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In publicly dismissing Zelensky as a negotiator who "has no cards," our POTUS has deliberately acted to undermine confidence in the elected President of Ukraine, and in doing so could do more to undermine democracy in Ukraine than 1000 Russian missiles. How can this serve US interests?
March 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Excellent reading for anyone doing research in historical economics
The standard errors of persistence
Timothy G. Conley, Morgan Kelly
Forthcoming in J Intl Econ
doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...
#econsky
December 6, 2024 at 10:55 PM
We have just finished the new version of our paper on marriage institutions. It builds a framework that captures three main types of marriage arrangements (in developing countries). Abstract below, full version is here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/hpv7z.... Comments welcome!
December 6, 2024 at 6:29 PM
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New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social

Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹

Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state?

We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out

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December 5, 2024 at 5:22 PM
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Please submit your great papers to this EJ special issue, edited by the wonderful @albertobisin.bsky.social
November 30, 2024 at 8:40 AM
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I just leave this here.....
November 27, 2024 at 12:18 PM
Politicians use program evaluations as drunkards use lampposts - for support, not for illumination. Here is pretty convincing evidence.
We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research
November 28, 2024 at 6:03 AM
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"Hate the Game offers practical strategies for the hardest competitive negotiations in our lives"
—Roger Myerson, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics
November 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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To make real headway in tackling the #ClimateCrisis, is it time to move away from #GDP and towards more holistic composite indicators created by social scientists?

Amaia Palencia-Esteban Pedro Salas-Rojo for the @lseinequalities.bsky.social blog
Social scientists: if you care about climate change, then account for it
GDP, the most widely-used economic aggregate, ignores environmental and social concerns. But there are well-grounded alternatives accounting for these and other dimensions of human and planetary we…
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November 26, 2024 at 4:51 PM
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July 9, 2024 at 1:14 PM
We have just finished a new paper linking political institutions to firm governance (ownership and within-firm incentives). Abstract below, full version here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/7k1j3...
Comments welcome!
November 26, 2024 at 2:46 AM