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Assistant Prof at UPenn @PennSP2 @PoliticsAtPenn | @Harvard Gov't PhD | Comparative inequality, urban & distributive politics, environmental politics

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Excited to share my new paper now @apsrjournal: I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods đź§µ
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RT @tanu_kumar1: Final cover. Coming out this August @CUP_PoliSci
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RT @anna_m_wilke: After many years of working on it, it feels great to finally see my job market paper out in AJPS!.
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RT @kumar_rithika: Since I've often posted about this project on Twitter, I wanted to share that my job market paper is now forthcoming at….
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The challenge for the Left is to turn unfunded public goods into funded ones: redistribute their concentrated costs using.–Job retention schemes.–Training and reskilling.–Redistributive compensation. Without credible compensation, right populists will continue to exploit the gap.
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We also show negative future expectations predict Trump support:.Counties w/ more pessimistic future economic outlooks voted more heavily for Trump in 2016. This long-term pessimism, rather than immediate economic loss, fuels right-wing populism.
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Same pattern observed using an alternative measure: the share of jobs that can’t be done remotely (“teleworkability”).
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We leverage staggered timing of COVID business closures in the U.S.—a rare economic shock decoupled from race. Using an event study design, we find lockdowns boosted Trump support in states with more low-education workers, but had no effect in high-education ones.
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@cps_journal These policies don’t require direct taxes. That’s precisely the problem:.They’re “cheap” for governments, yet disproportionately costly for certain workers—esp. those with lower educ or less flexible skills. Without compensation, these voters are vulnerable to populist appeals.
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@cps_journal Unfunded public goods, policies that benefit the public but impose concentrated economic costs on specific groups, without compensating them, drives right-wing populism. Think: .– COVID lockdowns .– Trade liberalization .– Climate policies .– Innovation and competition policy.
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🚨New paper out in @cps_journal with Torben Iversen: .We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵
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RT @mioana: Excited to speak at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice’s webinar on climate’s influence on health, politics, and the lab….
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RT @gemmadipoppa: 🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @The_JOP explains how mafias successfully moved to N….
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RT @DeMicheli_David: So excited that my book will be available for purchase later this month! .CUP: Amazon: https:/….
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RT @alexgazmararian: Excited to share a new review paper with @mmildenberger @dustintingley!. We use the IRA to explain the origin and effe….
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RT @gandhisahil: Call for papers in the @JUrbanEcon for an issue on Quantitative Spatial Models. Deadline: September 30, 2024. https://t.….
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RT @nmcmurry: Excited to see this paper out online @cps_journal! Thread from @LaserGabi 👇.
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RT @shelley_x_liu: Excited that "Coercive Legacies: From Rebel Governance to Authoritarian Control" is finally out with an *issue number* @….
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