🚨 Just Accepted at American Political Science Review 🚨 "Electoral Accountability and Particularistic Legislation: Evidence from an Electoral Reform in Mexico" Full paper here: dropbox.com/s/t2kypii2d7ne…

The takeaway is not: "more robustness checks." The takeaway is: "authors cannot be trusted to run their own robustness checks." We need fewer referee demands for robustness, and more replication by scholars who have no incentives to cheat.

Recently published paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "The Gatekeeper's Dilemma: Political Selection or Team Effort" Vol 234 (June 2024) by Jon H. Fiva (Jon Fiva ), Federica Izzo (UCSD Political Science ), & Janne Tukiainen (Janne Tukiainen ) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New chart📈: The amount of bombs dropped on Gaza the past 6 months far exceeds the bombing of Dresden (1945), Hamburg (1943) and London (1940-41) during World War II.

Happy that our data is finding yet another useful application!

“How Does Gender Matter in the Economy?” Call for papers! Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics (SITE) and #FROGEE invite submissions for a one-day conference in Stockholm, Dec 6, deadline Aug 31. See details 👇

Attention Norwegian based economists - Next Forskermøtet will be held at NTNU, 28th-29th November, 2024 Plenary lectures by Jon Fiva and Mari Rege More information and call for papers to follow. samfunnsokonomene.no/kurs-og-konfer…

How far did European socialist parties advance workers’ representation? This new World Politics paper with Carles Boix 🇺🇦 shows that during Europe’s democratization, social democratic parties offered workers the best path into office but nominated workers selectively #polisciresearch

Around Norway in August? I'll be leading a three-day workshop on design-based causal inference at NHH, 8/20-8/23. Sign up here! nhh.no/en/calendar/fa…

Call for papers for the NBER Political Economy on Nov. 15, 2024. The organizers of the meeting will be M. Gentzkow, P. Giuliano & D. Yang. If you are interested in presenting a paper, please upload a pdf file through this link by Sep. 10, 2024. conference.nber.org/confsubmit/bac…

Looking for a postdoc (2 yrs) to join Jacob Gunderson and me Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg in European Research Council (ERC) project on factions. Focus on measuring factions’ influence strategies w surveys. Details: tinyurl.com/b2rrt7ec Deadline: 31 Oct womenalsoknowstuff FirstGenScholars POCAlsoKnowStuff

Excited that our Dynamics Of Political Selection project could organize the #APSA2024 pre-conference “Political Economy of Representation” Huge thanks to Dan Smith and UPenn for hosting us! Jon Fiva Dr. Dawn Teele

Looking forward to a great panel at 4 today on party factions from both sides of the Atlantic, featuring presentations by Christine Bangum, Hans Noel, Mike Cowburn, Seth Masket, and myself with characteristically inciteful comments from ⭕⭕ Zac Greene ⭕⭕ and Rachel Blum.

Is a study robust when its findings depend on the inclusion of a single observation? In a new report, Benjamin Guinaudeau and I discuss this question based on the replication of an American Political Science Review article. A thread on our main findings.