists | Aix Marseille Université
In a context where some scientists in the United States may feel threatened or hindered in their research, our university is announcing the launch of the Safe Place For Science program, dedicated to w...
www.univ-amu.fr
March 9, 2025 at 9:43 AM
I'm doing my PhD here. I don't know the details of this program, but can attest that living in Southern France is pretty great!
Reposted by Mariya Sakharova
"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP
February 28, 2025 at 8:13 AM
"NATO is not the thing that Russia is afraid of. Russia is afraid of democracy expanding to Russia. Why are we in NATO? Its because we are afraid of Russia. And the only thing that really works – the only security guarantee that works – is NATO's umbrella," Kaja Kallas said in an interview with AFP
I wrote a post for LSE's Economic History blog! You can read How Elites Shaped Tsarist Russia’s Industrial Age here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist...
#econsky
#econsky
blogs.lse.ac.uk
February 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I wrote a post for LSE's Economic History blog! You can read How Elites Shaped Tsarist Russia’s Industrial Age here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist...
#econsky
#econsky
Decided my first post on here should be of this delicious tartiflette I made the other day
February 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Decided my first post on here should be of this delicious tartiflette I made the other day