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Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار @saadgulzar.bsky.social · Jul 18

@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 👇🏽

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jul 15

🆕 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...

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

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 16

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

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Jul 16

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...

VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jul 15

🆕 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...

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

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NBER @nber.org · Jul 6

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

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EPSS @epssnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 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.

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LISER's Crossing Borders Research Programme @liser-cb.bsky.social · Jun 25

🚨 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

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Vincent Pons @vinpons.bsky.social · Jun 5

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

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tim frye @timfrye.bsky.social · Jun 2

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

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Pau Vall-Prat @pauvallprat.bsky.social · Jun 2

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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Guy Grossman @guygrossman.bsky.social · May 20

🚨 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....

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Thomas Tichelbaecker @ttichelbaecker.bsky.social · May 8

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

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Apr 28

Here's last year's program. The conference is generously funded by Brown University through the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research and the PPE Center

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Apr 28

📌 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...

briangknight.bsky.social

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Apr 23

One week left to submit!

Maria Carreri @mariacarreri.bsky.social · Apr 23

🚨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

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Apr 3

Congrats!! And great news for U Toronto too :)

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · Feb 21

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

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 12

Hi Francesco, thanks a lot for your interest and I understand very well reducing international travels! Unfortunately we don’t know yet if we’ll have the possibility to have it streamed online so we can’t commit at this stage!

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 12

📣 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!

Miguel Pereira @miguelpereira.bsky.social · Mar 12

🗣️ 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)

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

Thanks a lot Charley!

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

Julia, thanks so much :) it means a lot from you.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

10/ This is my job market paper and it owes immensely to my committee @guygrossman.bsky.social, Dorothy Kronick, and @jlynch13.bsky.social, and to my Postdoc PI @saadgulzar.bsky.social. I'm very happy to see it out and wish I could celebrate it with you!

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

9/ If you’re interested in the intersection of migration, labor exploitation, and organized crime, check out the full paper here: 🔖 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

8/ 🚨 Policy takeaway: Combating organized crime isn’t just about state strength. Reducing reliance on criminal intermediaries requires tackling the conditions that make their services valuable—like migrant labor precarity.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

7/ 🌏 This has global implications. Similar dynamics could explain how the Italo-American mafia exploited migrant labor in early 20th-century NYC, or how Nigerian gangs control undocumented migrants in Italy today.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · Mar 8

6/ 💡Key insight: Mafias don’t just replace weak states. They complement strong states by enabling illegal activity that would otherwise be too risky. Organized crime should be reconceptualized as both a substitute for weak states and a tool for rule evasion in strong ones.

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