Our article on the role of political representation in forest conservation in India is finally published open access in the current issue of the American Political Science Review

Get a free copy here: doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

Happy this is published! If you are interested in the political effects of technological change or the mystery of how the rural US became so conservative in the 20th century, read about it here (open access): cambridge.org/core/journals/…

I’m currently at Princeton wearing my Yarmulke, waiting to be inundated with all the vicious anti-Semitism we’re told has overtaken our once-great Elite American Universities. I’ll let you know if I survive 😭

Excited to share our new paper “The Class Ceiling in Politics” conditionally accepted at American Political Science Review! Co-authored with Johanna Rickne. Available at: drive.google.com/file/d/1rdrUwP… 1/9

I repeat: If you’re born with a passport that allows you to travel without anxiety @ border, frequent humiliation, worry of not seeing family for yrs, and infinite waits for visa, you have a huge privilege.

I bet everyone without this privilege has a traumatic story to tell.

Grassroots party activism by women promotes equal political participation

Last month on VoxDev, Tanushree Goyal Princeton Politics outlined evidence on the impact of women politicians in Indian local politics. Read here: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

We summarize our forthcoming paper in The Review of Economic Studies in VoxDev today!

“In villages where people are encouraged to run to lift up their community instead of themselves, official budgetary spending is significantly more aligned with citizen preferences.” Our Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار on ordinary citizens running for office in Pakistan. bit.ly/3xtCqFj

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Eid Mubarak!

It still feels surreal but I’m very happy to see my JMP in print at Econometrica!

Forthcoming in the AER: 'Strengthening State Capacity: Civil Service Reform and Public Sector Performance during the Gilded Age' by Abhay Aneja and Guo Xu. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

via @NYTimes nytimes.com/2024/03/29/nyr…

What are ways to encourage citizens to run for office? With support from J-PAL's #GovernanceInitiative and FCDO Gov,Conflict,SocDev Research, Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار and Yasir Khan looked into it in #Pakistan . Read more below ⬇️

Nice to see this fantastic paper in print! congrats Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار and Yasir Khan! This is the first paper to show evidence on how to get talented people from civil society to run for office.

Encouraging politicians to act on climate. A field experiment with local politicians in 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇨🇭🇮🇹🇫🇷. Out AJPS (w Nathalie Giger, Maria Perez & Kaya Axelsson).

A light touch intervention to study the motivations of politicians to learn about net zero policies.