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BOFIT Discussion Papers 3/2023 Günther G. Schulze and Nikita Zakharov: Political cycles of media repression publications.bof.fi/handle/10024/5… (1/2)

📢Publication Alert📢 DICE Discussion Paper No 408 David Stadelmann, Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tobias Thomas, Nikita Zakharov "Too Hot to Play it Cool? Temperature an Media Bias" redaktion.hhu.de/fileadmin/reda… #Economics

Happy new year! Excited to announce that our textbook with Xavier, "Difference-in-Differences for Simple and Complex Natural Experiments", is under contract with Princeton University Press. Check out the "working textbook" version here! Comments welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

The Freiburg conference is already next week with an awesome program. For more, see: frias.uni-freiburg.de/en/events/fria…

Since the rise of LLM-based writing apps, I see the words "delves into" more and more frequently in all types of submitted materials by students. But I am not ready to delve into this issue just yet

112 years ago today, Franz Kafka captured the academic experience

Okay now we’re talking

We've released a new dataset, Newswire arxiv.org/abs/2406.09490 2.7M unique newswires reproduced 32M+ times over a century (1878-1977). Articles have location and topic tags and person ids (from Wikipedia). Fun fact: see the prohibition related crime spike in the 1920s

Six months ago I wrote a viral thread, arguing that NATO has 2-3 years to prepare for Russia challenging NATO Art 5. I wanted to revisit the topic for a while. In light of @JDVance1's pick as VP, today seems as good as any. TLDR: panic should set in. 1/15

RAD No. 314, exploring issues of #data secrecy and data privacy in #Russia, is now available online. Thanks to Mark Harrison, Cedar collective, and Nikita Zakharov for their expert analysis. Download the free PDF: css.ethz.ch/content/dam/et…

The academic job market in the good ol' days vs the academic job market today.

This new working paper looks like a must read for those who run surveys. It outlines the problem of inattentive respondents and explores potential solutions. "Inattentive respondents can have substantial impacts on substantive analyses." osf.io/preprints/soca…