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Really happy to share that ⬇ paper with Tahir Andrabi Natalie Bau Jishnu Das & Asim Ijaz Khwaja has been accepted at QJE! TLDR; Giving grants to public schools (in Pakistan) can improve learning in both sectors due to competition. Final paper here: tinyurl.com/2czh4t2z.

Excited to share a new article! Why Do Elites Sometimes Undo Their Own Constitutional Privileges? With Victor Menaldo and Jorge Rojas Vallejos World Development kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F%2…

Check out the program of our Workshop on Culture, organized with Emmy Lindstam & Vicente Valentim! June 25th in Madrid, day before EPSA, at IE Political Science (IE Tower). If you'd like to join, feel free to get in touch with one of us!

Good news: I got tenure!! 🥳 Thank you all who helped since my early grad school days!! 🫶 Advisors, coauthors, colleagues, friends, family... Bad news: That means I'm no longer a junior scholar youtube.com/watch?v=IZ3XMO…

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with Alicia Cooperman and Joan Ricart-Huguet. sites.google.com/view/dmv-weps/…

"Ricard" is more common in Occitania, north of the Pyrenees border 😉 But thank you SSRC for the coverage in Frontiers! Jack Paine ssrc.org/frontiers/?_sf…

Calling African researchers in the humanities and social sciences! We are accepting applications for our CAS Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025-26 until 30 May 2025.

In American Political Science Review, Jack Paine, Xiaoyan Qiu, and Joan Ricart-Huguet show that new spatial and historical data call into question the claim that European nations imposed arbitrary and exogenous borders on African states.

2/ Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson & Aliz Toth on party leaders and rank-and-file candidates cambridge.org/core/journals/…

We just wrapped our last class with our inaugural cohort of students at the Africa Urban Lab 🌆🌆 Thx to all who made it possible!! Admissions open for round 2: aul.city/admissions

Thanks Riccardo. The podcast was a blast. Super smart idea for a podcast -- what's the backstory behind the papers that we read?

Market economies are embedded in social institutions. In this project, we try to illuminate a long-standing feature of capitalism in the Global South and elsewhere—the prevalence of family-based capitalism. Project summary ProMarket : promarket.org/2023/07/24/fam… 2/n

Ngugi Wa Thiongo'o A delegate of Northcote Hall and Information Minister of Makerere Students' Guild in 1961-62. A graduate of B.A in English in 1963. A gallant alumnus, a word-weaver, a fierce proponent of literature written in native African languages. May His Soul Rest in Eternity 🕊

How do Africans feel about the influence of their former colonisers? See Afrobarometer's latest in the Continent. #VoicesAfrica

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Manufacturing Revolutions: Industrial Policy and Industrialization in South Korea,” by Nathan Lane (Nathan Lane): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

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