Working Papers
- Production Networks and War: Evidence from Ukraine (with Vasily Korovkin) [SSRN link] [CEPR DP]
- The Political Legacy of Nazi Annexation (with Mario Cannella and Ricardo Pique) [SSRN link], revise and resubmit at the Economic Journal
- Social Image, Networks, and Protest Participation (with Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Leonid Polishchuk) [SSRN link], submitted
- Affinity, Trust, and Information (with Luigi Guiso) [CEPR DP] [SSRN link] [video]
- The Political Economic Determinants of Nuclear Power Investment: Evidence from Chernobyl (with Nancy Qian and Shaoda Wang), draft available upon request
- The Impact of Dating Apps on Young Adults: Evidence From Tinder (with Berkeren Buyukeren and Heyu Xiong) [SSRN link]
Publications
- Conflict and Inter-Group Trade: Evidence from the 2014 Russia-Ukraine Crisis (with Vasily Korovkin), American Economic Review, January 2023, 113(1), Pages 34-70 [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- Social Media and Mental Health (with Luca Braghieri and Ro’ee Levy), American Economic Review, November 2022, 112(11), Pages 3660-3693 [PDF] [Online Appendix] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
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- Media appearances and popular writing: Freakonomics MD, The Sunday Show Podcast by Tech Policy Press, VoxEU
- Econometric Society European Meetings (ESEM) Best Paper Award 2022
- Divided We Stay Home: Social Distancing and Ethnic Diversity (with Georgy Egorov, Ruben Enikolopov, and Maria Petrova), Journal of Public Economics, February 2021, Vol. 194 [PDF] [Journal link] [NBER WP] [CEPR DP] [SSRN link]
- Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia (with Ruben Enikolopov and Maria Petrova), Econometrica, July 2020, Vol. 88, No. 4, Pages 1479-1514 [PDF] [Typeset Appendix] [Online Appendix] [Online Correction] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- National or Sub-National Parties: Does Party Geographic Scope Matter? (with Ricardo Pique and Fernando Aragon), Journal of Development Economics, September 2020, Vol. 146 [PDF] [Journal link] [SSRN link]
- Can Online Off-The-Shelf Lessons Improve Student Outcomes? Evidence from a Field Experiment (with Kirabo Jackson), American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2018, Vol. 10, No. 3, Pages 226-254 [PDF]
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- Media coverage: Education Week, Education Next, ThinkProgress, The74million (1, 2), Teacher Quality Bulletin: The Best Teacher Quality Research of 2016, Flypaper Blog, Achieve.org
- Mentions in policy reports: Rhode Island Department of Education, Tennessee Department of Education, Louisiana Department of Education, Center for American Progress
- Reducing Bureaucratic Corruption: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on What Works (with Jordan Gans-Morse, Mariana Borges, Theresa Mannah-Blankson, Andre Nickow, and Dong Zhang), World Development, May 2018, Vol. 105, Pages 171-188 [PDF]
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