Morning sessions of the Supporting Women in International Political Economy conference

with great work from Siyao Li Sujeong_Shim Isabel Rodriguez-Toribio Haillie Na-Kyung Lee

Got hacked by scammers and bots in a recent online survey after recruiting from Reddit. Over 4,000 responses became just 200 valid ones after a major data clean-up. These digital tricksters were craftier than anticipated. It's a new era of online scams (1/9).

The China Governance Workshop 2024 is powered by
Center for Governance and Markets PittGSPIA University of Pittsburgh. Free reg. is still open.

Your next #mustsubscribe podcast is here. 'The Sanctions Age Podcast' covers all the topics and has a helluva lineup. Well done, Esfandyar Batmanghelidj.

Next week, the Reimagining the Economy Project will bring together researchers & practitioners from around the world to take stock of the current thinking on productive development policies & how these tools are being applied to a range of domains. Agenda: hks.harvard.edu/centers/wiener…

🚨 New publication alert! My research on how post-govt. incentives of revolving-door officials on their subsidy allocation decisions in China is now available in Journal of Politics @[email protected]. #RevolvingDoor #MoneyinPolitics #Corruption
journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

The Global Emerging Markets Risk Database Consortium has published today, for the first time, the recovery rates of investments with private borrowers in emerging markets and developing economies for the period 1994 to 2022, including for The EBRD regions.

gemsriskdatabase.org/#publication

My paper that came out today at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) (as the lead article!!!). It was a labor of love, and is one of the top products of my research agenda. Very proud that it found such a good home at such a great journal!

direct.mit.edu/rest/article/1…

If you study Chinese politics and plan to be on the market in Fall 2024, please consider applying for the 2024 New Faces in Chinese Politics Conference at Harvard on September 27-28, 2024. Application materials due by April 30, 2024. More details below:
 
Scholars in Chinese…

Excited to share my latest article on the civil service exam in China and its stabilizing effect on the regime. I’m grateful to the APSR editors and reviewers, as well as many colleagues and peers who have generously provided valuable feedback that helped shape this work. 1/

Calling all early career scholars/PhD students interested in using field experiments to improve government programs: Sebastian Jilke 🤖 and I will be hosting a workshop McCourt School June 24-25th, 2024. The deadline to submit your proposal is March 31st!

⁉️ What do dictators talk about? Alexander Baturo & Jakob Tolstrup introduce a novel corpus of post-Soviet leaders’ legislative addresses & employ text analysis to show what prompts dictators to substitute between different rhetorical strategies⬇️Journal of Politics @[email protected] jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/what-dictators…

What happens when you assign ~25,000 firms to get complaints about pollution violations the day after they commit them for several months? Major reductions in emissions. Final version out at the AER today with a fantastic set of collaborators:

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

New in International Organization w Tyler Jost Eric Min & Schub:

We combine computational methods with uniquely rich Cold War archival evidence to study how advisers matter in foreign policy.

Where advisers stand doesn't just depend on where they sit.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Another paper on anti-China protests w/ Yujeong Yang Do Young Gong Shuyuan Shen now out World Development

We explain variation in anti-China protests worldwide. We find greater effects of China's FDI on protests, esp in less competitive countries.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

International Political Economy Society (IPES)’s Virtual IPES is calling for paper submissions for its Winter/Spring 2024 round of workshops

VIPES: …ernationalpoliticaleconomysociety.org/virtual-ipes
Application link: forms.gle/BBGVJdJKnH2bLw…

🚨Deadline extended to March 1 for our amazing pre-doctoral fellowship. Be in residence Mortara Center , get mentored by Abraham Newman & I while charting how the new global economy actually works, all thanks to Hewlett Foundation. 👇Apply here apply.interfolio.com/138189

Princeton University will host the NEWEPS conference (neweps.org) on April 26 (Friday) ! If you would like to submit a paper or research design, please complete this form (docs.google.com/forms/d/1eslhZ…) by March 1. Look forward to having you in Princeton!🐯

How is the 🇺🇸 weaponizing the semiconductor supply chain? In a new article in International Studies Quarterly, Madison Cartwright 🍞🌹🍉 and I consider how the 🇺🇸 is limiting 🇨🇳and 🇷🇺's access to semiconductors despite producing few and almost none of the most advanced ones.

🧵 summarizing our argument⬇️

Thanks again to Cleo O'Brien-Udry for organizing this incredible conference!