Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Columbia Political Science - Political Economy, Migration, Crime, Environmental
https://www.gemmadipoppa.com/
https://www.gemmadipoppa.com/
🚨 New WP 🚨:
All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why?
We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy.
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All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why?
We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy.
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Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
🚨 New WP 🚨:
All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why?
We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy.
🧵 1/11
All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why?
We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy.
🧵 1/11
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Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging
Columbia, June 4-5, 2026
Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)
Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5
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Columbia, June 4-5, 2026
Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)
Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5
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November 7, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Call for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging
Columbia, June 4-5, 2026
Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)
Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5
Details ⬇️
Columbia, June 4-5, 2026
Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi)
Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5
Details ⬇️
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
🧾NEW WP! New data, old divide 🧵
🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP
"The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP
"The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
October 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
🧾NEW WP! New data, old divide 🧵
🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP
"The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP
"The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10.
🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽
🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan
Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan
Evidence from India and Pakistan shows that harnessing district officials’ local pollution incentives reduces crop fires by up to 14.5% and deters burns by a further 13%, significantly lowering infant...
voxdev.org
July 18, 2025 at 5:27 AM
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013
July 16, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Substantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt https://www.nber.org/papers/w34013
Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for covering our (w @saadgulzar.bsky.social) work on bureaucrat incentives to reduce crop-related fires and air pollution! Full paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan
Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan
Evidence from India and Pakistan shows that harnessing district officials’ local pollution incentives reduces crop fires by up to 14.5% and deters burns by a further 13%, significantly lowering infant...
voxdev.org
July 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for covering our (w @saadgulzar.bsky.social) work on bureaucrat incentives to reduce crop-related fires and air pollution! Full paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
In Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from Silvia Vannutelli https://www.nber.org/papers/w33973
July 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
In Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from Silvia Vannutelli https://www.nber.org/papers/w33973
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
June 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community.
🔗 epssnet.org
Here’s a thread with everything you need to know.
🧵
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
🚨 June 30th deadline approaching 🚨
📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025
📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at
@cesifo.org
🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller of
@stanford.edu
⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1
📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025
📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at
@cesifo.org
🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller of
@stanford.edu
⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1
June 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🚨 June 30th deadline approaching 🚨
📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025
📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at
@cesifo.org
🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller of
@stanford.edu
⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1
📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025
📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at
@cesifo.org
🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller of
@stanford.edu
⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
June 5, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Makes good beach reading too. www.amazon.com/Workplace-Po...
Workplace Politics: How Politicians and Employers Subvert Elections
In many countries politicians rely on employers to influence the voting behavior of their employees, but this type of voter mobilization has received very little attention. draws on unique surveys ...
www.amazon.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Makes good beach reading too. www.amazon.com/Workplace-Po...
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social
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🚨 New working paper 🚨
@yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting.
See osf.io/preprints/os....
@yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting.
See osf.io/preprints/os....
May 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
🚨 New working paper 🚨
@yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting.
See osf.io/preprints/os....
@yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting.
See osf.io/preprints/os....
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply.
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
May 8, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Happy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply.
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-6765.70017
A 🧵 with findings
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
briangknight.bsky.social
briangknight.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 8:48 PM
📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics.
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
One week left to submit!
🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver Sep 10).
Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing!
Last year’s program below
Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye
@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing!
Last year’s program below
April 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
One week left to submit!
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Migration does not have to be what it is now
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
February 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Migration does not have to be what it is now
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected
In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships
The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
📣 Please consider applying to the Political Economy of Europe Conference - right before APSA (Sept 10, Vancouver). More info: ⬇️
We look forward to reading your work!
We look forward to reading your work!
🗣️ PEEP - Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference - is back this year in Vancouver (Sep 10).
Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Last year's program below
(co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)
Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Last year's program below
(co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)
March 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
📣 Please consider applying to the Political Economy of Europe Conference - right before APSA (Sept 10, Vancouver). More info: ⬇️
We look forward to reading your work!
We look forward to reading your work!
🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
"How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Local Agreements and Migrant Exploitation in Northern Italy" by Gemma Dipoppa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
March 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
March 7, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Lots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise.
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support?
In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social
paper exploring
Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out
shorturl.at/xgeho
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series:
esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
February 26, 2025 at 11:06 PM
🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series:
esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa
🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨
We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson.
Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener)
Help us spread the word!
We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson.
Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener)
Help us spread the word!
February 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨
We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson.
Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener)
Help us spread the word!
We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson.
Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew
CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener)
Help us spread the word!
Thanks a lot to APSA Public Scholar @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this excellent review of my paper. You can read her own research on human trafficking at siennanordquist.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thanks a lot to APSA Public Scholar @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this excellent review of my paper. You can read her own research on human trafficking at siennanordquist.com
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📢 Workshop Call 📢
3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson
At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025
Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk
@didacqueralt.bsky.social
3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson
At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025
Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk
@didacqueralt.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
📢 Workshop Call 📢
3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson
At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025
Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk
@didacqueralt.bsky.social
3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop
Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson
At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025
Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk
@didacqueralt.bsky.social
Thank you @inqdp.bsky.social!
4/6 📰🧐In @apsrjournal.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social studies the impact of an intervention designed to fight labor exploitation of undocumented migrants in 🇮🇹. Findings show the intervention can reduce labor exploitation, weaken organized crime & raise awareness among locals. doi.org/nz8j
January 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thank you @inqdp.bsky.social!