New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP18721 Political Trenches: #War, Partisanship, and #Polarization Pauline Grosjean UNSW Economics, Saumitra Jha Stanford Graduate School of Business, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton UoS_Economics, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/pcn350QrLZR #CEPR_EH, #CEPR_PoE #economics #history #voting

‘No one should have more than €10m’: the author of Limitarianism on why the super-rich need to level down radically theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

Political trenches: War can create both political solidarity and extreme polarisation dlvr.it/T33C93

Post-war #voting choices of French soldiers in #WWI who fought in the same regiment tended to converge to the prevailing political views in their regiment. Pauline Grosjean UNSW, Saumitra Jha Stanford University, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/ULqC50QG2i0

Political trenches: #War can create both political #solidarity and extreme #polarisation Pauline Grosjean UNSW, Saumitra Jha Stanford University, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/VPhv50QG2l2

Post-war #voting choices of French soldiers in #WWI who fought in the same regiment tended to converge to the prevailing political views in their regiment. Pauline Grosjean UNSW, Saumitra Jha Stanford University, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/ULqC50QG2i0

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In 🇧🇩 a 2-hour phone-based counseling intervention for women costing $14 USD: * ⬇️ 20% moderate or severe stress * ⬇️ 33% depression Wow! Michael Vlassopoulos Abu Siddique @AsadIslamBD Tabassum Rahman, PhD Firoz Ahmed @DebPakrashi in AEA Journals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Our next event is on Monday, 29 Apr 2024. ‼️ Pauline Grosjean ‼️ (UNSW) will present "Political Trenches: War, Partisanship, and Polarization" (with Saumitra Jha, Yves Zenou, and Michael Vlassopoulos) Saumitra Jha Yves Zenou Michael Vlassopoulos

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19034 Leveraging Edutainment and Social #Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony Abu Siddique Royal Holloway Economics Department, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton UoS_Economics, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/2Vnc50RscTV #CEPR_DE #economics

🚨New paper alert🚨 We have a new working paper on a unique way to improve interethnic relationships: "Leveraging Edutainment and Social Networks to Foster Interethnic Harmony" w/ Michael Vlassopoulos Yves Zenou CEPR: cepr.org/publications/d… Ungated: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… 🧵 A thread...

🇬🇷 OLYMPIACOS HAVE WON THE EUROPA CONFERENCE LEAGUE! 🏆 #UECLfinal

New paper on criminal networks with Matthew J. Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini and Michael Vlassopoulos. We show how exogenous deaths of criminals affect their co-offenders and how the death of a more central co-offender leads to a larger reduction in aggregate crime. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19159 Spillovers in Criminal Networks: Evidence from Co-Offender Deaths Matthew Lindquist Stockholms universitet Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Eleonora Patacchini Cornell University, Michael Vlassopoulos University of Southampton, Yves Zenou Monash University ow.ly/8l7V50SiBZ2 #CEPR_LE #economics

The historian-blogger Andre Loez has been engaged in a series of critical tweets about two papers (with Julia Cage , Pauline Grosjean, Dagorret , Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou): Heroes and Villains (AER 2023) and Political Trenches (WP). Here are links to shorter accessible

As part of a key expansion to enhance its vibrant research, education, and knowledge exchange, the University of Southampton's Department of Economics is advertising up to 10 positions at the Lecturer, Associate Professor, and Professor levels. UoS_Economics University of Southampton

We are hiring! The department of Economics in Southampton invites applications for up to 10 positions: Assistant Professors, Associate Professors and Professors in Economics. Please spread the word to interested colleagues. jobs.ac.uk/job/DJB617/lec…

🆕How a documentary film fostered interethnic harmony in Bangladesh Today on VoxDev Abu Siddique Royal Holloway Economics Department, Michael Vlassopoulos UoS_Economics & Yves Zenou Monash University outline how a documentary portraying the daily lives of a minority group fostered interethnic harmony: voxdev.org/topic/how-docu…

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Spillovers in criminal networks: Evidence from co-offender deaths Matthew J. Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini, Michael Vlassopoulos and Yves Zenou study spillover effects within criminal networks by leveraging the deaths of co-offenders. Read here: ifs.org.uk/publications/s…

Billionaires bankroll US politics, but voters could demand a fairer system theconversation.com/billionaires-b…