Luca Bellodi

Studying delegation and principal-agent frictions in the development of new federal regulations in the United States, from Luca Bellodi, Massimo Morelli, @jspenkuch, @edoardoteso, Matia Vannoni, and @guoxu_econ nber.org/papers/w34932

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

...we need to invest more resources into understanding what happens after the president says "go." Applications due Feb 16. Please reach out to me with questions. apply.interfolio.com/178829

Postdoc opportunity @UChicago Political Science: looking for scholar of American Politics to join our community and collaborate with us. Information and application instructions here: political-science.uchicago.edu/about/job-oppo… EOE/Vet/Disability

New job posting for a postdoctoral research associate at @ISPSYale. See below to apply

Join us at the #EPSA2025 Pre-Conference on Political Connections! 📅 June 25, 2025 📍 UC3M (Puerta de Toledo Campus) Rooms 0.A.05 & 0.A.06 🕘 9 AM — 6 PM 10 panels, 2 parallel tracks — a full day of insights and debate on bureaucracy, revolving doors, money in politics, and more!

🚨 EPSA Pre-Conference🚨 Join us on June 25 at @uc3m for our EPSA Pre-Conference on Political Connections 20 terriic papers covering topics from bureaucracy to money in politics! Free coffee & lunch | Social event Register at forms.gle/Ei5T4hHtWFFSH1… @europsa

@Uber_Support Thanks! But the car seat vechicle option doesn’t show up. Neither if I book for now nor if I book for tomorrow.

@LucaBellodi We're here to explain. The Car Seat option is available to and from San Francisco, including SFO, with availability and proper reservation. To request, open the app, enter your destination, and select Car Seat. There’s a $10 surcharge, and you can reserve up to 2 hours in SF.

@Uber_Support why is there no car seat option available from SFO to anywhere (although there is *to* SFO) @Uber

@jeremiahbcha Thanks for this great resource!

Next steps include not only adding candidates for the 2024 general election but also expanding this data back to the 1990's and beyond. If there are additional things you would like to see, please let us know!

🚨 DATA UPDATE 🚨 @shirokuriwaki, Jim Snyder, and I have updated the Candidates in American General Elections (CAGE) dataset, extending the universe of candidates in Presidential, Congressional, and gubernatorial elections to 2022. Link: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?…

@gabrieleaopinto So cool Gabriele!!

I'm working on a new project using Machine Learning to extract data from videos 🎥💻 The goal is to explore "video-as-data" for political and communication research. My case study analyzes 2000+ video episodes of two popular Italian political talk shows👇🧵papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

I have a new paper conditionally accepted at @The_JOP where Massimo Morelli and I show how important it is to have a skilled bureaucracy for politicians' ability to get things done! Check it out! lucabellodi.com/material/BM_Po…

If you'll be at @MPSAnet next week, consider attending this CwC on the separation of powers I organized with support from the @Levin_Center on Friday. We have four fantastic panels at the theoretical, empirical, and methodological cutting edge of SOP and institutions research.

Using proprietary non-reproducible LLMs to label data is bad for science and expensive. So I'm creating free, open source LLMs for Zero-shot classification of political texts that require a fraction of the compute. Here are the first models available on @huggingface:

New CEPR DP18778 Digging Up Trenches: #Populism, Selective Mobility, & the Political #Polarization of #Italian Municipalities @LucaBellodi, F. Docquier @LISERinLUX, S. Iandolo @UniSalerno, M. Morelli @Unibocconi, @turati_riccardo ow.ly/VW2j50QtSWS #CEPR_PoE #CEPR_PE

CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference will be held on June 27-28, 2024, in Copenhagen 🇩🇰. Please submit your research proposal by January 5 (Friday) to cphmoneyinpolitics@gmail.com. For more information: sites.google.com/view/bcegerod/… @BCEgerod

Coming to MPSA 2024! I've organized a conference-within-a-conference on the separation of powers. We've got a great lineup of scholars working at the intersection of legislative and executive politics. And I'm very grateful to the @Levin_Center for sponsoring the CwC!

This viz on transformers/LLMs from the FT is very well done, check it out. Separately, it’s very cool to be working (albeit in a very small, applied way) on a tech that’s so “important” that it’s deemed worthy of explainers! ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

two invite codes available for folks late to the party

🥁 New round of hirings for POSTNORM: 1. One postdoctoral research fellowship: eui.eu/Documents/Serv… 2. Two pre-doc/RA positions: eui.eu/Documents/Serv… Feel free to contact me for more information and please help to spread the word. 🎺