Harry Pickard
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harrypickard.bsky.social
Harry Pickard
@harrypickard.bsky.social
Lecturer in Economics at Newcastle University. Interested in political economy, conflict and migration.

https://sites.google.com/view/harrypickard/
🚨We are hiring this year and have multiple positions.

Happy to answer informal inquiries.

#EconSky

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https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ343/lecturer-in-economics
t.co
August 20, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Reposted by Harry Pickard
🛥️ @fresejoris.bsky.social applies Multiple Unexpected Events during Survey Design to study how Mediterranean shipwrecks shape immigration attitudes...

➡️...and finds anti-immigration attitudes only declined in one exceptionally high-salience case www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView
March 24, 2025 at 8:47 AM
🚨 New QAPEC discussion paper!

We study how exposure to armed conflict shapes prosocial behavior using a natural experiment in Turkey, where random military deployment during mandatory service lets us identify the causal effects of conflict exposure on altruistic preferences.

📄 bit.ly/4fHnVPs
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November 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Harry Pickard
#OpenAccess from our new issue -

Are the Effects of Terrorism Short-Lived? - cup.org/3IPUZpJ

"heightened risk perceptions and emotional reactions in the wake of deadly attacks do not dissipate in the very short run"

- Vincenzo Bove, Georgios Efthyvoulou & @harrypickard.bsky.social
April 26, 2024 at 8:19 AM