Just like what Thatcher famously said, "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Arife Kose@arifekose.bsky.social · 2y ago

Minister of Justice of Turkey: "We have no authority to intervene in the judiciary and say arrest these people and release these people." However, no one believes this including the government supporters. No one believes that Imamoglu and others will receive a fair trial. The less persuasive the+

Map of international graduate student and faculty targeted for deportation for their political speech. The only solution is organized resistance. Join your union and other political organizations that are fighting this.

X users in Turkey migrate to Bluesky amid censorship bianet.org/haber/x-user...

X users in Turkey migrate to Bluesky amid censorship

Social media users are increasingly turning to Bluesky in response to government censorship and X’s internal content policies, though Bluesky itself may soon face similar restrictions.

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The great Turkish transition from X is beginning in the wake of Elon banning opposition accounts

Nurizade Bey@nurizadefb.bsky.social · 2y ago

Son 24 saatte Bluesky’de hesap açan Türk kullanıcı sayısı 1 milyonu geçti

Avukatlar gününüz kutlu olsun Selçuk Kozağaçlı, Can Atalay, Selahattin Demirtaş.

Identifying and exploring the diversity and growth of green jobs blogs.worldbank.org/en/investinp...

Submit for the 2025 edition of the International Conference on Development Economics (ICDE) from 2 to 4 July 2025 in Paris, France. Information can be found on the conference website: icde2025.sciencesconf.org Researchers are invited to submit papers by 9 February 2025.

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İstanbul Sözleşmesi, normatif sinyal değeri gönderiyor

Kadına yönelik şiddet aslında aynı zamanda bir erkek meselesi… Dolayısıyla bir toplumsallık ve norm meselesi… Zira, gücü elinde tutan, toplumsal denetimi sürdüren bir erkek egemen kültür, cinsiyete da...

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Our research on "The Signaling Value of Government Action: The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders" is out as an NBER Working Paper. A short tread: www.nber.org/papers/w3316...

The Signaling Value of Government Action: The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders

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How influential are government actions in shaping societal behaviours? @gunesasik.bsky.social &Naci Mocan’s new study suggest: quite! They show that Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention led to 70 more female murders, especially by intimate partners, per year. www.nber.org/papers/w3316...

The Signaling Value of Government Action: The Effect of Istanbul Convention on Female Murders

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I am very happy to announce that our paper, "Impact of Graduating with Honours on Entry Wages of Economics Majors" is now out at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... a small thread on our findings:

Econometrics Thread (#EconSky) Today, I will talk very briefly about a few recent methodological papers that I think are super useful to applied researchers. Basically, below, you will find some new tools that may help you to answer relevant empirical questions. +

Here are 50+ journals where economists publish short papers. bit.ly/36qNVfn The list includes examples and my experience with each journal.

Very happy that our paper on the impact of employment subsidies in Turkey is listed among the four winning papers of World Bank's 2023 ECA Academy Award! www.worldbank.org/en/region/ec...

This is a very interesting paper, it rocked my priors: www.nber.org/papers/w3175...

No Revenge for Nerds? Evaluating the Careers of Ivy League Athletes

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My first entry in bsky: Claudia Goldin gets the Nobel. Soo happy!