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Alessandro Pizzigolotto

@pizzigolot.to
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Pokémon Trainer and Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Copenhagen | PhD @nhhecon.bsky.social | applied micro on political economy, religion, history and many other things | devoted bass player and music nerd | I like volcanoes 🌋 🌐 pizzigolot.to

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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 16/09/2026
This is a great fundamental lesson on whatever domain you are working on and whatever tools you are using to interact with the LLMs, whether it's bare chatting with no tools or agentic workflows. www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-...
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LLMs reward expertise
In the 2010s, if you had technical gaps (say, you couldn’t write CSS), you had to either rely on a skilled colleague or just hope that the answer to your exact…
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 07/09/2026
Check out our article on @voxeu.org, with @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social and Lena Sperling. #EconSky
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 15/07/2026
I think it would be valuable to have a middle-ground solution between workflows adopted in more dev domains with a flavour of academic research, but without being overkill. I have not found the right balance yet around, but also the industry is changing so fast.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 15/07/2026
This paper is really interesting: arxiv.org/abs/2602.22401 I have been interested into AI workflows for applied social science research for over a year, before the first harness came out, and I have not figure out the perfect setup yet, after so many attempts.
Vibe Researching as Wolf Coming: Can AI Agents with Skills Replace or Augment Social Scientists? Paper by Youngjun Zhang.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
Now there is talk of running this again, at a much bigger scale. We think our paper (with @jeanetbentzen.bsky.social & Lena Sperling) is a decent guide to what to expect. For additional coverage: www.aeaweb.org/research/rel...
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A quiet revolution
The role of faith-based government policies in reshaping Americans’ beliefs and values.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
Here's the twist: only Protestants moved. Everyone else kept right on secularizing. So the money did not bring the country together around faith — our results suggest it pulled it further apart. Sound familiar?
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
And it didn't stop at the pews. Views hardened against abortion and homosexuality, gay-marriage bans became more likely, gender-attitude gaps widened. These programs did not just deliver welfare. They seem to have moved what people believe.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
People showed up, too. Among Americans who weren't regular churchgoers, we find 9% started attending monthly or more. That's a bigger shift than most persuasion campaigns we know of — political advertising included.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
Faith-based initiatives rolled out across the US in the 1990s–2000s. The White House called it a "quiet revolution." Our estimates suggest it worked: ~2,258 new faith-based organizations, reaching up to 4.9 million Americans a year. When government funds religion, you get more religion.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 10/07/2026
Washington is once again floating the idea of routing more money through religious organizations and build bridges between Church and State. We have been here before. We looked at what actually happened last time. Our paper, out now in @aeajournals.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Divine Policy: The Impact of Religion in Government. Paper in AEJ: Applied Economics by Jeanet Sinding Bentzen (University of Copenhagen), Alessandro Pizzigolotto (University of Copenhagen, Lena Lindbjerg Sperling.
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dax @thdxr.com · 06/12/2025
every time i try out an AI IDE it feels like this
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 13/09/2025
I am a maps nerd and this is a great post! open.substack.com/pub/cartogra...
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The “correct” map
The Mercator map creates distortions. Just like the Peters map and any map with any projection on a plane. This is the story of the correct map, the map that does not exist.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 26/08/2025
This is something I share a lot, both in general and specific terms!
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
That's a few things about myself, thanks for reading along. I will try to keep this space more updated in the future, you can reach me here or swing by my website: pizzigolot.to 🌐. fin.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
5/ I am also a big time Pokémon fan, a 4X video games enthusiast and a craft beer geek 🍻🎮. A few things to keep my life interesting.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
4/ When I am not buried in data, I'm a music nerd at heart, with a taste for the heavy side of things. I love listening to music and attend concerts. I also promised myself for this year to spend time playing the bass guitar and experimenting with effects. 🎸🤘
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
3/ Lately, I’ve been mostly diving deep into the last two, working on charitable institutions and volcanoes. A quirky mix, I know—but it’s a wild, data-fueled ride. 🌋
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
2/ My research blends micro-econometric tools with cool data science techniques to explore the intersections of political economy, finance, religion, and economic history.
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
1/ Hi, I'm Alessandro — currently a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, fairly fresh from earning my PhD in Economics at the Norwegian School of Economics (NHH). 📚
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Alessandro Pizzigolotto @pizzigolot.to · 31/03/2025
I’ve been hanging around on Bluesky these past few weeks, and I have to say, the content is quite engaging. So, I thought I’d take a moment to break my cycle of laziness with social media and write a few words to introduce myself. ↓
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