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Putin's plane left for St Petersburg, and Peskov promptly denied Putin leaving Moscow, which in good old Russian tradition assured the population Putin has left Moscow.

I cried a lot after seeing this moment. In January, a student of the Kyiv Mohyla University, where I teach, Hlib Ivanov, died near #Bakhmut. This year, he was supposed to get a master's degree in political science. In the video, Hlib's parents will receive his diploma to loud

Shame on you UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 , you can't even name the country behind this attack.

The priests at the Transfiguration Cathedral in central Odesa, which took a direct hit by a Russian missile overnight, are doing an outdoor service.

Does democracy work? How does it compare to rule by unelected bureaucrats? For some answers to this hard to analyze question see this new working paper on "The Added Value of Local Democracy: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India," documents.worldbank.org/en/publication…

This book is now for real! ✨You can get 30% off "A Thousand Tiny Cuts" at University of California Press (is on Bluesky) with UCPSAVE30 ✨ Online ordering only in US & Canada atm, will update with news of South Asia ed & UK/EU ordering soon. ucpress.edu/book/978052039…

Susan Athey gave a fantastic overview of "Generative Artificial Intelligence and Economic Applications" youtube.com/watch?v=G6qcmA…

Very nice write-up of my article with Siddharth George (forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Econ, and Orgs) in sportseconomics.org How Cricket Umpires Think - The Economics of Sport sportseconomics.org/2/post/2023/09… Article available here: academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-a…

A reminder that you can also use scatterfit, a Stata command that plots (binned) scatter plots with fit lines. It creates plots like these with simple syntax and is quite versatile. A full tutorial and instructions on how to install is available here: github.com/leojahrens/sca…

This is a textbook example for the bias of studies produced by special interest groups or think tanks funded by corporate interests. Studies financed by such groups (e.g., German business association) predicted much greater lost output due to cut-off from Russian gas.

Was honored to attend the amazing Women in Empirical Micro conference hosted by Becker Friedman Institute for Economics this weekend and give some advice for more junior academics. Below I share my top 10, which benefited from assistance from many of my very wise friends!

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Come work with M.R. Sharan, Apurva Bamezai, Siddharth Hari and me on an RCT studying peer learning among politicians. Details are in the attached. If you're interested, please fill up this form (docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…). Econ RA Listings

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Check out my friend Ashish Ravinran's piece on cricket in the US here. Matt Lowe M.R. Sharan سعد العزّه edition.cnn.com/2024/06/06/opi…

Please RT: I'm super excited that the BREAD Conference on Development Economics is coming to Asia for the first time! Hosted in December by NUS in collaboration with partner organizations. More info at breadasia2024.com. Deadline August 16. Welcome to Singapore!

This is such a neat paper. When a public library opened up, patents filed spiked and innovation increased. Libraries and literacy are some of the biggest ROIs society can invest in.