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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · 9d

🚨 New version of our WP 🚨 (w/ Michela Limardi & @avolle.bsky.social).

🔎 Climate regulation doesn’t crowd out NGOs—it mobilizes them. Activism rises & persists, esp. in weaker enforcement contexts.

Grateful to @cerdi.bsky.social colleagues for seminar feedback 🙏

🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276v4

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Sep 5

🚨 New version of our WP! 🚨
@sophiehatte.bsky.social (@cergic.bsky.social), @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and I (@cerdi.bsky.social) highlight the powerful role of digital access in shaping democratic outcomes and promoting gender equality.
📄 Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jul 6

Look for bold new ideas 🔥📈💪🏼🤓

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jul 4

#Econsky That was a great workshop on Political Economy at @ox.ac.uk - @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, jointly organized with @iast.fr - @tse-fr.eu and @sciencespo.bsky.social No cheaptalking, the quality was high! Grateful for this life/scientific event 🙏🏼

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jul 1

We definitely need to understand better the climate gouvernance framework. Thanks!
Here is our take: we show that climate regulation may also spurr civil society activisme (NGO campaings against firms): hal.science/hal-05047276v3

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 25

Another successful scientific event at @cerdi.bsky.social. A place to be for economists 🙌🏼📈🔥

CERDI @cerdi.bsky.social · Jun 25

🌍 2025 #MigrationEconomics Junior Workshop just concluded.

🎯 Goal: give PhD & young researchers an opportunity to share their work in an inspiring space.

Thanks to the participants & keynotes for sharing thoughtful discussions ✨

🏷️ #DevEcon
@ucauvergne.bsky.social
@cnrs-rhoneauvergne.bsky.social

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 19

#Econsky Citing someone guilty of sexual misconduct? Here is "creeps", an Overleaf package developed by my colleague Alistair Cameron at @cerdi.bsky.social. It detects authors in your bibtex registered in the Academic Sexual Misconduct Database.
Link here: alistaircameron.github.io/packages/

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 19

Very interesting! Thanks 🙏🏼

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CERDI @cerdi.bsky.social · Jun 19

📣 New WP in #economics
📄 “Climate Regulation & Civil Society Activism”

By M. Limardi, @jordanloper.bsky.social & @avolle.bsky.social 🏷️

Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) shows that public #climateregulation amplifies #activism rather than crowding it out.

👉 t.ly/c-f1d

#Research #NGOs

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Jörg Ankel-Peters @jrgptrs.bsky.social · Jun 18

We have a new DP. It's actually more a tool than a paper. The Robustness Dashboard provides an at-a-glance visual summary of robustness analysis, distinguishing between confirmatory and negative robustness tests. @i4replication.bsky.social 1/3 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 18

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Will different researchers converge on similar findings when analyzing the same data?[...] scientists, especially those working with the complexities of human societies and behavior, should exercise humility and strive to better account for the uncertainty in their work.

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty | PNAS

This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in ...

www.pnas.org

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Florian Ederer @florianederer.bsky.social · Jun 16

The past really sticks.

Even after 4 generations, your great-grandfather’s economic status still largely shapes your own.

👉 33% persistence across time for whites
👉 But racial inequality is the key driver

The American Dream? More inherited than we thought.
www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

www.nber.org

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 12

Source: xkcd.com/3101/

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Bård Harstad @bardharstad.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks!
It started by chatting with Anke 15y ago (!) on how governments may negotiate treaties not because of spillovers, but to tie hands of future governments
=>
(a) coalitions can be larger
(b) we provide a unique theory of "conventions"
(c) the Paris Agreement won't unravel even if US withdraws🙂

Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Jun 10

Paper shows that political incumbents may want to sign treaties that tie the hands of their successors. Thus, by offering commitment, a treaty can exploit domestic time inconsistency problems.

The theory predicts that countries may want to remain in the Paris Agreement even if the US withdraws.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 10

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?

The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)

Why?

Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 10

Reviewer 2, while pointing out a typo in our manuscript, made a typo.

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Journal of Public Economics @jpube.bsky.social · Jun 10

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties"

By @bardharstad.bsky.social & Anke Kessler

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky

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David McKenzie @dmckenzie.bsky.social · Jun 9

Now up: the 9th in my annual series of efforts to put together data on development journals: rankings, number of papers submitted (over 12,000 last year across 12 journals), number published (937), acceptance rates, time to review, open access stats, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New

blogs.worldbank.org

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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · Jun 6

New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD)

LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances.

danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 7

Not from me, but aligned with me

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VoxDev @voxdev.bsky.social · Jun 6

What are some examples of win-wins in development?

When do businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others?

Oliver Hanney @olihanney.bsky.social · Jun 6

Win-win policies: Examples from economic research

I've highlighted when businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others.

Read on @voxdev.bsky.social: voxdev.org/topic/win-wi...

Win-win policies: Examples from economic research

What are some examples of win-wins in development? When do businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others?

voxdev.org

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Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @jordanloper.bsky.social · Jun 6

@joelcariolle.bsky.social

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CSAE @oxfordcsae.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join us for the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Programme on African Governance event 'Time to Reset: Ending the Self-Deception in Africa-Europe Relations'

🗓️ 12 June, 5pm BST
🗣️ Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town) w/ Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
💻 Hybrid

'Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe…

REGISTRATION To attend in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please scroll down to the registration form and enter your details To watch live online on…

www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk

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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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AEA Information @aeainformation.bsky.social · Jun 3

The AEA Reporting Lockbox enables AEA members not yet ready to file a formal complaint to log circumstances or conduct by other members that may violate the AEA’s policy against harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Learn more at aeaweb.org/about-aea/re.... #econsky

Reporting Lockbox

aeaweb.org

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