Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 8hGreat to see our RCT on healthcare plans in Estonia 🇪🇪 in the Journal of Public Economics! If you want to know how doctor-patient interactions can improve health outcomes, it should make for an interesting read www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 01/08/2026A co gdyby 100 rocznica Powstania Warszawskiego w 2044r. została uczczona przez... otwarcie Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1. sierpnia o godzinie W? Jaki duży symboliczny potencjał kryje się w organizacji tych zawodów - uniwersalnego symbolu pokoju - w stolicy wskrzeszonej z gruzów wojny? 000
Reposted by Robert LipińskiNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026The genders of French rivers www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/... 411134
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Does a 48-team World Cup mean more lopsided games? ⚽️📊 Tallying the scores of every tournament since 1930 says... not really So far, 27% of games in the 2026 World Cup have ended with a >2 goal margin, compared to the historical average of 20%. Higher, but not overwhelmingly so 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 23/06/2026When you talk about someone and that person suddently enters you say "speak of..."? The creativity here is stark! 🐺😈🔆🦊🧌 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Great to be back in Estonia for the 10th Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies organized by Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu. Presenting Finnish TV paper ✅ Chairing a session on memory politics✅ Strolling the city ✅ Finding the best bookshop ever ✅ 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Great NYT piece on Japan demographic crisis. Interesingly, 2026 is the Fire Horse year, traditionally considered bad omen for newborn girls. Last time this happened (1966) fertility droppped from 2.1 to 1.6, as people delayed births. Can this repeat and add to population decline? 110
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 29/05/2026UN peacekeeping is one the most noble ideas of humanity 29th May is the international day of UN peacekeepers Over 51,000 men and women now serve in 11 missions to "save succeeding generations from the scourge of war". Many more have served and died for this cause since 1948 000
Reposted by Robert LipińskiMonica Morrill @mmorrillart.bsky.social · 23/05/2026Hi! My name is Monica and I am a landscape artist from British Columbia, Canada. This is my art, hope you like it! 1914556423
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026TOPOGRAPHY 🤝 MAPS China 中国 throughout history vs regional topography The Tibetan Plateau has notably shaped Chinese expansion The state structures have almost invariably been in the east. Most westward pushes had to fit into the narrow Hexi Corridor and spill into the Tarim Basin 001
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026CARTOGRAPHY 🤝 FLAGS The level of detail (and insight) gets amazing Germany: Rhein Valley in SW corner Ecuador: divided in half by the Andes Armenia: highest peak (Mt Aragats) occupting major chunk in the west Egypt: Nile Valley clear as day, as is the Qattara Depression westward 010
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026New WB working paper with my small contribution! In a large-scale RCT in Estonia we find that developing a health care plan with your doctor can decrease mortality (up to 20%) and hospitalization, while increasing screening, diagnosis and treatment rates. documents.worldbank.org/en/publicati...documents.worldbank.orgIn Sickness and In Health : Motivating Improved Healthcare Using Holistic Patient ContractsThis paper examines the impacts of family doctors writing an explicit “care contract” with at-risk patients for increased holistic primary care. The intervention was . 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Poland can shrink 2x by the end of the century... Instead of being 42th, Poland would be only 89th most populous country by 2100 in that scenario. That's 4th largest drop ranking-wise globally! Only Ukraine, South Korea, and Italy are expected to drop in the population rankings more 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 14/05/2026As of 2024, Sub-Saharan Africa had no less than 324 refugee camps. Over 5,200,000 people lived in them. Source: Anti et al. (2026) "African Refugee Camps Dataset", doi.org/10.7910/DVN/... 010
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 14/05/2026“Climate of Chaos” visual blends data with a visceral representation of disorder of Nees’ "Schotter" It eschews perfect lines to directly convey the sense of chaos brought about by climate change, which, if unchecked, will eventually move every piece of our world out of its place 000
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Little known fact - in 1989 Baltic states organized the largest single protest in European history 2M people formed human chain of 675km to protest Soviet occupation My PhD piece takes the first causal (IV) look at the legacies along the Baltic Chain: drive.google.com/file/d/1I2xY... 101
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Podcasty są w Polsce bardzo popularne, a poniżej widać które i kiedy najbardziej! Fantastyczne dane o TOP 200 dziennych odcinkach w Polsce (i nie tylko) za: kaggle.com/datasets/dan... 100
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 25/11/2025Poland hosting IO44' Among TOP20 economies only PL alongside Saudi Arabia and Indonesia never had the Olympcis (nor bid for 2036) Warsaw hosting 2044 Olympics - the ancient symbol of peace - exactly 100 year after being razed in WW2, would be one of the most inspirational tales in sport history! 000
Reposted by Robert LipińskiJohn Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Wow! Check out this cool working paper. "War Causes Religiosity" The authors scraped web images of hundreds of thousands of gravestones of deceased Americans. They found that people who were randomly drafted into war are at least 20% more likely to have religious gravestones. 69320
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Czy #debata prezydencka może wpłynąc na wynik wyborów? 🤔 Choć każda kampania jest unikatowa, to dostępne badania sugerują, że... raczej NIE ❌ Le Pennec i Pons (2023) pokazują to na analizując ponad 50 debat z kilku krajów 📊 nber.org/papers/w26572 010
Reposted by Robert LipińskiPavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 08/04/2025Does the accumulation of assets shape vote choice? In our new paper @bjpols.bsky.social with Justin Robinson & @sofiavasilopoulou.bsky.social we assess the effects of within-person changes in patrimony on party support in Britain Main findings 🧵 (1/4) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgDoes the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge CoreDoes the Accumulation of Assets Shape Voting Preferences? Evidence from a Longitudinal Study in Britain - Volume 55 3338
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 18/03/2025What % of GDP do you think your country spends on development assistance? If your answer is above 0.1%, you likely overestimated This graph by @eurcorrespond.bsky.social shows that not only few European countries reach that level, but many have fallen below in recent years (most notably UK) 120
Reposted by Robert LipińskiSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Average wait time for hitchhiking across Europe. I’m so happy that such a dataset exists. Source: buff.ly/4Q63Vm6 25012
Reposted by Robert LipińskiIPSA @ipsa.org · 12/03/2025Integration and Naturalisation of Refugees and Migrants: Agency, Bureaucracy, and Policy Change www.ipsa.org/na/call-for-... 011
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 12/03/2025One of the most shocking pieces of news not linked to the US this week... Poland is about to equal Japan's GDP per capita (in PPP terms) Lech Wałęsa is said to have promised that back in the 1980s, when Poland was still a communist country. Incredible to see that happen in a single lifetime... 030
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 11/03/2025If you ever wondered why the 'far-right' seems to be on the rise everywhere, the amazing work of @valentimvicente.bsky.social is the thing to read! 171
Reposted by Robert LipińskiCas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Blown away by this erudite book by @valentimvicente.bsky.social 🤯 An exceptional combination of theoretical sophistication and empirical breadth and depth. His theory of normalization not just helps explain recent rise of far right but also warns for overestimating strength of democracy. 9629173
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 28/02/2025Demanding a "thank you" from the victim but not an apology from the aggressor is telling... 010
Robert Lipiński @roblipinski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Phantom border? Looking at the results of German elections across municipalities, it is hard not to observe a basically 1-to-1 match of AfD results with the former West-East Germany border. History tends to stick around... Explore: zeit.de/politik/deut... 010
Reposted by Robert LipińskiThe Diplomat @thediplomat.com · 21/02/2025The Mongolian government’s response to public outcries over air pollution to date have only confirmed perceptions that it isn’t serious about tackling the issue.buff.lyMongolian Public Raises Outcry Over Air Pollution and Public Health ConcernsThe government’s response to date, however, has only confirmed perceptions that it isn’t serious about tackling the issue. 021