After nearly 10 years since we started working on it, our paper “How natural disasters spread conflict” (with @raschky.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social and Junjie Zhou) is now published in the European Economic Review 🤩 doi.org/10.1016/j.eu... 🍾🍾

Here is a new paper that reviews the theoretical and empirical foundations of peer and network effects, aiming to bridge insights from both literatures.

🎖️ The Prize in Economic Sciences is awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt! Over the last two centuries the world has seen sustained economic growth. This year’s laureates explain how innovation provides the impetus for further progress. #PrizeinEconomicSciences #NobelPrize

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: Arthur Campbell, C. Matthew Leister, Philip Ushchev and @yveszenou.bsky.social develop a model of content-filtering to study how network structure shapes the distribution of political content: www.rfberlin.com/network-pape...

Just spent two very inspiring days at the Summer School on Networks organized by my friend and coauthor @yveszenou.bsky.social at Monash Uni. Great lectures by Matt Jackson (Stanford), Sanjeev Goyal (Cambridge) and Yves — I learned so much! Thanks Yves!!! www.monash.edu/business/eve...

The summer school on networks (monash.edu/business/eve...) kicked off with @jacksonmatthewo.bsky.social.

🆕 RFBerlin Discussion Paper: @paulinegrosjean.bsky.social, @saumjha.bsky.social, @mvlass.bsky.social, and @yveszenou.bsky.social study when and how exposure to new political ideas can realign beliefs by leveraging the exogenous assignment of French soldiers to line infantry regiments in WWI.

We are hiring! We are seeking expressions of interest for appointment as Full Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. DM me if you have questions. econjobmarket.org/positions/11...

@yveszenou.bsky.social @monashuniversity.bsky.social joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss whether friendship can change our political beliefs. Based on an experiment at #SciencesPo, this VoxTalks explores how even brief connections can bridge ideological divides. cepr.org/multimedia/d... #EconSky

I'm organizing a two-day summer school on networks (10-11 September) at Monash University where Matt Jackson (@JacksonmMatt ), Sanjeev Goyal, and myself will teach a 12 hours course. It is free and anybody interested can apply here: www.monash.edu/business/eve...

New paper on crime and networks and on how to identify key player areas of crime in London! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

🎦 Economist Yves Zenou (Monash University) about his work on the impact of peers on the choices we make. Video 🇬🇧🇫🇷 ⤵️ #Scicomm @yveszenou.bsky.social @univ-amu.fr @cnrs-dr12.bsky.social @ehess-fr.bsky.social @centralemed.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOmZ...

After Bonacich centrality, there is now Bonacci coffee!

Recent data on immigrant criminality: Immigrants have had lower incarceration rates than US-born for 150 years. And, relative to the US-born, immigrants' incarceration rates have declined since 1960. Immigrants today are 60 percent less likely to be incarcerated. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

✨ #IZAdventCalendar 2️⃣0️⃣ 🎁 Today's insight: Disruptive classmates have lasting impacts on academic and career outcomes. Test scores ⬇️ Graduation ⬇️ STEM pursuits ⬇️ @sgoulas.bsky.social @silviagriselda.bsky.social @rmegal.bsky.social @yveszenou.bsky.social #EduSky newsroom.iza.org/en/archive/r...

ConGrats to amazing Antonio Penta who will start as an editor @reveconstudies.bsky.social January 1 (replacing Galeotti, who has completed his term): www.antoniopenta.eu

Dear friends and followers, for those of you who are interested, here is the recording of the Nobel banquet speech: shapingwork.mit.edu/news/daron-a...

Here is a new paper on how do disruptive peers influence academic and career trajectories. We find that classroom peer disruptiveness has significant and persistent negative effects on various academic outcomes both in the short and long term. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

NEW #IFSWorkingPaper: Spillovers in criminal networks: Evidence from co-offender deaths Read Matthew Lindquist, Eleonora Patacchini, @mvlass.bsky.social and @yveszenou.bsky.social study on spillover effects within criminal networks by leveraging the deaths of co-offenders: https://buff.ly/4gl45t2

How does classroom disruptive affect your performance and educational choice? Together with @rmegal.bsky.social Yves Zenou and Sofojlis Goulas we combine admin data and reduce form estimates, with lab in the field and theory model to answer this question. Working paper coming soon...

Fantastic @econometric.bsky.social plenary by genius @bengolub.bsky.social introduced by legendary @yveszenou.bsky.social. Thank you for having us Yves!

I am honoured and delighted to have been awarded an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project grant for my 3-year project: "Women in STEM: The Longer-Term Effects of Teachers." My message to fellow researchers out there is: never give up!

Well deserved!