ASREC Europe will take place in Thessaloniki, on the 20th and 21st of September. Thrilled to announce that the keynote speech will be delivered by Romain Wacziarg! Consider applying! asrec.org. ASREC Jeanet Sinding Bentzen Jared Rubin #EconTwitter

Forthcoming article by Ryan Abman Clark Lundberg and Michele Ruta 'The Effectiveness of Environmental Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements' EEA Oxford Economics

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📢 Huge congrats to Stephen Jarvis Olivier Deschenes Akshaya Jha coauthors of The Private and External Costs of Germany's Nuclear Phase-Out, which has been awarded the JEEA 2024 Hicks Tinbergen Award
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See you at the next ASREC conference!

Keynote: Romain Wacziarg

Application deadline 15 June.

Forthcoming article by Pedro Ogeda, Emanuel Ornelas and Rodrigo R Soares “Labor Unions and the Electoral Consequences of Trade Liberalization” EEA Oxford Economics
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Forthcoming article by Noam Binstok, Eric D Gould and Todd Kaplan 'Policies or Prejudices? an Analysis of Antisemitic and Anti-Israel Views on Social Media and Social Surveys' EEA Oxford Economics
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PT cites our research with Ignacio Ortuño and Romain Wacziarg: growing partisan polarization has little to do with identity traits such as race and gender, and much more with the underlying divide in cultural values. SMU Economics UC3M Economics UCLA Anderson School of Management
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Forthcoming article by José Ramón Enríquez Horacio Larreguy John Marshall and Alberto Simpser 'Mass Political Information on Social Media: Facebook Ads, Electorate Saturation, and Electoral Accountability in Mexico' EEA Oxford Economics

Forthcoming article by Jean-Paul Carvalho @markkoyama and Cole Williams 'Resisting Education' EEA Oxford Economics
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February 2024 issue (22,1) of JEEA Journal of EEA available online Oxford Economics
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The February 2024 issue of JEEA is out and features 12 great articles, 6 of them open access. JEEA lnkd.in/gddqzHbB

JEEA 22:1 now available for download:
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New paper showing that democracy fosters peace by eliciting information. While proportional democracy is associated with lower ethnic favoritism, majoritarian democracy may feature tyranny of the majority.

🌍 Exploring the roots of academia! Market forces in Medieval and Early Modern Europe influenced the rise of universities, shaped scholar distribution, fostered the Scientific Revolution. 🌐📚 #MedievalScholars #AcademicMarket #HigherEdHistory

📢Send us your nomination for the 2024 Hicks-Tinbergen Award by 23:59:59 PT Jan 31
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Join us for an upcoming workshop, bringing together research and policy discussion on, 'Career Structures in Economics'.
Co-organized by Stone Centre at UCL LSE Hubequalrep and EEA and hosted by STICERD

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Taking advantage of recently digitized 19th & early 20th century data, researchers, including UCLA Anderson School of Management's Romain Wacziarg, gauged whether the fertility patterns throughout hundreds of regions in Europe during that period were influenced by their natives who immigrated to France.

A working paper by Professors Romain Wacziarg (@uclaanderson), Omer Ali (@DukeFuqua​), Klaus Desmet (@SMU) suggests that anger is but one ingredient in a stew of negative emotions that could be driving the rise in U.S. populism.
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Nominations for 2024 Hicks-Tinbergen Award, given to author(s) of an outstanding article published in JEEA during 2022 & 2023, now open. More info on award & how to nominate at eeassoc.org/news/hicks-tin…. Deadline to nominate Jan 31.

Great coverage of my new paper on migrants' cultural remittances of French fertility norms in the late 19th century, in the UCLA Anderson Review. Coauthored with M. Melki, H. Rapoport and E. Spolaore. With many thanks to Jeff Bailey and Carla Fried. anderson-review.ucla.edu/historical-cas…