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Assistant Professor @bu_economics | Political economy and development.

Boston, MA
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Benjamin Marx
2 months
Our paper on state-building and the French Revolution is forthcoming in the AER! In 1790, a radical administrative reform laid the foundations of the modern French state. We study its consequences for state capacity and economic development in the short and long run.
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AEA Journals
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Forthcoming in the AER: "The Dynamic Consequences of State-Building: Evidence from the French Revolution" by Cédric Chambru, Emeric Henry, and Benjamin Marx.
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
Very excited to be joining the amazing group at @bu_economics . It was bittersweet to say goodbye to my colleagues and friends @ScPoEcon but I'm grateful for the warm welcome in cold Boston!
@bu_economics
BU Economics
2 years
Professor @benjaminmarx starts with us this semester. He comes from @sciencespo where he was an Assistant Professor. He received his PhD from @MITEcon . He works on political economy, development economics, and economic history. Check out his website:
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3 years
Very happy to share our paper on state-building after the French Revolution, joint with the amazing @CedricChambru and the legendary Emeric Henry. We study how a radical reform shaped investments in state capacity and development in the short and long run
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4 years
🚨New paper alert!🚨 @doquocanh , @GalbiatiRoberto , Miguel Ortiz Serrano and I study discrimination in financial markets in the context of France’s "Dreyfus Affair." We show that investors can earn excess returns by betting against discriminators (1/8)
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3 years
We were excited to release this paper after many years of work, but of course now is a difficult time to be talking about academic research. One takeaway from our paper: allowing the people to freely replace their leaders, under any type of regime, really does make a difference
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Vincent Pons
3 years
Very happy to share our paper on Electoral turnovers with @benjaminmarx & @vincent_rollet ! ⬇️ We built a dataset of national election results since 1945 to estimate the effects of turnovers on economic performance, trade, human development, conflict, and democracy (1/9).
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5 years
Some papers are so much fun to work on that it's hard to let them go! @SamuelBazzi @gkoehlerderrick Thanks to everyone who helped us write and improve it
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QJE
5 years
Recently accepted by #QJE : “The Institutional Foundations of Religious Politics: Evidence from Indonesia,” by Bazzi ( @SamuelBazzi ), Koehler-Derrick ( @gkoehlerderrick ), and Marx ( @benjaminmarx ):
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3 years
Our 2 papers with @VinPons and @SuriTavneet came out the same month! In this one, we study the impacts of a large-scale voter mobilization campaign conducted during the 2013 Kenyan elections. (1/4) 👇
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The Economic Journal
3 years
Recently accepted by EJ: "Voter Mobilisation and Trust in Electoral Institutions: Evidence from Kenya" by Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons & Tavneet Suri
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5 months
Come work with us!
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Vincent Pons
5 months
Please share: we are looking for a part- or full-time RA (master or PhD) for projects on the drivers and effects of national election outcomes with @benjaminmarx and @vincent_rollet . Flexible location and start date. Pls send a short email and CV at vpons @hbs .edu if interested!
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Benjamin Marx
10 months
Bravo Vincent 🥳🥳 c'est tellement mérité et nous sommes tous très fiers de toi !
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Vincent Pons
10 months
My soccer team has long called me Professor – they are finally right! I am thrilled to share that I received tenure at @Harvard ! 🥳🍾🥳 Thanks to my family, loved ones, friends, colleagues and coauthors for their constant support! I am forever grateful and will try to give
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3 years
Across the street from our department @ScPoEcon is a peaceful little garden named after Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (1814-1861) who died in exile in St. Petersburg.
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4 years
The amazing paper by @Ruben_Durante78 and Katia Zhuravskaya continually proves to be true.
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BBC News (World)
4 years
Israel rebuked by United Nations for 'biggest demolition of Palestinian homes in years'
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4 years
My first ever Fox News retweet
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Fox News
4 years
Fox News projects Biden to defeat Trump, become 46th president after winning Nevada, Pennsylvania
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4 years
If you haven’t read it, the NYT’s profile of French virologist Didier Raoult provides a fascinating glimpse into the politics of this pandemic – and how alt-facts can gain traction in the public discourse: @ray_kluender
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
There are two loosely connected narratives floating around with #COVID19 . Neither of them makes much sense to me. (1/5)
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
This #NobelPrize is not only well-deserved, it is also going to researchers who care deeply about education and mentoring. Before a semester starts, @metrics52 is the kind of instructor who will check that the classroom has adequate lighting and students have comfortable chairs.
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5 years
This virus may well have been deadlier in a less integrated world—we will never know. If anything, the pandemic will likely last longer because national govts have failed to act in a more coordinated fashion. This is a call for more and better global governance, not less. (5/5)
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2 years
Marx may not have been in the academic mainstream but he was the dominant intellectual figure of the French left from the 1880s onwards. This picture appeared in Le Figaro in 1892.
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
Les partis politiques et le gouvernement français doivent prendre leurs responsabilités en reportant les élections municipales prévues demain, afin d’éviter un désastre pour la santé publique et pour la démocratie. Il n'est pas trop tard. #COVID19 #Municipales2020
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5 years
@cblatts @JMorduch @DavidSkarbek James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine?
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
Shortly after the Ottomans took Constantinople in 1453, one of Sultan Mehmet II’s first symbolic acts was to endow #HagiaSophia as a waqf, specifying that it should only be used as a mosque (1/2)
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Benjamin Marx
1 year
Un immense bravo à @VinPons et @CageJulia pour un prix amplement mérité, ainsi qu'à @pierrecboyer , Pauline, et Mathias. Ce palmarès récompense des économistes engagés et ouverts au monde
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Vincent Pons
1 year
@lemondefr @Cercle_eco @CageJulia @pierrecboyer Je suis très heureux et reconnaissant d’avoir reçu le Prix du Meilleur Jeune Economiste 2023 ! 🍾🍾🍾 Merci à ma famille, à qui je dois tout, et à mes coauteurs, étudiants et assistants de recherche, sans qui ma recherche n’existerait pas ! 🙏
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
This is a fantastic RA opportunity with @mara_squi and Nico Voigtlaender, based in Paris! @econ_ra @ScPoResearch @ScPoEcon
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Mara Squicciarini
2 years
Me and Nico Voigtlaender are looking for an RA in Paris! Come work with us!!!
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
Under such circumstances, market competition may possibly act as a force in reducing discrimination. Full paper here: We look forward to your feedback! (8/8)
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
Having said that, I would not say no to another 1917-type of event for a small citation boost😊
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
Very few French leaders have recognized historical crimes committed by France in such explicit terms. To me this speech is one powerful instance showing that coming to terms with a nation’s past is not as politically costly as people often assume.
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3 years
@mcecibustamante
M Cecilia Bustamante
3 years
A reflection on common proof techniques!
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4 years
@nberpubs @SamuelBazzi @masyhurh We are very excited about this new paper! The correct order of authors (now at the NBER link) is: @SamuelBazzi @masyhurh @benjaminmarx
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Benjamin Marx
6 years
Do voter ID laws depress turnout? New answers from Enrico Cantoni & @VinPons , using (to my knowledge) one of the largest voter registration datasets ever assembled:
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4 years
Statues and slavery. This (short) text is really worth a read.
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5 years
The first narrative is that the pandemic showed the advantage of authoritarian regimes in fighting these kinds of challenges. But the fact that one authoritarian regime responded adequately to the outbreak (which is debatable) does not mean other authoritarian regimes will. (2/5)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
In the long run, firms with Jewish board members experienced consistently higher returns during the media campaign sparked by “J’Accuse...!”, a famous editorial that revealed new evidence about Dreyfus’ innocence. This is the finding that most surprised us (5/8)
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Benjamin Marx
1 year
Congratulations Mara!!
@NicolaLimodio
Nicola Limodio
1 year
Congratulations to my fantastic colleague @mara_squi for her promotion and appointment as Avvocato Agnelli Associate Professor in Economics. It's a well-deserved achievement and I am proud of your phenomenal contributions. Brava!
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
This is an excellent and important policy brief about migration policies in the time of #COVID19 , written by my wonderful sister (in French).
@ccfd_tsolidaire
CCFD-Terre Solidaire
4 years
Malgré la crise du #COVID19 de nombreux États #europ éens ont maintenu leur politique de démantèlement de campements, de persécution policière, de militarisation des frontières, de non-assistance aux personnes en danger notamment en #M éditerranée. Analyse :
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
Important statement in support of Nonna Mayer, from the members of @sciencespo 's permanent faculty 👇
@SciencesPo_CEE
CEE, Sciences Po/CNRS
3 years
In support of Nonna Mayer, symbol of the attacks on academic freedom. We condemn in the strongest possible terms the attacks against her. All those who wish to join us can sign on this link ➡️
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
Excellent texte qui témoigne de la nécessité urgente de mieux enseigner l’histoire coloniale de la France. Les fractures de la société française sont en grande partie « le fait d’une aventure coloniale dont le point final est encore attendu en Afrique subsaharienne. »
@PikettyWIL
Thomas Piketty
5 years
Très beau texte de Leonora Miano, à lire et à partager sans modération! via @lemondefr
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5 years
I find it much more remarkable that in some democratic countries (US, UK), it seems to be the pressure from society that led governments into much stronger action. Democratic societies cannot accept that people will die because there is no space left in the ICU for them. (3/5)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@ray_kluender @otis_reid @michaelstepner @JonPetkun how I miss all of you and that windowless room!
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
Text messages sent to voters increased turnout but also decreased trust in electoral institutions after the election. This decrease was most pronounced among voters on the losing side. (2/4)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
The media campaign that sought to rehabilitate Dreyfus changed investors’ views, leading to debiasing and arbitrage. This supports a long-standing hypothesis on the existence of “rents from discrimination”: agents betting against discriminators can earn excess returns (7/8)
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3 years
These results highlight a trade-off associated with mobilization campaigns: mobilized citizens are more likely to observe the shortcomings of the electoral process, and potentially to be disappointed by its outcome. (3/4)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
We explain this effect in the context of a model of noise trading where the market includes two types of investors: neutral investors with unbiased beliefs, and antisemitic investors who hold distorted views of Jewish-connected assets and drive down stock prices (6/8)
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
In the long run, trust in electoral institutions is essential for the preservation of democracy… as some recent, high-profile elections have amply shown. (fin)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
To enable Erdogan’s decision to reconvert the building into a mosque, Turkey’s administrative court invoked this waqf deed to annul a decision made by Atatürk in 1934, stating that the government lacked the authority to alter the purpose of the building (2/2)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
In the short run, the stock returns of firms with Jewish board members responded to salient episodes of the Affair. Events associated with Dreyfus’ degradation led to negative abnormal returns, while events surrounding his rehabilitation had the opposite effect (4/8)
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
@cblatts @lukusem @HLarreguy Thank you Chris, this was a team effort! I love the fact that @lukusem made this connection
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@RFisman @ikuziemko @NicolasLonguet If you want to keep a close eye over the next few weeks, @Mij_Europe has some of the most relevant insights on this election (and EU politics more generally)
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
This is truly heartbreaking
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IOL News
3 years
The #capetownfire has now reached UCT's library. UCT said earlier that all students have been evacuated from campus by emergency services support staff. Read more here: Picture: Armand Hough @AfriNewsAgency
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@HLarreguy @guygrossman @piaraffler @jeremy_bowles @JRGSpringman I think the constituency shapefile in that folder contains the constituencies used in 2011 (~238 constituencies in total) ... so probably the same as @fscoamodio
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
The second is that the pandemic sheds light on the pitfalls and imminent demise of globalization. But epidemics have always been a major part of human history. When this is all over, #COVID19 will hopefully have claimed fewer lives than the Spanish Flu or the Black Plague. (4/5)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
Disclosure: I too became hopeful that hydroxychloroquine might work, back in March/April
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
For several years, the Dreyfus case polarized France and revealed deeply entrenched antisemitic attitudes within all spheres of society. We study how it affected the performance of firms with Jewish board members (3/8)
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
@GPrarolo thank you Giovanni for a wonderful day and for your warm welcome!
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
Thank you Scott for the opportunity to contribute to @BlogBroadstreet !
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Scott Gehlbach
2 years
Super post @BlogBroadstreet by @benjaminmarx on his work with @CedricChambru and Emeric Henry on state building after the French Revolution. This is a great paper—winner of the Williamson Award at this year's @SIOEcon meetings.
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@jhaushofer @cblatts The econ department at the @EuropeanUni is a close competitor!
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
@econimate @CedricChambru @econ_uzh @ScPoEcon Thank you for this really nice summary of our paper!
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Benjamin Marx
6 years
31 years after the assassination of Thomas #Sankara , France has finally begun to declassify government archives surrounding this episode. Mort de Thomas Sankara : les premières archives françaises transmises au Burkina via @lemondefr
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@otis_reid These two beaming smiles!
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@juanpablorud @ffugaz I did not know this! Very timely indeed :)
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
@VinPons I definitely cannot :)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
The infamous “Affair” was centered around Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jewish army officer who was wrongfully convicted for treason in late 1894. After several years spent in a penal colony, Dreyfus was pardoned in 1899 (2/8)
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
There is a lot of anger (often from my own colleagues, who will disagree with me!) at European governments for suspending AstraZeneca vaccinations. I think that this anger is partly misguided:
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid Should slow @venmo adopters feel vindicated?
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid "Bell Taco freely admits to serving garbage" ... too real
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@ikuziemko @RFisman @NicolasLonguet One factor has been Macron’s perceived reluctance to engage with voters and participate in the electoral campaign -- he declared his candidacy very late and subsequently refused to debate with other 1st-round candidates.
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Benjamin Marx
5 years
East African history curriculum taught in Kenyan & Ugandan secondary schools seems at odds with the British PM's views on colonialism
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid do they think I'm some sort of war hero? I understand that's the misconception people have about the French around here.
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@victorgayeco @HarvardDV This is an amazing contribution, thank you @victorgayeco
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@mediapart @edwyplenel @LaurentMauduit Combien d'articles ou livres de Jean Tirole avez-vous lus, avant de publier cet article?
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid RT @OnionSports : Tim Duncan Busy At San Antonio Zoning Office Planning Spurs Championship Parade Route http://t.co/57DBZTGsrY
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10 years
@otis_reid RT @janzilinsky : How the War on Drugs Damages Black Social Mobility http://t.co/P8cdY9icbZ
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@fscoamodio I am really sorry for your loss, Francesco.
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@juanpablorud thanks so much, Juan Pablo!
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@ikuziemko @RFisman @NicolasLonguet This of course does not change the fact that a MLP victory would be a catastrophic event for France, the EU, and indirectly, many fear, for Ukraine.
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@FlorianOswald @ScPoEcon Congrats Florian!!
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@ikuziemko @RFisman @NicolasLonguet Macron experienced a surge in the polls after the invasion of Ukraine, which then quickly subsided.
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid only if you give up the 7th floor for the actual 18th basement, aka the lair.
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@francedrago @doquocanh @GalbiatiRoberto thank you very much, Francesco!
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Benjamin Marx
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@ariannaornaghi @thehertieschool Congrats Arianna, so happy for you!
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@ArthurStalla thank you for your comments!
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@ikuziemko @RFisman @NicolasLonguet Finally, Le Pen has benefited from having a candidate running on her right (Zemmour). This means she has the potential to gain many voters between the 1st and the 2nd, which is something her party has always failed to do historically.
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@FilipeCampante thank you Filipe!
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Benjamin Marx
4 years
@ArthurStalla Indeed, this could have occurred if antisemitic bias had been correlated with misperceptions about the number of connections. Overall, this does not seem fully consistent with what we observe in the data
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Benjamin Marx
3 years
@stef_fischer "Fundamentals of Public Economics" by Jean-Jacques Laffont, while not the most recent, is an outstanding textbook (it is also a bit more advanced)
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
Do you really have what it takes? http://t.co/MCgbxLYZaH RT @otis_reid : hey if I love France enough can I become president too?
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@HeymanDaniel @MSF Donate at http://t.co/09QL5FhiOz then email donations @newyork .msf.org to earmark your donation to ebola outbreak response
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Benjamin Marx
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@ABergeron_econ @bu_economics @sciencespo @MITEcon Merci Augustin :) Tu passes par Boston un de ces jours au printemps ?
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Benjamin Marx
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@otis_reid RT @poverty_action : Despite this http://t.co/pN7BCgYWgg @JPAL_GLobal will always be the #1 J-lab housed at MIT in our hearts
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Benjamin Marx
10 years
@otis_reid they are also one of few countries to have entrusted their fate to an economist: http://t.co/CLAz8aPogN
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Benjamin Marx
2 years
@AnneKaring @bu_economics Thanks for the kind words Anne :) it's great to be back!
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