Pavel Bacherikov

📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —

with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.

Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

Historical Political Economy Needs More History by Giacomo Benati and Federica Carugati It is a productive and rewarding time for scholars doing historical political economy. Those who believe that the discipline has a robust intellectual identi…

"Our worry is that an HPE uniquely focused on causal inference might follow political science and economics in ceding the big questions of our time to other fields"

Highly recommend this thought-provoking & informative blogpost written by two historians

t.co/USi7YoEBt9

Harvest season is also peak time for conflict in rural societies – Sydney Business Insights (SBI) Do harvest season spikes in agricultural income and conflict in rural Africa and Asia present an opportunity to adjust peacekeeping and aid efforts?

Some insights into agrarian wars and seasonal conflict: sbi.sydney.edu.au/harvest-seas...

Hi @profmusgrave.bsky.social could you please add me to polisky? Thanks!

Crossposting from @xuyiqing on that other place: a nice meta-analysis of 37 studies published in top PoliSci journals finds that TWFE estimates are highly correlated with imputation-based estimates a la Borusyak/Jaravel/Spiess ....

yiqingxu.org/papers/engli...