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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.
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Link to the paper: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iZtV15DRG7v…

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…

Alexander De Juan, Felix Haass, Carlo Koos, Sascha Riaz, & Thomas Tichelbaecker leverage battlefield dynamics to understand how WWI casualties influenced right-wing nationalist electoral support during the interwar period.
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Economist trying to find the missing bracket in LaTeX in 2025

'Controlling for all observable confounders, we find that hand movement has a positive impact on'

Whose goals should dictate how we measure state capacity? How do informal factors like social norms shape state capacity? I summarize my forthcoming Journal of Politics @[email protected] article and propose a pathway towards “endogenous state capacity” at Broadstreet Blog blog (1/)

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Not that this is news, but look at these two weird creatures. Trump is missing, somehow.

I am teaching a new course on 'Global Challenges' next semester. Aim is to combine different perspectives on key debates (climate change, inequality...) as well as normative and empirical studies. Grateful for sample syllabi and/or comments? #globalchallenges #teaching