Brian Knight and I are excited to announce the 3rd Northeast Political Economy Conference (NPEC), Oct 2, 2026 @BrownUniversity. Interdisciplinary (Econ + Poli Sci), 8 presentations, with keynotes by Rafaela Dancygier and Jesse Shapiro. Please submit by June 5: forms.gle/udPjigwcvFz9...

📢 Call for Papers – EUI PEARL PhD & Postdoc Workshop The Florence Political Economy Applied Research Lab is hosting a two-day workshop at the European University Institute. June 8–9, 2026. We'd love to see your work! [1/3]

Very happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics! Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Short 🧵on main take-aways below. w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer #EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).

PEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...

Thrilled to see our paper on “Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes” published in the @jeeanews.bsky.social! 👇👇 We investigate the effects of far-reaching campaign finance rules, with Nikolaj Broberg and Clemence Tricaud. Short thread on what we do and find (1/n).

Forthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...

🚨 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

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 ⬇️

🧾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

@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 👇🏽

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...

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

🚨 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. 🧵

🚨 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

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

Now available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Makes good beach reading too. www.amazon.com/Workplace-Po...

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

🚨 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....

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

📌 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...

One week left to submit!

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

📣 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!

🧵 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: ⬇️

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

🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39

🚨 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!

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

📢 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

Thank you @inqdp.bsky.social!

🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @guygrossman.bsky.social Stephanie Zonszein Locked Down, Lashing Out: COVID-19 Effects on Asian Hate Crimes in Italy www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!

Thank you to @claryc.bsky.social for inviting me for this quick chat @goodauth.bsky.social on my new paper in Nature with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social

We're having an Italian party in this week's virtual HPE session!💃Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato (Bologna) will present early work on road networks and political violence. Always brilliant @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social will discuss ✨ Thursday 12:30 EST/6:30 CET

🚨Just published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social🚨 We argue that reducing crop burning in South Asia, responsible for toxic air for 100s of millns, is not completely intractable. We show bureaucrats exert control when incentivized, w large consequences for pub health

New, and Please share widely: we are looking for the next great 2-yr postdoc to work with me at the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown U. Non-resident remote work possible for 2024-25! Be the next @gard-murray.bsky.social or Kathryn Chelminski!

Crop burning poisons South Asia’s skies, causing millions of deaths and diseases. What are states doing to stop it? What are the effects? We study these questions in our paper w @saadgulzar.bsky.social 👇🌾🔥

Why do women occupy only a quarter of parliamentary seats around the world? In coauthored work, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social explores the role of gendered violence against elected leaders. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Happening now, also live on YouTube: @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social presenting our paper on attacks on women in politics at @nber.bsky.social Political Economy Meeting. WATCH NOW at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jXu...

Honored to present work on violence against female politicians (w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social & Gianmarco Daniele) at this year's Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime. Thanks University of Michigan and CJARS for hosting me!

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office. We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column... With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele

Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/.

Come join us today at 2pm Est for @saadgulzar.bsky.social presentation of our paper on air pollution in South Asia!