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Selcen Cakir

@selcencakir.bsky.social
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Researcher at University of Turku Researching intra-party politics & online job boards

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Selcen Cakir @selcencakir.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Happy to share our new paper in Electoral Studies. We show how electoral setbacks reshape candidate lists and women’s representation, using data from Turkey’s 2015 back-to-back elections. Joint w/Elif Erbay & Konstantinos Matakos. @electoralstudies.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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All the “Missing” ladies: Attribution bias in candidate selection after electoral setbacks
How do parties update candidate lists after electoral setbacks, and what does this mean for women’s representation? We exploit Turkey’s 2015 back-to-b…
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Econometrica @ecmaeditors.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Public funds to Italian firms in disadvantaged areas (ex. Law 488/92) permanently increased employment, but allocation matters: Firms selected by objective rules create more jobs per € than those favored by local politicians. buff.ly/jcc6d6U
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Big: The final version of a randomized, controlled World Bank study finds using a GPT-4 tutor with teacher guidance in a six week afterschool program in Nigeria had "more than twice the effect of some of the most effective interventions in education" ("equating to 1.5 to 2 years" of standard school)
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John McLaren @johnmclaren.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I'm seeing a huge spike in interest in tariffs from people who normally don't work in the economics of international trade. Here are a few useful things to know about them. (1/14)
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NBER @nber.org · 20/12/2024
The effects of a political program in Brazil that addresses selection bias from program screening, self-selection into candidacy, and the need to quantify the contributions of selection and training in a holistic evaluation, from Dal Bó, Ferraz, Finan, and Pessoa www.nber.org/papers/w33251
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Selcen Cakir @selcencakir.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Greetings #EconSky!
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