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Our AER in the November issue on #electionviolence in Afghanistan. Thanks AEA Journals #aer. Harris Policy The Pearson Institute

Very well done paper on the economic impacts of the US-Mexico border wall by Treb Allen, Dobbin, Melanie Morten. We need more clever policy counterfactuals like ones in this paper. Several other relevant papers: [1] Anna Getmansky Guy Grossman ( bit.ly/2TAX5Pq), (1/2)

Trump says walls got a bad rep because other walls were less attractive than his are: "It was crazy what they were putting up. In fact, I happen to think that the walls they were building were so unattractive and so ugly that walls got bad names. OK? If that means anything."

Reconciliation after conflict Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at UCSD Nicola Limodio Luis R. Martinez Gaurav Khanna Austin L. Wright Benjamin Laughlin @MarakujaDRC Renard Sexton

Announcing a new working paper on the political effects of cell phones with amazing co-authors Shuning Ge, Guy Grossman, Katrina Kosec, and apoorva.lal. See Guy's thread for a great summary.

Me, Aaron R Kaufman, Robert Kubinec, & Benjamin Laughlin are very happy to announce that NYU Abu Dhabi is hosting the 11th Annual Asian/1st Annual MENA Political Methodology meeting NYU Abu Dhabi in January 2024. Cfp will follow this summer. Thanks to NYUAD Social Science The Institute at NYUAD | المعهد for support!

We are SUPER excited for this. Important note to grad students/postdocs: we expect to *fully fund* AT LEAST A DOZEN people to attend the conference. And if you've met me, you know the conference food will be awesome.

Creative thinking causes unethical behavior? psmag.com/health-and-beh…

A guide for Kazakhstan geography teachers proposes students identify races by skin color, eyes, and hair. x.com/joshuakucera/s…

Ukraine rebels oust several aid agencies d.gu.com/CGBXZn

Oh. Arseniy Yatsenyuk says Ukraine is banning Aeroflot and Transaero from flying to Ukraine.

Vote for me? Ata-Meken poster shows ex-mayor of Osh, who's on the run to escape 7-year prison sentence #Kyrgyzstan

#Ukraine prime minister calls on school pupils to leave #VKontakte for #Facebook ow.ly/SWgKX

US Jul ’38: What’s your attitude towards allowing German, Austrian & other political refugees to come into the US?

US Jan 20 ’39: Should the US government permit 10,000 mostly Jewish refugee children to come in from Germany?

US Apr ’39: If in Congress, would you support a bill to open US to larger number of European refugees? By Religion.

U.S. governors don’t have power to refuse refugees access to their states: to.pbs.org/20Z2Wwa | @newshour

"Every year in Maramureş neighbours kill each other for these contested slips of territory." granta.com/the-hands-brea…

You know it's Christmastime in Romania when drunk bears dance in your living room nyti.ms/1IMh7JN