2021 Spring Schedule
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VWAR 50 (January 27) - Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz), "Human Judgement in the Coding of Cross-national Indicators"
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VWAR 51 (February 3) - Lynette Ong (University of Toronto), Xiaobo Lü (University of Texas at Austin), and Wenhui Yang (University of Texas at Austin), "Land Taking, Windfall Revenue, and Social Unrest: Evidence from China."
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VWAR 52 (February 10) - Don Grasse (Emory University), "Developmental Legacy of Mass Repression: Evidence from the Khmer Rouge."
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VWAR 53 (February 24) - Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University), "Counting the Costs of Academic Censorship."
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VWAR 54 (March 10) - Brett Carter (University of Southern California) and Erin Baggott Carter (University of Southern California), "How does Religion Shape Political Dissent in Autocracies?"
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VWAR 55 (March 24) - Sarah Bush (Yale University), Daniela Donno (University of Cyprus), and Pär Zetterberg (Uppsula University), "Rewarding Women's Rights in Dictatorships."
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VWAR 56 (April 7) - Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago), Dmitriy Vorobyev (Ural Federal University), and Anton Shirikov (University of Wisconsin - Madison), "A Model of Censorship and Propaganda."
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VWAR 57 (April 21) - Bruno Caprettini (University of Zurich), Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich and CEPR), and David Yanagizawa-Drott (University of Zurich and NBER), "Contagious Extremism: Nazi Marches and Radical Voting."