Jordan Loper 🇪🇺 🇺🇦

🚨 New version of our WP 🚨 (w/ Michela Limardi & @avolle.bsky.social).

🔎 Climate regulation doesn’t crowd out NGOs—it mobilizes them. Activism rises & persists, esp. in weaker enforcement contexts.

Grateful to @cerdi.bsky.social colleagues for seminar feedback 🙏

🔗 hal.science/hal-05047276v4

🚨 New version of our WP! 🚨
@sophiehatte.bsky.social (@cergic.bsky.social), @ttaylor-econ.bsky.social (@eui-eu.bsky.social) and I (@cerdi.bsky.social) highlight the powerful role of digital access in shaping democratic outcomes and promoting gender equality.
📄 Link: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Look for bold new ideas 🔥📈💪🏼🤓

#Econsky That was a great workshop on Political Economy at @ox.ac.uk - @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social, jointly organized with @iast.fr - @tse-fr.eu and @sciencespo.bsky.social No cheaptalking, the quality was high! Grateful for this life/scientific event 🙏🏼

We definitely need to understand better the climate gouvernance framework. Thanks!
Here is our take: we show that climate regulation may also spurr civil society activisme (NGO campaings against firms): hal.science/hal-05047276v3

Another successful scientific event at @cerdi.bsky.social. A place to be for economists 🙌🏼📈🔥

#Econsky Citing someone guilty of sexual misconduct? Here is "creeps", an Overleaf package developed by my colleague Alistair Cameron at @cerdi.bsky.social. It detects authors in your bibtex registered in the Academic Sexual Misconduct Database.
Link here: alistaircameron.github.io/packages/

Very interesting! Thanks 🙏🏼

Photo © IRD - Ina Makosi, projet MOPGA

📣 New WP in #economics
📄 “Climate Regulation & Civil Society Activism”

By M. Limardi, @jordanloper.bsky.social & @avolle.bsky.social 🏷️

Evidence from 75 countries (2010–2022) shows that public #climateregulation amplifies #activism rather than crowding it out.

👉 t.ly/c-f1d

#Research #NGOs

We have a new DP. It's actually more a tool than a paper. The Robustness Dashboard provides an at-a-glance visual summary of robustness analysis, distinguishing between confirmatory and negative robustness tests. @i4replication.bsky.social 1/3 www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10...

Observing many researchers using the same data and hypothesis reveals a hidden universe of uncertainty | PNAS This study explores how researchers’ analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. Most discussions of reliability problems in ...

www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... Will different researchers converge on similar findings when analyzing the same data?[...] scientists, especially those working with the complexities of human societies and behavior, should exercise humility and strive to better account for the uncertainty in their work.

Like Great-Grandparent, Like Great-Grandchild? Multigenerational Mobility in American History Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

The past really sticks.

Even after 4 generations, your great-grandfather’s economic status still largely shapes your own.

👉 33% persistence across time for whites
👉 But racial inequality is the key driver

The American Dream? More inherited than we thought.
www.nber.org/papers/w33923

Source: xkcd.com/3101/

Thanks!
It started by chatting with Anke 15y ago (!) on how governments may negotiate treaties not because of spillovers, but to tie hands of future governments
=>
(a) coalitions can be larger
(b) we provide a unique theory of "conventions"
(c) the Paris Agreement won't unravel even if US withdraws🙂

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s?

The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly)

Why?

Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets.

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

Reviewer 2, while pointing out a typo in our manuscript, made a typo.

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:

"Present bias in politics and self-committing treaties"

By @bardharstad.bsky.social & Anke Kessler

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky

The State of Development Journals 2025: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, Open Access, and What’s New

Now up: the 9th in my annual series of efforts to put together data on development journals: rankings, number of papers submitted (over 12,000 last year across 12 journals), number published (937), acceptance rates, time to review, open access stats, and more... blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...

New updated slides deck about Local Projections Difference-in-Differences (LP-DiD)

LP-DiD is a fast and simple to implement regression-based framework for estimating DiD, which can reproduce popular recent estimators as specific instances.

danielegirardi.github.io/posts/docume...

Not from me, but aligned with me

What are some examples of win-wins in development?

When do businesses and governments directly benefit from improving the welfare of others?

@joelcariolle.bsky.social

'Time to reset : ending the self-deception in Africa-Europe… REGISTRATION To attend in-person at the Oxford Martin School, please scroll down to the registration form and enter your details To watch live online on…

Join us for the @oxmartinschool.bsky.social Programme on African Governance event 'Time to Reset: Ending the Self-Deception in Africa-Europe Relations'

🗓️ 12 June, 5pm BST
🗣️ Carlos Lopes (University of Cape Town) w/ Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
💻 Hybrid

Version 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com
We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...)
w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet

The AEA Reporting Lockbox enables AEA members not yet ready to file a formal complaint to log circumstances or conduct by other members that may violate the AEA’s policy against harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. Learn more at aeaweb.org/about-aea/re.... #econsky

The longer I spend in academia, the deeper is my belief that opportunity hoarding by elites is real and so much worse than normal folks realize.

Every persistence study be like…

Important null results in development economics Despite the bias against publishing null results, they are important for policy, helping to kill bad ideas.

Two blog posts for you. One more recent by @olihanney.bsky.social here: voxdev.org/topic/import...

🚨 #EconSky Updated WP 🚨

First empirical evidence that public environmental regulation can stimulate climate activism from civil society.

This finding highlights an often-overlooked indirect effect of regulation in the fight against climate change.

📄 Paper link: drive.google.com/file/d/1TIzN...

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.