🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Creating a new course is a pain. Here's my syllabus for State and Urban Politics, a 39-person soph./jun. level lecture: mhankinson.com/documents/psc2… Special thanks to Chris Warshaw for his suggestions when he taught the class. I'm open to thoughts/feedback!

Aaaaaaahhh!!! I'm super excited to share that my new book, RAISED TO OBEY, now has a cover, a website, and is ready for pre-orders! 😀😀😀 Launching in exactly 3 months on Nov. 19 🗓️ 🔥Check out the website: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac… 🔥Pre-order on Amazon:

When do interest groups — like organized labor — use the housing entitlement process to secure benefits? Now published in JPIPE, A. Magazinnik, Anna Weissman & I find a relationship with big implications for the housing supply & attempts to reform local permitting. 1/10

PEEP 2024 was a blast! Thank you to all the presenters, discussants and participants. Andreas Wiedemann Gemma Dipoppa @miguelmaria and I can’t wait for next year! Huge thanks to Mike Sances and Temple for hosting us!

EuroWEPS 10 is here! We'll meet in Florence on Dec 11 to discuss designs/papers with a focus on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Sep 25.

And this is the start of day 2 of the EJPE-CEPR conference…. #running Napoli

We have a forthcoming British Jnl Poli Sci paper and a new dataset on the gender, education, and occupational backgrounds of lawmakers in the world's democracies! Paper: noamlupu.com/GLDpaper.pdf Dataset: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/U1… Here's one application . . . (1/2)

from my book project with Nick Carnes (inactive; BlueSky link in Bio), Keeping Workers Off the Ballot. Grey bars are share of working-class jobs (manual, service, clerical) in each democracy's labor force. Tiny black bars are share of nat'l lawmakers who had WC jobs when they first got into politics. (2/2)

The Department of Social and Political Sciences Università Bocconi is inviting applications for a tenure-track #Assistant #Professor position in #Environmental #Politics and #Policy. Hurry up!! Applications should be received by November 30, 2024. Apply here: jobmarket.unibocconi.eu.

🚨First Bocconi-Columbia conference on June 19-20 in Milan! Submit your PE papers by December 31st here: tinyurl.com/zcru6v5c 🚨

Excited to share that my job market paper is now live AJPS! Using an original survey experiment, I show that voters respond to police union endorsements in polarized ways, with liberals responding negatively and conservatives responding positively.

NEW: Labor unions were pivotal in improving working conditions and reducing inequality in the 20th century. Research from Carlo Medici (postdoc Brown University) shows how mass immigration to the United States spurred union growth. promarket.org/2025/01/08/how…

I’m excited to co-organize this NBER conference with Jim Poterba on issues related to the performance and fiscal dynamics of state and local governments. Please help to circulate widely and submit your papers!

The contact hypothesis is a leading theory in social psychology--the idea is that interpersonal contact between groups, under favorable conditions, reduces prejudice. What do we learn from the new wave of pre-registered contact experiments? 🧵

🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver, Sep 10). Submit by April 30: tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye Gemma Dipoppa Miguel Pereira Andreas Wiedemann and I look forward to reading and organizing! Last year’s program below

Excited to announce the Northeast Political Economy Conference on October 3, 2025 at Brown U, organized by me and Gemma Dipoppa! This event is co-sponsored by the Bravo Center for Economic Research and the Center for PPE. Submit a paper at forms.gle/f97gV9ZZN5cdF7… by June 16.