Just learned that kingpin and gru are different characters

My paper "Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota “Pico y Genero” Lockdown" with former Brown student Ana Maria Tribin and current Brown student Mercedes Ponce de Leon has been published at the World Bank Economic Review. academic.oup.com/wber/advance-a…

First ever political ad on the Super Bowl?

Excited to announce the Political Economy at Brown Conference (PEB) on October 18, 2024, organized by me and Gemma Dipoppa! This event is co-sponsored by the Bravo Center for Economic Research and the Center for PPE. Submit a paper here forms.gle/aCcczXGKhDQnM5… by May 31.

Combining two of my passions, economics and big ten football, in one place!

To provide a bit more time to authors, Gemma Dipoppa and I are extending the deadline for the Political Economy at Brown Conference (PEB) until June 14. We look forward to reading your papers!

The Moral Majority, an early religious right group, persuaded Evangelical voters to shift from Democrat Jimmy Carter, the first Evangelical President, in 1976, to Reagan in 1980, from Giulia Buccione and Brian Knight nber.org/papers/w32551

Biden with a 28 percent chance of winning the nomination

Looks like a bit longer without a bridge! wpri.com/traffic/i-195-…

We need a new word for broil. Too similar to boil. I just learned today that these are completely different things

How do we know the results published by Venezuela's opposition are authentic? UC Berkeley's Dorothy argues that the double paper trail produced by the system rules out fabrication, and thus the campaign data almost certainly reflect the actual results. dorothykronick.com/28J.pdf