The May 2024 issue of the American Economic Review (114, 5) is now available online at aeaweb.org/issues/760.

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#FactOfTheDay What are the long-run effects of forced migration on educational investment?

Evidence from the analysis of historical censuses and survey data shows that Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated today than other Poles.

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Being when Russia is your neighbor.

Check out our new JEL (AEA Journals) survey: 'New Russian Economic History' with Sergei Guriev and Andrei Markevich! To understand post-imperial syndrome - study the rise and fall of the Russian and Soviet empires. Links in the imbedded tweet. #EconTwitter

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🔥Европарламент отказался признавать Путина легитимным президентом. В тексте принятой резолюции выборы называют «фарсом» и намеренно не используют термин «президент».

Правильное и важное решение.

Today, the #Belarus regime is conducting a new fake trial against my husband Siarhei. My kids haven't seen him for 4 years & for more than a year, I don't even know if he is alive. I hoped to see him today, but the cowardly regime has decided to conduct this farce in his absence.

I thought it was a bad idea to seize Russian reserves before the US congress had voted on the Ukraine package. It gave too easy a way to Congress to vote no and pass the buck. Now that they have voted, it is hard to think of good reasons not to seize. Yes, it will create a

Les vaccins ont sauvé au moins 154 millions de vies humaines en 50 ans, selon l'OMS
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A short preview of our upcoming documentary with Scripps News, that closely examines the ongoing violence in Gaza, both on the ground and with open source analysis:
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Recently accepted by #QJE , “The Ant and the Grasshopper: Seasonality and the Invention of Agriculture,” by Andrea Matranga (Andrea Matranga 🇺🇦🌻): doi.org/10.1093/qje/qj…

.Assistant Secretary Jim O'Brien: В ноябре российские власти приговорили художницу Сашу Скочиленко к 7 годам колонии за замену ценников в супермаркете на антивоенные надписи.

Мы солидарны со Скочиленко и другими голосами совести и призываем к их освобождению.

Стремиться к миру – #непреступление .

А за вас кто-то выплачивал долг $14млн? Нет? Ну вы и залоговые аукционы не организовывали.

К Алексею на кладбище несколько раз приходил священник, Дмитрий Сафронов, служил панихиды. Я очень ему благодарна. 15 апреля патриарх Кирилл и РПЦ запретили его в служении на 3 года. Давайте поможем ему и его семье. Вот карта его матери: 2202200821176631

Our paper 'Corruption and Firm Growth: Evidence from around the World' with Ray Fisman Carolin Ioramashvili and Alexander Plekhanov based on data from 88,000 firms across 141 economies in 2006–20 is published in the Economic Journal The Economic Journal !

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It's exactly the other way around. Putin's corruption is a root cause of his war against Ukraine. They poured enormous amount of money into military, because these money are the easiest to steal. The Deputy Defense Minister Ivanov, Shoigu's crony arrested yesterday for

May 3rd is the deadline to submit papers to the Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime, which will be in Zurich at the ETH on Oct 4-5!

Свободу Антонине Фаворской!
Свободу политзаключённым!
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Just a few more days to apply!