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Benjamin C.K. Egerod

@bcegerod.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof Copenhagen Business School | Fellow UChicago Stigler Center | Political economy, money in politics, lobbying, non-market strategy | Occasional posts in Danish. sites.google.com/view/bcegerod

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Jon Fiva @fiva.no · 30/04/2026
🚨Political economy workshop at BI - May 28 🚨 👉 send me an email if you would like to attend Presenters: Sophie Hatte, @siggi-econ.bsky.social, Laura Barros, Nicola Mastrorocco, @moritz-marbach.com, @bcegerod.bsky.social, @oskorge.bsky.social, @alicirone.bsky.social, @maxemilking.bsky.social
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 03/02/2026
🧵 New version of our paper (@bcegerod.bsky.social) is finally online: "How Many is Enough? Sample Size in Staggered Difference-in-Differences Designs" We show that even well-identified DiD studies are often underpowered; sample sizes needed are surprisingly large Paper: osf.io/preprints/os... 1/6
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
So much of classic political science research is woefully underpowered. I'm glad we're slowly coming to our senses.
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Got a few new papers coming out with some excellent coauthors. Descriptive representation on K street: Race and gender among federal lobbyists w/ @hjghassell.bsky.social @davidryanmiller.com and @bcegerod.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
. @bcegerod.bsky.social and Hye Young You presenting data on what has been happening in the study of money in politics
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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thrilled to welcome so many excellent scholars to EGB for the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics this Thursday and Friday. www.cbs.dk/files/cbs.dk... We are looking forward to two days of great presentations and discussions. Watch this space for some timely updates
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Danish Institute for Advanced Study @d-ias.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
What are the implications of politicians swapping public office for corporate roles? Interestingly, this ‘revolving door’ might have political benefits for both the public and the private sector. Thanks to @bcegerod.bsky.social of Copenhagen Business School for making us a little wiser 💡
A person presents in a lecture hall with a slide titled 'What's known, what's coming?' and 'What might we expect?', discussing research and expectations related to Denmark. A banner beside the presenter reads 'DIAS' with the phrases 'Be curious.', 'Be playful.', and 'Be excellent.'.
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Megan Stevenson @meganstevenson.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Paper🧵! We.... 1) develop a framework for identification w/ multiple treatments in a judge IV design 2) find that felony conviction (without incarceration) increases recidivism relative to dismissal with @johneric.bsky.social Aurelie Ouss @winnievd.bsky.social and Kamelia Stavreva 1/
This a screenshot of the abstract of our paper, called Conviction, Incarceration and Recidivism: Understanding the Revolving Door. It says "Noncarceral conviction is a common outcome of criminal court cases: for every individual
incarcerated, there are approximately three who were recently convicted but not sentenced to
prison or jail. We extend the binary-treatment judge IV framework to settings with multiple
treatments and use it to study the consequences of noncarceral conviction. We outline
assumptions under which widely-used 2SLS regressions recover margin-specific treatment
effects, relate these assumptions to models of judge decision-making, and derive an expression
that provides intuition about the direction and magnitude of asymptotic bias when a key
assumption on judge decision-making is not met. We find that noncarceral conviction (relative
to dismissal) leads to a large and long-lasting increase in recidivism for felony defendants in
Virginia. In contrast, incarceration (relative to noncarceral conviction) leads to a short-run
reduction in recidivism, consistent with incapacitation. Our empirical results suggest that
noncarceral felony conviction is an important and overlooked driver of recidivism."
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Anna Gunderson @annagunderson.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Hot off the presses @igajournal.bsky.social with @kirstenwidner.bsky.social and @mgmacdonald.bsky.social! We look at inside + outside lobbying strategies of social media groups on Facebook and Twitter. Check it out here 👇 link.springer.com/10.1057/s413...
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Lobbying in public: interest group activity on social media - Interest Groups & Advocacy
Social media has transformed political communication by making it easy to post and free to disseminate information. Interest groups can use social media platforms to direct messages to policymakers an...
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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Deadline for the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 is coming up quick. Submit your paper by January 10, 2025 if you want to join. The conference will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. shorturl.at/EOfzs
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 04/01/2025
This is a great thread with many thoughtful responses on how comparative politics (science?) should evolve. @bcegerod.bsky.social and I have another paper to add to the pile, discussing power issues in the new staggered difference-in-differences estimators: osf.io/preprints/os...
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 04/01/2025
If you want to join us for the money in politics conference in June, you have to apply by next Friday (January 10th)! 💵🏛️
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Ben Yoel @benyoel.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I’m thrilled that this update is now officially public! Caleb, @mattgrossmann.bsky.social, and I spent quite a bit of time on this one. If you have any suggestions for improving the database or if you’d like to have your data included in CongressData please feel free to email me directly.
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Josh McCrain @joshmccrain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
go to this!!
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Very happy to announce that the 🚨CBS-Princeton Money in Politics Conference 🚨 will be held June 19-20, 2025 in Copenhagen. Deadline is coming up soon -- send us your papers before January 10, 2025. Link: sites.google.com/view/bcegero...
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨Job🚨 Interested in working 2 years in beautiful Copenhagen with our political economics group? Jan Stuckatz and I are hiring a postdoc for a revolving door project at CBS. Start: summer '25. No teaching. Deadline: January 5 '25 Link: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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Postdoc in Business and Government at Copenhagen Business School | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
The Department of International Economics, Government and Business (EGB) invites applications for a vacant position for a two-year postdoc in Business and Government. The postdoc will be part of the p...
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Jonathan wrote a very important paper about cross country regressions being difficult to power!
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Jonathan S Doucette @jdoucette.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Thrilled that my article has just been published at @apsrjournal.bsky.social! 🎉 The article argues that low statistical power is a major impediment to acquiring cumulative knowledge on questions concerning cross-national differences: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data? | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
What Can We Learn about the Effects of Democracy Using Cross-National Data?
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
🚨Job🚨 Interested in working 2 years in beautiful Copenhagen with our political economics group? Jan Stuckatz and I are hiring a postdoc for a revolving door project at CBS. Start: summer '25. No teaching. Deadline: January 5 '25 Link: www.cbs.dk/en/about-cbs...
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Postdoc in Business and Government at Copenhagen Business School | CBS - Copenhagen Business School
The Department of International Economics, Government and Business (EGB) invites applications for a vacant position for a two-year postdoc in Business and Government. The postdoc will be part of the p...
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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 24/10/2024
This new AJPS paper by Alexander Sahn is a methodological tour de force, using tens of thousands of comments to show how public hearing commenters are older, white, NIMBY homeowners who exert extreme influence on zoning decisions at public meetings doi.org/10.1111/ajps... #polisky #PAsky
Public comment and public policy
Alexander Sahn

Abstract  Is public policy responsive to demographically and ideologically unrepresentative comments given at public meetings? I investigate this possibility using a novel data set of over 40,000 comments made at the San Francisco Planning Commission between 1998 and 2021, matched to information about proposed developments discussed in hearings and administrative data on commenters. I document four stylized facts: First, commenters at public meetings are unrepresentative of the public along racial, gender, age, and homeownership lines; second, distance to the proposed development predicts commenting behavior, but only among those in opposition; third, commission votes are correlated with commenters’ preferences; finally, the alignment of White commenters (vs. other racial groups) and neighborhood group representatives and the general public (vs. other interest groups) better predict project approvals.
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Money in Politics at CBS @moneypolitics-cbs.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Our own @bcegerod.bsky.social writes about lobbyists in Denmark in Børsen today: borsen.dk/nyheder/opin... #dkpol
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“I al ubemærkethed har lobbyisterne indtaget Danmark”
Lobbyismen er ikke længere forbeholdt de store interesseorganisationer. I løbet af de seneste år er public affairs-branchen steget eksplosivt. Konsekvenserne af dette kender vi endnu ikke En af de stø
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 20/11/2024
The CBS money in politics group is now represented on bluesky. 💵💸 Please follow along and add it to all your relevant lists and starter packs. 💵💸
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Follow the Money in Politics group at the Copenhagen Business School here 👇👇
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Michael Bang Petersen @m-b-petersen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
The other place is ablaze. Looking forward to hopefully reconnecting here with all the smart people that showed up in my feeds in the good old days and made me understand the world better.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
from @thomasjwood.bsky.social x.com/thomasjwood/...
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Florian Hollenbach @fhollenbach.org · 11/11/2024
#COP29 is underway but the plenary session is already on hold. Let me re-up our (@acdatacollective.bsky.social) joint report with @anticorruption.bsky.social about the risks of co-optation by fossil fuels interests and corruption at COPs acdatacollective.org/work/cop-co-...
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COP Co-Opted? – ACDC
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Carlisle Rainey 👨‍💻📊📚 @carlislerainey.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Great new preprint from @bcegerod.bsky.social and @@fhollenbach.bsky.social. Nice contribution to the popular staggered DiD literature--focusing (appropriately, in my view) on the cost of increased variance. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/osf...
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Will Lowe @conjugateprior.org · 14/01/2024
Always a good time to upload this one.
3. When to use IV

Never
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Paul Hünermund @p-hunermund.com · 30/12/2023
💡Glad to see this paper with Beyers Louw finally published: "On the Nuisance of Control Variables in Causal Regression Analysis" (preprint available on arXiv). doi.org/10.1177/1094...
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Happy holidays! And remember to submit to the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference before the deadline on January 5!
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 26/12/2023
Happy holidays! And remember to submit to the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference before the deadline on January 5!
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 21/12/2023
The deadline for submitting to the CBS-Princeton Money in Politics conference in Copenhagen is approaching fast. Get your submissions in!
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Chris Warshaw @chriswarshaw.bsky.social · 19/12/2023
Our paper introducing the "American Local Government Elections Database" is online at Scientific Data. The data includes 78,000 candidates in 57,000 electoral contests in races for seven distinct local political offices in most medium and large cities and counties over the last three decades.
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American local government elections database - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - American local government elections database
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Lene Holm Pedersen @leneholmp.bsky.social · 16/12/2023
Writing a Ph.D. is a job, but not an ordinary job. Certainly @fkjoeller.bsky.social did an extraordinary job. Thanks for an excellent defense to the committee + friends @asmusletholsen.bsky.social @bcegerod.bsky.social @johannarickne.bsky.social @annebind.bsky.social @mvinaes.bsky.social et al.
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Marcela Alonso Ferreira @marcelaferreira.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
polisky
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Daniele Girardi @dgirardi.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
Public Service Announcement STATA package for Local Projections Diff-in-Diff (LP-DiD) now available LP-DiD is a convenient, general and flexible regression-based framework for DiD (www.nber.org/papers/w31184) Type: ssc install lpdid by @alexanderbusch.bsky.social & me cc @arindube.bsky.social
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A Local Projections Approach to Difference-in-Differences Event Studies
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 29/11/2023
Thank you Wiley, I never thought about publishing at this weird American Journal of Political Science place
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Benjamin C.K. Egerod @bcegerod.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
"Hence, I am glad to give you a “Revise & Resubmit” for this paper." Sweet, sweet words.
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Alessandro Martinello 🇪🇺 @alemartinello.com · 26/11/2023
Sunday morning fun fact. The Danish version of the Great British Bake Off is so popular that in weekends where an episode of Den Store Bagedyst is released, bakeries across the country experience a 8% higher turnover wrt the rest of the year, measured by card payments. You are welcome! 😄
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Nominal News (Pawel Langer) @nominalnews.com · 22/11/2023
The DOJ generally improves welfare when it goes after anti-competitive practices: #econsky #teachecon
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Johannes Jaspersen @jaspersen.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
#EconSky Severe climate events (floods, wildfires) are raising insurance costs – on average, home insurance premiums increased 21% this year. Will policyholders keep insuring their homes? We (@blcollier2.bsky.social, @tobiashuber.bsky.social, Andreas Richter & I) explore this in a new working paper.
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Jacob Hacker @jacobhacker.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Paul Pierson & I are seeking @ispsyale.bsky.social predoctoral fellows for 2024-25 interested in American Political Economy (www.americanpoliticaleconomy.org) (Our amazing predoc @malpas.bsky.social is moving on to greater things.) Encourage undergraduates to apply at tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...
This project, conducted with Professor Jacob Hacker, concerns the transformation of the Democratic Party in the contemporary knowledge economy, where economic success is closely linked to urban agglomeration effects. In the context of increasing racial and ethnic diversity and growing educational, occupational, and geographic divides, how has the party managed its heterogenous coalition centered in large prosperous cities and their suburbs? The research encompasses the party at all levels: its governing priorities and actions; its organization and leadership in Washington, state capitals, and major cities; and its racially and economically diverse voter base.
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G Brueckmann @brueckmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
For my Causal Inference Lecture Preparation I am looking for really cool papers using Instrumental Variables. Plug your own IV study, share good instruments, or praise anything you would have liked to be introduced to. #AcademicSky #Polisky #Econsky #HigherEd #FollowerPower Thank you!
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Hans Hassell @hjghassell.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
Reminder: EPOVB Conference submission deadline is today. Submit here: fsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Details: Dates: Feb 29-March 2 Location: Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL Limited funding for grad student travel available on a competitive basis. Polisky
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 13/11/2023
An update to my paper with David Autor & Annie McGrew. The Unexpected Compression in wages has persisted, even as labor market tightness subsided. Tl;dr ~40% of the rise in wage gap between 10th & 90th percentile in 1980-2019 was reversed in past 3 years. 1/ nber.org/system/files...
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I have two invite codes! Polisky econsky
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Dan Smith @profdansmith.bsky.social · 06/11/2023
Many students are currently applying to PhD programs in political science, and others have just started as first-years. Check out these helpful and concise sets of advice by @benjaminsnoble.bsky.social. A great service to polisky! benjaminnoble.org/grad-advice/
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Advice for Grad Students
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Dan Hopkins @dhopkins1776.bsky.social · 05/11/2023
Some thoughts related to the NYT polls... 1) Yes, it's true that polls aren't traditionally very predictive this far out, but there are only elections every 4 years, and much of the existing evidence comes from less polarized times.
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