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Post coffee, Anirban Mitra (Kent) is presenting "From Ballots to Belonging: Minority Representation and Public Spending for Social Cohesion in English Local Governments". They show that minority representation increases public spending towards education, culture & transportation.

On the second day, Jaime Perreira is presenting "Media Cross-Amplification and Public Opinion: Evidence from Television Coverage of Social Media", some compelling work that documents the news agenda setting power via social media.

Giacomo De Luca (Edinburgh) is presenting "Serving Countries, Shaping Views: the Impact of Military Conscription on Attitude towards Immigrants". Using the roll back of military service post 1990s they show that compulsory military service worsens attitudes towards immigration.

Maria Petrova is presenting a keynote "Socializing Alone: How Online Homophily Has Undermined Social Cohesion in the US", this uses Facebook's end of data federation causing a shock in the cost of importing ones social graph into a different platform. This creates variation in...

homophily that they explore. This breakdown led to the emergence of walled gardens. Back in 2009 I was writing about federated blogosphere in context of new OpenID standard allowing data federation. Since 2022 federation is "back" with users reclaiming digital self sovereignty.

Apurav Bhatiya (Birmingham) presents "From Modi's India to Westminster: How Hindu Nationalism Shapes Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Abroad". This paper suggests how home-country origin social conflict can be transplanted into different communities, thereby threatening cohesion.

@apuravbhatiya Jan Auerbach presents "Immigration and Productivity: Unpacking the Role of Spatial Sorting". They unpack a new way of looking at immigration: differential home bias btw migrants/natives can have large GE spillover effects on natives due to improved labor market matching.