How can we measure informal influence of leaders’ unelected spouses?
We use our Geocoded ODA Data (GODAD) to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more aid. They do - from European donors, the US, China! Paper and data:
I'm looking for a PhD student interested in development economics and/or political economy, with a background in economics or political science. It would be great if you could help circulating...
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (
@The_PEIO
) in Stockholm, June 13-15, 2024. Submission is now open at . Thanks
@ProfLDellmuth
and
@JonasTallberg
for hosting!
Reviewer
#2
in today's rejection letter from
@JHealthEcon
: The paper is not well written… The English should be much polish. Please revise it careful.
PhD position at Heidelberg University: We're recruiting a PhD student with a background in Economics or Political Science (Development/Political Economy). Please retweet/forward to potential candidates: ,
@fuchs_andreas
@KaiGehring1
@dietmarfehr
@jrgptrs
Please spread the news: Heidelberg University has a new . program in development economics, taught in English. We accept applications until 9/30, 2023,
PhD position at Heidelberg University: We're recruiting a PhD student with a background in Economics or Political Science (Development/Political Economy). Please forward to potential candidates.
If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO 15 will be on May 4-6, 2023 at UC-San Diego. Thanks to
@renee_bowen_lyn
, Lawrence Broz, and
@C_J_Schneider
for organizing! Submissions will soon be open at .
Buying votes at the UN Security Council | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal. How the US buys votes at the UNSC with both bilateral and multilateral aid. Who needs enemies with friends like these? With Dreher, Lang and Vreeland.
My likely next response to a reviewer invitation from JDE: Thank you for inviting me to review. I regret to inform you that as part of a pre-screening process applied to all reviewer invitations, I have read your invitation…
The Political Leaders’ Affiliation Database (PLAD) is now available for 1,109 leaders in the years 1989-2020, at . The data include information about leaders' birthplaces, ethnicity, and education, among others.
@fuchs_andreas
,
@LennartKap
,
@CharlotteRbrt
If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO17 will be on January 23-25, 2025 at Harvard University. Thanks to
@StephenChaudoin
, Christina Davis,
@C_Mikulaschek
! Submissions are now open at .
@The_PEIO
If you'd like to be on next year's PEIO picture, reserve the date: PEIO 15 will be on May 4-6, 2023 at UC-San Diego. Thanks to
@renee_bowen_lyn
, Lawrence Broz, and
@C_J_Schneider
for organizing! Submissions will soon be open at .
Our
@voxeu
column discusses how birthplaces of national leaders' spouses receive more than three times as much aid during the tenure of their partners than the same sub-national region would receive at other times. Check out our new sub-national aid data:
New PLAD data on leader birthregions, ethnicity, gender, education (1989-2023):
We use our Political Leaders' Affiliation Database to test whether sub-national regions where leaders’ spouses are born receive more foreign aid. We find they do.
RIO special issue Institutional Complexity in Global Governance: . Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Oliver Westerwinter, Kenneth Abbott, Benjamin Faude, Yoram Haftel, Tobias Lenz, Daniel Verdier, Karen Alter,
@Mer29Eilstrup
,
@Dr_Faude
,
@The_PEIO
,
@Springernomics
Just got a desk reject where the editor "took a close look" at “title of other paper” with "someone I never heard of". A close look indeed. Then sent the exact same letter with correct title and co-authors. Great example of what is wrong in Economics.
@IERJournal
Many influential papers focus on effects of aid from the US, World Bank, China or others. But the WBER has “made the editorial decision to not consider papers that are on the impact of foreign aid coming out of any one particular country.” ...
Forthcoming in RIO: "Undermining conditionality? The effect of Chinese development assistance on compliance with World Bank project agreements" by Mitchell Watkins, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@SOASDevelopment
,
@SOAS
Recently published paper in the
@JPubEcon
:
"Home bias in humanitarian aid: The role of regional favoritism in the allocation of international disaster relief"
Vol 208 (April 2022)
by Christian Bommer,
@DreherAxel
, &
@MarcelloPerezAl
Join us for the Political Economy of International Organization Conference (
@The_PEIO
) in Stockholm, June 13-15, 2024. Submission is now open at . Thanks
@ProfLDellmuth
and
@JonasTallberg
for hosting!
Very timely article forthcoming in RIO: "How to sanction international wrongdoing? The design of EU restrictive measures" by Katharina Meissner, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@katlmeissner
The mission of the WBER is "to encourage and support research in the field of development economics." Not in the sub-field on aid effectiveness, it seems. Or is this the
@WorldBank
trying to avoid publishing results potentially unwelcome to its member governments?
@The_PEIO
online seminar is over. 10 weeks, 501 participants, 47 papers, and almost 100 discussants. All papers and many of the posters are available here: . Thanks to everyone who generously offered their time to support this!
Join us in Oxford in 2022!
The introduction to RIO's special issue "In memoriam Stephen Knack" (ed. Christopher Kilby) is online, including a retrospective of Steve’s many contributions, written by Phil Keefer: ,
@Springernomics
Hi all!
Our
#WP
: “Chinese Aid and Health at the Country and Local Level” with
@matzatecon
and
#AxelDreher
is now up. As we are eager to hear from you, I thought it might be worth to begin a short thread about it.
Official development aid is not altruistic. I discussed this today at
@SWR2
with Claudia Warning and Boniface Mabanza. The podcast is available here (German):
#Entwicklungspolitik
Forthcoming in RIO: "Discovering cooperation: Endogenous change in international organizations" by Tobias Lenz, Besir Ceka & Alexandr Burilkov, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@bceka
Forthcoming in RIO: "Do Voters Reward Politicians for Trade Liberalization? Evidence from South Korea" by
Sung Eun Kim & Sujin Cha, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@_sungkim
Can development aid prevent the root causes of migration and displacement? I talked about this and foreign aid more broadly with Nicole Köster at
#SWR1
Leute Heute (in German):
Forthcoming in RIO: "Greening global governance: INGO secretariats and environmental mainstreaming of IOs, 1950 to 2017" by Thomas Dörfler & Mirko Heinzel, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@MirkoNoaHeinzel
Forthcoming in RIO: "Ordering global governance complexes: The evolution of the governance complex for international civil aviation" by Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni. ,
@The_PEIO
,
@Springernomics
,
@Mer29Eilstrup
Forthcoming in RIO: "Institutional roots of international alliances: Party groupings and position similarity at global climate negotiations" by Federica Genovese, R. McAlexander & Johannes Urpelainen, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@fgenovese__
,
@jurpelai
Special issue in honor of Stephen Knack in The Review of International Organizations. Read all articles for free through July and August:
@The_PEIO
@DreherAxel
Forthcoming RIO book review: "Lisa Dellmuth, Jan Aart Scholte, Jonas Tallberg and Soetkin Verhaegen. 2022. Citizens, Elites, and the Legitimacy of Global Governance" by Matthias Ecker-Ehrhardt, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@JonasTallberg
,
@ProfLDellmuth
Forthcoming in RIO: "Public responses to foreign protectionism: Evidence from the US-China trade war" by David A. Steinberg & Yeling Tan, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@YelingT
Forthcoming in RIO: "Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa" by Ann-Sofie Isaksson & Dick Durevall, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@goteborgsuni
Forthcoming in RIO: "Trading favors? UN Security Council membership and subnational favoritism in aid recipients”, by Maria Perrotta Berlin, Raj M. Desai & Anders Olofsgård, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@SITEStockholm
,
@lilleberlin
Forthcoming in RIO: "Behind the screen: Understanding national support for a foreign investment screening mechanism in the European Union" by Zenobia T. Chan & Sophie Meunier, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@ZenobiaChan
,
@SophieLMeunier
Forthcoming in RIO (special issue, ed. Christopher Kilby): "Managing performance and winning trust: how World Bank staff shape recipient performance", by Mirko Heinzel and Andrea Liese. ,
@The_PEIO
,
@Springernomics
,
@MirkoNoaHeinzel
,
@LieseAndrea
My discussion with Silja Graupe about teaching in economics is now online (
@goodimpact_eu
): English translation (Google translate, ) and German original ().
Forthcoming in RIO: "IOs’ selective adoption of NGO information: Evidence from the Universal Periodic Review" by Mintao Nie, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@mintaonie
Forthcoming in RIO: "The impact of unilateral BIT terminations on FDI: Quasi-experimental evidence from India”, by Simon Hartmann & Rok Spruk, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@rokspruk
Forthcoming in RIO: "Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision" by Markus Gastinger & Henning Schmidtke, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@MarkusGastinger
The decline to review process is designed to focus my effort on those papers that are most likely to be interesting. Given the number of invitations I receive I regret that I cannot provide individualized comments on these invitations.
Forthcoming in RIO: "The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO)" by Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe & Véronique Wavre, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@TFreyburg
,
@LaserGabi
Job alert! Heidelberg University/Economics is looking for a full Professor in Labor Economics/Political Economy (deadline April 30). Synergies with Political and Public, Macro, Development, Environmental, and/or Behavioral and Experimental desired.
... and have determined that the paper is unlikely to be sufficiently interesting to warrant reviewing. I have therefore decided to decline the invitation to review. Overall, only 30% of the invitations I receive can be accepted...
Forthcoming RIO book review: "Kim Moloney. 2022. Who Matters at the World Bank? Bureaucrats, Policy Change and Public Sector Governance (Oxford: Oxford University Press) by Susan Park, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@spark_syd
,
@Global_Academic
Forthcoming RIO book review: "Simone Dietrich. 2021. States, Markets and Foreign Aid (Cambridge University Press)" by Gabriella R. Montinola, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@ucdavis
Forthcoming in RIO: "When TED talks, does anyone listen? A new dataset on political leadership" by Thomas Flores, Gabriella Lloyd & Irfan Nooruddin, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
Forthcoming RIO book review: "Tanja Börzel. 2021. Why Noncompliance: The Politics of Law in the European Union (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press)" by Martijn Huysmans,
@MartijnHuysmans
. ,
@The_PEIO
,
@Springernomics
Forthcoming RIO comment: "The promise and perils of theorizing international regime complexity in an evolving world" by Karen Alter, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@AlterKaren
Job Alert:
@UniHeidelberg
is recruiting a professor in the field of “Society, Culture and Communication in Ibero-America.” Economists, Political Scientists and Sociologists take note!
Forthcoming in RIO: "Instrumental or intrinsic? Human rights alignment in intergovernmental organizations" by David Benjamin Weyrauch & Christoph Valentin Steinert. ,
@Springernomics
@The_PEIO
@ChrisVSteinert
Forthcoming in RIO: "China and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB): Chinese Influence Over Membership Shares?" by Ayse Kaya & Byungwon Woo, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@ByungwonWoo
Forthcoming in RIO: "Investment with insecure property rights: Capital outflow openness under dictatorship" by Jacque Gao, ,
@Springernomics
,
@The_PEIO
,
@JacqueGao