Barton Lee
@bartonelee2
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Asst Prof (TT) + Chair of Political Economy & eDemocracy, ETH Zürich @ETH_en | Affiliate @cepr_org | Affiliate Fellow @StiglerCenter @ChicagoBooth | 🇦🇺 in🇨🇭
Zürich, Switzerland
Joined August 2016
Thrilled to have my paper “Feigning Politicians” accepted at the Journal of Politics @The_JOP . 🥳 Now, time for a quick thread 🧵 Links to the paper: https://t.co/ridBdrtoIs
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Hi #EconTwitter, I’m excited to be on the #EconJobMarket! My JMP asks a timely question with important implications for democracy: why do politicians produce toxic rhetoric? Thread below 👇
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How Proportional Representation Can Shape Artificial Intelligence. An article by @EviMicha1 in AI Magazine https://t.co/EdQcJlwTbr
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📢 Call for Submissions: UK-based early career researchers in political science, political economy & public policy: apply to our January Early Career Workshop at LSE Government. 🗓️ Deadline: 28 Dec 2025 🔗
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We invite submissions for the LSE Political Economy and Political Science Early Career Workshop. This workshop is designed to support the development of early-career scholars’ research, including...
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It's @SIOEcon award time! Nominations are now open for best dissertation, conference paper at SIOE, book, and lifetime achievement award.
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UZH PhD student Haoyuan Zeng - on the market this year - just received a revise+resubmit for his JMP from the **Journal of Political Economy**. Congrats, Haoyuan! (and his advisor Marek Pycia) Recruiters - you can still buy! Last orders! Going... going... #econtwitter
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Great to see my paper "Strategic Voting in Two-Party Legislative Elections" finally out in print. Big thanks to all those who gave help and encouragement & those who let me present it over the years @FormalTheory @poleconuk_w #econtwitter
The December 2025 issue of the American Economic Review (115, 12) is now available online at https://t.co/ILotmbVwFX.
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Do you still doubt our PhD students are the real *** deal? Look no further than @djthornton97! He has yet to graduate and already has a cv that could make tenure at most departments (don’t lie!). (he’s starting a postdoc and will be on the JM in 2 years 😉)
An absolutely wild month—3 R&R's in 33 days 🎉. Huge thanks to my amazing coauthors @profholden @grattonecon @yveszenou1, Robert Akerlof, Arthur Campbell and Chris Teh. Time to get to work! #EconTwitter
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SIOE 2026 – CALL FOR PAPERS Join us at INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France), 13–15 July 2026! 🚨 Submission deadline: 15 January 2026 We invite individual paper and panel submissions. Full call for papers and submission instructions: https://t.co/huvNqli6Mu
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On Monday, 1 December 2025, we host 💥Sergio Galletta💥 (ETH Zurich), who will present "BallotBot: Can AI Chatbots Lower Voter-Information Barriers?". This is joint work with Elliott Ash and Giacomo Opocher. Everyone is invited! @sergallet @ellliottt @OpocherGiacomo
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📢 Hiring a Postdoc: Economics + Data Science (AI, NLP, ML) Come work in my group at ETH Zurich! Position is for econ/adjacent PhDs. Flexible start date. 1-3 year position. Apply by Dec 1st.
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Hyungmin Park’s (@hmpark0702) Job Market Paper studies how state capacity and civic culture coevolve across regimes, explaining fast-but-stalling autocratic and slow-but-sustained democratic development. More: https://t.co/4y1X0o5UlL
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We are hiring a 2-year postdoc at UNSW (Sydney)!!! Come work with us on masculinity norms! @ralphdehaas @VictoriaBaranov Pauline Grosjean Great environment, city, and colleagues! Apply here:
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Delighted to see this paper out - working with @grattonecon was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats weigh minority concerns
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Very happy to announce that the 5th 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 24-25, 2026 in Copenhagen. If you work on this, no matter the context, send us your papers before January 9, 2026. Link to the call in the next tweet 1/2
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Postdoc hiring at Economics Department for the ARC DP grant by @NathanKettlewe1: https://t.co/tObZW57shz..
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Thanks for reading this far! My JMP is about competing motivations, and I demonstrate crowding out in a real-effort experiment A key policy takeaway: focus on the most compelling incentive instead of offering multiple reasons that can distract from what matters most. (10/)
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I’m excited to share my job market paper for the 2025-2026 market! In a real-effort experiment, participants working solely for money completed 23% more tasks than those offered the same monetary reward plus a charitable incentive (p < 0.02) 🤯 Thread below (1/)
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Fascinating paper by @grattonecon, @bartonelee2, and Hasin Yousaf! The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions? They argue that what matters is not only institutional
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New working paper -- "Interviews"! with @soumitrashukla9 and @JSockin Download here: https://t.co/UcJfrW8zEW see quoted thread for the details
🚨1/N Really excited to announce a new working paper, “Interviews” 🚨 We demonstrate that interviews allow workers to screen firms and preview whether the job is a good match for them—using ~500k Glassdoor reports + a randomized field experiment. 🧵
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