What happened when Mohamed Salah joined Liverpool FC? Hate crimes in the surrounding area declined by 19%. The # of anti-Muslim tweets sent by Liverpool fans was cut in half. Evidence (by: Will Marble Ala Alrababah علاء الربابعة Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى Alexandra Siegel ): "Can Exposure to Celebrities Reduce Prejudice?"

Come join us for EuroWEPS II. We will meet in Berlin on June 3 - 4 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Accommodation, food and a travel (subsidy) are covered. Submit your cutting-edge empirical political science paper by March 23. Full call here: bit.ly/3c0ncsh

«J’ai la rage quand ils défilent dans les médias, montrent leur trogne à la télé pour pérorer… Jamais pour nous présenter leurs excuses, implorer notre pardon, alors même qu’ils sont en partie responsables de ce que nous vivons.» liberation.fr/debats/2020/03… Woutch. Ça décoiffe.

This is one of the best prejudice reduction studies of the past decade. Chelsey Clark and I wrote a perspective on it in Science, where the study appeared: Salma Mousa / سلمى موسى 's soccer experiment in Iraq testing contact btw Christians & Muslims. Thread: science.sciencemag.org/content/369/65…

🚨 We're hiring at the LSE Government Dept🚨 6 Assistant Professors (TT): - Political Behaviour - Public Policy & Public Admin - Data Science - East & SE Asia (any sub-field) - Gender, Race or Ethinicty (any sub-field) Please retweet & contact me with questions

Thrilled to share that my paper with Emmy Lindstam, "My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Entitlement to Lead," has been awarded the @apsa Experimental Research Section's Best Paper Award

🚨Incredibly excited that my first publication is accepted at Journal of Politics @[email protected]: "Facial Recognition Technology (FRT) and Voter Turnout"🚨 Short 🧵: Using a state-run small scale pilot experiment in Indian local elections, I find that FRT polling stations had lower turnout. 1/n

A Gérardmer, les jacuzzis de cinq habitations, principalement dédiées à la location saisonnière, ont été éventrés. Les propriétaires ont retrouvé un morceau de papier sur lequel il était écrit «l’eau, c’est fait pour boire». liberation.fr/environnement/… Par Violette Vauloup

Excited to see my paper "Learning to be Unbiased: Evidence from the French Asylum Office" out in @AJPS. Unprecedented effort in transparency by Ofpra. Huge thanks to my fabulous advisors at Immigration Policy Lab and wonderful colleagues at PSPE_LSE! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Negative: Analysis of of 4,141 asylum applications in France (1976-2016) show that Christian (vs. Muslim) are more likely to be granted refugee status. Positive: Bureaucrats stop discriminating after about a year on the job. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aj…

As we get closer to the beginning of the AY, a reminder of our great seminar schedule this year (all credit to Mathilde Emeriau). Book your agendas!

EuroWEPS is back! We will meet in Florence (hybrid) on Dec 2 to discuss designs/papers with a focus on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is Oct 23.

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19125 In or Out? Xenophobic Violence and Foreigner Integration. Evidence from 19th century France Mathilde Emeriau Sciences Po Recherche SciencesPo Stanford University ETH Zürich, Stephane Wolton LSE Government LSE ow.ly/1fLq50S8cJ0 #CEPR_EH #CEPR_PoE #economics

Exciting opportunity: Join the IPL team and help shape immigration policy as a postdoctoral fellow: immigrationlab.org/2017/10/04/pos…