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Partisan, industry and advocacy groups exert pressure on editorial offices to slant the news. This competition rationalizes empirical patterns of bias at the news item level and the rational demand for known biased channels by rational consumers. econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

Three useful sources on democratic backsliding. The 𝘈𝘯𝘯𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 article is open access: annualreviews.org/docserver/full…

📢 Excited to share the program for the 7th Annual CefES Conference on the Economics and Politics of Europe, hosted by CefES Research Center and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca on June 12–13! 🎤 Keynote speakers: Massimo Morelli, Universita Bocconi Layna Mosley, Princeton School of Public & International Affairs 📄 Program 👇 editorialexpress.com/conference/7IC…

It was an honor to speak at the National Press Club yesterday with Brian Schmidt about "Securing Australia's Sovereign Research Capability." IN FULL: Professor Brian P. Schmidt AC & Professor Richard Holden's Address youtu.be/gAiuuESaH04?si… via YouTube

A small new theory paper on how propaganda works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…. Contains a personal anecdote, a formal model, and a mathematical definition of a lie. Explains the propaganda effect of Soviet elections, in which there were no option to vote against the sole candidate.

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We did a Not Another Politics Podcast on the Trump administration’s approach to universities and how it builds on the Obama administration’s. With Jacob Gersen on his and Jeannie Suk Gersen's great papers, "The Sex Bureaucracy" & "The Six Bureaucracy". podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-…

Democrats dislike Republicans more than vice versa. The moralized belief that counter-partisans pose harm to disadvantaged groups, particularly racial/ethnic minorities, has become an asymmetric contributor to partisan dislike psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-12…

The gentrification of the electoral base of left-wing parties and the popularisation of the base of right-wing parties are among the most noticeable features of recent years in Western countries. In fact, they are the continuation of a decades-long trend. (link in comments)

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Working from home expands the ability of people in rural areas, with family and outside commitments to work. This should increase employment for potentially millions globally, from Cevat Giray Aksoy, Nick Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Victoria Marino, and Cem Ozguzel

Very much looking forward to this event. Thank you for having me David Ubilava and Ashani Amarasinghe sydneyscope.org

Looking forward to the #SCoPE workshop, which kicks off tomorrow at Uni of Sydney Economics. It will feature 18 presentations by top professors and emerging scholars from Australia and abroad. A map:

The day is here! Looking forward to the 2nd edition of SCoPE at Uni of Sydney Economics today 🤩 David Ubilava Program sydneyscope.org

Applications to our PhD program are open. See below for more information. unsw.edu.au/business/study…