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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Happy to share this draft of my paper, "The Winner Premium," after a grueling but rewarding half-year of presentations and discussions. I'm grateful to so many for the conversations and comments!

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The Winner Premium

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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The Review of Economic Studies (REStud) @reveconstudies.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

The Confederate diaspora—small but powerful and ideologically intense—reshaped culture across the U.S. through influence, organizational mobilization, and political leverage. New paper by Bazzi, Ferrara, Fiszbein, Pearson, and Testa: www.restud.com/the-confeder... #REStud #EconSky

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Andy Ferrara @andyferrara.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My research team (w/ Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, Thomas Pearson, and Pat Testa) is hiring a full-time economics pre-doc starting in May! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below: workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/defau...

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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

My new working paper! Previous work has focused on national shocks (eg Great Migration) in bringing about racial realignment between 1940 and 1970. I show that elections themselves played a key feedback role guiding this process, by showing party investors where coalition changes were profitable

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Political Foundations of Racial Violence in the Post-Reconstruction South,” by Testa (@patesta.bsky.social) and Williams: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

My research team (w/ @andyferrara.bsky.social, Sam Bazzi, Eric Chyn, Martin Fiszbein, and Thomas Pearson) is hiring a full-time economics postdoc for the 2025-26 academic year! If you know someone who might be interested, see the link below.

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NBER @nber.org · 26/07/2025

Frontline Union Army captains cut desertions and boosted cohesion through leading by example, earning postwar-wage gains and greater recognition, from @andyferrara.bsky.social, Christian Dippel, and Stephan Heblich www.nber.org/papers/w34057

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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Fantastic new work by @andyferrara.bsky.social. Thrilled to see this paper finally out after many years

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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Proud of this paper with Jhacova Williams!

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NBER @nber.org · 15/07/2025

Racial violence in the post-Reconstruction US South was closely tied to the local political performance of the Democratic Party, from Patrick A. Testa and Jhacova A. Williams www.nber.org/papers/w34004

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NBER @nber.org · 14/07/2025

An examination of when migrants shape local culture, development a framework, and illustrated with historical evidence, to explain the conditions and channels for influence, from Samuel Bazzi and Martin Fiszbein www.nber.org/papers/w34001

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Nuno Palma @nunopgpalma.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman @jnchapman-econ.bsky.social, we show that Justices of the Peace — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth. 🧵👇1/7

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

As an example: we could have a huge trade deficit with a country that has zero trade barriers at all because they happen to have some resource we don't have and need

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Patrick Testa @patesta.bsky.social · 16/02/2024

Going to make an effort to be active here... for my first post let me advertise my new work with Jhacova Williams (at American U). We provide some of the very first systematic evidence for an old hypothesis, that political factors directly shaped the dynamics of lynching activity across the US South

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