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Zach Porreca
@zachporreca.bsky.social
Postdoc at Bocconi University's CLEAN Unit. PhD from West Virginia University
Happy to share a new working paper with Alex Cardazzi and Victoria Biagi, a wonderful grad student at University of Liverpool. Here's a quick thread. (1/N)
February 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Handbook chapter out today on the economics of criminal governance

link.springer.com/referencewor...
Economics of Criminal Governance
Despite existing outside of formal institutional constraints, repeated interactions in criminal markets give birth to criminal organizations that function as institutions of governance over participan...
link.springer.com
December 14, 2024 at 1:45 PM
The fog and Christmas time together can do some cool things
December 12, 2024 at 7:05 PM

the last chapter of my dissertation is online now at Economica. Joint work with Bryan McCannon
......We look at criminal trials in 19th century London, documenting the impacts of the guaranteed right to defense for those accused of felonies. fun paper, lots of cool stuff in there

t.co/brfBjMPjIq
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ecca.12560
t.co
November 18, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Is this site a thing now?
November 13, 2024 at 3:20 AM
Really it looked good to me too
December 1, 2023 at 10:45 PM
I find myself reading textbooks more now that I'm done grad school. Fairly unexpected turn of events
November 15, 2023 at 10:20 AM
Periodic dog content
November 4, 2023 at 12:09 PM
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Hi all! I'm Kyle at CU Boulder in the Economics department (and a job market candidate !!). I mostly tweet about my papers and my open source software/resources.

I'll start off with a bsky exclusive. All the pdf slides from NBER methods lectures back to 2007: github.com/kylebutts/nb...
GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the...
Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine) - GitHub - kylebutts/nber_methods_lecture_slides: Slides from NBER Methods Lecture (extracted from the Wayback Machine)
github.com
October 2, 2023 at 7:24 PM
Kebab shop is playing Avril Lavigne as I sit on the sidewalk having a beer with my dog. All is right in the world
September 27, 2023 at 6:31 PM
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📈📉 FGCU is hiring 3 positions in the Department of Economics and Finance: 1 junior AP in Finance, 1 junior/senior AP in Finance and 1 Instructor of Economics.

Come and join me in SWFL!!

lnkd.in/eyTkNtWx

lnkd.in/epV3i-7i

tinyurl.com/mpsk8pnt
September 26, 2023 at 12:25 PM
Reposted by Zach Porreca
Hear me out... a master login for editorial manager that works for all journals #EconSky
September 26, 2023 at 2:07 PM
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Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office.

We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column...

With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele
September 25, 2023 at 2:53 PM
Reposted by Zach Porreca
Sounds like folks are worried about losing data access during a possible government shutdown, so I quickly whipped up this Education Data Portal with all the major datasets on schools, districts, and colleges: educationdata.urban.org/documentation/
educationdata.urban.org
September 25, 2023 at 1:15 AM
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Reupping this offer.
I was lucky to have an audience across platforms, so I'm happy to signal boost any job market candidate. Just tag me in your post and I will share/retweet.
September 25, 2023 at 1:26 PM
The number 10 suggested feed here is one for furries. The new world is an interesting place
September 25, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Seeing intros on here. So:

I'm Zach, I'm a post doc at the CLEAN unit at Bocconi University. I finished my PhD last year at West Virginia University. Primarily, at the moment, I work on crime topics but really just into applied micro stuff.

My dog is pretty cool.
September 25, 2023 at 10:14 AM
While the content I'm getting here is great, is there truly no algorithm here? How do we go about finding content not directly posted/reposted by our follows?
September 24, 2023 at 8:54 PM
Breaking in the new app with some recent dog content
September 21, 2023 at 1:09 PM