Carlo Koos

This graph is just amazing. The only fair approach to college admissions is to cut everything from applications except the test scores and high school GPA.

Lets relax

At elite universities, 1/5 of students are registered as "disabled." (Fits my experience: accommodating students who claim extra time or special rooms for exams is a routine part of teaching. I meet in my office with charming, voluble, successful students who slip in, "I'm autistic." theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/…

Did slavery facilitate Europe's early rise to riches? Steve Redding @ReddingEcon, Stephan Heblich, and I focus on the single biggest slave-trading nation, Britain, and revisit the famous "Williams hypothesis". We combine theory and geographically disaggregated data to show

@S_Stantcheva That's a striking pattern. Yet I wonder if this pattern looks less dramatic if the y-axis would have a larger range (now it's 0.10 of the index) or CIs

One puzzling fact: Why are younger generations in the US so much more zero-sum than older ones? It might be because older generations experienced much higher growth and better economic conditions when they were young, which could have reduced their zero-sum world views. 8/23

Zero-sum thinking is a key mindset that shapes how we view the world. Excited to share a new paper on the roots and consequences of Zero-sum thinking with @sahilchinoy, @DrNathanNunn @SMGSequeira. A summary thread🧵1/23 scholar.harvard.edu/files/stantche…

In our survey, @BreslawskiJori and I examine Israeli perceptions of the humanitarian situation in Gaza—and reveal a striking gap between what Israelis believe and what is reported by reputable sources. theconversation.com/israelis-have-… #Gaza #Israel #HumanitarianAid

Can facts ever change minds on immigration? I was skeptical—until working with @MichelLandgrave changed my own mind. Our new paper shows most Americans underestimate how difficult the US legal immigration process is. Sharing facts about policy makes people more pro-immigration.

@yara_slei @anselmhager Thanks for coming a d presenting your great paper on the Beirut blasts. Please keep us updated about the progess

Such a joy to present my research at EuroWEPS 11 in beautiful Bergen! Thanks to @CarloKoos and @anselmhager for organizing and the participants for amazing feedback!

From our new issue: "Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Survivors, Psychological Harms, and Mobilization" by Summer Lindsey (@SummerELindsey) and Carlo Koos (@CarloKoos). #APSRNewIssue cambridge.org/core/journals/…

This is a wonderful and rare opportunity for a postdoc. Ragnhild is a terrific scholar and leader in the field of gender & politics

Please consider applying for a summer RA position in Mozambique. Project with @fulviabudillon and @walcottgray on traditional medicine. Must speak Portuguese. Job info: povertyactionlab.org/careers/field-… Send materials to fbudillo@ucsd.edu and adgray@ucsd.edu. Thank you! @econ_ra

Since when do universities review the slides of their speakers and cancel the night before? More details needed than offered in this story but I don’t care what the slides say—NYU should not police or censor invited speakers.

EuroWEPS 11 is here! We'll meet in Bergen on May 16 to discuss designs/papers focusing on causal inference. No presentations, just constructive discussions. Early career scholars are especially welcome to apply! Submission deadline is March 30.

Great to see this excellent paper published

I am part of a EU Horizon-funded project on climate resilience. We seek a data collection partner in Madagascar for an RCT: three survey waves, 200 villages, 3,600 households in each wave. More details and the terms of reference are available here: cmi.no/news/3405-cont…

PhD opportunity with excellent scholars as supervisors!

Apply to our MA program Politics and Governance of Global Challenges at @UiB_Gov! You will learn about the governance of worldwide issues that affects us all. Application still open for EU/EEA citizens deadline 1 March 2025/Nordic citizens 15 April 2025 www4.uib.no/en/programmes/…

Kindly help sharing this call for young scholars working on conflict: @CRS_INFO, @apvjustino, @_alice_evans, @SummerELindsey, @AnniMenzel, @cmpseditors, @NEPS01 , @europsa, @ECPR, @BJPolS, @apsrjournal, @AJPS_Editor, @JPR_journal, @isanet

Are you an early-career social scientist exploring the impacts of conflict, insecurity, or war? Apply to the WarEffects Global Fellows Network: ✨ Research grants ✨ Workshop opportunities ✨ Publication support 📅 Deadline: 7 Feb 25 🔗 Apply now: wareffects.eu/get-involved/c…

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