#GOVday coming up! And Institutt for politikk og forvaltning has the best students! uib.no/en/gov/170345/…

New online @CPS: Leonardo Arriola, Donghyun Danny Choi, Justine Davis, PhD, Melanie L. Phillips PhD & lise rakner on how gender and wealth affects how policymakers view abortion

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Two PhD positions in the ERC project 'Contested frontiers of settler states', PI Aaron Spitzer.

Deadline 5th August 2024.

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My former postdoc Andrés Felipe Rivera Triviño is soon on the #economics and #PoliticalScience job market. He has experience with #microlevel data on #conflict in #Colombia and latest diff-in-diff models. If you have an opportunity for him, I am happy to serve as a reference.

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This is an awesome opportunity with the brilliant Jana Belschner.

We are looking for a senior researcher to drive UNU-WIDER's new work on the just energy transition and related topics. Please RT widely and apply. Also do DM for any questions

Is GPT psychologically WEIRD? Using the World Values Survey and other psych measures, we seat GPT within a global perspective. The culturally more distant a place is from the US, the lower the correlation with GPT Mohammad Atari Damian Blasi Dorsa Amir

Publication alert! Forthcoming in the Journal of Development Economics. Driving while hungry (for example, while fasting) causes accidents.
A summary and why this matters. [1/11]

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Borders in #Africa were not decided in Berlin & are not random! Causes? Geography, precol states & negotiations btw Europeans & Africans. Time to update high school textbooks! Jack Paine Xiaoyan Qiu & I American Political Science Review 🙏🥳 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Join us in this online conversation with Julia Zulver, Marcela Villalobos and Elizabeth Ngari on the extent, causes and consequences of sexual and gender-based violence.

🧵: On the role of bad social science in the Vietnam War—and how not understanding local conditions, and thinking through endogeneity (yes, endogeneity) can lead to policy conclusions with tragic, deadly consequences.

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I saw this excellent paper presented 5 years ago in Kyoto. Wonderful to see it in print. Congratulations!

We are now inviting the second cohort to join us here at UiB- uib.no/en/studies/MAS…. The students appear as happy as us- see testimonials! Universitetet i Bergen Universitetet i Bergen_Gov Bergen School of Global Studies

Teaching this program has been more fun than even I expected- due to a great group of students and amazing teachers- Regine Paul Endre Tvinnereïm Siri Gloppen Corentin Poyet and more at Institutt for politikk og forvaltning - Come join us!

Violence against women - a global crisis: At next #GIGA Forum , experts shed light on #GenderBasedViolence & discuss actions to ensure women's safety. Join Carlo Koos, Marcela Villalobos, Elizabeth Ngari, Julia Zulver & #GIGA 's Désirée Reder.
➡️ Online on 6 March: giga-hamburg.de/en/events/giga…