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Haakon Gjerløw @haakongjerlw.bsky.social · 7d

Happy and thankful that our WP "Debating threats to authoritarian rule: Inclusion and Discrimination in the Legislative Council of Northern Rhodesia" has won the David Olson Award 2025!

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Lenka Fiala @fialalenka.bsky.social · 7d

We are hiring! Join a strong team to have a real impact on how science is done😊
#econsky

Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · 8d

🚨I4R is looking to hire postdoc fellows in public health and computer science!

The postdoc will join a team of researchers and help mass reproduce studies in leading public health journals or develop AI replicator agents.

Info 👇

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David Evans @daveevansphd.bsky.social · Sep 6

How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

Still a challenge!

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paper is here. Demonstrates with a very large sample the same phenomenon we saw previously in a somewhat smaller sample in Ethiopia: list experiments can produce fleeing behavior that leads to negative prevalence rates
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
www.tandfonline.com/...

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Sep 4

The answer to this excellent question from @kotsadam + Løvgren: yes! List experiments do not, in general, seem to be an effective tool for measuring IPV; we should not use them unless there is a convincing reason to think otherwise

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Henning Finseraas @finseraas.bsky.social · Sep 1

Great day at the Frisch Centre, hosted by @kotsadam.bsky.social , presenting ongoing work on the integration paradox

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · Aug 27

#GDRI_rep Update 8a: Major updates coming up over the next few weeks.

1st update: We reproduced "Parent–teacher meetings and student outcomes" some time ago. The paper was then retracted by the editors of the Euro Econ Rev.

Additional studies are connected (see diagram)
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AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · Jul 31

Development aid can help suppress insurgencies, but it may be counterproductive in areas where insurgents came from outside of local communities, say researchers at @theworldbank.bsky.social, @mit.edu, and @upf.edu. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/dev...

Development programs in war zones

Did development aid in Afghanistan help counter the Taliban’s insurgency?

www.aeaweb.org

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Jessica Leight @leightjessica.bsky.social · Jul 31

Fascinating new paper shows that papers reporting statistical significance get at least 60% more media attention #econtwitter #econsky: from
Brodeur Cook @nikolaimcook @taylor_wright, a short 🧵

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Electoral Studies @electoralstudies.bsky.social · Jul 14

🚨 New research alert! 🚨

Check out this recent paper by Johannes Bergh, Dag Arne Christensen and @finseraas.bsky.social on the impact of early voting on partners mobilisation. Available open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Are Skeie Hermansen @aresherman.bsky.social · Jul 8

New preprint out with @aleksandermadsen.bsky.social, where we show that later-arriving childhood immigrants have lower earnings, are more likely to enter manual occupations, and are less likely to enter analytical and language-intensive jobs and be employed in high-wage firms as adults.

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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jul 8

"It's the economy, stupid"

Voters vote based on the economy.

But there are many economic performance indicators. Which matter the most?

This new paper shows voters react to growth, unemployment, inflation, & stock markets.

But the inflation plays the biggest role.

www.ifau.se/globalassets...

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Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP) @egap.bsky.social · Jul 8

10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have buff.ly/9lWzMqZ #EGAPMethodsGuide

10 Conversations that Implementers and Evaluators Need to Have – EGAP

Authors: Jake Bowers and Rebecca Wolfe

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Max-Emil King @maxemilking.bsky.social · Jul 6

Do family-friendly hours make it easier for women politicians to participate in meetings? 🕚

In a new working paper, I find they don’t. 🧵1/10

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Joop Adema @jopieboy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Update #2, RETRACTED: 15 months after we (w @ollefolke.bsky.social and @johannarickne.bsky.social ) submitted the initial comment to the Journal, we've noticed the paper was ultimately retracted. Retraction note here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Andreas Kotsadam @kotsadam.bsky.social · Jun 21

Important paper from @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social and Sahar!

John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Jun 20

Female PhD students (in economics) benefit tremendously from having female faculty around.

When female professors go on leave, it decreases third-year female PhD students’ likelihood of publishing & securing academic positions.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · May 26

Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time. The key difference? Whether people mobilized.

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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · May 26

🧵 When authoritarian leaders attack judges as "enemies," history shows us exactly where this leads. Trump's assault on "USA HATING JUDGES" isn't just inflammatory rhetoric—it's following a script written by strongmen worldwide. But other countries show us how to fight back.

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Andreas Kotsadam @kotsadam.bsky.social · May 17

Indeed

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Olle Folke @ollefolke.bsky.social · May 9

After one year of waiting, we finally got a response from the Journal of Population Economics about our replication of "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden", confirming the major coding error that invalidates the main results, but not retracting the paper. 1/2

Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Institute for Replication @i4replication.bsky.social · May 9

A re-analysis of Ciacci's (2024) "Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: Evidence from Sweden" Journal of Population Economics reveals major issues. A year ago, reproducers Adema, Folke, and Rickne found coding errors driving the paper's key results. Let's unpack this in a 🧵

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

9/ Based on our initial and extended replications, we wonder: how can the editor still trust the results of this paper? If this case does not meet the criteria for retraction, what does?

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Johanna Rickne @johannarickne.bsky.social · May 9

10/ Please help share our extended replication to correct the record on this misleading policy evaluation!

Full replication text here: www.econstor.eu/handle/10419...

Re-Analysis of Ciacci, R. (2024). Banning the purchase of sex increases cases of rape: evidence from Sweden.

EconStor is a publication server for scholarly economic literature, provided as a non-commercial public service by the ZBW.

www.econstor.eu

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Magnus B Rasmussen @magnusrasmussen.bsky.social · Apr 22

🚨 New #EconHistory research alert!
Our paper “Strikes & Machines: Investment decisions in inter‑war Norway” conditionally accepted in Journal of Economic History ask
"What did strike threats really do to technology?"
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