We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political assortative matching: business owners are significantly more…
Daniel Simberloff is the Nancy Gore Hunger Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Tennessee. He received his A.B. (1964) and Ph.D. (1968) from Harvard University and was a faculty member at Florida State University from 1968 through 1997, when he joined the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the…
Smuggling a cow through a tunnel and other stories: working at the intersection of development and diplomacy in protracted conflicts. This presentation will reflect on the challenges of bringing together development and diplomatic approaches in protracted conflicts, as well as looking at how breaking down barriers between these…
CSDP AMERICAN POLITICS COLLOQUIUM
Joe Soss
Cowles Chair for the Study of Public Service, University of Minnesota
Preying on the Poor: Criminal Justice as Revenue Racket
A Brazil LAB event with Laura Carvalho and Silvio Almeida. Discussant: Miguel Centeno. Moderated by João Biehl.
Laura Carvalho is a leading Brazilian economist and public intellectual. She is currently the Global Director of Equity of the Open Society Foundations. Carvalho is the founder and director of the Research Center on…
Will artificial intelligence correct or perpetuate historic discriminatory practices in cities? Will urban heat mitigation strategies and new ecosystem amenities be deployed fairly across all neighborhoods? Will new mobility technologies be accessible to all citizens and localities? Will new policing or security technology…
A lunch conversation with Anna Vlasiuk Nibe, a PhD candidate at the University of Southern Denmark who is visiting the EU Program and LISD in October 2022.
Anna Vlasiuk Nibe is a PhD research fellow at the University of Southern Denmark. She holds a MSc in International Economic Law from Kyiv National Economic University…
This panel brings together three people who have thought deeply about the use of the narrative case study as an essential tool for learning and for fostering change. Michael Woolcock introduces the use of narrative cases to promote better development policy making. Michael Kimmelman and Matt Thompson discuss their aims creating…
