This week, GDL hosted Professor Carl Müller-Crepon (LSE), who presented a working paper titled “Co-ethnics Co-vote in Africa: Studying Electoral Cleavages with a Co-Voting Regression Model” (with Nils-Christian Bormann). In this paper, they develop a Co-Voting Regression model which estimates the effect of co-ethnicity on the probability that pairs of voters co-vote for the same…

This week, GDL hosted a virtual talk with Hassan Damluji, the Director and Co-Founder of Global Nation. Hassan discussed the methodology of the Global Solidarity Index with lab members. GDL Director Evan Lieberman has been a contributor to the annual Global Solidarity Report in 2023 and 2024.

This week, GDL hosted Professor Melissa Sands (LSE) for a presentation of her project “Cultural Exchange or Cultural Clash? Exposure to Chinese Students and Attitudes towards China” (with Naima Green-Riley). They use rhetoric in college newspapers to analyze shifts in the sentiment and topic coverage of U.S. students’ discussions and attitudes toward China over time.

The Global Diversity Lab was honored to host Professor Laura Jákli (Harvard Business School) earlier this month for an engaging presentation and discussion of her working paper “Political Apathy as Autocratization Strategy: Evidence from Hungary.” In this paper, Professor Jákli develops a conceptual framework for understanding apathy – a demobilizing emotion that discourages political interest and action –…

The Global Diversity Lab was honored to host two external presenters last month, Professor Soledad Prillaman (Stanford University) and Professor Aala Abdelgadir (University of Pittsburgh). Professor Prillaman presented her recently published book “The Patriarchal Political Order: the making and unraveling of the gendered participation gap in India.” Professor Abdelgadir presented her working paper “Conservative Islam…

The Global Diversity Lab was delighted to host Dr Feyaad Allie (Harvard University) last week for an engaging presentation and discussion of his paper “The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India.” In this paper, Dr Allie finds that that the election of a Muslim representative can unite Hindus and…

The Global Diversity Lab was honored to host Professor Mina Cikara (Department of Psychology, Harvard University) earlier this week for an engaging presentation and discussion of her paper “Hate crime towards minoritized groups increases as they increase in sized-based rank,” which was published in Nature Human Behaviour last year. In this paper, co-authored with Vasiliki…

The Global Diversity Lab was delighted to host Professor Rachel Brulé (Boston University) this week for a presentation of her working paper “Discussion Rules Matter for Representation: Experimental Evidence from Rural India.” In this paper, co-authored with Simon Chauchard (UC3M) and Alyssa Heinze (UC Berkeley), Professor Brulé studies whether nudges that alter the rules of…

Dr. Arpit Shah from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore presented his research on urban environmental inequalities. Pairing spatially explicit demographic census micro-data from one of the world’s leading urbanization hotspots (Bengaluru, India) with high-resolution satellite imagery, Dr. Shah and co-authors describe the association between caste-based residential segregation (including intra-street micro-segregation) and environmental injustice. They…

On May 2nd, 2023, Mashail Mallik of Harvard University presented her paper ‘Discrimination and Defiant Pride: How the Demand for Dignity Can Create Slack for Poor Governance. The paper asks why poorly governing ethnic parties persist and shows evidence that core supporters remain loyal in the face of poor governance because of dignity concerns: those…

On April 4th, 2023 Pavithra Suryanarayan of the London School of Economics presented her paper ‘When Losing The State Drives Opposition to Redistribution: An Experiment in India”  (joint work with Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Madrid)’ to the Global Diversity Lab. In this paper, they argue that “who” controls the state is a salient issue…

On Feb 21st, 2023 Pavlos Vasilopoulous and Haley McAvay of the University of York presented their paper ‘Do Neighborhoods Empower or Disenfranchise?Co-ethnic Concentration, Spatial Disadvantage, and Voter Registration in France’ to the Global Diversity Lab. Drawing on the case of France, this paper uses two unique datasets to explore the role of neighborhoods in shaping…