Political Sciences

Green Vote Fades Where Import Competition Scares People

Bosetti and Colantone find that individuals who live in areas more exposed to international trade show less support for environmentalist parties and are more skeptical about climate change

Job Loss in the Family Linked to Miscarriage and Stillbirth

Alessandro Di Nallo and Selin Koksal, in a study on the UK, find that when a pregnant woman or her partner lose their job, the risk of pregnancy loss doubles

Farmer Wants a Wife Is More Real Than You Think

A paper by Michal Gulczynski finds that men tend to outnumber women in rural areas

Understand Social Media, and You Won't Be Harmed by Them

Luca Braghieri was granted funding by the European Research Council to measure the effects of social media and mitigate their downsides

How Honesty Drain Impoverishes Places Where Rule Abiding is Low

Honest people tend to migrate towards honest areas, depriving their places of origin of human capital, according to research by Massimo Anelli. With detrimental effects on productivity, growth, and the quality of politicians

Income Inequalities Within the Aztec Empire Eased the Way of the Conquistadores

Guido Alfani reconstructs economic relationships in precolumbian Mexico, showing that Aztec rulers were ruthless exploiters