Unlike Western Europe, Russia entrenched serfdom as an extractive institution rooted in frontier defence. To secure its borders, the state granted land to servicemen who leveraged their role to restrict peasant mobility—hardwiring coercion into law.
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Our department’s Serra Hunter fellows: Riccardo Turati, Jan-Luca Hennig, David Castells-Quintana, Mario Carillo and Manuel Flores. Missing in the picture is @alessioromarri.bsky.social.
@turatiric.bsky.social @mariocarillo.bsky.social @manuelflores.bsky.social
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Just learned something new. You can buy spurious citations that will show up on Google Scholar -- and people do.
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Welcome to the 2025 Bristol Applied Economics Meetings (BÆM)! We’re kicking off with Development Economics. We have an exciting lineup of speakers, incl. @saralowes.bsky.social as keynote and Devesh Rustagi & @deanyang.bsky.social as invited speakers. Stay tuned for one key takeaway per talk!
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Credible Answers to Hard Questions: Differences-in-Differences for Natural Experiments
This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen
Slowly but surely coming along: we have a new version of our working textbook on diffs in diffs!
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Chapters 2 to 4, which cover the set up, classical DIDs, and relaxations of the parallel trends assumptions have been thoroughly revised and are now almost finished.
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Maria Cubel
Next seminar at @ecapuab.bsky.social Maria Cubel (City U London, @cubel.bsky.social ), “Braggart or humble? The effect of self-reports on performance”
Thursday, March 6 15:00 at Sala de Graus FEiE @uab.cat
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Professor of Economics | NovaSBE
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International migration, economic development & policy impact evaluation
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Guest Prof Sc Po, Sr Fellow CEPA, Chair CERAP, Sr civil servant
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Derniers livres : Fin de la politique des grandes puissances, Notre Guerre Ed. l'Observatoire
#HumanRights #InternationalAffairs #SlavaUkraini
Independent research lab focusing on #taxation, corporate tax avoidance, tax evasion, and solutions to these issues. Directed by @gabrielzucman.bsky.social
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Doctor en Historia (History Ph.D)
Associate Profesor UAB @ecapuab.bsky.social
Research: East Asian Colonial History
Interest: American West, 19th Century
https://uab.academia.edu/DidacCubeiro
AP in @ubeconomics.bsky.social
Research on family economics, gender, genomics, inequality
Assistant Prof in Economics (Copenhagen Business School ECON)
Working on migrants' integration (citizenship) & racial inequality
French, Mauritian
Fellow WIL & ICM
Research: Inequality & Migration |
PhD: PSE & INED
📚 Doctora en Ciència Política i professora a la UPF
📝Recerca en anticorrupció
🌍Estratègia, Prospectiva i Internacional dels Comuns
Assoc prof of Econ @University of Barcelona @ub.edu @ubeconomics.bsky.social
https://vjerbashian.wordpress.com/research/
Assistant professor at the University of Barcelona. Interested in health, gender, and family economics.
https://sites.google.com/view/anarodriguezgonzalez
Econ prof at BU. I mostly study hidden influence in U.S. politics (not so hidden these days). Some people call it corruption. I agree... https://sites.bu.edu/fisman/
Working on a book about whether business will save or destroy the world (Spoiler: Neither)
Prof of economics at the University of Padova, Italy. I do research in labour, education, and health economics. Hobbies: father of a pair of monozygotic twins (Pietro and Tobia), husband of Chiara, playing guitar, gymming.
Robert Garrett Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
RT ≠ Endorsement
Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Barcelona, IEB, IPERG
Assistant Professor of Economics at Georgetown
Formerly: Postdoc at Stanford and Ph.D. at UBC
Political Economy, Development Economics, and EH
#EconSky 📉📈
Website: https://www.juanfeliperiano.com 🇨🇴
Professor of Economics, University of Munich
Director, ifo Center for the Economics of Education
https://sites.google.com/view/woessmann-e