Publications

1. Frontier Knowledge and Scientific Production: Evidence from the Collapse of International Science
   (with Alessandro Iaria, and Fabian Waldinger) [VoxEU]
   [Quarterly Journal of Economics 133(2), pp. 927–991, 2018.]
   Selected Media Coverage: Eurasiareview, Times Higher Education, MyScience, Phys.org, Europapress.es, Centre Piece
   
   
2. ldagibbs: A command for Topic Modeling in Stata using Latent Dirichlet Allocation
   [Stata Journal 18(1), pp. 101–117, 2018.] [Code Files]
   
   
3. lsemantica: A Stata Command for Text Similarity based on Latent Semantic Analysis
   [Stata Journal 19(1), pp. 129–142, 2019.] [Code Files]
   
   
4. Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime
   (with Karsten Müller)
   [Journal of the European Economic Association 19(4), pp. 2131–2167, 2021.]
   Selected Media Coverage: The Economist, New York Times (1), New York Times (2), Financial Times, Guardian (1), Guardian (2), Times, VRT (Belgium Television), Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Deutsche Welle, Handelsblatt, Wirtschaftswoche, Pro Asyl, Watson.ch, Belltower News, The New European, TechCrunch, der Standard, Tagesspiegel, Golem, Luzerner Zeitung, EU Observer, La Repubblica
   
   
5. Tariffs and Politics: Evidence from Trump’s Trade Wars
   (with Thiemo Fetzer) [VoxEU]
   [Economic Journal 131(636), pp. 1717–1741, 2021.]
   Selected Media Coverage: The Economist, Forbes, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handelsblatt, Breitbart , Financial Post, El Mundo, La Repubblica
   
   
6. From Hashtag to Hate Crime: Twitter and Anti-Minority Sentiment
   (with Karsten Müller)
   [Accepted: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics.]
   Selected Media Coverage: Southern Poverty Law Center, NY Times Interpreter, Scientific American, Reveal.org, Stepfeed, ProMarket, The Daily Beast, Big Think, Religion News Service, The Canary, The National, The Week
   
   
7. Estimating Text Regressions using txtreg_train
   [Accepted: Stata Journal]
   [Code Files][Predicted Citation Model]
   
   
8. The Effect of Social Media on Elections: Evidence from the United States
   [Conditionally Accepted: Journal of the European Economic Association.]
   (with Thomas Fujiwara, and Karsten Müller) [VoxEU]
   Selected Media Coverage: La Repubblica

Working Papers

1. How Polarized are Citizens? Measuring Ideology from the Ground-Up
   [R&R Economic Journal]
   (with Mirko Draca)
   Selected Media Coverage: New Statesman, Prospect Magazine, Phys.org
   
   
2. From Apprentice to President? Entertainment TV and US Elections
   [R&R The Leadership Quarterly]
   (with Karsten Müller)
   
   
3. Gender Gaps in Academia: Global Evidence over the 20th Century
   [R&R Econometrica]
   (with Alessandro Iaria, and Fabian Waldinger)
   
   
4. Visual Stereotypes in News Media
   [Submitted]
   (with Elliott Ash, Ruben Durante, and Maria Grebenshchikova)
   
   
5. The Effects of Online Content Moderation: Evidence from President Trump’s Account Deletion
   [Submitted]
   (with Karsten Müller)
   
   
6. The Effect of Content Moderation on Online and Offline Hate: Evidence from Germany’s NetzDG
   (with Rafael Jiménez Durán and Karsten Müller) [VoxEU]