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Hot off the press! The July 2024 issue is out now. Featuring ‘Making Policies Matter: Voter Responses to Campaign Promises’ by Cesi Cruz, Philip Keefer, Julien Labonne, Francesco Trebbi Cesi Cruz @xftrebbi @jblabonne Royal Economic Society #EconTwitter👉bit.ly/3VLlzGz

External validity: seeing this more and more in my journal editing. Note that every result is valid to some setting, no result is externally valid to all settings. Let's think about how preferences, beliefs, or constraints differ across the experimental and target setting(s)

The people of Venezuela are so brave! 👏

📢 Excited to announce my new book "The Peace Formula: Voice, Work and Warranties, Not Violence" on building lasting peace! Drawing on rich historical anecdotes & cutting-edge research, it proposes a set of evidence-based policies to curb armed conflict. #NewBookRelease 1/n

Re-reading Lundberg et al. which I always assign in the first week of intro methods. It's so polite, but its core point amounts to the most savage of critiques: studies should be very precise about the question they are trying to answer, but that usually doesn't happen.

Draw all your economics diagrams in LaTeX without tears: jackypacky.github.io/pgf-econ-graph…

Out now on #APSR FirstView! 🚨 Leslie Schwindt-Bayer and I use original data on audits and municipal elections, showing that women are + likely to win after corruption is revealed. This effect is driven by voters, not parties. doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

📍Had such a great time earlier this week presenting my work The Bush School, TAMU Texas A&M University thanks to Mike Denly for the Invitation!

🚨Exciting Opportunity! 🚨We're looking for a Predoc RA + Intern to join projects on state capacity and economic development in the DRC Apply now if you're passionate about Dev/PF/PE! 👉 Research Associate: povertyactionlab.org/careers/predoc… 👉 Research Intern: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Excellent work on the measurement of lobbying from my former IAST colleague Sebastian Thieme 👇

It is such a thrill to be the lead article in the new American Political Science Review! @Chris_W_Blair and I show that hurricane exposure increases concern about and support for policies to address climate migration & climate action, leveraging the quasi-experimental case of Hurricane Ian

Finally in print at the APSR! With Mai Hassan and Stuart Russell

Over the last decade, there has been a lot of great research on perceptions of foreign aid in aid receiving countries. Here is a 🧵with some relevant references on foreign aid and soft power.

When I published When Democracies Deliver, people asked if the theory applied to the US. Could “powering” reforms—like those reshaping Latin American states—happen here? The answer, as Musk’s DOGE overhaul shows, is yes. And we know how this ends. 🧵 bit.ly/40Incr6

Sad to see the ATI paused due to aid cuts. As @PublishWhatYouFund highlighted, that's a big blow. We can't abandon transparency now. Aid is vital for public goods, & researchers must step up to fill the data gap. doi.org/10.1002/jid.37… #AidTransparency #GlobalDev #Accountability

Reviewing a list of canceled USAID contracts, Charles Kenny & Justin Sandefur examine which sectors will be hit hardest. They find that despite Secretary Rubio’s pledge to preserve life-saving aid, essential health programs haven’t been spared ⬇️ bit.ly/41OWdKL

Exciting #PhD opportunity UofG Soc & Pol Sci: Georgios Karyotis and I invite applications for a UofG Social Sciences PhD scholarship on 'Financing global peace: How international financial institutions seek to stabilise conflict-affected states'. Apply by 21 April: tinyurl.com/3pun9mt8.

NEW: Under Operation Lone Star, Texas DPS has quietly built out an expansive surveillance apparatus—one that’s increasingly powered by artificial intelligence. Proposed laws provide few guardrails.🧵 w/ Texas Observer + Pulitzer Center texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surv…

I saw firsthand the impact of stop-work-orders/terminations at USAID & now Harvard. My new The New Yorker piece is on the serious implications for the lives of millions across the world and the US – including for my own family and very possibly your own. 🧵 newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…