BJPolS abstract discussing the impact of higher salaries for politicians on corruption. The text highlights a study using EU data, noting variations in research designs and the potential benefits of increased salaries for local politicians in decreasing corruption risk.

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Revisiting the Link between Politicians’ Salaries and Corruption - https://cup.org/4dxY7XU

- Marko Klasnja, Mihály Fazekas & Ahmed Al-Shaibani

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract summarizing research on the involvement of firms in American politics over the past two decades. It questions if firms have become more active lobbyists in Congress. The study uses data comparing 180,000 interest organizations across sectors to assess firm lobbying activity and centrality in politics.

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The Evolution of Firm Lobbying in American Politics: Testing Theories of Lobby Activity and Centrality (1999–2018) - https://cup.org/4dykWuq

- @marcelhanegraaff.bsky.social, @eaizenberg.bsky.social & @diliaravaleeva.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

BJPolS abstract from a research paper discussing the impact of global market pressures on domestic politics. It highlights how these pressures influence the rise of populist parties. The study examines elections to the US House of Representatives from 2002 to 2016, focusing on candidates' place of birth as a proxy for local ties.

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Global Markets and Local Representation - cup.org/4u3ZiU0

- Timm Betz, Paul Binder & Jonas Geus

#OpenAccess

GitHub - xmarquez/democracyData: Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy Access and manipulate most standard scholarly measures of democracy - xmarquez/democracyData

New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

Comparative Political Studies - Volume 59, Number 6 Table of contents for Comparative Political Studies, 59, 6

The special issue of @cpsjournal.bsky.social “Back from the Brink: Countering Illiberalism in Liberal Democracies”, co-edited by myself and Isabela Mares, was just published. The issue includes 8 articles, many of which set new research agendas. A🧵w/overview 1/10
journals.sagepub.com/toc/CPS/curr...

Why do people prefer costly environmental standards over efficient market-based policies? Misunderstanding of tax incidence and cost-effectiveness. 3-min educational videos change policy preferences, from Jiang, Lauletta, Levy, @joseph-s-shapiro.bsky.social, and Taubinsky www.nber.org/papers/w35073

From our FirstView: Race, Responsiveness, and Representation in U.S. Lawmaking by G. AGUSTIN MARKARIAN,
@jacobhacker.bsky.social
, @maclockhart.bsky.social and ZOLTAN HAJNAL. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

After the introduction of the German minimum wage, workers in low-wage occupations reported increases in work pressure. This reflects having to work faster, more pressure to perform, more need to multitask.

Interesting new working paper by Nagler & @erwinwinkler7.bsky.social

Can early public childcare reduce child penalties? Evidence from Germany This paper studies the effects of public childcare expansion for children under age three in Germany on mothers’ child penalties. Exploiting county-le…

I’m very happy to share that my first paper has been accepted for publication 🎉

Together with my great co-author Nayeon Lim we look at early public childcare in Germany.

More details and the paper link below 👇

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fiscal Dominance: How Worried Should We Be? INTRODUCTIONWhen new Prime Minister Liz Truss’s surprise plans to raise fiscal spending and cut taxes were revealed by Kwasi Kwarteng, the United Kingdom’s chancellor of the exchequer, on September 23...

www.mercatus.org/research/pol...

A User’s Guide to the Last Good Moment by Debraj Ray and Claude Sonnet 4.6 Building a city; New Jersey from Manhattan There is a photograph you never ...

debrajray.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-us...

The Climate Policy Paradox: Why Voters Reject the Tools that Economists Advocate Most Economists overwhelmingly favor carbon taxes and cap-and-trade over environmental regulatory standards, but voters disagree. Our new research shows that simple economic misunderstandings help expla…

energyathaas.wordpress.com/2026/04/13/t...

I too, in 1976. Wonderful text, full of hidden gems. (Even including, as I recall, the theorem about dynamic programming that is formally analogous to the non-substitution theorem in economics.)

From our FirstView: The Green Transition and Political Polarization Along Occupational Lines by VINCENT HEDDESHEIMER, @hannohilbig.bsky.social and @erikvoeten.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Every major oil shock, put on the same timeline. The 1973 embargo was the longest lasting. The 1990 Gulf War was the biggest reversal. The 2026 Hormuz crisis is the steepest climb and drop. But the line isn't finished yet.

Cannot believe this guy played for Palace for a few years. Miss him…

Falsified 💪

Incentives to go for the extra time just increased dramatically for Bayern

We need more mechanism designers to be involved in devising the rules for professional football, especially for creating fair-play incentives. Looking at you Vini and Mbappe.

🚨New working paper w/ the legendary @cbwlezien.bsky.social!

Lots of talk about inflation & voters' political views. But how well do voters actually understand info about inflation?

We find that most citizens conflate changes in rates w/ changes in prices. This has important consequences...

Highly relevant!

"King Dollar: The Past and Future of the World's Dominant Currency" by Paul Blustein.

amzn.to/48HY1td

From our FirstView: Demand and Supply of Criminal Governance: Experimental Evidence from Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador by @javierosorio.bsky.social and @brewerosorio.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Refugee labor market integration at scale: Evidence from Germany’s fast-track employment program | PNAS Governments face persistent challenges in integrating refugees into the local labor market, and many past interventions have shown limited impact. ...

🚨New Paper in PNAS: "Refugee Labor Market Integration at Scale: Evidence from Germany’s Fast-Track Employment Program"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Ungated preprint osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/px9ew_v3

w/ J Hainmueller, D Hangartner, @niklas-harder.bsky.social & E Vallizadeh

#econtwitter #econsky

@yiqingxu.bsky.social, Jens Hainmueller and Avi Acharya have a cool paper to get political scientists to just fit structural choice models to their choice survey experiments! yiqingxu.org/papers/2026_...

Not the one by Rogoff — too autobiographical too be particularly interesting

Nice clear presentation of commonplace meta-analysis failure mode: Pooling coefficients that mean different things, because original models had different adjustment sets. A coefficient gets its meaning from the whole model, not just from the predictor variable it multiplies.

Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict* Abstract. We provide quasi-experimental evidence of how an innovative market-based solution using remote-sensing technology can mitigate drought-induced co

Our paper "Insuring Peace: Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict" (w @paulschaudt.bsky.social ) is now out in the QJE! We show that Kenya's IBLI program strongly reduces drought-induced conflict between pastoralists and farmers.

doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

New VoxTalks Economics: Global Imbalances Redux Since the 1970s, global imbalances surged three times. Maurice Obstfeld joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss their return, with the US current account deficit at 3.9% of GDP in 2025. Listen now: https://ow.ly/biyU50YIL9S

New VoxTalks Economics: Global Imbalances Redux

Since the 1970s, global imbalances surged three times. Maurice Obstfeld joins @talknormal.co.uk to discuss global imbalances return, with the US current account deficit standing at 3.9% of GDP in 2025.

Listen now: ow.ly/biyU50YIL9S

Writing the obituary was painful, but also brought nice memories of your unique blend of extreme kindness, brutal honesty and very sharp wit.
Rest easy, we will not forget you, Leo!

Link to the German obituary for Leo:
voe-project.org/wp-content/u...

Great start to a working week for me & my coauthor Florian Wagener: our paper 'Markov-perfect equilibria in differential games -- with an application to climate policy' has been accepted at @reveconstudies.bsky.social!

It's the first top-5 for either of us, so this is an important moment. 🥳🍾 1/11