Next week, join us for a virtual event to learn about the current challenge of public health mis- and disinformation + what researchers can do to help counter these trends. @lizhamel.bsky.social (@kff.org) & @adamberinsky.bsky.social (@mit.edu). 🔗 scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/s...

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It was a pleasure and honor to coauthor this annual review piece with @alicexu.bsky.social and Audrey. I hope you find it interesting and informative.

This week, hear from @aalrababah.bsky.social & Jeremy Weinstein as they discuss their study on citizen attitudes towards migration of Syrian refugees to Jordan. buff.ly/hvNXhBH

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I'm teaching survey research courses online in the next few weeks. Sign up and/or spread the word! Free one hour seminar. April 13 tinyurl.com/v9vn9j85 Then a set of two (half) day courses. Not free (sorry!). -Intro: April 20-21 tinyurl.com/2mas96tf -Advanced: April 27-28 tinyurl.com/5467prx6

In today's spotlight on #Migration & #Integration, small grants recipients Abby Córdova & @natanski.bsky.social discuss their paper "Reducing Citizen Support for State Violence against Undocumented Immigrants through Victims’ Testimonies and Information Campaigns.”

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Thank you @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social for the warm welcome!

This April, we are spotlighting EGAPers studying #Displacement, #Migration & #Integration. First up, @nazita.bsky.social looks at how the US cable news media portrays Muslims & Muslim Americans. buff.ly/BQcVN9h

🚨 Join us for the 3rd Transatlantic Political Economy Conference on Oct 9-10 in Montreal! 🚨 I co-organize it with @clpennec.bsky.social and Cevat Giray Aksoy, it will be even better than the first editions! Send your papers before June 19: forms.gle/4LbupRmMPriH... Share with friends!

🚨New paper alert🚨 What happens when a polarized democracy bans a social media platform? New work with @cbarrie.bsky.social, Molly Roberts, Chris Schwarz, and @jatucker.bsky.social. We study Brazil's 2024 ban on X and find it created what we define as a "partisan sorting ratchet ." 1/

The APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section is partnering with @apsgworkshop.bsky.social to launch a new series of public-facing panels. Our first event on April 9 (12:30 to 1:30 PM EST) will focus on attacks on media freedoms. You can register here: tinyurl.com/3ds284p6. Please join us!

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Check out this 🧵 about my new first view article with @avi-ahuja.bsky.social at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 👇

Today's cool young researcher #econtwitter #econsky is @AnnetAdong#econtwitter#econskyho works on topics linked to agriculture, particularly in East Africa

New working paper: Rethinking Misinformation Interventions. The field has spent years searching for the one intervention that will solve misinformation. This search is the wrong approach — and our disappointment says more about our expectations than our tools. (1/5) osf.io/preprints/so...

For our final spotlight on EGAP work in #Europe this month: David Torgerson asks if the UK's citizenship probation supervision program is effective in reducing reconvictions. Read more:

Interested in EGAP's 2026 activities? Our spring newsletter is out now!🌿 buff.ly/UG6sYoE

Stay tuned for more!

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Deadline for submission to the Boston/New England Area Working Group in African Political Economy (BWGAPE) at Harvard is March 27. Please apply! @nlnathan.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @piaraffler.bsky.social @scrosenzweig.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social Link: forms.gle/7R9PkFWEZTc6...

Very happy to share our new paper on “The Global Incumbency Advantage”! 👇👇 We provide the first estimates of the incumbency advantage at the national level for all elections worldwide since 1945. with Raphaël Descamps, Ben Marx and @vincent-rollet.bsky.social. Short 🧵 below (1/n).

Today we hosted a feedback session for #LearningDays alumni and EGAP grant recipient Kengah James of @bbcmediaaction.bsky.social on the project "Measuring the Impact of Different Radio Formats on Young People’s Civic Participation in Tanzania: A Randomized Controlled Trial."

New paper with Don Green and @ethanvporter.bsky.social in the QJPS. After much deliberation, we went with a title that just states the result. 📝 journal: www.emerald.com/qjps/article...

Today's spotlight on EGAP work in #Europe: Abigail Barr & @danilaserra-eco.bsky.social ‏investigate whether willingness to cooperate with others for common good is associated with willingness to participate in school accountability institutions & voting in Albania.

My book with Santhosh Mathew and Devesh Sharma is out! We discuss how the architecture of public finance management works in India yields inefficient public service delivery, and the potential reforms. If you work on these issues and can't access the link, send me a DM: academic.oup.com/book/62489

A great opportunity! cc: @egap.bsky.social

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New short paper w @jkalla.bsky.social ! Candidates gain from moderation, but less than many theories expect. Many conclude voters must not care about issues. This is wrong. Small *average* effects mask large effects on specific issues & are consistent with widespread issue-based voting 🧵

In today's spotlight on EGAP research in #Europe, Peter John investigates the relationship between institutional design and social behavior. The “Endorsement Project” field study explores identify best practices to encourage volunteer activity. Read more👇️

Register for the BITSS Annual Meeting! 📊 Join @ucbitss.bsky.social and the Institute for Business and Social Impact on April 16 to explore how to improve the credibility of social science research by promoting transparency, rigor, and reproducibility. Register: go.cega.org/BITSSmeeting-2026

Five more days to submit nominations for the Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology! A broad and unusual call. Feel free to self-nominate or to submit a nomination on behalf of work that has inspired you.

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What explains the rise in geographic partisan segregation in the U.S.? While most studies focus on residential mobility, generational change and Democrats leaving their party explain a much larger share of that trend. See our @voxeu.org column 👇👇 and our paper: www.vincentpons.org/partisan-seg...

Congratulations to @yamilrvelez.bsky.social, @patrickpliu.bsky.social, and @scottclifford.bsky.social ! we think attitudes are some function of beliefs; our exps routinely move beliefs but not (even correlated) attitudes. This team found a way to guess which beliefs matter more (and they do!)

I'll be presenting at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela on how deep aid cuts are bringing the encampment model of refugee hosting in low-income settings to a breaking point. The talk is based on a new working paper with @yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shelbycarvalho.bsky.social, and Iman Dahr.

This Thursday (March 12, 12h) we are very excited to welcome Kristen Kao (Gothenburg), who will give a talk on "The Effects of Injustice on Legitimacy in Post-Conflict Settings".

Easy to read summary of very interesting research by @egap.bsky.social researcher Chris Grady. TWISS #49: The Paradox of Self-Interest open.substack.com/pub/twisswee...

This month, we are featuring EGAP research in #Europe. Up first, Ruth Ditlmann with Oguzhan Turkoglu & Berenike Firestone ask if public commemoration of victims of past atrocities reduces support for political actors that downplay or deny those atrocities.

Excited to be co-organizing the Multi-Method Conflict Consortium at Duke May 15-16 with @meganastewart.bsky.social & @dotanhaim.bsky.social! Advanced PhD candidates and postdocs are invited to apply for our funded Junior Fellowship, deadline March 10: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I wrote about the recent killing of El Mencho, what the evidence says about decapitating the leadership of major criminal organizations, and whether things could actually be different this time. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/el-m...

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🚩 I am serving on this year's APSA Migration & Citizenship section Career Achievement award selection committee & encourage you to nominate a scholar of migration/citizenship whose career you believe has made outstanding contributions to this field. Deadline extended by a few days. 🚩

🚨 LAST DAY TO APPLY! Today is the final day to apply to the EGAP #LatAm Learning Days Workshop & PhD Lab in Santiago, Chile. If you want structured training in RCTs, hands-on work in R, & feedback on your research design, submit your application today. 🔗 buff.ly/9xgFGs2

🚨 ¡HOY CIERRA LA CONVOCATORIA! Para postular al Taller Días de Aprendizaje y al PhD Lab de EGAP #LatAm @Chile Este es el momento para asegurar tu participación en un programa intensivo sobre RCTs, R y diseño de investigación. 🔗 buff.ly/712R0Go

⏰ 1 DAY LEFT to apply! If you work on governance, politics, or development in Latin America and want to strengthen your experimental designs, don’t miss the Learning Days Workshop (Jul 27–31) & PhD Lab (Aug 1) in Santiago 🇨🇱 🗓 Deadline: tomorrow – Feb 28 🔗 buff.ly/9xgFGs2

⏰ ¡QUEDA 1 DÍA para postular! Si trabajas temas de gobernanza, política o desarrollo en América Latina y quieres fortalecer tus diseños experimentales: Taller Días de Aprendizaje (27–31 jul) & PhD Lab (1 ago) @ Santiago 🇨🇱 🗓 Cierre: mañana – 28 febrero 🔗 buff.ly/712R0Go

❗ DEADLINE TODAY❗ Join EGAP's West Africa Regional Hub at our 2026 Learning Days workshop at CERAP this June. Learn more and apply today: buff.ly/9l0bdig

Applications are open for the 2026 Chicago School in Experimental Economics (CSEE), Nov 4–8 in Buenos Aires. An intensive one-week course based on John A. List’s forthcoming textbook, covering the full spectrum of experimental design and analysis. Apply: https://ow.ly/qTi050Yljne