Julio Solís Arce

A great new paper by Allesandra Cassar et al on an extended Hamilton’s rule, using a dictator game, sharing data from three countries www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Our department is hosting its 7th PS-prep; this is a program for students interested in applying for a PhD in polsci at any institution. PS-prep consists of an informational session over zoom + the opportunity to get feedback from a PhD student or Faculty on your application(..)

**We are hiring a postdoc in the Economics of Religion** The post is for two years beginning in August 2027. In the past we have had economics, sociology, and political science PhDs join us as postdocs. Join us in southern California! www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

The Metaketa Initiative, led by @uoft-poli-sci.bsky.social's @egap.bsky.social, has received the Margaret Levi award from @apsa.bsky.social. 👏👏 @dktrdr.bsky.social www.politics.utoronto.ca/news/egap-in...

Very cool to have my research on progressive insurgent candidates cited in The Economist. TL;DR: there's more progressives who should enter Congress after the November elections than the last several www.economist.com/united-state...

Recently accepted by #QJE: “Fairness Across the World,” by Almås, Cappelen, Sørensen, and Tungodden: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

Fulvia Budillon and I are looking for a Portuguese-speaking field RA in Mozambique to start ASAP. More information here: tinyurl.com/2cs6jtjw. Please apply!!

My sincerest condolences @marchvidkjaer.bsky.social

The APCG has 11 great panels on at @apsa.bsky.social in Boston this week. Check out below for the full list, and many thanks to @adajkanu.bsky.social and Alex Michael Kroeger for putting together such a great line-up!

Political scientists: we are looking forward to welcoming you to Boston!

Colleagues will be sorry to hear that historian John Iliffe has this morning passed away in Cambridge at age 87. Iliffe was a maker of the academic field of African history. He took up a post at the University of Dar es Salaam shortly after Tanganyika's independence. 1/

EuroWEPS 14 is here! We'll meet in Berlin @wzb.bsky.social and discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars especially welcome to apply! Deadline is Sept 11.

Very honored to have my work recognized! For those interested, here is a link to the updated paper: osf.io/preprints/so...

The new Alsan and Neberai paper on why the US doesn't have national health insurance offers an interesting template for research on the origins of institutions academic.oup.com/qje/article/...

New website is now up at jfearon4.github.io. I hadn’t updated the old one in embarrassingly many years. Lots of new and old unpublished stuff on the new site.

I saw this paper presented at the Brown-Harvard South Asian Politics Seminar. AMM delivered one of the best presentations I’ve seen, followed by a extraordinary discussion by a Martha Chen, a development practitioner in BGD when the cyclone. Research is most powerful when it tells human stories

Belief in magic emerges most strongly among those who are both scientifically oriented and residually religious. Secular rationalism does not erase belief in supernatural mechanisms. It affirms the individual’s agency to decide what they are academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a...

Working on this paper was so fun! Excited that it's now out in the world and I hope you can check it out. It builds on broader agendas on the built environment and how space structures social contact from both Paige and I, w/ more info here: paigebollen.com and nlnathan.mit.edu

From our FirstView: Vernacular Architecture and Grassroots Urban Politics: How Politics Is Embedded in Residential Design by PAIGE BOLLEN and @nlnathan.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

Happy to have contributed to the latest HBES newsletter on our recent paper, The Meanings and Dividends of Man the Hunter, led by @vivek123.bsky.social I reflect on MTH through the lens of my research on Bayaka women's foraging & cooperation in the Congolese rainforest www.hbes.com/revisiting-m...

Delighted to see my paper "Mobile money and the social contract: Experimental evidence from Ghana" (coauthored with David Doyle) out at World Development! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

EPSS 2026: That's a wrap! 🎊 Thanks to all presenters, discussants, chairs, section chairs, volunteers, & participants for making this conference such a success. Safe travels, and see you at EPSS 2027 in Copenhagen!

We appreciate the cultural exchange. The only thing missing was a Eurovision playlist, though.

The American mind couldn’t comprehend!!!

The political economy of development panels at @epssnet.bsky.social

Tremendous privilege to have shared time in grad school with @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social

Super cool work by colleague Konstantin Poensgen

Excellent new special Issue on the challenges raised by the ancient DNA of kinship Special Issue: Kinship Trouble: Traversing Interdisciplinary Boundaries between Archaeology, Archaeogenetics and Socio-cultural Anthropology www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Cognitive anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas measured heart rates of firewalkers, relatives, and tourists. The walker and relatives' heart rates were synch'd. (Tourists weren't) Walkers reached 180bpm tho they recalled being "calm" www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNfg... pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21536887/

From our FirstView articles: How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records by ALEKSANDRA CONEVSKA, SHIGEO HIRANO, @shirokuriwaki.bsky.social, JEFFREY B. LEWIS, CAN MUTLU and JAMES M. SNYDER Jr. doi.org/10.1017/S000...

The call for 2026 APCG Award Nominations is live! The deadline for nominations is May 1st. Nominate scholars for Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Student Paper, Distinguished Africanist, Best Article and Best Book! www.afpol.org/blog/2026-ap...

Awards nominations are open for African Politics! Please share widely! @jsteend.bsky.social @stephaniewanga.bsky.social @evlieb.bsky.social @africasacountry.bsky.social @jsas-journal.bsky.social @chinemeluokafor.bsky.social @thelauram16.bsky.social @woldense.bsky.social

Power and Inclusiveness Across Deep Time. Our collaboration between archaeology and political science, out today in Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

surely @ryanenos.bsky.social will get 100% here?

🆕 North Korea's economy: The study of economic black holes Today on VoxDev, Stephan Haggard (@gpsucsd.bsky.social), Kyoochul Kim & Munseob Lee discuss the range of forensic methods available to researchers when official statistics are unavailable, or unreliable: voxdev.org/topic/method...

Over the weekend, I started collecting/organizing a list of cool #rstats skills for LLMs at github.com/christopherk.... Please open an issue or PR in any awesome additions you see! Includes a section for helpful posts like @ivelasq3.bsky.social's⬇️

Development policy effects are context-dependent and social traits often labeled as barriers may, in some settings, be sources of economic success, from Jacob Moscona, @nathannunn.bsky.social, and James A. Robinson www.nber.org/papers/w34810

Study of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria protests presents evidence that protests increase fiscal transfers to protesting regions, but only in politically aligned areas, from @belindaarch.bsky.social, Chinemelu Okafor, Evans S. Osabuohien, and Tom Moerenhout www.nber.org/papers/w34787

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: wp.nyu.edu/cesspolitica... Register (no fee) here: nyu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

🎺 Call for proposals 🎺 1️⃣ replicate an existing experiment 2️⃣ run a novel experiment on repdata.com 3️⃣ coauthor with Mary McGrath and me to meta-analyze the replications and existing studies 4️⃣ publish your study details: alexandercoppock.com/replication_... applications open Feb 1 please repost!

Please apply to this pre-doc position to work on projects related to culture, political economy, and development in DRC and Mozambique. Strong data analysis skills required. First round of applications reviewed Feb. 2. employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...

New evidence from Africa shows that aid reduces conflict when projects are well managed, but increases violence when management and monitoring are weak. Read today's article to learn more: