Gemma Dipoppa
Assistant Professor Columbia Political Science - Political Economy, Migration, Crime, Environmental
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- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaVery happy to share our paper “Voting Rules, Turnout, and Economic Policies,” published in the Annual Review of Economics! Full paper here: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Short 🧵on main take-aways below. w/ E. Cantoni and J. Schafer #EconSky #PoliSciSky @annualreviews.bsky.social (1/n).
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaPEEP is back this year🤌 ! The 4th Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference will be hosted at Harvard on Sept 2, the day before APSA. We welcome observational, experimental and formal theory work focused on Europe. Deadline: March 1st. forms.gle/V6NEy4AfnSs7...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaThrilled to see our paper on “Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes” published in the @jeeanews.bsky.social! 👇👇 We investigate the effects of far-reaching campaign finance rules, with Nikolaj Broberg and Clemence Tricaud. Short thread on what we do and find (1/n).
- Forthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaForthcoming article "Spending Limits, Public Funding, and Election Outcomes" by Nikolaj Broberg @vinpons.bsky.social and Clemence Tricaud @eeanews.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeea...
- 🚨 New WP 🚨: All states monitor the political activity of their citizens. But who do they choose to surveil, and why? We study this question with the universe of Italian political surveillance files: 152,000 individuals born 1816–1932, across democracy and autocracy. 🧵 1/11
- Studying the logic of state surveillance based on the universe of Italian files finds that states target educated and subaltern groups, with mobilization and radical change potential, from Gemma Dipoppa and Annalisa Pezone www.nber.org/papers/w34492
- 2/ 💡 We propose that states strategically target those combining capacity to mobilize with grievances for radical mobilization – educated but subaltern individuals perceived as most threatening to state stability. This idea is rooted in descriptive data:
- 3/ Unsupervised LLM on 1,200+ police files shows that mobilization capacity – and a particular marker of it, education, – together with potential for subversion are recurring traits noted by the surveillance state. 📚
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View full threadFeedbacks are most welcome! Working paper 👉 www.nber.org/papers/w34492 Coauthor: Annalisa Pezone 🙌 sites.google.com/nyu.edu/anna...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaCall for Submissions: Democratic Resilience and the Politics of Belonging Columbia, June 4-5, 2026 Co-Organizers: @aalrababah.bsky.social (Bocconi), @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (Columbia), Shigeo Hirano (Columbia), @ginvernizzi.bsky.social (Bocconi) Submit: lnkd.in/eiPgt_w5 Details ⬇️
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🧾NEW WP! New data, old divide 🧵 🇮🇹Our new @theifs.bsky.social WP "The #Geography of #Child #Disability in #Italy: New Evidence from Administrative Data" (w/ P Biasi & De Paola) uses administrative data on the 2024 Universal Child Allowance, covering 4m children under 10. 🔗 tinyurl.com/yk89t39e
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa@gemmadipoppa.bsky.social and I summarize the main findings from our @nature.com article on air pollution, crop burning, and public health in South Asia in @voxdev.bsky.social 👇🏽
- 🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaSubstantial earnings penalties exist for racial minorities in France. Compared to the US, lower overall inequality benefits French racial minorities, but rank gaps are comparable, from Yajna Govind, Paolo Santini, and Ellora Derenoncourt nber.org/papers/w34013
- Thank you @voxdev.bsky.social for covering our (w @saadgulzar.bsky.social) work on bureaucrat incentives to reduce crop-related fires and air pollution! Full paper at www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- 🆕 Strengthening bureaucrat incentives can curb crop burning and save lives in India and Pakistan Today on VoxDev w/ @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social) & @saadgulzar.bsky.social (@notredame.bsky.social): voxdev.org/topic/energy...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaIn Italy, a major tax credit favored middle earners and boosted votes for incumbents, revealing a political-economy tradeoff, from Silvia Vannutelli nber.org/papers/w33973
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🚨 June 30th deadline approaching 🚨 📣 Call for papers - CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on #Migration Research 2025 📅 Event held October 28-29, 2025 in Munich at @cesifo.org 🗣️ With a keynote from Jens Hainmueller of @stanford.edu ⌛ Details/Submit here: www.ifo.de/w/85244ca1
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaVersion 2.0 of the National Elections Database is online! nationalelectionsdatabase.com We cover presidential and parliamentary elections 1789–2023, extending the post-1945 data of Electoral Turnovers @reveconstudies.bsky.social (academic.oup.com/restud/advan...) w/ Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
- We are very happy to publish the "National Elections Database," including the results of 1,023 presidential and 2,962 parliamentary elections conducted worldwide since 1946! www.nationalelectionsdatabase.com with Benjamin Marx and Vincent Rollet
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaNow available for preorder from Oxford University Press. Makes good beach reading too. www.amazon.com/Workplace-Po...
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaWe have a great lineup of papers for the Junior Workshop in HPE. A limited number of spots are available for scholars interested in attending the workshop. Fill this form if you want to join us next June 25 at UC3M forms.gle/DckGoQDfniTU... @tinepaulsen.bsky.social @franvillamil.bsky.social
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🚨 New working paper 🚨 @yangyangzhou.bsky.social, @shuningge.bsky.social, Naijia Liu, and I have completed a shareable draft of our working paper entitled "Liberalizing Refugee Hosting Policies without Losing the Vote." We hope you find it interesting. See osf.io/preprints/os....
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaHappy to share a new paper now out in EJPR w/ @jeyalizade.bsky.social , @fabioellger.bsky.social and @mgruenewald.bsky.social exploring gendered effects of political violence on political supply. ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/14… A 🧵 with findings
- 📌 Excited to announce the 2nd Northeast Political Economy Conference 📌 We (briangknight.bsky.social) are seeking submissions from economists & political scientists working on political economy topics. Please submit by June 16 and join us at Brown on Friday, Oct 3 forms.gle/i4wi88Q6P3tJ...
- Here's last year's program. The conference is generously funded by Brown University through the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research and the PPE Center
- One week left to submit!
- 🚨Last week to submit to PEEP- Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (Vancouver Sep 10). Submit by April 30 tinyurl.com/4j65s2ye @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social @miguelpereira.bsky.social @awiedemann.bsky.social and I look forward to reading & organizing! Last year’s program below
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaMigration does not have to be what it is now Innovation can change what migration *is*—more orderly, skilled, integrated, & tangibly beneficial to everyone affected In 2012 I proposed one way: Global Skill Partnerships The World Bank just released a major GSP roadmap—> hdl.handle.net/10986/42780
- 📣 Please consider applying to the Political Economy of Europe Conference - right before APSA (Sept 10, Vancouver). More info: ⬇️ We look forward to reading your work!
- 🗣️ PEEP - Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference - is back this year in Vancouver (Sep 10). Submit your work by April 30: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Last year's program below (co-orgs: Maria Carreri, @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social, @awiedemann.bsky.social)
- 🧵 How do criminal organizations expand to strong states? My paper in @thejop.bsky.social explains how mafias successfully moved to Northern Italy—by striking deals with local actors and exploiting migrant labor. Thread: ⬇️
- "How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Local Agreements and Migrant Exploitation in Northern Italy" by Gemma Dipoppa. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
- 1/ Conventional wisdom says criminal groups thrive in weak states that fail to provide security and services. But mafias have expanded to strong states like the US, Canada, and Germany. How? 🤔
- 2/ I argue that criminal groups succeed in strong states by offering a key service: enforcing and hiding illegal transactions. When rule enforcement is strong, breaking the law is costly. Mafias solve this by intermediating in informal markets—like the one for labor.
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View full thread10/ This is my job market paper and it owes immensely to my committee @guygrossman.bsky.social, Dorothy Kronick, and @jlynch13.bsky.social, and to my Postdoc PI @saadgulzar.bsky.social. I'm very happy to see it out and wish I could celebrate it with you!
- Reposted by Gemma DipoppaLots of talk about ‘left behind’ places & far-right’s rise. How do industrial decline, economic hardship, & resentment actually fuel far-right support? In new @apsrjournal.bsky.social paper exploring Xylella epidemic that devastated centuries-old 🫒 groves in 🇮🇹, we find out shorturl.at/xgeho
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🚨🚨🚨🚨 New WP (with @benckrick.bsky.social @austinlw.bsky.social) available at the ESOC working paper series: esoc.princeton.edu/wp39
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa🚨 The proposal deadline for the Yale-UB HPE workshop is fast approaching! 🚨 We'll count with amazing Saumitra Jha (@saumjha.bsky.social) & Steven Wilkinson. Info of previous editions at www.didacqueralt.com/yale-ub-hpew CC @cescamat.bsky.social (UB convener) Help us spread the word!
- Thanks a lot to APSA Public Scholar @siennanordquist.bsky.social for this excellent review of my paper. You can read her own research on human trafficking at siennanordquist.com
- @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social finds in her new APSR paper that migrant mobilization ⬆️ reports of racketeering to police, state seizures of criminal assets, & votes for the far-left in 🇮🇹
- Reposted by Gemma Dipoppa📢 Workshop Call 📢 3d Edition of the Yale-UB Historical Political Economy Workshop Keynote: "Revolutionary Contagion" by Saumitra Jha and Steven Wilkinson At University of Barcelona @ub.edu on June 30 and July 1, 2025 Send us your papers by Febr 28: shorturl.at/w96jk @didacqueralt.bsky.social
- Thank you @inqdp.bsky.social!
- 4/6 📰🧐In @apsrjournal.bsky.social @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social studies the impact of an intervention designed to fight labor exploitation of undocumented migrants in 🇮🇹. Findings show the intervention can reduce labor exploitation, weaken organized crime & raise awareness among locals. doi.org/nz8j
- 🚨 New @apsrjournal.bsky.social Paper! 🚨 In “When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands,” I study how empowering undocumented migrants can reduce labor exploitation and even weaken organized crime. Thread : 🧵
- Just published on APSR First View: "When Migrants Mobilize against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands" by Gemma Dipoppa. @gemmadipoppa.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- 🌍 Global challenge: 27 mln people worldwide are victims of forced labor (ILO). Beyond the human rights problem, labor exploitation harms destination countries—skewing labor markets, shrinking tax revenues, and fueling criminal groups. But policy efforts to tackle it are scarce.
- My study focuses on Italy, a major European migrant hub. Starting in 2007, a union campaign provided agricultural migrant workers with: • Info on labor rights • Legal aid to denounce exploitation • Incentives via humanitarian visas How did this impact exploitation?
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View full thread🚀 Implications: This study shows that empowering undocumented migrants isn’t just about rights—it reshapes labor markets, curtails organized crime, and fosters social cohesion. A win-win for migrants and destination countries alike.
