Discussion Papers

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2026-17: Jihad over Centuries: Masahiro Kubo and Shunsuke Tsuda
2026-16: Secularization Backlash: A Tale of Two Coups: Sultan Mehmood, Rinchan Ali Mirza and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
2026-15: The Demographic Impact of Leadership: Mayoral Education and COVID-19 Excess Mortality in Italy: Francesco Mattioli, Alessandra Minello and Tommaso Nannicini
2026-14: Special Interest influence and the interpretability of the law: Julián Costas-Fernández, Simón Lodato and Gustavo Torrens
2026-13: State Power Expansion and Talent Attraction: Evidence from China's Civil Servant Fever: Bo Feng, Qiwei He, Xin Jin and Xu Xu
2026-12: The media coverage of female scholars: evidence for business and economics: Fabrizio Core, Moqi Groen-Xu and Ioanna Lachana
2026-11: Quaking Childhoods, Early Wives: The Impacts of forced Displacement on Marriage: Laura Muñoz Blanco
2026-10: Elected Neighbors and the Supply of Future Politicians: Julio Cáceres-Delpiano and Matilde Pinto Machado
2026-09: The Normalization of the-Right: When the Salience of Victories Matters: Margot Belguise
2026-08: Insult Politics in the Age of Social Media: Elliot Motte
2026-07: Serving Countries, Shaping Views: Military Conscription and Attitude Towards Immigrants: Giacomo DeLuca, Andrea Montalbano and Steven Stillman
2026-06: Levelling up by levelling down: The economic and political costs of Brexit: Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer, Thiemo Fetzer and Shizhuo Wang
2026-05: Ideology and Corruption: Paula A. López-Villalba and Christian Ruzzier
2026-04: Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry: Björn Brey, Karolina Hutkova and Lidia Smitkova
2026-03: Formal Jobs and the Cultural Right: Antonio León
2026-02: Disrupting Violence, Protecting Lives: Strangulation Laws and Intimate Partner Homicides: Lucas Braga de Melo and Valdemar Pinho Neto
2026-01: The Economic Returns of Firms' Political Connections: Lucas Braga de Melo and Valdemar Pinho Neto
2025-12: Childhood poverty and life expectancy: Evidence from Brazilian human development units: Dércio de Assis
2025-11: Discrimination spillovers, glass ceilings and pay gaps: Gianni De Fraja and József Sákovics
2025-10: Political polarization and US-Mexico migration: María Esther Caballero, Giuseppe Ippedico and Giovanni Peri
2025-09: Politicized Scientists: Credibility cost of political expression on Twitter: Eleonora Alabrese, Francesco Capozza and Prashant Garg
2025-08: The quiet payoff: Mafia electoral support and policy inaction: Alessio Carrozzo Magli, Giovanni Righetto and Antonio Schiavone
2025-07: The causal effect of education on political preferences: Evidence from the UK’s higher education expansion: Matt Dickson and Kalyan Kumar Kameshwara
2025-06: In the grip of Whitehall? The effects of party control on local fiscal policy in England: Benjamin Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli and James Rockey
2025-05: State capacity, informality and clientelism: Giuliana Pardelli and Julieta Peveri
2025-04: Immigrant rights expansion and local integration: Evidence from Italy: Francesco Ferlenga and Stephanie Kang
2025-03: Welcoming the tired and poor: Grassroots associations and immigrant assimilation during the age of mass migration: Davide Coluccia
2025-02: When do voters stop caring? Estimating the shape of voters’ utility functions: Aleksandra Conevska and Can Mutlu
2025-01: Regional deprivation, individual prospects, and political resentment: Giovanni Facchini, Anja Neundorf, Sergi Pardos-Prado and Cecilia Testa
2024-12: Foreign influence in US politics: Marco Grotteria, Max Miller and S.Lakshmi Naaraayanan
2024-11: Bureaucrats and the Korean export miracle: Philipp Barteska and Jay Euijung Lee
2024-10: Theory of developmental dictatorship: Hyungmin Park
2024-09: Migration policy preferences and forms of trust in contexts of limited state capacity: William L. Allen, Matthew D. Bird, Luisa Feline Freier, Isabel Ruiz and Carlos Vargas-Silva
2024-08: Transfers and the rise of Hindu nationalism in India: Amal Ahmad
2024-07: Judicial selection and production efficiency: The role of campaign finance: Mayur Choudhary
2024-06: A theory of discriminatory institutions, with applications to apartheid and to the political economy of migration: James Choy
2024-05: Non-meritocrats or choice-reluctant meritocrats? A redistribution experiment in China and France: Margot Belguise, Yuchen Huang and Zhexun Mo
2024-04: Segment and rule: Modern censorship in authoritarian regimes: Kun Heo and Antoine Zerbini
2024-03: Judging disparities: Recidivism risk, image motives and in-group bias on Wisconsin criminal courts: Elliott Ash and Claudia Marangon
2024-02: What works for working couples? Work arrangements, maternal labour supply, and the division of home production: Ludovica Ciasullo and Martina Uccioli
2024-01: Red herrings: A model of attention-hijacking by politicians: Margot Belguise
2023-17: Income shocks, political support and voting behaviour: Richard Upward and Peter Wright
2023-16: Becoming political: How marching suffragists facilitated women's electoral participation in England: Mona Morgan-Collins and Wayne Valeria Rueda
2023-15: The politics of policy reform: Experimental evidence from Liberia: Wayne Sandholtz
2023-14: Rewarding allegiance: Political alignment and fiscal outcomes in local government: Christa Brunnschweiler and Samuel K. Obeng
2023-13: How does democracy cause growth?: Vanessa Boese-Schlosser and Markus Eberhardt
2023-12: Red herrings: A theory of bad politicians hijacking media attention: Margot Belguise
2023-11: Silence kills! Victim-blaming social norms and violence against women: Sevinç Bermek, Konstantinos Matako and Asli Unan
2023-10: Political correctness and elite prestige: Esther Hauk and Javier Ortega
2023-09: The increase in partisan segregation in the United States: Jacob R. Brown, Enrico Cantoni, Ryan D. Enos, Vincent Pons and Emilie Sartre
2023-08: Migration and trust: Evidence on assimilation from internal migrants: Diego Marino Fages
2023-07: Can competition reduce conflict?: Teevrat Garg, Caterina Gennaioli, Stefania Lovo and Gregor Singer
2023-06: Panic politics on the US West Coast: Nicolas Berman, Björn Brey and Jérémy Laurent-Lucchetti
2023-05: Raise your voice! Activism and peer effects in online social networks: Alejandra Agustina Martínez
2023-04: Garbling an evaluation to retain an advantage: Ascencion Andina-Diaz and Jose A. Garcia-Martinez
2023-03: Impact of depenalization on drugs deaths in England and Wales. An instrumental variable approach: Alessandra Foresta and Andrew Pickering
2023-02: Black empowerment and white mobilization: The effects of the Voting Rights Act: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
2023-01: Collective screening: Vincent Anesi and Peter Buisseret
2021-06: Slanted media does not increase police killings: Charles Crabtree and Mikhail Poyker
2021-05: Covid 19 and the media: Maxim Ananyev, Mikhail Poyker and Yuan Tian
2021-04: Pork, infrastructure and growth: Evidence from the Italian railway expansion: Roberto Bonfatti, Giovanni Facchini, Alexander Tarasov, Gian Luca Tedeschi and Cecilia Testa
2021-03: Politicians' neighbourhoods: Where do they live and does it matter?: Olle Folke, Linna Martin, Johanna Rickne and Matz Dahlberg
2021-02: The effect of recent technological change on US immigration policy: Björn Brey
2021-01: The economic impact of political instability and mass civil protest: Samer Matta, Michael Bleaney and Simon Appleton
2020-09: The franchise, policing, and race: Evidence from arrests data and the Voting Rights Act: Giovanni Facchini, Brian Knight and Cecilia Testa
2020-08: Wage effects of employer-mediated transfers: Santiago Garriga and Dario Tortarolo
2020-07: It takes two to tango: Labour responses to an income tax holiday in Argentina: Dario Tortarolo, Guillermo Cruces and Victoria Castillo
2020-06: The Brexit referendum and the rise in hate crime; conforming to the new norm: Facundo Albornoz, Jake Bradley and Silvia Sonderegger
2020-05: Imperfect competition in product and labour markets. A quantitative analysis: Dario Tortarolo and Roman D. Zarate
2020-04: Christian missions and anti-gay attitudes in Africa: Maxim Ananyev and Mikhail Poyker
2020-03: The safest time to fly: Pandemic response in the era of Fox News: Maxim Ananyev, Mikhail Poyker and Yuan Tian
2020-02: The first and last word in debates: Plaintive plaintiffs: Elena D’Agostino and Daniel Seidmann
2020-01: Foreign influence and domestic policy: Toke Aidt, Facundo Albornoz and Esther Hauk