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Researchers delved into whether Facebook's introduction across college campuses in the mid 2000s increased symptoms associated with depression and anxiety. The answer was a clear yes, says MIT economist Alexey Makarin. sciencenews.org/article/social…

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…

The NBER September AI meetings will focus on political economy. Submit your papers here: nber.org/calls-papers-a…

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation’ by Mario Cannella, Alexey Makarin, Ricardo Pique doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Alexey Makarin Mario Cannella Royal Economic Society @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

Oleg Oleg Itskhoki is right. One big lesson from 2014-2020: “smart” sanctions are a myth. Here is why: 1. I show 2014-2020 “smart” sanctions actually helped and not hurt the targeted firms thanks to Russian gov over-compensating with subsidies, loans and gov contracts => NOT smart.

🚨 Call for Applications! 🚨 MIT is recruiting the second cohort of Ukrainian academics as the Global MIT At-Risk Fellows for the Spring 2025 semester. 📝 Apply online by August 1, 2024: ukraine.mit.edu/science/gmaf

New CEPR Discussion Paper DP19165 Supply Chain Disruption and Reorganization: Theory and Evidence From Ukraine’s War Vasily Korovkin Economia i Empresa UPF UPF Barcelona, Alexey Makarin MIT Sloan School of Management, Yuhei Miyauchi Boston University ow.ly/q8J350SjMAc #CEPR_DE #CEPR_ITRE #CEPR_OE #CEPR_PoE

RCT reducing leisure screen time among adults and adolescents to *<3 hours per week*. Compliance was high — they exchanged smartphones for flip phones. Results: - 45 mins more physical activity per day - Better mood and well-being (adults) - Fewer behavioral issues (kids)

Excited to launch Webmunk, a new tool for studying digital platforms and online behavior! Webmunk is a browser extension package that allows for: - Tracking user behavior. - Experimental interventions that change websites as people browse them. - Survey and other types of

Our group at MIT is hiring an assistant professor! Come join our wonderful crew Rahul Bhui Dean Eckles Drazen Prelec Catherine Tucker Dr. Renée Gosline Sinan Aral Duncan Simester, John Hauser, JuanJuan Zhang. Applications due Aug 12 - happy to answer any qs! apply.interfolio.com/149758

Middlebury College is looking to hire an assistant professor in the politics of Russia and Eastern Europe. apply.interfolio.com/149901

"We estimate that the decline in Nuclear power Plants caused by Chernobyl led to the loss of approximately 141 million expected life years in the U.S., 33 in the U.K. and 318 million globally". nber.org/conferences/si…

Excited to share our new paper on the design, implementation, and analysis of social media experiments! These experiments let researchers study digital platforms without needing firm collaboration. We hope it's useful to grad students and anyone else who's social media curious!

Call for papers for the NBER Political Economy on Nov. 15, 2024. The organizers of the meeting will be M. Gentzkow, P. Giuliano & D. Yang. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please upload a pdf file through this link by Sep. 10, 2024. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Students in Europe (and beyond) looking for a predoc position—check out this RA listing! Amazing supervisors and a great city. Applications close on Oct 2, 2024. PREDOC.org Econ RA Listings

Chernobyl caused 40 deaths directly, but indirectly it caused 1 million times that. Fear prevented 400 additional nuclear power plants from being built, and each would have saved ~800,000 years of additional life by reducing pollution from oil & coal

Political Economy Symposium 2025, organized by: CEPR-Warwick-Northwestern-EIEF on March 14-15th in EIEF Rome, Italy. Please submit your paper here by Oct 27th: mailchi.mp/cepr/call-for-…

I am looking for a part-time RA to work on economics and marketing-related projects at Chicago Booth. Apply by October 30th. Details here: chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facult…

🚨Call for papers. Third spatial/intl conference at NYU Abu Dhabi ☀️. Keynotes: Beata Javorcik, Jonathan Dingel. Flights/hotel funding provided. Deadline Nov 1st. Submission link: cepr.org/events/third-m… #EconTwitter Economics Conferences NYU Abu Dhabi CEPR New York University

In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24%—with effects persisting for 6 months! -Increased satisfaction with Twitter -Led people to share higher-quality news doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…