Just published in Journal of Conflict Resolution with Sarah Langlotz Paul Michel @tilmanbrueck philip verwimp - part of special feature on Social Cohesion and Forced Displacement journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00… Full special feature: journals.sagepub.com/home/jcr

🚨 Paper alert! 🚨 It’s common for cross-cultural research to be conducted in a second language: a national majority language or lingua franca. But research among the Hadza, published today in PNAS Nexus, shows second languages can bias results. 🧵/14 academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/adva…

Many years later... my JMP is finally out! A thread. Ungated PDF: dropbox.com/scl/fi/ci0sixt…

Really happy to see that this is out. Kudos to the editors for wrangling everyone. elgaronline.com/edcollbook/boo…

Forthcoming in EJ: ‘Temperature’s toll on decision-making’ by Michelle Escobar Carias, David W Johnston, Rachel Knott, Rohan Sweeney doi.org/10.1093/ej/uea… Michelle Escobar Royal Economic Society @OUPEconomics #EconTwitter

🎓 New article by Ryan C. Briggs [Ryan Briggs ] in #JDevStudies! 🌍📚 It explores ethical commitments and beliefs of DS professors and students across Canada, USA, and UK, and their impact on research and teaching. 👉🏼Read more: doi.org/10.1080/002203…

Nic van de Walle passed away yesterday. We have lost a comparativist and Africanist. His book with Mike Bratton helped many of us connect the early debates about democratization to Africa. He was a strong advocate for the study of Africa in the US. Here are some of his works.👇

Excited to see our paper published in JPE Micro! “Do Pre-Registration and Pre-Analysis Plans Reduce p-Hacking and Publication Bias?: Evidence from 15,992 Test Statistics and Suggestions for Improvement” w/ Abel Brodeur, Nikolai Cook (Nikolai M. Cook), and Anthony Heyes. A thread🧵

New CEPR Discussion Paper - DP19332 The Effect of Foreign Aid on #Migration Andreas Fuchs @andregroeger Tobias Heidland, moving to heidland.bsky.social L Wellner ow.ly/sL3750SVQL5 #CEPR_DE #economics

We know a lot about how native-born individuals react to migrants. But how does migration shape the attitudes of migrants themselves? The first paper from our years-long field experiment on migration (w/ Nikhar Gaikwad and Aliz Toth) is ONLINE at AJPS ! (1/n)

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

📢 We are excited to announce that on Monday September 30th, we will release our new #VoxDevLit on Taxation & Development. This living literature review will summarise evidence on how developing countries can improve their ability to #tax.

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

New by Noam Angrist and myself on the large gap between stated policy & actual policy implementation, in education in Nature Human Behaviour related WP version shorturl.at/Ri4lE Time to study why so many policies get announced but never implemented. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Beautiful and important paper! Matthew Jackson, and Yiqing Xing. 2024. ‘The Incentive Complementarity Between Formal and Informal Enforcement’. JEEA academic.oup.com/jeea/advance-a…

It took us 3 years to get this paper published! Science can be slow, but it is rewarding! Our paper is out now in “Games and Economic Behavior”! authors.elsevier.com/a/1jqYP3CcBwhQ…

The World Bank revives its disgraced Doing Business Index, and I see many justified complaints. But I think the more general point is that every index is bad. All these mashups of multiple indicators hide more than they reveal. None are transparent, none are interpretable.

This is a really extraordinary piece by Anand Menon tortoisemedia.com/2024/10/04/ana…