Ph.D. in (Historical) Political Economy @CEU. MPP @thehertieschool. Causal inference with observational data. I really like maths, history, and politics.
Vienna, Austria
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Does the Protestant ethic require Protestantism? ⛪
I study an 18th-century natural experiment in Transylvania to revisit this debate. New article out today in Studies in Comparative International Development 🧵 1/18
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Some stories only get better with time.
Two years ago, we took you behind the scenes of the viral photo of Lionel Messi and a baby Lamine Yamal with his mom. This iconic image was captured for a fundraising calendar supporting UNICEF and the FCB Foundation.
Now, this story has a new chapter. Last month, Lamine Yamal became a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, joining Lionel Messi, who was served in this role since 2010.
This weekend, they'll face each other in the FIFA World Cup final, but when it comes to championing children's rights, they're on the same team.
Watch the video and revisit the origins of this incredible image.
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I have written papers debunking the works of half these authors (Raworth, Piketty, Hickel). All three for being sloppy (Piketty and Hickel), and/or self-contradicting (Raworth and Hickel), and/or outright incompetent (Hickel).
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The persistence literature treats historical legacies as something close to a stylized fact. My new paper with amazing @ItsLetitiaRoman challenges this view, theorising conditions under which legacies break and testing our framework on Ottoman corruption in Romanian healthcare.
This challenges the conception of path dependence as a fixed feature of historical processes. Persistence in our framework is conditional on the reproduction of specific practices, and the right kind of crisis can render even centuries-old legacies inoperative within years.
See the paper here: emerald.com/jpipe/article-ab…