Christian Cervellera
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Christian Cervellera
@ccervellera.bsky.social
PhD student at LSE Government
(Historical) Political Economy

https://christiancervellera.github.io/
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Econ's changed a smidge since I was in grad school!

academic.oup.com/qje/article/...
April 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Lots of talk on X today about rethinking the results produced by close elections RDDs.

So, I thought I'd drop a few recent articles about issues that arise in this space so that folks can have them all in one place. 1/N
March 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🧵 Opinione impopolare e soffertamente illiberale:

L’Europa dovrebbe chiudere X e i social di Meta.

La loro natura di "piattaforme", su cui chiunque può guadagnare attenzione, ci porta a considerare i social delle infrastrutture neutrali, per certi versi simili a istituzioni.

Non lo sono.👇

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February 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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The chart is still rough in terms of design as it’s a work-in-progress

But the daily rate at which Bluesky attracts new users has ~doubled since Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s new pro-hate speech policy

Bluesky is currently gaining ~1M users/week
January 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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December 28, 2024 at 2:05 PM
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Don't miss this enormous overview of collective bargaining literature and institutions + a model of how unions shape wages applied to 26 countries! My final pre-doc RA'ed project is finally out - including a little preview of something that I've been working on :)

www.nber.org/papers/w3326...
Collective Bargaining, Unions, and the Wage Structure: An International Perspective
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 23, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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Economists love using linear regression to estimate treatment effects — it turns out that there are perils to this method, but also amazing perks

Come with me in this 🧵 if you want to learn about our now-published paper "Contamination Bias in Linear Regressions!"

1/ (Twitter rerun!)
The December 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 12) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/785.
American Economic Review
Vol. 114 No. 12 December 2024
aeaweb.org
November 30, 2024 at 12:29 PM
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Regression is a tool for making comparisons

If you don't know / can't easily explain what comparisons you're trying to make, then you don't understand the regression you're running
November 13, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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My and @johannarickne.bsky.social 's paper on the ”Class Ceiling in Politics” is now out in the APSR with open access! We describe the key findings below. 1/9
November 12, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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I made an HPE starter pack, please join in if you are here for HPE and Broadstreet!
November 11, 2024 at 10:30 PM