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Latest research by HKS's Desmond Ang measures the lasting impact of century-old racist movie The Birth of a Nation and the ways it incited significant increases in racial violence ken.sc/3a5bz4j

Congratulations to Isaiah Andrews of Harvard University, winner of the 2021 John Bates Clark Medal! aeaweb.org/about-aea/hono…

Report from Rhea Boyd MD, MPH, Fernando De Maio, Dr. Aletha Maybank and Nancy Krieger in Health Affairs finds that top medical journals rarely publish articles showing how racism harms health. If you don’t even talk about it, you certainly can’t address it. ti.me/3tJ69DA

Huge thanks to Jennifer Doleac! She was one of the first people to tweet about this paper - back when I was poor grad student trying to land a job - so it's super cool to now be discussing it on Probable Causation

Attention #EconTwitter PhD students! If you're a woman/nonbinary econ PhD student entering your 3rd or 4th year of the PhD, apply to participate in this mentoring workshop. Nov 19th in Houston, the day before the #SEA2021 meetings. Deadline: July 30. aeaweb.org/about-aea/comm…

How can we restore civil dialogue in the U.S.? Political scientist Jane Mansbridge may have a solution. hrvd.me/mansbridge6754t

We are looking for a research assistant Harvard Kennedy School. Come and work with Lena Shi, David Deming and me! Details on the position⬇️

Forthcoming in the AER: "Employment Structure and the Rise of the Modern Tax System" by Anders Jensen. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Savoring these kind words from THE Shamus Khan. Anyway, yes, I did drop a new—shorter! (Don’t look at the appendix though 😂)—version of my working paper on the backlash to the Great Migration. Lessons from the biggest natural experiment in MTO in American history.

Father Coughlin had a devoted following of 30 million radio listeners who tuned in to hear his populist tirades in the 1930s. We spoke with Tianyi Wang on what his research reveals about Coughlin's influence and the persuasiveness of popular media figures. aeaweb.org/research/tiyan…

Job Market Candidate: #PIERfellow Alum Mark Chin (Mark Chin) cepr.harvard.edu/job-market

Great article featuring my work w/ Panka Bencsik Jesse Bruhn Ellora Derenoncourt on how the murder of George Floyd affected civilian cooperation with law enforcement

HKS’s @MarcellaAlsan has won the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, recognizing her work on the legacies of discrimination in perpetuating racial disparities in health. She’s the first current and first female HKS professor to win the genius grant ken.sc/3CTDoZ0

A terrific and well-deserved MacArthur Fellowship to Jesse Shapiro for his innovative work on political economy and polarization, economics of media, and behavioral economics!

Great to see ``Police Violence and Civic Responses” with Desmond Ang in print! We find exposure to police violence causally increases registrations and votes. Effects are driven entirely by Black and Hispanic citizens and are largest for killings of unarmed people. A 🧵 1/: