Today was the last day of class for the first course I got to teach fully on my own — from designing the topic to building the syllabus: "Comparing Societies. Cross-Cultural Approaches to Politics." Syllabus here:

Check out this video interview with Andrew Kao, a PhD candidate at @Harvard, about his #ASSA2026 poster on the unintended consequences of political party bans.

Surveying recent research on changing culture and social norms in developing countries and proposing a simple framework to interpret these changes, from @elianalaferrara and @YanagizawaD https://t.co/Fkwlc6bs6G

What I've Learned From Digitizing 20 Million Historical Documents https://t.co/KAQOgctYXM

Presentación en la cual don @srgsilvac va a flexear que no tuvo que leer el libro porque todavía tiene sus apuntes de clase de Womack

I am pleased to share the cover for my new book, WHAT HAPPENED TO LIBERAL DEMOCRACY?. It's an in-depth look at the rise and fall of liberal democracy, and invitation to remake liberalism with a new political philosophy.   Out Aug 11. Preorder here:

In 40 years, it had never rained during the Super Bowl. On the day of 41st the heavens opened up and poured down hard. Because everything on the stage were live instruments and the stage floor was slick with water for he and his dancers, they asked Prince what did he want to do

RT @dasanaike: In a new working paper, I propose a state-of-the-art method for record linkage in Python and R that requires neither trainin…

JOIN us for this year’s Rebecca Morton conference on experimental political science at NYU! March 6-7. We have a great line up of papers and posters! Program (scroll down) here: https://t.co/9PkR5wGGCt Register (no fee) here: https://t.co/wnOvDyJi4O @NYUpolitics @nyuniversity

Hello! I am hiring for two positions. One based at UCSD (first review of applicants next week) and one based in Mozambique (rolling review). Please see information here:

For decades, the standard economic blueprint for a middle-class society was simple: industrialization. But in our latest Capitalisn’t podcast, @rodrikdani makes a very sobering case that this door is now effectively closed. The data is hard to ignore: - Even in China, the

Check out my interview about how money has more power in the US and UK than China, India, and South Africa. I also point with both fingers! 😆 @chicagoboothrev https://t.co/RItdmj4GdI

In a new working paper, I show that large language models recover ethnicity from names; outperform existing methods; perform well comparatively, using original voter rolls in countries like Armenia and Nepal; and generalize to any classification group. https://t.co/BJffqUDprx

On Monday I gave the "New Developments in Language Models for Economics" lecture at AEA! Link to the video and slides in the next post, and then a 🧵.

Pleased to see our paper published in The Economic Journal - “Qualitative Analysis With Large-N: A New Method with An Application to Aspirations in Bangladesh.” https://t.co/18ztUG4FJj, also available here

Cada Año Nuevo, muchos lectores de EL PAÍS vuelven a compartir esta columna de Manuel Vicent. Como nos parece una costumbre preciosa, la continuamos también desde el equipo de redes del periódico. Os deseamos felices sobresaltos para este 2026 ✨ https://t.co/3yB5Wi6ib6

Como cada Año Nuevo, hay que leer esta magnífica columna de Manuel Vicent en El País:

Working with young scholars across the social sciences and humanities is one of the greatest joys of my professional life. In 2025, the Mercatus Center external fellowship programs had over 600 students from throughout the globe and from some of the most prestigious universities

Examining the economics of climate innovation and its role in the clean technology transition and climate adaptation, from @eugeniedugoua and Jacob Moscona https://t.co/j7zLqmEpZc

Can't wait for #ASSA2026 ! It's one of the world's largest economics conferences bringing together the world's leading economists with 500+ sessions exploring markets, methodology, policy, AI and so on. Really excited about our session there — @sararlowes will be chairing !

See you in Barbados, please consider applying! @marialopezuribe @JennyGuardado7 @M_Giorcelli