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📢 Bolsa financiada pela PARSUK e pela CGD Estão abertas as candidaturas para uma bolsa PARSUK para colaborar comigo num projeto sobre educação e alterações climáticas. O trabalho envolve análise de documentos legais e de políticas públicas.

“Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated than studies with large and statistically significant results, *even when* holding constant all other study features.” #NullEffectsMatter

This Thursday. 👇🏼

🔜 Join the next #ECPRHouseSeries 🗳️ Electoral Integrity and Disinformation in an Era of Democratic Backsliding 🗣️ Christina Chiva, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes, Aleš Michal, Aleks Szczerbiak, Sarah Wagner & Jonathan Polk 📅 Thu 12 Jun, 13:00 –14:30 BST 👉 Register FREE ecpr.eu/Events/340

Glad this paper is finally out in American Political Science Review, five years after we began the project. Hope it proves useful to researchers. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

💥JUST OUT! 📢They (don’t) really care about us: youth representation in Portuguese political parties European Political Science Journal 🙌Thrilled to share this work alongside Carlos Jalali and Patrícia Silva GOVCOPP ! ➡️ rdcu.be/eqlnV Escola de Economia, Gestão e Ciência Política Research Center in Political Science

#OpenAccess from @PolAnalysis - Fixed Effects, Lagged Dependent Variables, and Bracketing: Cautionary Remarks - cup.org/4jLPt7z - Matei Demetrescu, Manuel Frondel, Lukas Tomberg & Colin Vance #FirstView

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"Floods", by Dev Patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

🚨 Today in #ECPRHouseSeries from 13:00 –14:30 BST 🗳️ Electoral Integrity and Disinformation in an Era of Democratic Backsliding 🗣️ Christina Chiva, Hugo Ferrinho Lopes, Aleš Michal, Aleks Szczerbiak, Sarah Wagner & Jonathan Polk 📅 Thu 12 Jun 👉 Register FREE ecpr.eu/Events/340

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

"Judicial Decisions on Electronic Control Devices and Police Escalation of Force" by Courtenay R. Monroe, Sophia Hatz, and Kristine Eck. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

Next Monday at 11am our ‘Elections and Political Systems’ research cluster at Luiss Guido Carli organizes an online seminar about the last 🇵🇹Portuguese elections, with Pedro C. Magalhães and Hugo Ferrinho Lopes. Details here 👇 lnkd.in/dc3UgP3A Centro Italiano Studi Elettorali

AI + social media = polarization machine 🧠📱 Recommender systems trap users in echo chambers and ad-based platforms profit from partisan division.

🚨A warning to anyone using OpenAI API credits for research 🚨 We were hit with $1K+ excess charges despite their documentation clearly stating API calls would stop when credits ran out. Their support refused to help and threatened to cancel our account. 1/7

Interesting paper: 161 researchers in 73 research teams used the same data and hypothesis (immigration reduces support for social policies among the public), but arrived at different results and conclusions. Paper in PNAS

Ha fallecido Leonardo Molino, uno de los grandes politólogos italianos que siguieron la senda de Sartori. Referencia clave en el estudio de la democratización y de la calidad democrática. Y sobre todo, maestro cercano y siempre atento a los estudiantes y jóvenes investigadores 😥

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying. Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt. Here's what 4 months of data revealed: (hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

Thanks to Rivka Lipkovitz, a new version of *fect* is on GitHub. It has more visual options, including - improved gap plots - counterfactual plots - cumulative effects - heterogeneous effects (by time) & more yiqingxu.org/packages/fect/