Recently accepted by #QJE, “Competing Models,” by Montiel Olea (@ppm_o), Ortoleva (@pietroortoleva), Pai (Mallesh Pai), and Prat (Andrea Prat): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

JOB ALERT: 2-year postdoc position with Aksel Sundström Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg; focusing on political economy; tailored for someone with experience of designing survey experiments and/ or working with geospatial data. Deadline: 15 Aug. More info and how to apply: web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/…

Congratulations Gaurav Khanna for this well-deserved placement in the JPE! Years ago Daron Acemoglu critiqued the 'credibility revolution' for too little attention to 'the centrality of general equilibrium'. A new generation has been fixing that. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

We currently seek to fill a 5 year (Pre) Doc Position. Come and join us at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin! Great job, great city and great team!

Can't believe this paper is finally out!😍 It has been six years in the works - almost spanning my entire career😅 Phew. What did we do? Why did it take so long? And is it worth the read? 🙏A personal (long) thread below👇🧵 1/10 x.com/RevEconStudies…

This is Rose Avenue near San Francisco. A quiet residential neighborhood, it looks like life on either side of the street should be pretty similar. But it turns out that opportunities and access to public goods are dramatically different. What's going on?

PSA: Imbens' Nobel lecture econometricsociety.org/system/files/2…

Politically connected firms in India were more likely to access short-term credit (especially bank loans) during demonetization and delay payments to suppliers and creditors. They weathered the crisis better than their peers, with 8-10% higher income, sales, costs over 3 years.

New article out at PLOS One in which we show that German citizens were against global inequalities in vaccine distribution and that information campaigns can inrease international solidarity among citizens tinyurl.com/yvbkff23 Felix Hartmann @maqartan Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)

I have a new "methodology big think" essay on the "problem solving" approach to social science. More here, along with a link to a PDF of the essay. I would love to hear what people think. cyrussamii.com/?p=3682

We currently seek to fill a Postdoc Position. Come and join us at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin! Great project, great city and great team!

I am very much looking forward to welcome the fantastic @jandrewharris to our Politics Lecture Series Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin DYNAMICS PhD. His talk: "Can fiction make the climate crisis real?“

Disastrous decision by the Swedish government to scrap funding for development research. Including just submitted grants—thousands of wasted hours. Bad for Sweden’s standing in science; worse for people in low-income countries. For shame, Ulf Kristersson Mats Persson Johan Forssell

Hi All -- VR (Sweden's primary research funding agency) has suspended development funding. Read more here docs.google.com/document/d/1aj… - and Pls Sign the Petition of Support! Continue Funding Vital Development Research and Education - chng.it/P2nw4gvfF5 via Change.org and forward!

We are currently seeking to fill a 2-year PostDoc position at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in our COVID EU Project. Great job, great colleagues, great city. Come and join us!

🚨Call for Papers🚨 Psyched to announce the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference to be held in Copenhagen, June 2024. Third iteration of the conference, always a fantastic experience. Send us your papers before Jan 5, '24! Link: shorturl.at/ampPV 1/2

CfA for 10 Doctoral Positions DYNAMICS PhD Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Hertie School. Great program, great people and great city! Come and join us!

A data dashboard containing the GLD Local Governance Performance Index 2019 dataset (now the Local Governance Process Indicators survey) is now available on our website, allowing for a personalized viewing and downloading of data! gld.gu.se/en/our-data/da…

🚨Job Alert🚨: Benjamin Egerod and I are looking for a 2-year postdoc to work with us on a project on the Corporate Revolving Door at Copenhagen Business School (CBS), starting in the summer of 2025. No teaching requirement. Job Ad: tinyurl.com/mtswwuxh Deadline: January 5th, 2025