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Gemma Dipoppa

@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social

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Assistant Professor Columbia Political Science - Political Economy, Migration, Crime, Environmental www.gemmadipoppa.com

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

8/ ➡️ Result 2: Who faced the brunt of surveillance? The working class. The newly educated poor were watched longer, more harshly, and more intensively, consistently with the state fearing their empowerment.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

6/ We present 3 results: ➡️ Result 1: Municipality-cohorts exposed to more schooling were 64% more likely to be surveilled. The effect increases as the state expands education and disappears when later reforms equalize schooling across municipalities.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

5/ 🎲 The shock: The Casati Law mandated primary schooling for 2 years everywhere but extended it for +2 years in towns >4,000 inhabitants and cohorts born post 1854. We show the reform reduced illiteracy and use it in a difference-in-discontinuity design by population and cohort.

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

3/ Unsupervised LLM on 1,200+ police files shows that mobilization capacity – and a particular marker of it, education, – together with potential for subversion are recurring traits noted by the surveillance state. 📚

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Here's last year's program. The conference is generously funded by Brown University through the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research and the PPE Center

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

4/ I test this using a novel dataset tracking mafia expansion from the 1960s onward. By scraping historical newspapers and validating with judicial data, I create the first municipal-level, time-varying measure of mafia presence in Italy. 📰

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Gemma Dipoppa @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social · 25/09/2023

Female politicians face an additional gender gap: they are 3️⃣ times more likely to experience violence while in office. We study the reasons and consequences of violence in a new paper, summarized in this column cepr.org/voxeu/column... With @mpulejo.bsky.social and Gianmarco Daniele

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