Why are we observing a 'green backlash' when serious efforts to decarbonise have scarcely begun? I'm happy to share my working paper, 'The Political Consequences of Climate Ambition: Evidence from Australia', which analyses how voters respond prospectively to proposed climate policies. Brief 🧵:
03.03.2026 09:12
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Technology diffusion: The role of venture capital, universities and China
Josh Lerner discusses why there is a gap between innovation and impact, and how policymakers can speed up technological diffusion.
🆕 How does technology diffuse?
This week on Ideas in Development, Josh Lerner joined @deenamousa.com & I to discuss why is there a gap between innovation & impact, + the role of venture capital, universities & China in diffusion: voxdev.org/topic/techno...
03.03.2026 09:02
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Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.
04.03.2026 01:19
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Peep this from @anthlittle.bsky.social & @tompepinsky.com. We CAN learn even from biased estimates if we do exactly what @stablemarkets.bsky.social is saying.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....
03.03.2026 00:45
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This new paper by @claudiazwar.bsky.social is an absolute must read!
osf.io/preprints/so...
03.03.2026 03:17
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Evidence from Brazil shows that drought-driven rural-urban migration reduced urban informality over a decade, contradicting conventional wisdom.
Read today's article to learn more:
02.03.2026 14:30
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🧺 Paper Picnic 2.0 is here! More journals. New features. An easier way to keep up with the latest research in political science and adjacent fields. 🧵👇
27.02.2026 08:21
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Super interesting!
"AI, Human Cognition and Knowledge Collapse" by Daron Acemoglu, Dingwen Kong, Asuman Ozdaglar.
"We study how generative AI, and in particular agentic AI, shapes human learning incentives and the long-run evolution of society’s information ecosystem."
www.nber.org/papers/w34910
02.03.2026 08:08
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Midterms
The question we face in the US today is whether a party in office which is supported by 40 percent of survey respondents can win an election.
Very thoughtful from @adamprz.bsky.social. At once somehow optimistic and sobering.
"We live in an unprecedented time and I have learned that history is a poor guide to predict what will happen."
01.03.2026 15:39
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Screenshot of claude just writing a design no trouble
Writing simulations in DeclareDesign just went from "I should do that, but it's kind of a lot of work" to extremely easy
27.02.2026 16:34
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bsky.app/profile/grat...
28.02.2026 23:50
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Leaving beautiful Sydney — what a lovely and fun week it was! Many thanks to @grattonecon.bsky.social for the invitation! I look forward to seeing the Resilient Democracy Lab flourish.
28.02.2026 23:50
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EVENTS | Resilient Democracy Lab
Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
13.02.2026 00:23
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Highly relevant!
"Global Labor Mobility between Shrinking and Growing Labor Forces" by Lant Pritchett.
pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...
04.02.2026 17:46
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Food for thought!
"Why Sweden has so many unicorns: Europe’s problem is not the lack of venture capital" by Luis Garicano.
www.siliconcontinent.com/p/why-sweden...
16.02.2026 16:06
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Just another day when I am awed by my ability to come up with half-baked, ultimately obvious or confused, theoretical ideas that are impossible to test credibly.
25.02.2026 08:21
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Great work starting to open up the black box of Australian elite-level climate politics
20.01.2026 09:50
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Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.
If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.
24.02.2026 16:35
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This seems neat. An interesting application of the law of 1/n.
24.02.2026 00:08
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Super interesting!
"Europe Falling Behind: Structural Transformation and Labor Productivity Growth Differences Between Europe and the U.S." by Cesare Buiatti, Joao B. Duarte, and Luis Felipe Saenz.
jbduarte.com/files/BDS202...
20.02.2026 20:08
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muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...
21.02.2026 14:46
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Worth reading this in combination with the new book by Chater and Loewenstein.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/476169...
21.02.2026 14:42
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We are especially grateful to @fgenovese.bsky.social, @pculpepper.bsky.social, and @dustintingley.bsky.social!
20.02.2026 23:00
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Very happy to share this thoroughly revised version of our climate institutions working paper -- always a joy to work with @claudiazwar.bsky.social and @chflachsland.bsky.social. Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the previous version!
osf.io/preprints/so...
20.02.2026 23:00
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