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My article Employment and rebellion in conflicted and fragile states wol.iza.org/articles/emplo… is today’s featured articled on IZA World of Labor. This means that it will be shown on the site homepage, and receive extra promotion through IZA World of Labor’s social media channels

Nice job Prabin!

"Self-Help Groups, Savings and Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia" with Radu Ban and Matthias Rieger has been accepted at JEBO. I will let you know when it is available online. In the meantime there is a draft it is available at michaeljgilligan.com

Here is a link to my just-published paper with Matthias Rieger and Radu Ban, "Self-Help Groups Savings and Social Capital: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Cambodia," It appears in the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. authors.elsevier.com/c/1byGIc24av9WG

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Wow, thank you to The Economist (Daniella Raz) for featuring Andrew Shaver and my research American Political Science Review on how hosting refugees does not spread conflict. We hope this reaches people who are now making important policy decisions wrt. Afghan refugees. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited to see the publication of my friend and colleague Bruce Bueno de Mesquita's book publicaffairsbooks.com/titles/bruce-b… It is a labor of love, a magnum opus and a tour de force all in one!

This is exactly the kind of tragedy the 'Gazpacho police' were created to prevent. facebook.com/xomichelleo/vi…

So everyone has been paying attention to Russia and Ukraine recently. But, in my opinion, there is a bigger strategic play going on by Russia. More significant. More long term. A thread.

I don't get this: slate.com/news-and-polit… We haven't learned over the last 20 years that insurgencies are really hard to beat? It took them 10 yrs to do it in Chechnya (only 1.4 million people). I know the terrain is different but c'mon! I hope Putin doesn't read Slate.

My article with Prabin Bahadur Khadka and Cyrus Samii , Intrinsic Social Incentives in State and Non-state Armed Groups, has appeared Open Access on FirstView in the American Political Science Review. Please have a look! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Excited to share my new paper in American Political Science Review. I show that giving local politicians greater oversight capacity over the bureaucracy improves service delivery – in local gov’ts not aligned with a dominant ruling party cambridge.org/core/journals/… Ungated: piaraffler.com/raffler_politi… 🧵

Remember the old Collier-Rohner (2008) argument on elections and political violence? Elections reduced political violence at GDG/cap > about $2700 and increased it below that. I don't suppose that result has held. What is the latest? Thanks!

Thanks very much! Historical advisor on a Hollywood movie, :), Exciting months ahead

urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https… I hate this. Almost no voters "swung to the right" as near as we can tell. Some 12 million Democrats abstained. This has been a common phenomenon against incumbents in western democracies of late, see Italy and UK. (1)

I read this as a classic example of “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” (2)

BTW in case anyone cares I will be switching to BlueSky because Elon Musk is an a-hole.

That's one tough pup! Meet Scout, the six pound Pomeranian who didn't back down to a bear invader! Tonight on KIRO 7 News at 4 and 5:30pm.

Michael J. Gilligan on Substack substack.com/@mikegi11igan/… I read somewhere Twitter (X) is a bad place but a great tool. For the latter reason I am posting this here. I hope people find it interesting.

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