This Wednesday we are very happy to be hosting Massimo Morelli (Bocconi) on "The Financial Drivers of Populism in Europe" Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨How is AI reshaping UK jobs? 🚨 Fears about AI causing hiring freezes, fewer entry roles, and pay pressure are widespread. My new research investigates whether these fears are justified. @kcl-spe.bsky.social wrote a great blog summarising my results!

New research from Dr Bouke Klein Teeselink has shed light on the emerging impact of AI on the UK's labour market 🤖 👶 Entry-level roles adversely affected 📉 Job vacancies in exposed industries down 🗣️ Customer-facing roles resilient Read more 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

🧠 New analysis of LinkedIn posts finds junior workers are feeling the brunt of generative AI's impact on the labour markets. Fascinating work by @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social 📄 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Kicking off this year's seminar series with Lucy Barnes (@lucy-barnes.bsky.social) on "Economic Orientations and Preferences Over Redistributive Taxation." Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social Why do politicians often misperceive what citizens' policy positions are? @simonotjes.bsky.social and I study ~10,000 estimates of public opinion by politicians in Denmark & the Netherlands to uncover the sources of these (mis)perceptions Thread 🧵1/10

Great thread summarising my new paper with @gmelios.bsky.social on the effect of disability benefits on employment in the UK!

Join us at King's College London for a great seminar series in Quantitative Political Economy! If you're in London and would like to join, let me know

🚨 New paper in Science Advances @science.org Can changing how we argue about politics online improve the quality of replies we get? T HeideJorgensen, @gregoryeady.bsky.social & I use an LLM to manipulate counter-arguments to see how people respond to different approaches to arguments Thread 🧵1/n

🚨Publication alert!🚨 Thread below👇

Just out! ERNOP's practitioner summary of my paper with @gmelios.bsky.social, showing that 🇺🇸 Partisans reduce charitable giving by ~4.5 % when their own party is in power, as faith in government crowds out private help, whereas opposition to government motivates private giving. tinyurl.com/ernop1

🚨 We're hiring! King's College London Department of Political Economy (@kcl-spe.bsky.social, @kingsqpe.bsky.social), is hiring a permanent lecturer in economics on the education pathway. Details: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... Please share! Happy to answer questions about the role/department!

We’re hiring 3 permanent (tenured) lecturers in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. These are ‘education pathway’ posts (in Economics, Research Methods, & Comparative Politics) 1/4 www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117268-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117209-... www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/117245-...

🚨 Come work with us at King's College London! 🚨 We're hiring two assistant professors (Education Pathway): - Lecturer in Economics tinyurl.com/aepecon - Lecturer in Politics and Research Methods tinyurl.com/aepmethod Amazing department, great colleagues, central London, what's not to like?

Great to be hosting the European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting 2025 at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social. Excited about two more days of research presentations ahead!

An interesting collection of opinions @theguardian.com on whether and how the 2020 BLM protests change the world. Covers our work with @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social on @polbehavior.bsky.social. Link on the first comment

🆕 Are competitive markets economic analogues to scientific experiments? A new paper by Sam DeCanio and Colin Jennings applies arguments from studies of causal inference to understand competition and the problems created by monopoly power. More 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

We kick off today! Excited to host this event.

Happy to host @kristoberg.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) this Wednesday (April 30) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

We are pleased to announce the program of the 5th Early Career workshop in Quantitative Political Economy from 19 to 21 May 2025 at King's Collge London. Full schedule: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp... Non-presenting PhDs or Postdocs are very welcome to attend, just let me know!

Happy to host @nunopgpalma.bsky.social (University of Manchester) this Wednesday (April 16) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

King's College London is hiring 20 scholars doing AI-related research across *all disciplines*, including social sciences (5-year research fellowship leading to permanent faculty position). Applications due May 19, 2025. @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcl-spe.bsky.social

Happy to host Sarah Smith (Bristol) this Wednesday (April 2) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

For those who need a diversion from doom scrolling the news these days, my very talented friend Dimitris Dimitriadis is writing genuinely hilarious absurdist short stories that only take a few minutes to read. Would highly recommend subscribing to his Substack! His latest: tinyurl.com/ddbktshort

Great blog describing our research showing that mass collective action movements can significantly influence political outcomes! A finding that feels more relevant than ever… @gmelios.bsky.social #Econsky #Polisky

1/ 📣 PUBLICATION ALERT: Our paper on the effect of BLM protests on the 2020 presidential election has been published in @polbehavior.bsky.social ! Joint work with my great friend and co-author @gmelios.bsky.social #Polisky #Econsky

Happy to host @vincenzobove.bsky.social this Wednesday (March 5) for a seminar! Feel free to contact us (see details at sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...) if you're interested in attending.

🚨 Call for papers! One week left to apply for the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Deadline: 10 March More information and submission link here: sites.google.com/view/kingsqp...

We are hiring TWO political theorists as well as a PPE position which is open to theorists (focus on history of economic thought) - please apply and circulate! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108445-...

Great blog about our recently published paper with @gmelios.bsky.social! Our research suggests that current Republicans’ efforts to dismantle government agencies might spur rising Democratic donations to support charities providing those services. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/people-... #EconSky #PoliSky

Excited that our @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper is in print 🙏 In survey experiment in NL & DK with elected representatives, we find public opinion directly shapes politicians' views, while interest groups have weaker effects, mainly influencing aligned legislators @ecprinterestgroups.bsky.social

A new study co-authored by our academic, @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social, has revealed that political party loyalty has a significant impact on charitable giving, as people donate considerably more money to charity when they oppose the party in power 🗳️👎 Read more here 👇 www.kcl.ac.uk/news/people-...

Great blog about our recently published paper with @gmelios.bsky.social! Our research suggests that current Republicans’ efforts to dismantle government agencies might spur rising Democratic donations to support charities providing those services. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/people-... #EconSky #PoliSky

Ahh, I miss these

📢 Call for papers! We are organizing the 5th Early Career Workshop in Quantitative Political Economy on 19-21 May 2025 at King’s College London! Keynotes: Sonia Bhalotra (Warwick) and Peter van der Windt (NYU-Abu Dhabi). No fee, travel grants available! Submit at: tinyurl.com/qpeearly

Happy to host @hrendleman.bsky.social this Wednesday (Feb 5) for a seminar!

Happy to host @ginvernizzi.bsky.social tomorrow (Jan 22) for our first seminar of the term!

Excited to announce our seminar line-up for the coming semester! Come join us at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsqpe.bsky.social

Hello BlueSky! Stay tuned for updates on our seminars, workshops, research, and other events. Also, here's another starter pack: go.bsky.app/Dy9PWJ

Trump is about to hit the world with new import tariffs. How will that affect developing countries? Our work on the effect of the US-China trade war on Vietnam, just out as an IMF working paper, offers some clues. Thread 1/7! www.imf.org/en/Publicati...

In this working paper that was published today, Matthew Maltman and I review some of the economic evidence on the effects of ✨upzoning✨in Auckland in 2016. tldr: We find remarkably robust evidence that upzoning led to more housing and lower rents in Auckland. Wow! www.motu.nz/our-research...

Delighted to share the fantastic lineup of upcoming speakers for our @kcl-spe.bsky.social Comparative Politics Speaker Series @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! Thanks to Raluca Pahontu for co-organizing many of the speakers Feel free to reach out to @ninaobermeier.com or me if you'd like to attend

Game show behaviour (in the shape of potentially costly choices) suggests people exhibit own-gender favouritism, research by Atanasov et al suggests: https://buff.ly/3USyGGj https://academic.oup.com/ej/article/134/658/856/7303281 via coauthor @bkleinteeselink.bsky.social

A starter pack of my brilliant colleagues and former colleagues in political science, economics, and around and about the place. Under construction, will share again when we have momentum go.bsky.app/KpPy48W

🎉 Publication alert, joint with @gmelios.bsky.social! Our paper examines how alignment with the government affects charitable giving. It has just been accepted in Public Choice. Find out about our findings below!

Nice to see that my paper on welfare weights is now in print at the AER.

🚨 Call for Papers! Next year, we're hosting the 2025 EAYE Annual Meeting at King’s College London from May 27-29, 2025! Submit your extended abstracts or full papers and join top junior economists from around the world! 🗓️Deadline: December 1, 2024

Really excited that our paper is out in the Journal of Politics!

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter #Econsky is @raisasherif at Max Planck @MPI_Tax who works on topics related to environment + development, with a particular focus on India www.raisasherif.com/