🆕 North Korea's economy: The study of economic black holes
Today on VoxDev, Stephan Haggard (@gpsucsd.bsky.social), Kyoochul Kim & Munseob Lee discuss the range of forensic methods available to researchers when official statistics are unavailable, or unreliable: voxdev.org/topic/method...
Over the weekend, I started collecting/organizing a list of cool #rstats skills for LLMs at github.com/christopherk.... Please open an issue or PR in any awesome additions you see!
Includes a section for helpful posts like @ivelasq3.bsky.social's⬇️
looks legit!
Development policy effects are context-dependent and social traits often labeled as barriers may, in some settings, be sources of economic success, from Jacob Moscona, @nathannunn.bsky.social, and James A. Robinson www.nber.org/papers/w34810
Study of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria protests presents evidence that protests increase fiscal transfers to protesting regions, but only in politically aligned areas, from @belindaarch.bsky.social, Chinemelu Okafor, Evans S. Osabuohien, and Tom Moerenhout www.nber.org/papers/w34787
Shapiro and coauthors use info from risk alerts and GDELT to code for protests www.nber.org/system/files... although only from 2010-19 it seems
JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters!
Program (scroll down) here: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica...
Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Call for Proposals: Data Collection for Replication+Novel Political Science Survey Experiments Alexander Coppock and Mary McGrath January 27, 2026 We invite proposals for a survey experiment replication+novel design competition. Se- lected replication+novel design survey experiments will be conducted on large samples of American respondents, quota sampled to match U.S. Census margins and filtered for quality and attention by the survey sample provider Rep Data (repdata.com). Each proposal consists of two parts: (1) a replication study of an existing, previously published survey experiment, and (2) a novel experimental design on a topic of the authors’ choosing. The replication studies and reanalyses of the existing studies will be combined into a meta-paper to be co-authored by all authors of accepted proposals along with the princi- pal investigators (Coppock and McGrath). As a condition for acceptance, authors commit to sharing the data and producing a write-up of the findings from their novel design for submission to a scholarly journal, and public posting of a working paper pre-publication.
🎺 Call for proposals 🎺
1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment
2️⃣ run a novel experiment
on repdata.com
3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies
4️⃣ publish your study
details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_...
applications open Feb 1
please repost!
Please apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
New evidence from Africa shows that aid reduces conflict when projects are well managed, but increases violence when management and monitoring are weak.
Read today's article to learn more:
Our new ProjectGEOCAUSAL website is live! We’ll be posting the latest updates on cutting-edge applications of spatiotemporal causal inference to address the world’s most pressing problems. Check it out: geocausal.org
The Working Group on African Political Economy (#WGAPE) will meet at ISSER in Accra on April 29-May 1. Paper submissions are due Jan. 23. Travel covered for authors. Please share and apply!
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@chinemeluokafor.bsky.social !
@chinemeluokafor.bsky.social
didn’t know about this excellent poem. but what I found remarkable is neither of the analyses contrast it with Blake’s Tyger. IMO makes it even more excellent by talking to the Western canon (perhaps unbeknownst to Nael!)
Fulvia Budillon, Andre Gray, and I are hiring a field RA for a project in Mozambique, starting in the spring. Please see application information here: www.saralowes.com/resources.html. Deadline February 13. Please apply!!
An argument that the political history of Africa is a surprising success story as Africans achieved what they set out to accomplish, from Soeren J. Henn and James A. Robinson www.nber.org/papers/w34546
New paper in first view @thejop.bsky.social w/ Burde, Middleton, and Rahnama
We show the promise of a community governance strategy to sustain schools in remote Afghan communities after NGO withdrawal.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
Do architecture and urban planning affect political behavior? Happy to share a paper that @tesaliarizzo.bsky.social and I have coming out at the APSR which uses computer vision to investigate how the built environment shapes inequalities in civic participation in Mexico: osf.io/preprints/so.... 🧵1/5
After 25 years at the World Bank’s Development Research Group, I’ll give my farewell talk — Policy for the People — on Nov 18 at 12:30 PM ET.
Honored to be joined by Nandini Krishnan, Robin Mearns & Deon Filmer.
🎥 worldbank.org/en/events/2025/11/18/policy-for-the-people
Across Africa, history still shapes women’s political power.
📄 Research by Anderson, du Plessis, Parsa & Robinson finds that regions with traditional female leaders in the past have more women in elected office today—despite colonial disruptions. https://ow.ly/FkmC50Xns62
BJPolS abstract on citizen-led democratic innovations, focusing on challenges faced by modern democracies and the importance of including citizens in decision-making processes.
NEW -
Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana - https://cup.org/47DOSRd
- Eric Kramon
#OpenAccess
Clever idea in new econ job market candidate JMP
Equilibrium Neglect and Political Feasibility - convince people to support congestion pricing when they are too pessimistic about its effects by offering compensation if traffic fails to improve
drive.google.com/file/d/1u24n...
New version (0.6.0) of my #rstats package {democracyData} xmarquez.github.io/democracyData/ with @freedomhouse.bsky.social data to 2024, as well as several other sources, plus minor improvements all around
Elections often look fair, but patronage and clientelism can quietly tip the scales. CID PhD Affiliate rduartegonzalez.bsky.social asks: how do we make democracy not just competitive, but truly fair? Read more about Raul's story and broader research agenda 👉 bit.ly/4qlOhwf
🎖️ 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
📣 CID is on the job market! Meet the 7 CID PhD candidates who are entering the academic job market and pioneering new research to build a world where all can thrive. @kartiksrivastava.bsky.social @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social @tilmangraff.bsky.social www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/cid/...
This is great news for all of us users of Barometer data!
Congrats! Your work is inspiring to me, and many of us!
Why did Southern whites who didn’t own slaves defend slavery, an institution that hurt their own economic prospects?
In a new Broadstreet post, Michele Rosenberg explains how planter elites relied on clientelistic relationships to capture political support: www.broadstreet.blog/publish/post...
