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Assistant Professor Columbia Political Science - Political Economy, Migration, Crime, Environmental https://www.gemmadipoppa.com/
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🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨 We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson. Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener) Help us spread the word!

Thanks a lot to APSA Public Scholar @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this excellent review of my paper. You can read her own research on human trafficking at siennanordquist.com

📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social

Thank you @inqdp.bsky.social!

🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵

With @ginvernizzi.bsky.social, @carloprato.bsky.social and Shigeo Hirano, we're thrilled to announce the inaugural Bocconi-Columbia Conference on Political, Social, and Economic Inequality. 📅 Mark your calendars: June 19-20, 2025 at Bocconi University!

Thank you to @claryc.bsky.social for inviting me for this quick chat @goodauth.bsky.social on my new paper in Nature with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social

We're having an Italian party in this week's virtual HPE session!💃Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato (Bologna) will present early work on road networks and political violence. Always brilliant @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social will discuss ✨ Thursday 12:30 EST/6:30 CET

🚨Just published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social with @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social🚨 We argue that reducing crop burning in South Asia, responsible for toxic air for 100s of millns, is not completely intractable. We show bureaucrats exert control when incentivized, w large consequences for pub health

New, and Please share widely: we are looking for the next great 2-yr postdoc to work with me at the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown U. Non-resident remote work possible for 2024-25! Be the next @gard-murray.bsky.social or Kathryn Chelminski!

Crop burning poisons South Asia’s skies, causing millions of deaths and diseases. What are states doing to stop it? What are the effects? We study these questions in our paper w @saadgulzar.bsky.social 👇🌾🔥

Why do women occupy only a quarter of parliamentary seats around the world? In coauthored work, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social explores the role of gendered violence against elected leaders. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

Happening now, also live on YouTube: @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social presenting our paper on attacks on women in politics at @nber.bsky.social Political Economy Meeting. WATCH NOW at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jXu...

Honored to present work on violence against female politicians (w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social & Gianmarco Daniele) at this year's Transatlantic Workshop on the Economics of Crime. Thanks University of Michigan and CJARS for hosting me!

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office. We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column... With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele

Accepted last week at #APSR "Turnout Turnaround: Ethnic Minority Victories Mobilize White Voters" (with Stephanie Zonszein). Ungated draft can be found at osf.io/w2dg8/.

Come join us today at 2pm Est for @saadgulzar.bsky.social presentation of our paper on air pollution in South Asia!