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Luca Maria Pesando: National Academy of Sciences Committee Member
Congratulations Luca Maria Pesando (Associate Professor, Social Research and Public Policy) for being selected to be part of a National Academy of Sciences committee on women’s empowerment, population dynamics, and socioeconomic development! Read more here.
National Academy of Sciences | 09 December 2022ChatGPT and the Rise of AI Writers: How Should Higher Education Respond?
The proliferation of AI text generators such as ChatGPT has major implications for higher education. Nancy Gleason explores how educators should respond to these tools which can write essays in seconds. Read the complete article here.
Times Higher Education | 16 December 2022Bloomberg Trading Challenge
Ten teams from NYUAD participated against 948 teams from more than 200 universities worldwide at the Bloomberg Trading Challenge. Each team was given 1 million virtual dollars to invest in Bloomberg’s World Large, Medium & Small-cap index which offers over 10,000 stocks from around the world. The trade simulation ran over 4 weeks and the win criteria was set to the relative profit & loss. The top performing team from NYUAD, supervised by faculty advisor Saba Najeeb, stood #35 worldwide and #1 in the Middle East & Africa Region. Team members Brijesh Phullel, Aavishar Gautam, Aaviskar Paudyal and Sashank Neupane worked together with the team captain Arbinda Pandey to produce an overall relative P&L of $64,670. This competition is part of the ADNOC-Bloomberg initiative giving our students an opportunity to apply their classroom knowledge in real time scenarios via the Bloomberg terminal.
ADNOC-Bloomberg | 16 December 2022‘We’re not like the newbies’: Belonging among Dubai’s Long-Term Residents
In her research on middle-class, long-term residents of Dubai, Rana AlMutawa explores how long-term residents experience belonging and exclusion in the UAE. Read here complete article here.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | 16 December 2022
David Cameron Lands Teaching Job at Abu Dhabi University
Adam Ramey will be co-teaching "practising politics and government in the age of disruption" with former UK prime minister, David Cameron, during J-Term 2023. Read more here.
Financial Times | 16 December 2022 -
Data from the UN is Saving Lives Across the World
On UN day, Stéphane Helleringer reflected on work of the Health & Demography cluster at NYUAD Social Science, as it helps to accelerate progress towards goal of building better data systems throughout the world. Read more here.
Khaleej Times | 04 November 2022Family Business Council Gulf
Nancy Gleason had the honor of attending the Family Business Council Gulf (FBCG) Summit in Dubai. Family businesses are integral to economic success in the region, and the world around. The FBC-G provides support and space for families to consider topics related to family business management, particularly on succession, family governance, next generation development and family communication. Nancy moderated a panel with family members and leaders from the Alserkal Family.
LinkedIn | 04 November 2022Enhancing Youth and Women's Financial Inclusion in South Asia
Goksu Aslan constructs a multidimensional financial inclusion index, in order to show evidence on how to increase financial inclusion among the South Asian youth. Aslan provides policy recommendations in line with gendered effects on financial inclusion. Read the complete paper here.
Cogent Economics and Finance | 04 November 2022Anzelika Belotelova
As a graduate of NYUAD's Economics Masters, Anzelika Belotelova says she was able to line up a full-time job a few weeks before graduation. Read more about Belotelova's story here.
NYUAD | 04 November 2022NYUAD students win ADNOC-Bloomberg Economic Research Challenge
A team of five students from NYU Abu Dhabi has won the ADNOC-Bloomberg Economic Research Challenge at ADIPEC 2022, organized as part of the ADNOC-Bloomberg Education Initiative. The challenge, in its second year, is the only university economic research competition to take place in the UAE using the Bloomberg Terminal. Under the mentorship of Mounther Barakat and supervision of Saba Najeeb, the team presented their outlook on energy prices. Congratulations to all!
WAM | 18 November 2022NYU Abu Dhabi Social Science Ranked 4th in Asia
The Social Science division at NYU Abu Dhabi has been ranked 4th out of 1697 institutions and 7728 authors in Asia by IDEAS/RePEC. More details can be found here. Our working papers can be accessed here.
RePEC | 18 November 2022Higher Socioeconomic Status does not Predict Decreased Prosocial Behavior in a Field Experiment
Nikos Nikiforakis's paper Higher socioeconomic status does not predict decreased prosocial behavior in a field experiment in Nature Communications has been downloaded 8648 times since its publication-that is 18 times per day! Access the article here.
Nature Communications | 18 November 2022Human Behaviour and Economic Policy with NYUAD - Business Extra
Nikos Nikiforakis talks to on the Business Extra podcast about C-BID's research and the upcoming Behavioral Policy in MENA Summit. Listen here.
The National | 18 November 2022Measuring 4IR Responsiveness in Vietnam's Higher Education
Nancy Gleason co-authored a paper about a new model for university transformation in the context of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This new approach, known as the Innovation driven University, applies criteria and indicators through the University Performance Metrics (UPM). Read more here.
JIRSEA | 18 November 2022Parental Educational Similarity and Inequality Implications for Infant Health in Chile: Evidence from Administrative Records, 1990–2015
Luca M Pesando and co-authors found that couples where women outrank men in educational attainment (hypogamous couples) exhibit worse infant health outcomes relative to other couples in Chile. Read their findings in Research in Social Stratification and Mobility.
Research in Social Stratification and Mobility | 25 November 2022The Educational Hypogamy Puzzle in India
Hypogamy (marrying a less educated husband), is a distinguishing feature of western societies, where the gender gaps have reversed and women have become more educated than men. In India, however, women are still less educated than men which makes the increase in hypogamy surprising. Koyel Sarkar explains why this might be the case. Read more here.
N-IUSSP | 25 November 2022NYUAD Social Science Student Awarded Rhodes Scholarship
Two UAE students – Sara Fekri and Gustė Gurčinaitė – have been awarded Rhodes Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford. The duo, who were selected for their exceptional intellect, character and leadership, had applied for the scholarship along with more than 60 students earlier this year when the applications opened in June 2022. Gustė, a Political Science major, aims to do an MPhil in environmental change and management at the University of Oxford. Read more here.
Khaleej Times | 25 November 2022 -
Kangsan Lee: Best Article Award at ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict
Kangsan Lee’s article in Social Forces, The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South Korea’s Democracy Movement, has won the 2022 Best Article Award at ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict. Read the official announcement here. Read the complete article here. Congratulations Kangsan!
ASA | 05 October 2022What Kind of Great Power will India Become?
Financial Times offers an analysis of India’s relationship with the US and China and questions where the nation will go from here. Rahul Sagar’s bestselling book, To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics, is listed as one of the books that can help to understand India’s foreign policy instincts. Read more here. Read more about, and order your copy of the bestseller here.
Financial Times | 05 October 2022Melina Platas: APSA Political Ties Award
Melina Platas and co-authors have won this year’s APSA Political Ties Award, for their article “Viral Voting: Social Networks and Political Participation”. This award is given annually to the best article published on the subject of political networks. “Viral Voting: Social Networks and Political Participation” leverages full social network data from 15 villages in Uganda to document how structural features of a village's social network predict political participation within the village. Read the official announcement here. Read the complete article in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science here. Congratulations Melina!
APSA | 05 October 2022Can Behavioral Science Nudge us into Positive Action?
A new article in Khaleej Times spotlights research by Nikos Nikiforakis and Ernesto Reuben which culminated in the Forever Fit Program--a behavioral intervention aimed to nudge senior adults in Abu Dhabi to be more physically active. Read the complete article here.
Khaleej Times | 05 October 2022How Financial Need Affects Pricing: Evidence from Small Businesses in Ghana
Morgan Hardy’s research shows how poorer business owners settle for lower prices when bargaining with buyers. Read the complete article, How financial need affects pricing: Evidence from small businesses in Ghana, here.
VoxDev | 20 October 2022Entrepreneurship in the UAE
Visiting Senior Lecturer of Social Research and Public Policy and Doctoral Grant recipient from the Sheikh Saud bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, Seungah Sarah Lee, talks about homegrown entrepreneurship in the UAE and the Gulf. Listen to the podcast here.
Al Qasimi Foundation | 20 October 2022Can Behavioral Science Nudge us into Positive Action?
A new article in Khaleej Times spotlights research by Nikos Nikiforakis and Ernesto Reuben which culminated in the Forever Fit Program - a behavioral intervention aimed to nudge senior adults in Abu Dhabi to be more physically active. Read the complete article here.
Khaleej Times | 28 October 2022The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government
Rahul Sagar has found the original manuscript of the first modern Indian treatise on government. Sagar has published these in The Progressive Maharaja: Sir Madhava Rao's Hints on the Art and Science of Government. Read more about his discovery in Scroll.in and Indian Express. Read more about, and place your orders of, The Progressive Maharaja here.
Hurst Publishers | 28 October 2022Legacies of Violence
Leonid Peisakhin provides an overview of the cutting-edge research on the legacies of violence and describes what we know about the intergenerational effects of violence and the social processes by which family trauma is inherited. Watch his talk here.
NYUAD Institute | October 25, 2022 -
NYU Abu Dhabi Welcomes 66 New Faculty
NYU Abu Dhabi has welcomed 66 highly accomplished and diverse scholars coming from some of the world's most ambitious academic and professional institutions to teach our students and continue their scholarship in the UAE. The 66 faculty members begin work at NYUAD focusing on a range of subjects across all academic disciplines. The new members of the community hail from 20 different countries having held positions in some of the world’s leading teaching and research institutions including Harvard University, University of Oxford, The National University of Singapore, and Stanford University. Their research ranges from ballet and coding robots to dance, to recreating a whole human body within a singular device. Read more here.
NYUAD | 9 September 2022Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award
Dean of Social Science, Paula England has won The ASA Section on Organizations, Occupation, and Work's Rosabeth Moss Kanter Distinguished Career Award. Congratulations Paula!
ASA | 9 September 2022ASA’s award for Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology
Elisabeth Anderson has won ASA’s award for Outstanding Contribution to Political Sociology, for her book Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State. the award committee sees in Agents of Reform a book that unsettles, in ways that we believe will be fruitful, how sociologists should study and understand the origins of the modern welfare state. Congratulations Elisabeth!
ASA | 9 September 2022Paula England: ESR Best Article of the Year Award
Paula England and Dragana Stojmenovska have won the ESR Best Article of the Year award for Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority.
The ESR Best Article of the Year Prize is awarded annually to a paper that demonstrates rigorous empirical–theoretical sociological research.
Congratulations Paula and Dragana!
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Read their award winning article here.
European Sociological Review | 16 September 2022Cash-Like Vouchers Improve Psychological Well-Being of Vulnerable and Displaced Persons Fleeing Armed Conflict
Peter van der Windt and co-authors undertook a large project together with UNICEF and partners in DR Congo to learn about displaced populations and their mental health. They conducted a within-village randomized field experiment as part of the United Nations’ Rapid Response to Population Movements program. The program provides humanitarian relief to over a million people each year, including vouchers for essential nonfood items, such as pots, pans, cloth, and mattresses. The authors find that the program has strong positive impacts on displaced people's mental health. Read about their results here.
PNAS Nexus | 16 September 2022An Article Published in Nature Scientific Data at NYUAD Makes a Splash
A team of six researchers lead by Etienne Wasmer has assembled during 6 years a list of 2.3 millions of notable individuals over 5000 years of human history. The team of economists and data scientists, helped by many research assistants from different cultural areas (including many NYUAD students), has collected information on their birth and death dates, places, occupations and citizenships from 7 language editions of Wikipedia. The article published in June 2022 got an immediate success. It inspired additional visualization work by a geographer from Helsiniki working at Mapbox, Topi Tjukanob, leading to a new viral spread in hundreds of newspapers and blogs. To date, the paper was downloaded 125 000 times, and belongs to the top 10 000 of all research outputs out of 21 millions tracked by Altmetrics (top 0.5%) and in the top 0.1% of output of a similar age. Read more here.
NYUAD Social Science | 16 September 2022Vaccine Nationalism Among the Public: A Cross-Country Experimental Evidence of Own-Country Bias Towards COVID-19 Vaccination
What types of vaccines are citizens most likely to accept? Joan Barceló and Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen Sheen argue that citizens' identification with their nation leads them to prefer vaccines developed and produced within their national borders, to the exclusion and/or detriment of vaccines from other nations. Read more about their findings on vaccine nationalism in Social Science and Medicine.
Social Science & Medicine | 23 September 2022Financial Times: Datawatch
Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History, Robert Allen’s Poverty and the Labor Market: Today and Yesterday (Annual Review of Economics) was featured in the Financial Times’ Data Watch section. Read the full article here.
Financial Times | 23 September 2022Women Insurgents, Rebel Organization Structure, and Sustaining the Rebellion: The Case of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party
How do women insurgents affect rebel organizations’ structure and survivability? Çağlayan Başer examines the mechanisms through which women sustain armed conflict, by analyzing micro-organizational dynamics of rebellion through a qualitative case study of the Kurdish armed movement in Turkey. Read the complete article here. Read more about the results of the study here.
Security Studies | 23 September 2022 -
Serial Migrant Mothers and Permanent Temporariness in Dubai
Through detailed biographies of four serial migrants over a five-year ethnography, May Al-Dabbagh offers an illustration of the subjectivities of permanent temporariness and shows how they are reproduced through three mothering practices: propagating roots, reflexive selving, and normalizing movement. She uses a processual lens and sheds light on a sociologically unmarked category of migrants in the city whose experiences of mothering and work have been shaped by shifting intersectionality in the context of multinational migration. Read more here.
Migration Studies | 01 July 2022Habitus and Personality in the Work of Max Weber
In a new article published in the Journal of Classical Sociology, Elisabeth Anderson identifies the main characteristics of six habitus types that appear in Max Weber’s work, delving into the problems that afflicted them and the practical reforms through which they could be transformed into "personalities". Read more about her analysis here.
Journal of Classical Sociology | 01 July 2022May Al- Dabbagh: Harvard Business School Closing Keynote for Gender+Work Symposium
May Al-Dabbagh gave the closing keynote address at the Gender and Work Symposium at Harvard Business School titled “Dwelling/ من بيت لبيت: Reflections on the Self Tracing Method.” The talk addressed decolonial approaches to pedagogy and featured an online exhibition that included four self tracing projects which incorporate embodied ways of knowing. The conference was attended by an audience of 200+ academics with specialties in sociology, anthropology, organization studies, management, and psychology as well as practitioners and heads of academic institutions such as Kathleen McCartney, President of Smith College, David Thomas, President of Morehouse College, and Rakesh Khurana, Dean of Harvard College. Watch May’s keynote address here.
Harvard Business School | 12 July 2022Beyond Political Connections : A Measurement Model Approach to Estimating Firm-level Political Influence in 41 Economies (English)
While the political influence of private firms is frequently discussed, there is limited analysis of how firms combine political interactions, and under what conditions, to gain influence. Robert Kubinec’s paper extends the discussion of influence beyond political connections alone. Using a Bayesian item response theory (IRT) measurement model and a rich firm-level data set from 41 economies, an index of Political Influence is estimated, with the prior assumption that political connections yield more influence. Read more here.
World Bank | 12 July 2022Paula England: ESR Best Article of the Year
Paula England and Dragana Stojmenovska received the European Sociological Review's award for best paper of the year. Their paper, Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority, demonstrates that motherhood makes women less likely to be in a job with authority, but most of the gender gap in authority is present way before men or women become parents. Read more here.
European Sociological Review | 12 July 2022 -
Class of 2022 Commencement
NYU Abu Dhabi Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann officiated Commencement 2022 at the University’s campus, along with NYU President Andrew Hamilton. Keynote speakers Ellen Stofan, PhD, Under Secretary for Science and Research at the Smithsonian Institution, and internationally renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor offered remarks. This year’s Commencement included a number of awards and accolades, including the inaugural Alfred H. Bloom Scholarship for Global Liberal Arts, NYUAD’s Piano Prize, the Global Leadership Award, and the Distinguished Alumni Award, as well as the Ceremony of the Torch. The four-year Alfred H. Bloom Scholarship for Global Liberal Arts will be awarded to an incoming first-year student who shares the inaugural Vice Chancellor’s vision of building an inclusive and peaceful world, and his commitment to cross-cultural communication. Find out more about the class, our speakers, and see photos and videos from the ceremony on the Commencement website here.
NYUAD | 3 June 2022COVID-19 Vaccine Perceptions in the Initial Phases of US Vaccine Roll-out: An Observational Study on Reddit
Shahan Ali Memon and co-authors study Reddit posts with COVID-19 and vaccine-related keywords to examine perceptions and misinformation in the initial phases of the vaccine timeline. Read more on their study here.
BMC Public Health | 3 June 2022Shifting Normative Beliefs: On Why Groups Behave More Antisocially Than Individuals
Why do groups behave more antisocially than individuals? Ernesto Reuben and co-authors run an experiment that demonstrates that having multiple people actively involved in the decision-making makes antisocial behavior more normatively acceptable. Read their study here.
European Economic Review | 3 June 2022When Global Scripts Do Not Resonate: International Minority Rights and Local Repertoires of Diversity in Southern Turkey
Zeynep Ozgen draws on longitudinal qualitative fieldwork to explain why global scripts of minority rights fail to resonate among ethno-religious minorities in Antakya, Turkey. She finds a deep-seated ambivalence toward the category of “minority” that prevent ordinary people from embracing substantial policy reforms, thereby weakening Turkey’s turn toward an inclusionary model of nationhood.Read more here.
Qualitative Sociology | 10 June 202211th Eurasian Peace Science Conference: Calls for Proposals
Call for proposals for the 11th Eurasian Peace Science Conference at NYUAD Social Science, January 18-19, 2023. The submission deadline is 15 August 2022. For details, visit here.
NYUAD | 10 June 2022Transition Investment Lab Annual Report
We are excited to announce that the inaugural issue of TIL Annual Report is out! The reader will find in this report articles and contributions from TIL’s research team and experts about some key themes in this space such as sustainable investment by sovereign wealth funds, an introduction to the special features of the MEASA regions, and an inspiring article about how investment can embrace social inclusion. Rigorous but accessible to the general reader, the Transition Investment Annual Report aims to contribute to the dissemination and discussion of the most pressing challenges in responsible investment. Check out the report here.
Transition Investment Lab | 10 June 2022Perceptions of FIFA Men’s World Cup 2022 Host Nation Qatar in the Twittersphere
Shahan Ali Memon and co-authors analyze the FIFA Men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 through the frameworks of nation branding and soft power. Read their findings in the International Journal of Sport Communication here.
International Journal of Sport Communication | 10 June 2022Summer Stipend Award: National Endowment for the Humanities
Congratulations to Zeynep Ozgen for winning the Summer Stipend Award from the National Endowment for the Humanities! NEH receives 812 applications on average per year for this very competitive award and has an 11% funding ratio. Zeynep will use this award to support the writing of her book manuscript titled Culture, Politics, and Islamist Mobilization in Turkey.
National Endowment for the Humanities | 17 June 2022Social Science Capstone Award: Minda Belete
Supervised by Etienne Wasmer, Minda Belete has won the NYUAD Social Science Capstone Award for Economics where he investigated and documented gender-based price disparity by collecting a unique dataset using web scraping techniques from Amazon web stores for the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Singapore. Using text-matching algorithms to detect similarities between product descriptions and calculating a similarity ratio, he discovered that personal care products targeted at women consumers are more expensive than comparable products that target men. As he reflects, “the existence and acceptance of gendered products and gender-based price differences represent ways in which gender distinctions and inequality are reinforced in daily life.” Congratulations, Minda!
NYUAD Social Science | 17 June 2022A Cross-verified Database of Notable People, 3500BC-2018AD
6 years of work, 6 authors, almost 6k years of human history, 2.10^6 famous individuals in a ready-to-use geolocalized database. Read Etienne Wasmer's article here and access its metric analysis in Nature group here.
Scientific Data | 17 June 2022Social Science Capstone Award: Soohyun Hwangbo
SRPP major Soohyun Hwangbo has been awarded for her distinguished Capstone project by NYUAD Social Science. Under the guidance of Minsu Park, she examined the tweets of U.S. politicians that centered around COVID-19 vaccines. Soohyun found that while Democrats mainly highlight the healthcare benefits of vaccines, Republicans focused more on vaccine-related legislation, therefore highlighting the politicized nature of vaccination. “Conducting this project gave me a better understanding of what to consider when using computational tools and methods in social sciences research, and the importance of developing a strong research question that clearly addresses a gap in your field of interest,” Soohyun reflects on her Capstone journey. Congratulations!
NYUAD Social Science | 17 June 2022Social Science Capstone Award: Victor Manuel Quiñonez Cavallucci
Heartfelt congratulations to Victor Manuel Quiñonez Cavallucci who has won the NYUAD Social Science Capstone Award, where he compared the contemporary art market in the face of the rising NFT market using a special form of regression for collectible items. He explored the main determinants of asset price in both markets and created a characteristic-free price index to measure price movements in the past year to discover that NFTs prices are heavily demand-driven and much more volatile than the art market. One interesting observation is that the market shows signs of price normalization towards the end of the year, and therefore, as Victor believes, poses an interesting question regarding the true value of NFTs once demand normalizes.
NYUAD Social Science | 24 June 2022Social Science Capstone Award: Furqan Mohamed
Furqan Mohamed is one of the four SRPP majors who have been awarded for their outstanding Capstone project! With the global rise in K-pop consumption, Furqan investigated the experiences of self-identifying Black women fans of K-pop living in the West and their relationships to both the genre and the fandom. She finds that despite their frustrations witnessing cultural appropriation in K-pop and the emotional labour they exert to process and overcome the racial insensitivity they experience within the fandom, they continue to find joy in their love of the genre. As Furqan writes, “their pursuit of this joy is a radical act of self-love, a true embodiment of perseverance, and an acceptance that, no matter what, “Life Goes On”.”
NYUAD Social Science | 24 June 2022Social Science Capstone Award: Noora Shuaib
Congratulations to Noora Shuaib for winning the NYUAD Social Science Capstone Award! Supervised by May Al-Dabbagh, Noora's qualitative research project offers a deeper insight into how expatriate Muslim women in the UAE create meaning and belonging in a temporary home through religious practice and connection, particularly in relation to emotional expression and awareness. Noora describes her Capstone project as follows:‘That connection? Just a bunch of us women huddled around our Qurans and getting to feel every emotion together and alone at the same time. And I can promise you that words aren’t enough.’
- Salma
The rich stories of expatriate women in the UAE’s multicultural society are often overshadowed by the narrative of expatriate labor and temporality. An often-invisible space amidst the country’s expatriate networks are spaces of religious connection and practice, particularly amongst Muslim women. Using semistructured interviews to observe the role of religious spaces and friendships in expatriate women’s lives across the UAE, this paper observes the intersection of religion with the expatriate identity, and aims to shed light on how this intersection shapes the emotionality of expatriate Muslim women. This study challenges the oppressive narratives of Muslim women living in the Gulf by focusing on their agency and connections within a religious space in which they reinforce emotionality. I find that the community of women fostered at the Quran classes function as an alternative "home" in which women were able to find belonging that bridged the gap in their relationships with kin in their country of origin and their nuclear families in the host country. My findings speak to how the Muslim women in my study turn emotionality into an act of worship as their value primarily in relation to God facilitates a strong selfhood that deepens their connections with others through honest emotional expression and understanding.
NYUAD Social Science | 24 June 2022 -
Income and Terrorism: Insights from Subnational Data
Postdoctoral Associate Rafat Mahmood with her coauthors studies data for 1,527 subnational regions between 1970 and 2014 to examine the relationship between income and terrorism. The paper finds that the threat of terrorism rises as low-income polities become richer but falls consistently after peaking at a certain income per capita level. Read more about the findings here.
IZA Institute of Labour Economics | 13 May 2022NYUAD Class of 2022 Commencement
Join friends, families, and the entire NYU Abu Dhabi community to feel the Violet Pride at Commencement on Monday, May 30 at 4pm GST. Discover more about the graduating class and save the date to watch the livestream online here.
NYUAD | 13 May 2022Assessing the Deinstitutionalization of Marriage Thesis: An Experimental Test
Where does the institution of marriage stand in the mind of the American public? In this new article by Blaine Robbins, Aimée Dechter, and Sabino Kornrich, the authors experimentally evaluate the thesis that marriage is deinstitutionalized in the United States. Read more in the American Sociological Review, here.
American Sociological Review | 13 May 2022From Bilateral Tade to Centralized Markets: A Search Model for Commodity Exchanges in Africa
Recently, a number of African countries have centralized their agricultural markets by launching a commodity exchange. With a simple search model, Yaw Nyarko and Heitor Pellegrina examine the effects of this move, from efficiency gains to distribution of gains from trade. Read more in the Journal of Development Economics here.
Journal of Development Economics | 13 May 2022Gotta Have Money to Make Money? Bargaining Behavior and Financial Need of Microentrepreneurs
Morgan Hardy and co-authors find that sellers with less per capita household liquidity agree to lower sale prices. The potential poverty-multiplying implications of pricing behavior is a key frontier in understanding barriers to the profitability of microenterprises. Read more in the American Economic Review: Insights here.
American Economic Review: Insights | 20 May 2022
Can Status Exchanges Explain Educational Hypogamy in India?
Why are Indian women increasingly marrying less-educated men? A new study by Koyel Sarkar shows that educational hypogamy is driven by socioeconomic status exchange by education, caste, and occupation. Read more here.
Demographic Research | 20 May 2022Increasing Childlessness Driven By Higher Female Education in India
While still low, childlessness in India is on the rise. With development, childlessness may increase further, driven by economic opportunities much more than by poverty. Check out Koyel Sarkar’s discussion paper published in N-IUSSP online news magazine with Thomas Baudin, here.
N-IUSSP | 27 May 2022Americans see Afghan and Ukrainian Refugees very Differently. Why?
Why do Americans view Ukrainian refugees more positively than they view Afghan refugees? In a Washington Post article, Melina Platas and co-authors find that public opinion towards refugees is dependent on perception of cultural similarity, security threat, and economic impact. Read their article here.
Washington Post | 27 May 2022Kinga Makovi: CITIES Center for Interacting Urban Networks
Kinga Makovi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and CITIES Principal Investigator has been honored with an Award for Teaching Excellence as part of the 2021-2022 NYUAD Faculty Awards. The NYUAD Faculty Awards are bestowed on NYUAD standing faculty who embody the values and mission of the University. The work of award recipients truly exemplifies the central pillars of faculty engagement in research, teaching, and service. The recipients were evaluated with great care by the Award Review Committee and selected by the NYUAD leadership for their transformative research, teaching excellence, and distinguished service. Congratulations Kinga!
CITIES Center for Interacting Urban Networks | 27 May 2022Class of 2022 Commencement
Visit the Commencement website to find out more about the Class of 2022. Some 350 students from 85 countries will graduate at the in-person commencement ceremony on Monday, May 30, 2022, the first since the onset of the global pandemic in the spring of 2020. The graduating class will hear remarks from two keynote speakers: Ellen Stofan, PhD, Under Secretary for Science and Research at the Smithsonian Institution, and internationally renowned sculptor Anish Kapoor.
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C-BID MENA Network
Calling all experimental social scientists! Join the MENA Network. C-BID is connecting for the first time all experimental social scientists conducting research in the MENA region. Whether you are an economist, a political scientist, a psychologist, a sociologist or other; whether you favor lab experiments, field experiments, online experiments, survey experiments or RCTs; whether you work in the region or simply wish to collect data in the MENA area. Join the network to receive news about upcoming events and research opportunities in the region.
C-BID | 1 April 2022Tareq Abbasi: Fulbright Scholar
Tareq Abbasi graduated from NYU Abu Dhabi with a double major in legal studies and social research and public policy. Now, as a Fulbright scholar, Tareq is pursuing his masters at the University of Pittsburgh. Read how the NYUAD’21 alumnus plans to build on some of the learnings from his NYUAD experience in grad school. Read more here.
NYUAD | 1 April 2022Business, Organizations and Society Major
Business, Organizations and Society is now an official undergraduate major within our Social Science division. “The Business, Organizations and Society major is a multidisciplinary program grounded on the principle that business must create value for society…One of the key elements of the program is connection with Abu Dhabi, whereby the major will produce well-rounded students with entrepreneurial mindsets and competencies in business that can contribute to transformation of the UAE economy.” - Jemima A. Frimpong, Program Head. Learn more about the program here.
Zawya | 1 April 2022Economic Policy and Research in the UAE and Beyond
The NYUAD Institute organized the "Economic Policy and Research in the UAE and Beyond" in the presence of His Excellency Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Minister of Economy sponsored by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Economy working with a consortium of four universities – American University of Sharjah, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates University, and Zayed University. The conference brought together scholars working in Economics and Finance from academics, policy institutions, and industry leaders in order to provide an opportunity for presenting novel research, as well as discussing current challenges and opportunities, with a focus on the UAE economy.
NYUAD Institute | 8 April 2022
Business, Organizations and Society Meet and Greet
The Business, Organizations and Society program held its inaugural meet and greet event for students and faculty last week. Students had a chance to meet the Program Head, Jemima Frimpong, and several faculty members to understand what this major means for their career. Read more here.
NYUAD Social Science | 8 April 2022Trade, Farmers' Heterogeneity, and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Colombia
How does farmers’ participation in non-local markets shape agricultural productivity? Combining a spatial economy model with farm-level data from Colombia, Heitor Pellegrina shows that access to urban centers increases aggregate agricultural productivity by allowing farmers to participate in non-local markets. Read more here.
Journal of International Economics | 8 April 2022The Ellen McArthur Lectures
Bob Allen held a series of The Ellen McArthur Lectures on the emergence of agriculture and the development of ancient civilizations at the University of Cambridge, Faculty of History. Topics included “What the Natufians did for us,” “Malthus in the Levant,” “Domar and Habbakuk on the Euphrates,” and “Adam Smith in Mesopotamia”. Watch the lectures here.
University of Cambridge | 8 April 2022Navigating the Cosmopolitan City: Emirati Women and Ambivalent Forms of Belonging in Dubai
Read Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar Rana AlMutawa's book chapter in "Migration and the Making of Gulf Space", where she explores the social experiences of cosmopolitanism among Emirati women in Dubai here.
Berghahn Books | 15 April 2022
Promoted and Tenured faculty in AY21-22: Ernesto Reuben
Ernesto Reuben is a Professor of Economics and one of the leading researchers at the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design. His research interests fall within behavioral economics and public policy. Ernesto also supports our growing graduate program as the Associate Dean of Interdisciplinary and Graduate Programs. Ernesto is one of 26 faculty members who have been promoted at NYUAD this year. This highly significant milestone is a recognition of their accomplishments as scholars, teachers, and impactful members of our campus community and their disciplines. Join us in congratulating Ernesto! Read more about promoted and tenured faculty here.
NYUAD | 15 April 2022Disruption and Public Policy Education Across Asia: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Climate Crisis, and Covid-19
Nancy Gleason and Sara M. Pan Algarra discuss how the 4IR, the climate crisis, and Covid-19 are transforming our socio-economic systems and the competencies needed to educate public policy experts in terms of pedagogy and curriculum. Read their chapter "Disruption and Public Policy Education Across Asia: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Climate Crisis, and Covid-19” here.
Emerging Pedagogies for Policy Education | 15 April 2022Adam Ramey on The Agenda, Dubai Eye
Adam Ramey spoke to Dubai Eye’s Georgia Tolley about the UAE’s global soft power ranking, how the idea emerged, and its importance in the 21st century. Listen here (45:00-50:37).
Dubai Eye | 15 April 2022Windows of Repression: Using COVID-19 Policies Against Political Dissidents?
Joan Barceló and Robert Kubinec’s article in the Journal of Peace Research explores how civilian repression can affect the adoption, timing, and duration of government policies made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings suggest that abusive governments with a recent history of state violence are more likely to enact lockdown and curfew policies. Read more here.
Journal of Peace Research | 22 April 2022Promoted and Tenured faculty in AY21-22: Muhammet Ali Bas
Muhammet Ali Bas is Associate Professor of Political Science at NYUAD. His research is broadly motivated by an interest in factors affecting the likelihood of international conflict. Muhammet also mentors our final year undergraduate students with their capstone projects and teaches classes on international politics. Muhammet is one of 26 faculty members who have been promoted at NYUAD this year. This highly significant milestone is a recognition of their accomplishments as scholars, teachers, and impactful members of our campus community and their disciplines. Join us in congratulating Muhammet! Read more here.
NYUAD | 22 April 2022Podcast- Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
The beginnings of the modern welfare state are often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement and to policymakers’ efforts to appeal to working-class voters. But in Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State (Princeton UP, 2021), Elisabeth Anderson shows that the regulatory welfare state began a half-century earlier, in the 1830s, with the passage of the first child labor laws. Listen here.
New Books in Economic and Business History | 22 April 2022Potential Growth and Natural Yield Curve in Japan
Using a semi-structural macroeconomic model, Etienne Vaccaro-Grange and co-authors estimate the natural yield curve in Japan and examine whether the yield curve gap has contributed to the sustained low growth and low inflation rates observed since the beginning 2000s. Read the findings here.
Journal of International Money and Finance | 29 April 2022Ethnic Diversity as an Outcome: The Coevolution of State Capacity and Racial Demography in Brazil
Giuliana Pardelli explores the coevolution of state capacity and racial demography across space in Brazil. Read the guest post on Broadstreet here.
Broadstreet | 29 April 2022Education and Childlessness in India
How have socioeconomic transformations changed the reasons behind childlessness in India? Koyel Sarkar argues that childlessness is no longer a physiological constraint, but also a choice as there are increased educational and economic opportunities for women. Read more here.
Population | 29 April 2022 -
On the Heterogeneous Effects of Tax Policy on Labor Market Outcomes
Using micro-level data from the United States, Wifag Adnan and co-authors published an article surrounding the heterogeneous effects of fiscal policy innovations on labor market outcomes, accounting for gender, race, ethnicity, and the business cycle. Read the findings here.
Southern Economic Journal | 04 March 2022Trade, Productivity, and the Spatial Organization of Agriculture: Evidence from Brazil
Using data from Brazil, Heitor Pellegrina studies how regional productivity shocks in agriculture spread to the rest of the economy and affect GDP, welfare, and employment through trade and migration linkages. Read more here.
Journal of Development Economics | 04 March 2022Voices of Emirati Women Writers
The Voices of Emirati Women Writers event, which occurred from 18 to 19 December 2021, explored the stories of Emirati female writers and surrounded interviews to discuss literary topics and obstacles that women face. The event featured Saba Karim Khan, who conducted peer-to-peer mentoring and consultancy work with the participants. Read more here.
Arab German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities | 04 March 2022Determinants of Early Retirement in the UAE
What is the retirement behavior of UAE nationals? Wifag Adnan and co-authors analyze the socio-economic characteristics of early retirees and identify the main determinants of early retirement through a survey study for current employees and retirees affiliated with Abu Dhabi Retirement and Pension Benefit Fund (ADRPBF). Read more here.
Review of Middle East Economics and Finance | 04 March 2022Legacies of Islamic Rule in Africa: Colonial Responses and Contemporary Development
Melina Platas and co-authors analyze the effects of Islamic rule on long-term economic and political development in Africa through its impact on the investments made by colonial administrators and missionaries. Read more here.
World Development | 18 March 2022Interest Rates, Sanitation Infrastructure, and Mortality Decline in Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
Do capital markets affect infant mortality? Jonathan Chapman finds that high interest rates reduced sanitation investment and worsened public health in 19th-century British towns. Parliament could have expedited mortality decline by facilitating access to cheap loans. Read more here.
The Journal of Economic History | 18 March 2022Book Launch: Democracy, the Market and the Firm
Hervé Crès and Mich Tvede launched their book, Democracy, the Market, and the Firm: How the Interplay Between Trading and Voting Fosters Political Stability. With comments from NYU sociologist Delia Baldassarri and NYU political scientist (and Social Science Dean) David Stasavage, the event discussed the three main themes of the book: how individual and collective decisions interact with and shape the economic environment; how economic agents are shaped by the environment; and the roles of stakeholders versus shareholders. Order your copy here.
Oxford University Press | 25 March 2022 -
Network Amplification
Postdoctoral associate Mario D. Molina contributed to the Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, whose chapter centers on network mechanisms that can amplify social inequality. Access the handbook to read his chapter on Network Amplification, here.
Edward Elgar Publishing | 04 February 2022Desi Drama
Saba Karim Khan will be chairing a session of Indian and Pakistani storytellers titled Desi Drama at the Emirates Literature Festival on February 12. The session aims to explore changing female narratives in different genre and media, from novels and short stories to poetry and film. Register here.
Emirates Literature Festival | 04 February 2022Putin and the West: How Do We Avoid Conflict?
Watch Adam Ramey tackle the question of how the West can stop Putin with the growing concerns of conflict between Russia and Ukraine, on CNN’s Talk Live at Expo 2020 Dubai, here.
CNN Talk | 11 February 2022Narrow Identities Revisited
Professor of Economics Sanjeev Goyal and co-author Partha Dasgupta (University of Cambridge and St John’s College) published an article symposium on their “Narrow Identities” (2019, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics) paper in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. They respond to commentaries by Jean-Paul Carvalho, John B. Davis, Peter Finke, and Miriam Teschl. Read here.
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics | 11 February 2022When Coethnicity Fails
Does ethnic diversity undermine public goods? In a new World Politics article Giuliana Pardelli and Alexander Kustov (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) challenge the premise of this question by looking at how state development itself has historically shaped racial demography in Brazil. Read more here.
World Politics | 18 February 2022How the UAE’s New Workweek Can Be a Game Changer For Its Workforce
In an article published by Gulf Business, Nancy Gleason shares her views on the shorter workweek in the UAE and what it means for the future of work. Read the article here.
Gulf Business | 18 February 2022NYUAD Launches New Business Major
NYUAD has launched a new Business, Organizations, and Society (BOS) major, in order to give students a holistic perspective on the complex interactions and interdependencies between business and society, as it integrates business theory and application, and leverages key principles of liberal arts. Read more about this exciting new major here.
Zawya | 18 February 2022Abu Dhabi Welcomes 21 New Faculty Members
This semester, we are welcoming 21 new faculty members, who’ve joined us from all around the world to continue their scholarship in the UAE and impart their knowledge on our students. Ranging in experience and topics, the faculty bring with them a wealth of specializations to the community including lessons from a 30-year project documenting the evolution of Las Vegas as an urban phenomenon, to real-time embedded control systems and robotics.
NYUAD | 25 February 2022Life Beyond Saadiyat
We are excited to launch our annual Life Beyond Saadiyat report, which celebrates the Class of 2021 and their unique post-graduation journeys. Today, NYUAD2021 are a part of emerging startups, reinvesting in local youth as teachers, developing software solutions for global tech giants, and pursuing further studies at leading graduate schools. The NYUAD Career Development Center has compiled their incredible stories.
NYUAD Career Development Center | 25 February 2022How the UAE’s New Workweek can be a Game Changer for its Workforce
“Striking a balance between life and work can be a never-ending struggle for workers in advanced economies. But as the UAE has demonstrated, governments can innovate to help ease the burden.” NYUAD Professor Nancy W. Gleason shares her views on the shorter workweek in the UAE and what it means for the future of work.
Gulf Business | 25 February 2022Which Social Categories Matter To People: An Experiment
Assistant Professor of Economics Wifag Adnan and co-authors conduct an experiment exploring which social categories of gender, ethnicity, and religion matter more to people when choosing or discarding a peer, along with whether the order in which social categories are prioritized is context dependent. Read the study here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 25 February 2022Post-Pandemic: What Have We Learned?
As a panelist on CNN’s live discussion, Associate Professor of Political Science Adam Ramey discusses what we have learned and how life has changed over the course of the pandemic. Watch the discussion here.
CNN Talk Live at Expo 2020 Dubai | 25 February 2022 -
Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision-Making: Evidence from Criminal Appeals in Kenya
Are problems on election results forms electoral fraud or administrative fumble? J. Andrew Harris and co-authors examine irregularities from Kenya’s 2013 presidential election, and find that they do not correlate with election outcomes. Instead, they suggest that election integrity problems stem from benign human error and overtaxed bureaucrats. Read more here.
Electoral Studies | 06 January 2021The Effects of Market Integration During the First Globalization: A Multi-Market Approach
Giovanni Federico and co-author David Chilosi estimate the effect of integration on trade and welfare with a multi-market partial equilibrium approach. Read more here.
European Review of Economic History | 06 January 2021Avenues for EU Action on Citizenship and Residence by Investment
Visiting Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Kristin Surak submitted a report to the European Parliament, drawing on extensive quantitative and qualitative research to examine the global scene of investment migration and assess the EU's programs within it. This report will inform the European Parliament’s policymaking on investment migration going forward. Read the report here.
European Parliament | 13 January 2022The Handbook of Historical Economics
Professor of Economic History Giovanni Federico and Alberto Bisin have edited The Handbook of Historical Economics which guides students and researchers through a quantitative economic history that uses fully up-to-date econometric methods. As new sources and applications of data in every economic field are enabling economists to ask and answer new fundamental questions, this book presents an up-to-date reference on the topics at hand. Access the book here.
Academic Press | 13 January 2022Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology: Advances in Mediation Analysis
Assistant Professor of SRPP Kinga Makovi contributed to the Research Handbook on Analytical Sociology, which explains causal mediation analysis and its place in the methodological toolkit of sociologists. Access the handbook to read her chapter on Advances in Mediation Analysis, here.
Edward Elgar Publishing | 13 January 2022Measuring Excess Mortality Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Progress and Persistent Challenges
How can the total effects of the COVID-19 pandemic be most reliably measured? Stéphane Helleringer and co-author Bernardo Lanza Queiroz closely examine the progress and persistent challenges of excess mortality: the difference between the number of deaths (from any cause) that occur during the pandemic and the number of deaths that would have occurred in the absence of the pandemic. Read more here.
International Journal of Epidemiology | 20 January 2022Social Media and Press Freedom
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Korhan Kocak and Özgür Kibris (Sabanci University) propose a formal model to provide a mechanism that explains the observed divergent paths of countries related to press freedom and government accountability. Read more in their paper in the British Journal of Political Science, here.
British Journal of Political Science | 20 January 2022Napoleon in Italy: A Legacy of Institutional Reform?
Giovanni Federico and co-author Mark Dincecco (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor) examine the long-run and short-run economic consequences of French conquest and rule in Italy with recent GDP estimates, studies of economic policies, and analysis of institutional reforms. Read more here.
Social Science Research Network | 20 January 2022Good Housekeeping, Great Expectations: Gender and Housework Norms
Men do see messy rooms: through their innovative experimental study, Sabino Kornrich and co-authors delve deeper into beliefs about gender, cleanliness, and responsibility for housework. Read more here.
Sociological Methods & Research | 28 January 2022Asset Price Volatility and Investment Horizons: An Experimental Investigation
How does the investment horizon affect asset price volatility? Using a Learning to Forecast laboratory experiment, Aleksei Chernulich and co-authors examine both short and long investment horizons. Read their article, here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 28 January 2022‘Stuck’ in Nonstandard Schedules? Married Couples’ Nonstandard Work Schedules Over the Life Course
Sabino Kornrich and co-authors examine the prevalence, persistence and sociodemographic patterns of rotation and night employment at the couple-level: disadvantaged couples remain disproportionately exposed to schedules associated with negative outcomes for family well-being across the life course. Read more here.
Community, Work & Family | 28 January 2022 -
Language Models in Sociological Research: An Application to Classifying Large Administrative Data and Measuring Religiosity
Jeffrey Jensen and co-authors introduce language models for social science research, demonstrate how language models help with classification tasks with administrative data, and show how they differ from standard machine learning techniques.
Access the paper here.
Sociological Methodology | 09 December 2021Abu Dhabi Young Investigator Award (AYIA): The Role of Gender Composition in Multilateral Bargaining with Emaritis
The AYIA has been granted to Andrzej Baranski (NYUAD), Ada Kovaliukaite (NYUAD), Diogo Geraldes (Utrecht University), and James Tremewan (HES Moscow), for a project exploring the role of gender composition in multilateral bargaining with Emaritis. A recent study conducted in two different Western samples found that men earn more than women in a majoritarian bargaining game. The AYIA grant will allow for more cross-cultural understanding by studying gender differences in bargaining with an Emirati sample. Read more on this research here.
Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge | 09 December 2021Innovating the UAE’s Education Sector
NYUAD’18 alumna and UAE Futureneer Maitha AlMemari reflects on the importance of innovating the UAE’s education sector to prepare the next generation for the future. Read more about her thoughts here.
Arabian Business | 09 December 2021Strategies to Increase Downloads of COVID–19 Exposure Notification Apps: A Discrete Choice Experiment
What strategies can be used to increase the downloads of COVID-19 exposure notification apps? Jemima Frimpong and Stéphane Helleringer perform a discrete choice experiment with potential app users in the US and find that financial incentives are the most important factor in decision-making. Read the article here.
PLoS ONE | 09 December 2021The World in 2021
What are the lessons that the political, social, and economic developments of the past few years have taught us? In his article "The World in 2021," Kevin O'Rourke presents a progressive political programme that he argues can and should shape the decades to come. The programme touches upon the question of inequality, the role of international agreements in leveling up labour and environmental standards, the importance of market-correcting government interventions, and the fundamentality of human health and climate action. Find the full article here.
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review | 16 December 2021CNN Connect the World: UAE Shifts Workweek
Nancy Gleason was on CNN's "Connect the World", a globally broadcasted segment, where she shared her thoughts on the future of work given the UAE's announcement of a new weekend and shorter work-week. Read more on Nancy's views in The National and in Arabian Business.
CNN, The National, Arabian Business | 16 December 2021New York University Abu Dhabi Students win ADNOC-Bloomberg Economic Research Challenge at ADIPEC 2021
The Bloomberg Economic Research Challenge results were announced at ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition Conference), and we are excited to announce that the NYUAD Social Science team won the competition! Oxana Dmitriyenko, Joanna Jagodzinska, Aya Abu Ali, Vanessa Kors and Anne-Maria Salmela represented New York University Abu Dhabi with Dr. Mounther Barakat as their faculty advisor. Each participant of the winning team will receive a travel and press package to Dubai with an opportunity to meet with Bloomberg Television anchors and experts in economics at Bloomberg Dubai Office. They will also get an opportunity to engage in experiential learning with industry experts at ADNOC. Read more here.
Albawaba | 16 December 2021European Goods Market Integration in the Very Long Run: From the Black Death to the First World War
In their recent paper, Professor of Economic History Giovanni Federico and co-authors Max Stephan Schulze and Oliver Volckart examine price convergence and changes in the efficiency of wheat markets in XIV-XXth centuries' Europe. Authors find that convergence was a predominantly pre-modern phenomenon. Read more here.
The Journal of Economic History | 23 December 2021 -
John O’Brien: Distinguished Article Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
John O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi have received this year’s Distinguished Article Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion for their paper "Re-examining Restructuring: Racialization, Religious Conservatism, and Political Leanings in Contemporary American Life", published in Social Forces. This is the second award given to this paper this year, as it was also awarded the 2021 Distinguished Article Award from the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Congratulations to John and Eman!
Access the complete paper here.
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion | 04 November 2021Ever Failed? Fail Again, Fail Better: Tuition Protests in Germany, Turkey, and the United States
Didem Türkoğlu compares student protests against tuition hikes across three different welfare state types: Germany, Turkey, and the United States. She argues that the crucial commonality across these cases was the formation of unexpected alliances made possible by the failures of past movements. She highlights the legacy of the 1960s and 1990s for the movements in the 21st century. Read more here.
Student Movements in Late Neoliberalism | 04 November 2021C-BID: Forever Fit Program
On 6 October 2021, Professors Nikos Nikiforakis and Ernesto Reuben of the Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) gave an in-person presentation that was attended by, among others, His Excellency the Chairman and His Excellency the Undersecretary of the Department of Community Development (DCD) to mark the successful end of their research partnership. A randomized control trial showed that the Forever Fit Program (FFP), an original behavioral intervention C-BID designed to nudge senior adults in Abu Dhabi to be more physically active, proved to be highly effective. Engaging in more physical activity is a critical need for senior adults and participant feedback strongly suggested that FFP made exercise easy, accessible, and enjoyable.
C-BID | 04 November 2021Kanchan Chandra: Global Political Violence Conference
From September 26 to 28, Kanchan Chandra and Omar García Ponce held an online conference to discuss global political violence among an international community of scholars, offering a space for students to interact with them. The themes included Trends Over Time in Political Violence, Democracy, Authoritarianism and Violence, and Violence and Governance.
NYU | 11 November 2021How to Measure Legislative District Compactness If You Only Know It When You See It
How do you measure something if you only know it when you see it? Aaron Kaufman, Gary King and Mayya Kommisarchik show how through a study of legislative district compactness, an important part of gerrymandering. Read the full paper here.
American Journal of Political Science | 11 November 2021Shiyao Liu: What Makes Anticorruption Punishment Popular? Individual-Level Evidence from China
Why is anti-corruption punishment a popular strategy among non-democratic leaders and why is it effective at bolstering public support? Shiyao Liu tackles this question with individual-level evidence based on conjoint experiments conducted in China and outlines two primary mechanisms: the ability to pursue these punishments signals government capacity and moral commitments. Read more here.
The Journal of Politics | 18 November 2021Aleksei Chernulich: Modelling reference dependence for repeated choices: A horse race between models of normalisation
Many choices are repetitive and often made under uncertainty, for example, choosing between mutual funds based on their annual performances. Aleksei Chernulich’s paper uses experimental data and compares various models that capture the reference dependence of such choices. Read more here.
Journal of Economic Psychology | 18 November 2021Aaron Kaufman: Adaptive Fuzzy String Matching: How to Merge Datasets with Only One (Messy) Identifying Field
Aaron Kaufman and Aja Klevs design and validate “Adaptive Fuzzy String Matching” as an algorithmic solution to the case of only one identifying field in the record linkage problem in data analysis: when records are joined from multiple sources that describe the same entity. Read more here.
Political Analysis | 18 November 2021Robert Kubinec: When Groups Fall Apart: Identifying Transnational Polarization During the Arab Uprisings
How can international social linkages affect domestic ideological polarization? Robert Kubinec and John Owen employ a new statistical method based on Bayesian item-response theory in order to disaggregate polarization after the Arab Uprisings into domestic and transnational components, looking specifically at Tunisia and Egypt. Read more here.
Political Analysis | 25 November 2021Kinga Makovi & Hannah Kasak-Gliboff: The Effects of Ideological Value Framing and Symbolic Racism on Pro-Environmental Behavior
With a large-scale, original survey experiment examining the case of air-pollution, Kinga Makovi and Hannah Kasak-Gliboff evaluate whether environmental action is causally related to the ideological value framing of an environmental issue and if the perceived race of impacted communities influences environmental action as a function of racial resentment. Read the article here.
Scientific Reports | 25 November 2021Kristin Surak: Marketizing Sovereign Prerogatives: How to Sell Citizenship
“Golden passport” programs that offer citizenship in recognition of investment in a country are on the rise. What challenges appear when states marketize sovereign prerogatives? Kristin Surak tackles this question in Scientific Reports. Read the article here.
European Journal of Sociology | 25 November 2021 -
Here, We Grow | Grow Global Education
What does it mean to grow a truly global university?
Eric Hamilton, Vice Provost of Research Policies and Governance at NYU Abu Dhabi, and NYUAD alumni reflect on what it actually means to grow a truly global university, and how the University is equipping students to become “global leaders”. Watch the video here.
NYUAD | 07 October 2021Here, We Grow | Grow Innovation
What is the role of Artificial Intelligence and its potential to address global challenges?
Artificial Intelligence is now synonymous with growth and innovation. Antonios Tzes, Program Head of Electrical Engineering, and Nancy Gleason, Director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning discuss the opportunities and cautionary boundaries of this unstoppable force and technology tool. Watch the video here.
NYUAD | 07 October 2021Adult Death Registration in Matlab, Rural Bangladesh: Completeness, Correlates, and Obstacles
Stéphane Helleringer and co-authors estimate the completeness of adult death registration (for age 15 and older) in the Matlab health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) area in Bangladesh and identify reasons for (not) registering deaths in the national CRVS system. Read more here.
Journal of Population Sciences | 07 October 2021Stones versus Routines: Students and Politicians in Higher Education Tuition Policy
Didem Türkoğlu’s article offers a computational analysis on how opposition to public university tuition policies is covered by the news in Germany and Turkey, where despite differences in their political contexts and the differential mediating role political culture plays, student mobilization reversed right-wing parties' policies. It highlights the indirect effects of opposition parties' issue endorsement as a result of movement pressure. Read more here.
The Politics of Inequality | 13 October 2021Politically Connected Companies are less likely to Shutdown due to COVID-19 Restrictions
Robert Kubinec and co-authors show one potential mechanism for COVID-19 responses to increase inequality by showing how businesses with political connections evade COVID-19 restrictions. Read more on their research here.
Social Science Quarterly | 13 October 2021The Impact of Face Masks on Interpersonal Trust in Times of COVID-19
Samreen Malik, Benedikt Mihm and Malte Reichelt designed a novel experiment to understand the impact of face masks on interpersonal trust, and assess the causal impact of face mask use on whether individuals follow economically relevant advice from a stranger. Read more in Scientific Reports.
Scientific Reports | 13 October 2021NYUAD Social Science Students Win the CFA Pakistan Ethics Challenge
Under the mentorship of Dr. Mounther Barakat, students Taimur Hasan, Nehal Munawar Jamal and Syed Ibrahim Mustafa Gillani won the CFA Society Pakistan's Ethics Challenge 2021. The team was first asked to dissect and present a case study, following which four teams were selected to analyze another case study and present it in less than 3 hours. Congratulations to the team!
CFA Society Pakistan | 28 October 2021Democracy, the Market, and the Firm: How the Interplay between Trading and Voting Fosters Political Stability and Economic Efficiency
Why is there so much consensus among shareholders of large firms? Hervé Crès and Mich Tvede explore how the operation of a decentralized market mechanism makes collective decision-making in the firm easier and more stable, and why the democratic (majority) principle is likely to promote economic efficiency. Read more in their book Democracy, the Market, and the Firm: How the Interplay between Trading and Voting Fosters Political Stability and Economic Efficiency.
Oxford University Press | 28 October 2021The Nation of Vaccine Development Influences Vaccine Acceptance
What types of vaccines are citizens most likely to accept? Joan Barceló, Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen and co-authors findings indicate that a sociological form of vaccine nationalism shapes vaccine acceptance. Read more here.
SocArXiv | 28 October 2021May Alhajeri appointed as UAE Youth Delegate to the UN
NYUAD Social Science alumna May Alhajeri (NYUAD’21) was recently appointed as a UAE Youth Delegate to the United Nations. We caught up with her for a quick Q&A. Mabrook May! Read more here.
NYUAD | 28 October 2021Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State
The modern welfare state is often traced to the late nineteenth-century labor movement, but regulatory welfare actually began a half century earlier with the passage of child labor laws. Through seven case studies of key policy episodes, Elisabeth Anderson explores how middle-class reformers instituted pathbreaking employment protections in 19th-century Europe and the U.S. Read more in her book Agents of Reform: Child Labor and the Origins of the Welfare State, here.
Princeton University Press | 28 October 2021On Lies and Hard Truths
Would you rather lie or tell a hard truth? Ernesto Reuben and Sascha Behnk run an experimental study to understand the conditions under which people prefer to hide behind a lie rather than convey a truthful but hurtful message. Read more here.
Frontiers in Psychology | 28 October 2021 -
NYU Abu Dhabi to have Visiting Professors from Indian Universities
NYU Abu Dhabi and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations have signed a historic agreement to establish a Visiting Professorship at NYUAD Social Science. NYUAD and ICCR will collectively appoint faculty members from Indian universities to the ICCR Visiting Professorship. Read more here.
Gulf News | 09 September 2021Could the UAE Make a Success of a Four-Day Working Week?
Industry experts say global Covid-19 pandemic has created a revolution in the traditional ways of working. Read Nancy Gleason’s views in Arabian Business.
Arabian Business | 09 September 2021Evaluating Peers' Food Choices May Improve Healthy Eating Habits Among Young Adolescents
A new study conducted in the UAE investigates whether asking early adolescents to evaluate the food choices of peers triggers deliberative thinking that improves their own food selection, even when the peers' food choices are unhealthy. Read the results of Ernesto Reuben and co-authors' study here.
Science Codex | 09 September 2021The Collapse of Civilization in Southern Mesopotamia
In the late ninth century, rural settlement, agriculture, and urbanization all collapsed in southern Mesopotamia. Robert Allen and Leander Heldring document this collapse using newly digitized archaeological data and present a model of hydraulic society that highlights the collapse of state capacity as a proximate cause of the collapse of the economy. Read more here.
Cliometrica | 09 September 2021Four Great Asian Trade Collapses
Kevin O’Rourke and co-authors’ article in the Australian Economic History Review introduces a new dataset of commodity-specific, bilateral import data for four large Asian economies in the interwar period: China, the Dutch East Indies, India and Japan. It uses these data to describe the interwar trade collapses in the economies concerned. Read more here.
Australian Economic History Review | 09 September 2021Building Interdisciplinary Teams in Emergency Care to Respond to National Emergencies: Addressing the Opioid Epidemic
Jemima Frimpong and co-authors use qualitative methodology to understand the team-building process and response to the opioid epidemic in emergency care in the United States. Read more about their research here.
Evidence-Based Approaches to Effectively Respond to Public Health Emergencies | 09 September 2021The White Working Class and the Legacy of the 1960s Ku Klux Klan in the 2016 Presidential Election
Mattias Smångs explores how the presence of the Ku Klux Klan across southern communities in the 1960s, theoretically and empirically mediated electoral support for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election. Read more here.
The ANNALS of the AAPSS | 16 September 2021Is Money Everything? Research Shows `Payday Makes Us Act More Selflessly
“More than debunking a stereotypical view of the wealthy, our experiment showed that poverty has a negative impact on prosocial behavior. This suggests that, by reducing poverty, we may be making society in a sense less selfish,” Nikos Nikiforakis, co-director of Centre for Behavioral Institutional Design at NYUAD. Read more about Nikos Nikiforakis’ research here.
The National | 16 September 2021NYU Abu Dhabi Welcomes 42 New Faculty Members
NYU Abu Dhabi has welcomed 42 new faculty and academic leaders coming from world class educational and professional institutions to continue their scholarship in the UAE and enrich the educational experience for our students. Join us in welcoming our new faculty members! Read more here.
NYUAD | 16 September 2021Here, We Grow
Registrations are now open for NYUAD's 10th anniversary celebrations. Join us on September 21-22, 2021 for a series of virtual events as we celebrate our story within the UAE and beyond. Click here to learn more and register for the celebrations.
NYUAD | 16 September 2021Migrants Through Time: An Insight Into the Female Diasporic Voice
Watch Saba Karim Khan discuss the role of place in diasporic literature and the universality of women's voices. Read more and register for the event, on 5 October 2021, here.
NYUAD Institute | 16 September 2021Effecting Change in Liberia
Meet Sekou Jabateh, a political science major at New York University Abu Dhabi and one of the NYUAD Career Development Center's amazing fall 2021 Global Career Peers. From studying political science courses to taking a leave of absence to establish a non-profit organization, Sekou is working his way into public service in his home country, Liberia. In addition to the classes he took at NYUAD, Sekou also applied for a six-week program last summer at Princeton School of Public and International Affairs' Junior Summer Institute to further strengthen his skills at policy writing and analysis. Read more here.
NYUAD Career Development Center | 23 September 2021The Origin Story | An Oral History of the Founding of NYUAD (2005-2010)
The Origin Story, for the first time, offers a first-hand account of how NYUAD came to being through the voices and stories of those that were there. Watch the full story here.
NYUAD | 23 September 2021Biases in COVID-19 Medical Resource Dilemmas
Georgia Michailidou studies COVID-19 medical allocation dilemmas through a choice experiment. Males are almost half as likely to receive lifesaving resources even if these are medically more beneficial for them. Read more here.
Frontiers in Psychology | 30 September 2021Meaning of a Textbook: Religious Education, National Islam, and the Politics of Reform in the United Arab Emirates
Zeynep Ozgen and Sharif Ibrahim El Shishtawy Hassan’s latest article focuses on the politics of education reform in the UAE. It explores how the curriculum is used as a pedagogic tool by the state to advance national interpretations of Islam in support of domestic and international policy objectives. Read more in Nations and Nationalism, here.
Nations and Nationalism | 30 September 2021Allocating Positions Fairly: Auctions and Shapley Value
Who gets to go first and who must wait? And, how much compensation should those served earlier pay to those who agree to be served later? John Wooders and Matt Van Essen devised an auction for allocating priority of service, and show that it generates an allocation of priorities and compensations that is efficient and, under some circumstances, also fair. Read more here.
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Branko Milanovic, Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World
Read Kevin O’Rourke’s review of the book here.
The Belknap Press | 05 August 2021Skyfall: Saba Karim Khan invites readers to imagine a world ‘much like Abu Dhabi’
Saba Karim Khan speaks to Friday Magazine about her debut novel, Skyfall, and her experience writing a novel during the pandemic. Read excerpts from the interview here.
Friday Magazine | 05 August 2021Predicting Social Tipping and Norm Change in Controlled Experiments
Nikos Nikiforakis and co-authors have identified a model that accurately predicts social tipping in laboratory conditions. The model can help design policies for promoting beneficial norm change. Read more here.
PNAS | 05 August 2021Neighborhood Isolation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted Americans’ daily mobility, which could contribute to greater social stratification. Relying on Safegraph cell phone movement data from 2019 and 2020, Kinga Makovi and co-authors use two indices to measure mobility inequality between census tracts in the 25 largest U.S. cities. Read more here.
Sociological Science | 05 August 2021What Can New Research Tell Us About the Barriers Facing Female-led Firms?
Morgan Hardy discusses the need for new research and analysis to better understand the “interrelated and compounding” barriers facing female-led businesses. Watch the full video here.
Small Firm Diaries | 11 August 2021How an 'Inherited' Work Ethic Shapes Some Workers
Onoso Imoagene speaks about the children of Nigerian immigrants and the success of certain immigrant groups. Read more about how ‘inherited’ work ethic shapes some workers. Read more here.
BBC Worklife | 11 August 2021Commodity Frontiers: A View from Economic History
Kevin O’Rourke and Ronald Findlay (Columbia University) stress the need to engage with existing work on commodity frontiers by economists and economic historians, as well as need to engage with such topics as the history of inter-state conflict and violence, technological change, and the role of multiple interest groups in determining policy. Read more here.
Journal of Global History | 11 August 2021The Race Between the Snail and the Tortoise: Skill Premium and Early Industrialization in Italy (1861–1913)
The accumulation of human capital and “productive” skills is one of the salient features of the process of modern economic growth. Giovanni Federico and co-authors Alessandro Nuvolari, Leonardo Ridolfi, and Michelangelo Vast provide the first comprehensive estimates of the Italian skill premium and gender wage gap during the Liberal age and interpret its evolution. Read more here.
Cliometrica | 19 August 2021What Does it Take to Make a Three-Day Weekend Permanent?
Nancy Gleason explains why now is the perfect time to embrace a four-day work week. Read Nancy’s views here.
The National | 19 August 2021Is Money Everything? Research Shows Payday Makes Us Act More Selflessly
“More than debunking a stereotypical view of the wealthy, our experiment showed that poverty has a negative impact on prosocial behaviour. This suggests that, by reducing poverty, we may be making society in a sense less selfish,” Nikos Nikiforakis said. Read more about Nikos and co-authors’ research here.
The National | 19 August 2021Covenants Before the Swords: The Limits to Efficient Cooperation in Heterogeneous Groups
Nikos Nikiforakis and co-authors use a laboratory experiment to show the limits to cooperation when individuals derive different benefits from it, and the benefits of early communication for avoiding conflict. Read more here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | 19 August 2021Aid Allocation: The Role of External Discipline
Using an approach that embodies an explicit tradeoff between need and governance considerations, François Bourguignon and Jean-Philippe Platteau propose an optimal aid allocation formula. Read more here.
International Economics | 26 August 2021Mustafa Yavas: ASA 2021 Mathematical Sociology Section’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award
Postdoctoral Associate Mustafa Yavas’ article “Dissecting income segregation: Impacts of concentrated affluence on segregation of poverty” won the ASA 2021 Mathematical Sociology Section’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award. This award is given annually for a paper that makes a significant contribution to mathematical sociology. Congratulations Mustafa! Click here to read the full paper.
ASA 2021 | 26 August 2021Here, We Grow: NYUAD Celebrates 10 Years
Join us this September to celebrate New York University Abu Dhabi's decade of excellence. Click here to read about NYUAD’s decade of excellence and upcoming events to celebrate it.
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Could you be 'Nudged' to Exercise? New Unit at NYU Abu Dhabi Researches Human Behaviour
NYUAD’s Center for Behavioral Institutional Design, a first-of-its-kind institution in the UAE, conducts cutting-edge research in behavioral social science and uses the insights to inform and improve public policymaking. The center hosted its inaugural public event virtually. Read more here.
The National | July 1, 2021It Takes Two: Experimental Evidence on the Determinants of Technology Diffusion
One important source of the well-documented gap in firm productivity between low- and high-income countries is the use of inferior technology. Building on literature suggesting that demand-side factors are key drivers of technology upgrading, Morgan Hardy and co-author Jamie McCasland (University of British Columbia) conduct an experiment in a sample of a garment making firms in Ghana to investigate whether demand stimulus paired with training programs can spur peer-to-peer diffusion. Read more here.
Journal of Development Economics | July 01, 2021Competition and Price Transparency in the Market for Lemons: Experimental Evidence
In markets with asymmetric information, where equilibria are often inefficient, bargaining can help promote welfare. Olivier Bochet and Simon Siegenthaler (University of Texas at Dallas) design an experiment to examine the impact of competition and price transparency in the market for lemons. Read more here.
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics | July 01, 2021Eric Hamilton: Distinguished Service Award
Eric Hamilton received the Distinguished Service Award at our inaugural Faculty Awards. He was recognized for his commitment to serving the NYU Abu Dhabi through multiple committees, and as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, in addition to his ongoing teaching role in the Social Science division. Mabrook Eric! We are grateful for your unparalleled service to our community and institution. NYU Abu Dhabi is an exceptional place for exceptional people like Eric. Learn more about him here.
NYUAD | July 08, 2021The Border Within: Book Trailer
Watch the trailer for Phi Hong Su's book The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin. This book uncovers how 20th-century state formation and international migration generate enduring migrant classifications. Available for pre-order through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Lehmanns, and Stanford University Press.
Stanford University Press | July 08, 2021Migration, Urbanity and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World
Since the beginning of the oil era, the Gulf countries have experienced a massive increase in regional and international immigration, which translated into some of the highest ratio of foreign residents worldwide. Laure Assaf and Hélène Thiollet in their chapter for Migration, Urbanity, and Cosmopolitanism in a Globalized World use ethnographic evidence collected at the city level to show how everyday encounters and interactions between Emirati and Saudi city-dwellers display individual and collective dispositions for diversity. Read the preface here.
Springer | July 08, 2021Lovers and Borders: Skyfall Author Saba Karim Khan on Pakistan, India, Politics, and Craft
How does the weight of Partition and war sit on the shoulders of Indians and Pakistanis who fall in love with each other? Saba Karim Khan discusses the themes of her recent book Skyfall (2021), in an interview with The Chakkar. The book's action-packed plot is set against the backdrop of the love-hate relationship between India and Pakistan, religious extremism within both countries, and the racism that Muslims experience in countries with a predominantly white population. Read more here.
The Chakkar | July 15, 2021Can the UAE’s Agritech Plans Help Meet the Global Food Challenge?
"As a medium to long-term project, the UAE’s plans are exciting. We are essentially learning how to produce food in places where we would not be producing without technology. And this will be crucial to feeding a growing population in our region, and across the planet, on a sustainable basis in the coming decades." Read more from Heitor Pellegrina.
The National | July 15, 2021Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future: The Role of International Trade
The trade system is key to tackling climate change, not environmental agreements. Check my Rafael Leal-Arcas’ new book, Climate Clubs for a Sustainable Future: The Role of International Trade.
Goumbook | July 15, 2021Privacy Versus Convenience and Why Cryptocurrencies Could be the Answer
Raša Karapandža looks at the future of banking, and shares why he is spending his summer studying the drivers of bitcoin mining. Alice Haine explores that topic in this Pocketful of Dirhams podcast.
Arabian Business | July 15, 2021MSc Economics Graduation
Mabrook to our Masters of Science in Economics graduates! They will be a very special class in our history as the first Masters cohort to ever graduate from NYUAD.
NYUAD | July 15, 2021Path to Centralization and Development: Evidence from Siam
Christopher Paik and Jessica Vechbanyongratana’s article investigates the role of colonial pressure on state centralization and its relationship to subsequent development by analyzing the influence of Western colonial threats on Siam’s internal political reform. Read more here.
World Politics | 29 July 2021For Abu Dhabi's Mubadala and NYUAD, 'Impact Investing' can be Taught
“ESG-linked investments are still in the early stage, and they need academic rigor and scientific discipline. This is exactly the ultimate objective: foster a disciplined, research-based approach to ESG investment, with a strong focus on impact measurement and management,” said Bernardo Bortolotti. Read more on Bernardo’s views on environmental social governance investing and the Transition Investment Lab here.
Gulf News | July 29, 2021NYUAD Inaugural Service Excellence Awards
At NYUAD, Diana Pangan ensures that the day-to-day operations of the NYUAD Social Science division run smoothly so that our students and faculty can continue their research and education. Diana was one of eight recipients of our inaugural NYUAD Service Excellence Awards. Join us in congratulating Diana!
NYUAD | July 29, 2021Trà Đá Chats
In an episode of Trà Đá Chats, Postdoctoral Associate Phi Hong Su shares about her forthcoming book, fieldwork situations gone awry, and anti-Asian violence.
Listen to the full episode.
Mixcloud | July 29, 2021COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance and Hesitancy in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
A new study published in Nature Medicine reveals vaccine acceptance is higher in developing countries than in richer countries. Melina Platas contributed to this global effort with researchers International Growth Centre, Innovations for Public Action, Yale Global Health and 30+ institutions. Read the full paper here.
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Folklore
How does folklore affect economic behaviour? Assistant Professor of Economics Melanie Meng Xue and co-author Stelios Michalopoulos (Brown University) show how group's motifs reflect known geographic and social attributes. Gender roles, attitudes toward risk, and trust are some examples that highlight the significance of folklore in cultural economics. Learn more here.
The Quarterly Journal of Economics | June 03, 2021Land is Back – It Should Be Taxed, It Can Be Taxed
In many developed countries, housing and land have been behind the rise in wealth-to-income ratio over the last decades. In a recent paper, Professor of Economics Etienne Wasmer and co-authors examine what implications this trend has for how wealth tax, and optimal tax more generally, should be designed. Learn more about their perspective.
Vox EU CEPR | June 03, 2021True Global Covid Pandemic Death Toll ‘as High as 8 Million’
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy Stéphane Helleringer offers his insights about the true death toll of COVID-19 globally. Read more in The Times.
The Times | June 03, 2021Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic
Mothering has been frontline work during the COVID-19 pandemic. Instructor of Social Science Saba Karim Khan has contributed a chapter to the recently published book Mothers, Mothering, and COVID-19: Dispatches from the Pandemic on the devastating impact of COVID-19 on mothers. In her writing, Saba Karim Khan explores how COVID-19 inadvertently became a field experiment to test gender injustice in South Asia. Find the full book here.
Demeter | June 10, 2021Regulation and Innovative Finance for Sustainable Energy
Using the UK as a case study, Rafael Leal-Arcas introduces business models to illustrate the roles of multiple actors, their tools, and profit maximization techniques in the promotion and use of renewable energy. Read more here.
Emory International Law Review | June 10, 2021When Capitalism Works and When it Doesn’t
Capitalism often works as an engine of economic growth, but it doesn’t always generate rising incomes for most people. Robert Allen gave a lecture for New Economic School Moscow titled "When Capitalism Works and When it Doesn't." In the lecture, Robert Allen unpacked the history of leading capitalist economies - the UK and the USA - over the last four centuries and discussed how and why the trend has changed from rising wages at the same rate as output per worker to the rising gap between high- and low-wage jobs and a stagnating average wage despite of increasing output per worker. Watch the full lecture.
Read Bob’s interview in Economics Conversations.
Read an article on Kommersant (in Russian).
Economic School Moscow | June 17, 2021 -
Controlling the First Wave of the COVID–19 Pandemic in Malawi: Results From a Panel Study
Despite early models that projected large infection outbreaks and a massive strain on health systems in many African countries during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious rates remained low in most countries, presenting a puzzle for scholars. Stéphane Helleringer and co-authors explore factors that possibly contributed to the low recorded burden of COVID-19 in Malawi. Read more here.
medRxiv | May 04, 2021Biryani Chronicles
Instructor of Social Science Saba Karim Khan participated in NYUAD’s Food and Culture Series: “Biryani Chronicles”, organized by the Office of Social Responsibility, where she led the conversation about Biryani, it’s connection to home and Pakistan. Catch up on the discussion and hear a guest band play.
NYUAD | May 04, 2021Trusting the Process
While studying the sub-Saharan African countries’ response to COVID-19, Melina Platas and co-authors found that although survey respondents in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda supported early pandemic policies and believed them to be effective, they often did not adhere to recommended health practices. Her work suggests that compliance to the public health measures may be subject to a collective action issue, where people are less likely to adhere to public health measures if they do not think others will also do so. Read the full article about Melina Platas' work.
NYUAD | May 20, 2021Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Climate change has refocused the attention on the origins of the fossil fuel economy. In this context, Professor of Economics Kevin O'Rourke and co-author Alan Fernihough (Queen's University Belfast) in their recent paper assess the extent to which growth during the Industrial Revolution depended on coal. To answer this question, the authors investigate a panel of European sizes spanning the centuries from 1300 to 1900. Read more here.
The Economic Journal | May 20, 2021Stories of the Class of 2021
Each and every student from the Class of 2021 has achieved personal and academic milestones. We celebrate their passion, leadership, strength, solidarity, and resilience through the years, and especially the last three semesters. Here are some of their stories.
NYUAD | May 20, 2021Do Election Queues Change Election Outcomes?
Assistant Professor of Political Science Andy Harris addresses a study area that has often been overlooked in the literature on African politics - the impact of election administration on voter behavior. In particular, Andy Harris examines the impact of election-day lines on voter behavior in Kenya. Read more about his study here.
Democracy in Africa | May 20, 2021NYUAD Establishes the Transition Investment Lab, In Collaboration with Mubadala and Al Maskari Holding
The NYUAD Transition Investment Lab (TIL) is a new research center aimed at positioning NYU Abu Dhabi as a center of excellence and knowledge hub for impact finance and ESG research. The lab, which is run by Visiting Professor of Economics Bernardo Bortolotti, represents the first fully fledged research venture that the university has established with financial institutions based in Abu Dhabi. Read more about the TIL here.
NYUAD | May 20, 2021C-BID Inaugural Event
The Center of Behavioral Institutional Design (C- BID) at NYU Abu Dhabi is the prime research center for behavioral social science and public policy in the UAE and MENA region. Its goal is to construct empirically validated models of human behavior and use them to design and implement policies and institutions that will improve social welfare.C-BID would like to invite you to their inaugural event which will take place online, on June 17, at 1 pm (GST). The event will present the Center's purpose and capabilities, and how it can best serve the UAE community through research, policy design, and educational programs. It will include prestigious speakers such as Prof. Cass Sunstein (co-author of the book Nudge, Harvard University), and Prof Al Roth (Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Stanford University), and many more. To register for the event, click here.
C-BID | May 20, 2021It's Time to Consider the Four-Day Work Week in the Middle East as Automation Rises
As automation becomes commonplace, removing jobs humans once did, the revised working model may be the answer, writes Nancy Gleason. Read the full article here.
Arabian Business | May 27, 2021Social Science Capstone Award Winner (SRPP): Nandini Kochar
Nandini Kochar was awarded the best Capstone prize for her documentary “Umalis Si Maama” (“Migrant Mother”). Nandini produced this as a joint-Capstone for SRPP and Film and New Media programs. Documented over four months, “Umalis Si Maama” follows three domestic workers on their day-off in Abu Dhabi and captures the dualities of love and separation, community and longing, leisure and labour, which permeate the lives of migrant mothers. Watch the trailer here.
NYUAD Social Science | May 27, 2021Social Science Capstone Award Winner (Economics): Salma Soliman
In her Capstone, Salma has explored the trends and predictors of the gender gap in financial inclusion. While working on her project, she discovered that while overall financial inclusion is improving globally, the gender gap is actually widening, driven by country-level cultural factors.
NYUAD Social Science | May 27, 2021Social Science Capstone Award Winner (Political Science): Samantha Jasen
In her Capstone, Samantha explored the case study of prisoner petitions at the time of 9/11 crises and asked how do times of crisis shape the presence and magnitude of judicial bias in US Federal Civil Court decisions related to prisoner's rights.
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The Long-Term Effects of War Exposure on Civic Engagement
Recent studies document that exposure to civil war violence could increase postwar participation in social organizations. Yet, we lack evidence on whether these effects persist over generations, the pathway of persistence, and whether they generalize to different types of conflict. Joan Barceló addresses these gaps in his paper in PNAS.
PNAS | April 01, 2021Alienation
In a podcast on High Theory, Postdoctoral Associate Mustafa Yavas discusses how the notion of alienation, introduced in Karl Marx's writing, is helpful for critiquing the exploitative cultures of work today and promoting a better quality of work life. Listen to the full podcast here.
High Theory | April 01, 2021Shivani Mishra: Shoot Your Shot. Take it Slowly, One Day at a Time
Shivani Mishra, NYUAD’20, was able to experience some professional opportunities that, according to her, would be absolutely beyond her reach if she had not attended NYUAD. Now, the NYUAD Social Science graduate is pursuing her Masters at University of Oxford. Her advice to students: “Shoot your shot. Take it slowly, one day at a time. There is a place for you in this world.” Read more here.
NYUAD | April 01, 2021The Gazelle Spotlight: Sara Pan Algarra
Congratulations to NYU Abu Dhabi graduate Sara Pan Algarra, Class of 2020, who was recently selected as a Hillary Rodham Clinton Global Challenges Scholar. Awarded with a full scholarship, Sara will be pursuing a master’s degree in Global Challenges: Law, Policy and Practice at Swansea University’s School of Law. Her research focuses on children’s rights, particularly on how climate displacement has impacted efforts to achieve girls’ education. At the end of her program, Sara will be writing a dissertation on the topic, complemented by an internship at UNICEF UK. Read more here.
The Gazelle | April 01, 202119 Washington Square North AY 2021-22 Faculty Fellows Announcement
Congratulations to Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, Jemima A. Frimpong, who has been awarded a Faculty Fellowship from 19 Washington Square North (WSN), in support of her research project on proactive work behavior in health care settings. Focusing on the perspectives of managers, the project aims to identify a set of research directions that scholars can consider to foster the integration of proactivity theory into health care management research, and strategies for implementing evidence-based practices that ultimately improve wellbeing of health care workers.
NYU | April 08, 2021How does COVID-19 Affect Electoral Participation? Evidence from the French Municipal Elections
What are the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak on electoral participation? After studying the March 2020 municipal elections in France, Abdul Noury and co-authors establish a robust relationship between the depressed turnout rate and the disease. Read the full paper.
PLOS ONE | April 08, 2021EduTech Arabia 2021 Conference
On March 16th, Director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning, Nancy Gleason participated in a panel discussion "Key lessons from the digital transformation journey" at the EduTech Arabia 2021 Conference. Watch a moment from the panel.
EduTech Arabia 2021 | April 08, 2021Letter to a Young Ethnographer of the Global South
"And this is the paradox at the heart of the Western-based audience for the Global South ethnography: While they are genuinely interested in knowledge about the world beyond the West, they often want these findings presented in a way that fits within their pre-existing templates for how they already believe the rest of the world to work." Read the full Letter to a Young Ethnographer of the Global South written by May Al Dabbagh and John O’Brien where they discuss the challenges that ethnographers studying spaces beyond the Global North face and share advice on how to navigate them.
Contexts | April 15, 2021‘Anxious Citizens of the Attention Economy’: In Conversation with Mohsin Hamid
Instructor of Social Science Saba Karim Khan interviewed eminent Pakistani novelist and writer Mohsin Hamid whose work pursues to decenter canonical notions of whiteness in literature and purity in the world. Read the full interview, where Saba Karim Khan and Mohsin Hamid discuss themes of migration, identity, and ideology that appear in Hamid’s novels and book.
Wasafiri | April 15, 2021NYUAD Social Science Junior Tatyana Brown Awarded Truman Scholarship for Public Service
Tatyana Brown joined a video call thinking she was going to meet her roommate’s friend. But she realized something was up when Vice Chancellor Mariët Westermann greeted her with a smile. This was the moment Brown discovered she had been awarded the prestigious Truman Scholarship — the second NYUAD student to be granted the highly competitive award.
Watch Tatyana Brown's reaction to the news and read more about her story.
NYUAD | April 15, 2021THE Podcast: Student Employability Post-Pandemic
How can universities prepare students for a post-Covid workplace? Listen in to this podcast that Nancy Gleason contributed to this week with Times Higher Education on student employability post-pandemic.
Times Higher Education | April 22, 2021NYUAD Campus Climate Survey
As NYUAD strives to become a more inclusive and equitable community, it is paramount for the university to develop a better understanding of the extent to which the campus climate supports diversity and equity. NYUAD is introducing the Campus Climate Survey and invites all students, faculty, and staff to voice their perception of the university's climate, how it supports diversity and equity, and share their personal experiences at University. The survey will help to inform and enhance support, policies, and practices related to diversity and equity at #OurNYUAD including our response to discrimination and harassment. The Campus Climate Survey will be available between April 18 and May 15. Join our collective journey to belonging! Spread the word and complete the survey (Link in your NYU email)
NYUAD | April 22, 2021International Refugee Law Between Scholarship and Practice
Professor of Legal Studies Rosemary Byrne and Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (University of Copenhagen) consider the implications of a discipline that is surrounded by ‘thin walls’ as researchers broker the ‘dual imperative’ to simultaneously advance knowledge and protection in a field heavily influenced by policy interests and networks of practitioners that actively take part in, and promote, scholarly production. Read more here.
International Journal of Refugee Law | April 22, 2021In Defense of Online Learning
How can online learning forced by COVID-19 expand access, confront opportunity gaps and prepare for the future growth of higher education? Read the full article “In Defense of Online Learning” written by Nancy Gleason, Director of the Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning, where she rethinks the critical role of online learning in the wake of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
University Business | April 22, 2021What is the Impact of Opportunity Zones on Employment?
The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act established Opportunity Zones (OZs) as one of multiple programs designed to stimulate economic growth. In practice, the OZ program has been controversial. In a recent paper, Associate Professor of Economics Pablo Hernandez-Lagos and co-authors investigate what is the impact of OZs on employment outcomes with reference to job postings and salaries. Read more here.
NYU Stern School of Business | April 29, 2021Concrete Dreams - Some Roads Lead Home selected for the Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival 2021
Many congratulations to Instructor of Social Science Saba Karim Khan for having her documentary film Concrete Dreams - Some Roads Lead Home officially selected for the Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival 2021! The film shows how football is producing a movement beyond sports among Pakistan’s street children. Watch the official trailer of the film.
Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival | April 29, 2021Future of Work Forum
Nancy Gleason tells the Arabian Business Future of Work Forum how looking after employees boosts the bottom line performance of companies.
Arabian Business | April 29, 2021From Airline Pilot to Amazon Manager: How Labor Markets Have Changed Under COVID-19
Etienne Wasmer’s research compares European and American government policies towards the economic shock of COVID-19. Read what this NYUAD Social Science professor has discovered so far.
NYUAD | April 29, 2021
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A Master Plan
Abir Arabi shares her experience as a graduate student in the first Master’s program at NYU Abu Dhabi. Read more here.
NYUAD | March 04, 2021U.A.E. and Israel have World's Fastest Vaccination Programs — What can the West Learn from them?
Read Joan Barceló’s opinion on vaccine rollouts in the Middle East. Click here to read more.
CBC | March 04, 2021Contrasting U.S. and European Job Markets during COVID-19
Etienne Wasmer and his coauthors studied how the United States and European Union responded differently to the effects of COVID-19 on employment in the early days of the pandemic. Read more here.
FRBSF | March 04, 2021Web of Lies: A Tool for Determining the Limits of Verification in Preventing the Spread of False Information on Networks
The spread of false information on social networks has garnered substantial scientific and popular attention. Kinga Makovi and Manu Muñoz-Herrera use a novel behavioral experiment with over 2000 participants, to analyze participants’ willingness to spread false information in a network. Read their results, in Scientific Reports, here.
Scientific Reports | March 04, 2021The World Trade Organization and Carbon Market Clubs
Rafael Leal-Arcas’ latest publication explores emission units as a linkage in climate clubs in the hope of making a remarkable difference in climate change mitigation. It analyzes emission units trading in the context of regional trade agreements as a novel, promising, and effective way to mitigate climate change. Read more here.
Georgetown Journal of International Law | March 04, 2021Unequal Treatment toward Copartisans versus Non-Copartisans is Reduced when Partisanship can be Falsified
Kinga Makovi, Anahit Sargsyan and Maria Abascal (NYU) use a behavioral experiment to study how people allocate resources to copartisan and non-copartisan partners when partners are allowed to falsify their affiliation and may have incentives to do so. Read more in their paper in PLOS ONE here.
PLOS ONE | March 11, 2021Instrumental Variables Estimation of a simple Dynamic Model of Bidding Behavior in Private Value Auctions
John Ham & Steven Lehrer (Queen’s University) provide the first, in experimental economics, consistent estimates of a dynamic learning model with a continuous outcome. The econometric approach we propose can be used in many experimental studies including auctions, bargaining with transfers, and gift exchange experiments. Read more here.
Journal of the Economic Science Association | March 11, 2021Biases in Survey Estimates of Neonatal Mortality: Results From a Validation Study in Urban Areas of Guinea-Bissau
Stephane Helleringer and co-authors conducted a validation study of survey data on neonatal mortality in Guinea-Bissau (West Africa). They used records from an urban health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) that monitors child survival prospectively as their reference data set. Read their results published in Demography, here.
Demography | 11 March 2021Mobilizing Opposition Voters under Electoral Authoritarianism: A Field Experiment in Russia
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Leonid Peisakhin, Arturas Rozenas (NYU) and Sergey Sanovich (Princeton University) (follow a large-scale campaign experiment by an opposition candidate in Russia’s 2016 parliamentary election, in order to test the mobilization of opposition voters under electoral authoritarianism. Read their results here.
Research and Politics | March 11, 2021What you Should do about the Changing Workplace
Our world has changed forever: How do we all keep pace with the coronavirus-accelerated work revolution? Read Nancy Gleason’s opinion here.
Arabian Business | March 11, 2021Management Practices to Enhance the Effectiveness of Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Drawing from a socio-technical and cultural framework, Jemima Frimpong and Erick Guerrero propose a management approach that relies on policies, human resources, and culturally responsive practices to directly and or indirectly facilitate the delivery of evidence-based practices in substance use disorder treatment. Read more here.
Effective Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders for Racial and Ethnic Minorities | March 18, 2021Mapping the Production and Mobilization Functions of Collective Action
How can collective action evolve when individuals receive the benefits of a common good without contributing to its production? Read about Blaine Robbins and co-authors’ experiment and discussion on the implications of these results for theories of the critical mass and for promoting collective action.
Socius | March 18, 2021Hoon Yoo, Silver Scholar at Yale School of Management
Hoon Yoo, NYUAD’20 (Economics) is currently studying at the Yale School of Management as a Silver Scholar, allowing him to pursue an MBA immediately after his graduation, complete an internship during his second year, and come back to Yale University to finish his studies. Read how the experiences and opportunities he received at NYUAD set him up for life beyond Saadiyat.
NYUAD | March 24, 2021The Ghost of Institutions Past: History as an Obstacle to Fighting Tax Evasion?
Can a history of evasion affect tax compliance after a major institutional reform? Nikos Nikiforakis and co-authors address this question in a novel laboratory experiment varying the quality of past and present institutions. Read more here.
European Economic Review | March 24, 2021Climate Change Mitigation Law and Policy in the BRICS
For decades, governments around the world have been trying to find ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In a chapter written for the Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law, Rafael Leal-Arcas examines contributions of five major developing countries: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to global climate change and their climate change mitigation strategies. Read more here.
Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law | March 24, 2021Covid-19 Fight a 'victory for university research', NYU Abu Dhabi Vice Chancellor says
Vice Chancellor, Mariet Westermann speaks to The National about Covid-19 bringing to light the crucial research work of academic institutions across the world. Read more here.
The National | March 24, 2021The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South Korea’s Democracy Movement
Paul Chang (Harvard University) and Kangsan Lee (New York University Abu Dhabi) reimagine social movements as populations of interlinked protests, and demonstrate the advantages of analyzing protest event networks with a novel dataset related to South Korea’s democracy movement. Read more in the Structure of Protest Cycles, published in Social Forces.
Social Forces | March 24, 2021
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The Time is Now: Why Conscious Investment Is Ready To Take Off In The Middle East
Conscious investing is on the rise globally--and it has accelerated during the global coronavirus pandemic, note Pablo Hernandez-Lagos (NYUAD Social Science) and Ramesh Jagannathan, Managing Director of StartAD. Read their article here.
Entrepreneur Middle East | February 04, 202110 Year Memories: Publishing a Children’s Book
Where is home? That’s the question that motivated this group of NYUAD students to write, and publish a bilingual children’s book that portrays home as a place where love exists no matter where it may be. Watch our students talk about their book.
NYUAD | February 04, 2021Reflections on Collective Insecurity and Virtual Resistance in the times of COVID-19 in Malaysia
Environments of human insecurity are a widespread problem in our globalized world, particularly for migrant workers, one of the most vulnerable groups in society today. Read Teresita Del Rosario’s paper on how the pandemic has heightened these insecurities among migrant workers in Malaysia.
Migration Letters | February 04, 2021Errors in Reported Ages and Dates in Surveys of Adult Mortality: A Record Linkage Study in Niakhar (Senegal)
Stephane Helleringer, and co-authors evaluate age and date reporting errors in sibling histories collected during a validation study in the Niakhar Health and Demographic Surveillance System (Senegal). Read more here.
Population Studies | February 11, 2021Our Raison D’etre
Interim Dean of Social Science and Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, Hannah Brückner, joined NYU Abu Dhabi in 2011, drawn to the combination of teaching excellence and support for her research. She explains how the University has shaped her work, and how she in turn has been able to shape the University. Read more here.
NYUAD | February 11, 2021The Role of Communities in the Transmission of Political Values: Evidence from Forced Population Transfers
Leonid Peisakhin and Volha Charnysh (MIT) evaluate the role of community bonds in the long-term transmission of political values. Read more in their article in the British Journal of Political Science.
British Journal of Political Science | February 11, 2021'Skyfall': How Saba Karim Khan's debut novel aims to break Pakistani women out of 'boxes'
Read about Saba Karim Khan’s debut novel breaking the stereotypes of Pakistani women, as she always struggled with the way female characters from the subcontinent were characterised in literature.
Read Saba’s interview with Khaleej Times here.
The National and Khaleej Times | February 18, 2021The Employment Impact of the Provision of Public Health Insurance: A Further Examination of the Effect of the 2005 TennCare Contraction
John Ham and Ken Ueda (HU) extend Garthwaite, Gross, and Notowidigdo’s (GGN, 2014) analysis on the employment impact of the 2005 TennCare contraction. They transform GGN’s results to make them comparable to the treatment effects reported in previous work.
The treatment effects implied by GGN’s results are considerably larger and noisier than those reported in previous work. HU extend the estimation to considerably larger data sets. Surprisingly this does not change the general magnitude or precision of the GGN results.
Secondly, HU use the Conley-Taber (CT, 2011) approach to estimate consistent confidence intervals for the TennCare treatment effects; CT show that regression analysis is unlikely to produce consistent confidence intervals in this application.
Third, HU also adjust their estimation for the large TennCare disenrollment in 2002 in two ways. One of these two adjustments brings the estimated treatment effects somewhat closer to those in previous papers. Read more here.
Journal of Labor Economics | February 18, 2021It takes two: Experimental evidence on the determinants of technology diffusion
Morgan Hardy and Jamie McCasland’s (UBC) paper in the Journal of Development Economics reports on an experiment in which they develop a custom weaving technique and randomly seed training and cross-randomized demand for the technique into a real network of garment making firm owners in Ghana. They find that tech-specific demand drives peer-to-peer diffusion for non-agricultural small firms. Teachers diffuse to 400% more peers if randomly assigned to the demand intervention. Mechanism evidence suggests demand alters willingness of teachers to diffuse. Read more here.
Journal of Development Economics | February 18, 2021Going postal: State Capacity and Violent Dispute Resolution
Scholars have long tried to understand the conditions under which actors choose to use violent versus non-violent means to settle disputes. Adam Ramey and Jeffrey Jensen use the spread of federal post offices as an identification strategy to investigate the importance of state capacity for the incidence of violent dispute resolution. Read their results here.
Journal of Comparative Economics | February 25, 2021Manara: Showcasing NYU Abu Dhabi Research
COVID-19 upended lives, societies, and economies across the world. This is how research by NYUAD faculty and researchers addressed the unique challenges brought on by a pandemic that changed all our lives forever. Every week, Manara will be bringing you new research stories. Stay tuned.
NYUAD | February 25, 2021Unequal Treatment Toward Copartisans versus Non-Copartisans is Reduced when Partisanship can be Falsified
Kinga Makovi, Anahit Sargsyan and Maria Abascal (NYU) use a behavioral experiment to study how people allocate resources to copartisan and non-copartisan partners when partners are allowed to falsify their affiliation and may have incentives to do so. Read more in their paper in PLOS ONE here.
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All About Books
Listen to Saba Karim Khan talk about her debut novel Skyfall on Afternoons with Helen Farmer.
Dubai Eye 103.8 | January 07, 2021Politics, Groups, and Identities Best Article Award
Congratulations Melina Platas, Claire Adida and Kim Yi Dionne for winning the Politics, Groups, and Identities Best Article Award. Read their article, Ebola, Elections, and Immigration: How Politicizing an Epidemic can shape Public Attitudes, here.
Politics, Groups, and Identities | January 07, 2021‘Abu Dhabi is my Sweet Home’
Based on ethnographic fieldwork among young adults of diverse Arab nationalities who all grew up in Abu Dhabi, Laure Assaf shows how their sociability and daily practices make use of the interstices of urban space, allowing them to build a sense of belonging to the city at a very local scale. Read more here.
City: Analysis of Urban Change, Theory, Action | January 07, 2021Has the Gender Revolution Stalled?
Has the gender revolution stalled? Paula England (and co-authors) examine change in multiple indicators of gender inequality for the period of 1970 to 2018 for the United States, and post-1990 data on some of those indicators for the Republic of Ireland. They find that there has been dramatic progress in movement toward gender equality, but, in recent decades, change has slowed, and, on some indicators, stalled entirely. Read more here.
The Economic and Social Review | January 14, 2021The Digital Economy and Learning
Nancy Gleason identifies three major shifts in education as it relates to the digital economy. Read more here.
OpenMind | January 14, 2021Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories can Promote Inclusion
Immigration is a highly polarized issue in the United States. Yet, almost all Americans are descended from people who originated outside the country, a narrative often evoked by the media and taught in school curricula. Melina Platas, Scott Williamson and co-authors study whether this narrative can increase inclusionary attitudes toward migrants. Read more here.
American Political Science Review | January 14, 2021Voluntary Adoption of Social Welfare-Enhancing Behavior: Mask-Wearing in Spain During the COVID-19 Outbreak
Joan Barceló and Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen aim to identify the barriers to mask-wearing in Spain, a country with no mask-wearing culture. They conduct one of the first nationally representative surveys about this unprecedented public health emergency and identify the profile of citizens who are more resistant to face-masking. Read their results published in PLOS ONE here.
PLOS ONE | January 21, 2021Celebrating Chaos: The Power of Untidy Realities in Ethnographic Research
Saba Karim Khan in her article, “Celebrating chaos: the power of untidy realities in ethnographic research” argues that by embracing the chaos of its subject matter and controlling for methodological messiness, ethnographers can turn the ambiguity, fluidity and fragmentation of the human condition and its cultural webs into a weapon that yields unique empirical purchase. Read more from her article in the Excursions journal here.
Excursions | January 21, 2021The Hilary Ballon Center for Teaching and Learning (HBTCL) at NYUAD
The HBTCL was officially launched last week. According to the Inaugural Director, Nancy W. Gleason, “The Center supports our faculty in bringing to life the mission and vision of the University in the classroom. As it draws on the ample resources of our global network, it is a place for educators to be inspired, to learn from one another, to feel supported, and to reflect on the community that holds us up". Read more here.
NYUAD | January 21, 2021
Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Workplace Authority
Past studies of the relationship between parenthood and workplace authority have been limited in their ability to assess a causal effect of parenthood. Using retrospective life course data from the Family Survey of the Dutch Population, Paula England and Dragana Stojmenovska (University of Amsterdam) use a distributed fixed-effects model to answer several questions about how gender and parenthood affect the probability that a person works in a job involving authority over employees. They find that women’s (but not men’s) probability of authority declines somewhat after having a child, but that most of the gender gap in authority is already present many years before a first birth, so is probably more related to gender gaps unrelated to parenthood. Read more here.
European Sociological Review | January 28, 2021Reclaiming their Voices
Saba Karim Khan talks to Khaleej Times about the central themes of her novel, Skyfall. Click here to read the interview.
Khaleej Times | January 28, 2021No Does Not Mean Never: Older Does Not Necessarily Equate to Fewer Children
Natalie Nitsche (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research) and Hannah Brückner analyzed the fertility behavior of women with university degrees from the U.S. They compared two groups of highly educated women over the past 80 years and described five different phases of birth behaviors. Read more here.
Read their article in the European Journal of Population here.
European Journal of Population | January 28, 2021
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Britain’s Trade Policy, 1815-2016
Economic historian Kevin O’Rourke discusses how the economic trade-offs Britain confronted on and off for two hundred years resonate in the trade policy decisions it must make today. Listen to the podcast here.
Trade Talks | December 10, 2020Suppression, Spikes, and Stigma: How COVID-19 Will Shape International Migration and Hostilities Toward it
Michelle O'Brien and Maureen Eger (Umeå University) argue that the impact of COVID-19 policies initially implemented to halt movement and curb the spread of the disease will have medium- and longer-term consequences for international migration. Read more here.
International Migration Review | December 10, 2020Understanding the Crisis of Refugee Law: Legal Scholarship and the EU Asylum System Rosemary Byrne, Gregor Noll (University of Gothenburg), and Jens Vedsted-Hansen (Aarhus University) suggest that refugee law scholarship could benefit from widening its methodological canon by visiting its parent field of public international law. Read more in their article, Understanding the Crisis of Refugee Law: Legal Scholarship and the EU Asylum System.
Leiden Journal of International Law | December 10, 2020Saba Karim Khan on Becoming a Filmmaker
The University of Oxford features Saba Karim Khan’s film, Concrete Dreams, and her journey with it in their magazine, QUAD. Sponsored by the Doha Film Institute, Saba Karim Khan recently co-directed with Zayer Hasan Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home. The film has already won multiple awards on the 2020 film festival circuit and will shortly become widely available on a digital platform. Read more here.
QUAD: Oxford Alumni | December 10, 2020Supporting Political Violence: The Role of Ideological Passion and Social Network
Blaine Robbins and co-authors examine how passion for a cause and social networks are linked to greater support for political violence. Their results offer insight into the group processes behind radicalization across different cultural contexts and ideologies. Read more here.
Group Processes & Intergroup Relations | December 17, 2020Hate thy Communist Neighbor: Protestants and Politics in South Korea
Ji Yeon Hong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Christopher Paik investigate how historical persecution and displacement enable religious organizations to become politically influential. Read more here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | December 17, 2020Audience Effects and Other-Regarding Preferences Against Corruption: Experimental Evidence
Georgia Michailidou (and co-authors) report experimental results on how transparency and accountability lead, independently, to lower bribe placement and acceptance. Read their article here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | December 17, 2020
Skyfall by Saba Karim Khan
Saba Karim Khan's debut novel Skyfall was published by Bloomsbury this week. Rania is a tour guide by day and a classical singer by night. Despite the worst of humanity every day – her madrassa-running father selling her mother's body and beating her sister – Rania remains the 'troublemaker', unable to give up on her dreams. To read reviews and order the book, click here.
Skyfall | December 24, 2020Perceived Group Deprivation and Intergroup Solidarity: Muslims’ Attitudes towards Other Minorities in the United States
What is the relationship between the sense of perceived discrimination among members of a marginalized racial, ethnic, or religious group and their political attitudes towards other marginalized groups within their society? Find out in Eman AbdelHadi (University of Chicago) and John O’Brien’s article in Religions.
Religions | December 24, 2020Analytical Thinking, Prosocial Voting, and Intergroup Competition: Experimental Evidence from China
Our departed colleague, Rebecca Morton, Kai Ou (Florida State University) and Xiangdong Qin (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) investigated whether and how analytical thinking affects Muslims’ prosocial voting towards in-group and out-group members in China. Read their findings here.
Public Choice | December 24, 2020Upcoming Moroccan Elections
Romain Ferrali, Moroccan NGO Tafra, and Moroccan political parties are working together to collect and publish party manifestos, candidates, and results of the upcoming Moroccan elections. Read more here (in Arabic).
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Inequality in the Labour Market and Gender-Role Attitudes
Malte Reichelt, Kinga Makovi and Anahit Sargsyan analyze the consequences of COVID-19 and social distancing measures on gender inequality and gender-role attitudes across three countries. They show that transitions to unemployment, reductions in working hours and transitions to working from home have been more frequent for women than for men and hold the risk of moving towards more traditional gender-role attitudes. Read more here.
European Societies | November 05, 2020Trade and Political Fragmentation on the Silk Roads: The Economic Effects of Historical Exchange Between China and the Muslim East
Christopher Paik and Lisa Blaydes (Stanford University) examine the extent to which urban centers thrived or withered as a function of shocks to trade routes, particularly political fragmentation along natural travel paths. Read more here.
American Journal of Political Science | November 05, 2020Korea’s Patterns of Trade
Jean Imbs and Laurent Pauwels (University of Sydney) introduce a measure of openness based on indirect trade. This paper illustrates the differences in the Korean patterns of trade when openness is measured using conventional measures based on direct trade, and when it is measured using this measure of indirect trade. Read more here.
Seoul Journal of Economics | November 05, 2020Refugee Advocacy Scholarship
Professor of Legal Studies, Rosemary Byrne argues that an effective way to draft a narrative that retains a human rights approach to refugee protection involves distinguishing more sharply between scholarship and advocacy, engaging less selectively and defensively with the concerns of skeptics, and working more extensively with collaborators in other disciplines. Read her article here.
Canadian Journal of Human Rights | November 12, 2020Security in the Absence of a State: Traditional Authority, Livestock Trading, and Maritime Piracy in Northern Somalia
Without a strong state, how do institutions emerge to limit the impact of one group’s predation on another’s economic activities? Motivated by the case of northern Somalia, we develop a model that highlights the monitoring challenges that groups face in making cooperation self-enforcing. Read more in J. Andrew Harris, Avidit Acharya (Stanford University) and Robin Harding (University of Oxford)’s paper.
Journal of Theoretical Politics | November 12, 2020The Social Experiment
View NYUAD Social Science’s Saba Karim Khan, Sara Pan Algarra and Fatema Ali Al Fardan’s photography project chronicling the spectacle of everyday strife and everyday happiness for migrant workers in the Gulf.
Pandemic Lens | November 12, 2020Honoring Rebecca Morton
Join us in honoring our departed colleague and friend, Rebecca Morton. Click here for more details on the memorial on November 20, 2020.
NYUAD Library is announcing the Publications Display honoring Becky. Click here to access the display.
NYUAD | November 12, 2020NYUAD Research Institute Awards
Congratulations to NYUAD Social Science faculty on being awarded NYUAD Research Institute Awards-Ernesto Reuben, John Wooders, Nikos Nikiforakis, and Olivier Bochet:
The Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) at NYU Abu Dhabi will be a globally recognized research hub that will explore in-depth the origins of human behavioral diversity, undertake the development of empirically-informed theories of human behavior, lead their application to public policy, and build capacity in behavioral social science in the public and private sector, locally and internationally. Learn more here.May Al-Dabbagh:
The Arab Center for the Study of Art with collaborators PI Salwa Mikdadi and Co-PI Shamoon Zamir (Arts and Humanities). May will be leading a cluster titled Haraka: Experimental Lab for Arab Art and Social Thought which is an interdisciplinary and dynamic space that bridges the arts and social sciences. Read more here.
NYUAD Research Institute | November 19, 2020NYU Abu Dhabi Social Science has two new Rhodes Scholars!
Alf Mabrook Maitha AlSuwaidi and Hoor Alnuaimi. The two seniors will pursue their postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford in Fall 2021. Read more here.
NYUAD | November 19, 2020Competing contexts of reception in refugee and immigrant incorporation: Vietnamese in West and East Germany
Studies of refugees have examined groups where the different dimensions of reception (government, labour market, and ethnic community) have been largely positive. How important is this merging of positive contexts across dimensions of reception? Postdoctoral Associate, Phi Hong Su and Frank Bösch (University of Potsdam) address this in a special issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies on involuntary migration and inequality. Read more here.
Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies | November 19, 2020Altruism or Diminishing Marginal Utility?
Romain Gauriot, Stephanie A. Heger (University of East Anglia) and Robert Slonim (University of Sydney) challenge a commonly used assumption in the literature on social preferences and show that this assumption leads to significantly biased estimates of the social preference parameter. Read more here.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | November 26, 2020The Fiscalization of Social Policy
Read Elisabeth Anderson’s review of Joshua T. McCabe’s The Fiscalization of Social Policy: How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight against Child Poverty.
Read more about the book here.
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews | November 26, 2020Navigating Ethics in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Approach
In her interview with Michael Zimmer, a privacy and internet ethics scholar, Saba Karim Khan discussed the challenges of navigating ethics during digital research.
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Mourning the Passing of Rebecca Morton
With profound sadness we let you know that our dear colleague Rebecca Morton has passed away. Becky was an extraordinary academic leader for the development of research and teaching in the social sciences at NYUAD, serving as Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Development, Program Head of Political Science, and Global Network Professor of Politics and Economics. She was the founding Director of the Social Science Experimental Laboratory at NYUAD, one of her proudest creations. Becky was an outstanding researcher, teacher, mentor, colleague and friend. She leaves a deep void in our hearts.
NYUAD | October 01, 2020A History of Globalization
Economist Kevin O'Rourke, author of Globalization and History: The Evolution of a Nineteenth-Century Atlantic Economy, discusses the history of globalization stretching back to the late 19th century and the lessons that could be learned which might help us better understand the social, political, and economic changes that are occurring today. Listen here.
Newstalk| October 01, 2020
Partners in Crime? Corruption as a Criminal Network
How does the structure of an organization affect corruption? Postdoctoral Associate, Romain Ferrali’s paper in Games and Economic Behavior analyzes a model that views organizations as networks on which coalitions of corrupt accomplices may form. Access the paper here.
Games and Economic Behavior | October 01, 2020
Matching with Text Data: An Experimental Evaluation of Methods for Matching Documents and of Measuring Match Quality
Aaron Kaufman (and co-authors) incorporate text data when making causal inferences in observational studies. Using these tools to study media bias, they find that topic selection only accounts for a small fraction of total media bias, and show how these tools can measure both media bias and medical treatment effectiveness. Read more here.
Political Analysis | October 08, 2020Autocratic Consent to International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction, 1998-2017
Barry Hashimoto's article Autocratic Consent to International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Court's Jurisdiction, 1998–2017 in International Organization contributes to an understanding of why autocrats have accepted the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. Read more here.
International Organization | October 08, 2020“Mischievous Uncles” as Rule Breakers: Intersectional Stereotypes and Risk Perceptions during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Turkey
Postdoctoral associate, Didem Turkoglu and Meltem Odabas (Indiana University Bloomington)’s paper “Mischievous Uncles” as rule breakers provides implications for the framing of policy outcomes and welfare provisions as well as oppositional politics that push for the expansion of labor protections during the pandemic. Read their paper in Social Media + Society here.
Social Media + Society | October 08, 2020Will the Blurring of Gender Roles Survive Coronavirus?
NYUAD Social Science alumna and Rhodes scholar Sheikha Majida Al Maktoum reflects on the impact of the pandemic on gender roles, and why we need to rethink the way we live, our work-life balance, and the gender dynamics at home. Read more here.
Arabian Business | October 15, 2020Measuring Preferences for Competition with Experimentally-Validated Survey Questions
How do you measure competitiveness with a single survey question? Ernesto Reuben and co-authors validate experimentally a new survey item to measure preferences for competition. They further test its explanatory power by comparing responses across two samples with known differences in competitiveness: professional athletes and non-athletes. Read their findings here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | October 15, 2020
Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency
Professor of Legal Studies, Rosemary Byrne co-edited the book, Human Rights Law and Evidence-Based Policy: The Impact of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency. The contributors to this volume critically examine the experience of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency in its first decade, exploring FRA’s historical, political and legal foundations and its evolving record across major strands of EU fundamental rights. Get more information on the book here.
Routledge | October 15, 2020At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan
Joan Barceló co-authored the chapter Putting Groups Back Into the Study of Political Intolerance, in At the Forefront of Political Psychology: Essays in Honor of John L. Sullivan. Read more here.
Routledge | October 22, 2020Natural Disasters and Cross-Border Implications
Muhammet Bas and Elena McLean (University at Buffalo) review the cross-border implications of natural disasters, including pandemics. Read more in their paper that discusses interstate conflict and disaster diplomacy in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies I October 22, 2020Teamwork Counts More for Men than Women
When an employer can’t directly observe each individual’s contribution to a team’s results, demographic characteristics may come into play and affect who gets credit, suggests research by The University of Chicago Booth School of Business’s Heather Sarsons, European University Institute’s Klarita Gërxhani, PhD, New York University Abu Dhabi's Ernesto Reuben, and University of Amsterdam’s Arthur Schram. Read more in "Teamwork counts more for men than women" now online at Chicago Booth Review.
Chicago Booth Review | October 22, 2020After low-income women lose their jobs in the COVID-19 economy, what happens to them?
A girl's prom is cancelled in New Jersey so a girl's livelihood is cancelled in Ethiopia.
Morgan Hardy writes about the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on women working in garment factories in Hawassa, Ethiopia. Read about her research in The Optimist, by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Optimist | October 22, 2020The Political Consequences of Opioid Overdoses
Aaron Kaufman and Eitan Hersh (Tufts University)’s paper in PLOSOne illustrates an important research design for inferring the effects of tragic events and speaks to the broad social and political consequences of what is becoming the largest public health crisis in modern United States history: Opioid overdose. Read more here.
PLOSOne | October 28, 2020State Coercion, Moral Attitudes, and Tax Compliance: Evidence from a National Factorial Survey Experiment of Income Tax Evasion
Why do some people comply with their obligation to pay taxes while others do not? Blaine Robbins and Edgar Kiser offer an explanation, derived from the new sociology of morality and moral psychology. Read more here.
Social Science Research | October 28, 2020Mortality Risk Associated with Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Barry Hashimoto and co-authors published a systematic review and bayesian meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating venous thromboembolism prevention. Their findings call into question the use of composite endpoints in venous thromboembolism-prevention trials and provide rationale for de-escalation trials. Read more here.
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جامعة نيويورك أبوظبي: الصحة النفسية أهم عناصر التعلم الافتراضي
Al Bayan Newspaper features remote teaching and learning at New York University Abu Dhabi- Read about Nancy Gleason’s views on remote instruction, teaching and learning on Zoom, using NYU tools, and mental health. Joined by NYUAD Class of 2020 alumni Jack Adeney and Sara Pan Algarra, as well as Class of 2021 student Henry Roberts, who shared their perspectives on distance learning as students. Read the full article, in Arabic, here.
Al Bayan | September 03, 2020
Conferencing in the time of COVID-19
Morgan Hardy was one of 6 presenters at the first Virtual Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD) Conference. Her presentation described her work, joint with Gisella Kagy (Vassar College) and Lena Song (NYU NY Economics PhD candidate), that considers pricing behavior as a barrier to profitability of microenterprises, documenting a large and robust relationship between the existing wealth of owners and the prices they negotiate for their products. The presentation was live-streamed and watched by development economists from around the world who asked questions and made suggestions via a live Q&A chat that were prioritized via upvoting. Watch the presentation here.
Kellogg | September 03, 2020Asset Shortages, Liquidity, and Speculative Bubbles
Alex Citanna, and G. Bloise (Yeshiva University), study the link between the birth of financial bubbles and scarcity of collateral resources. Their latest article points to agency problems as the proximate cause, but to market beliefs as the ultimate cause of financial collapses such as the 2008 financial crisis. The paper develops techniques to study gains from trade in infinite-horizon dynamic economies. Access the full paper here.
Journal of Economic Theory | September 03, 2020Mapping the Production and Mobilization Functions of Collective Action
How can collective action evolve when individuals receive the benefits of a common good without contributing to its production? Blaine Robbins (and co-authors) report results from a factorial survey experiment. Read more here.
SocArXiv | September 10, 2020COVID-19 Government Response Event Dataset (CoronaNet v.1.0.)
Robert Kubinec and Joan Barceló present an initial public release of a large hand-coded dataset of over 13,000 government responses to COVID-19 across more than 195 countries. Read their article in Nature Human Behavior here.
Nature Human Behavior | September 10, 2020African countries can fight coronavirus better when citizens encourage one other
A recent survey offers public health insights from Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya. Read Melina Platas' research, featured in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage here.
The Washington Post: Monkey Cage | September 10, 2020A New Measure of Openness
Jean Imbs and Laurent Pauwels (University of Sydney) argue that, in a world of global value chains, focusing on direct trade gives a distorted view of the exposure to foreign shocks. Read more about a new measure of openness they propose.
VOX EU CEPR | September 17, 2020NYU Abu Dhabi Welcomes 45 New Faculty Members
Here's welcoming our new faculty to the NYUAD Social Science family!
NYU Abu Dhabi | September 17, 2020Am I Next?
How can individuals ensure that commercial interests don’t outweigh human rights? Saba Karim Khan emphasizes the role of individual responsibility in transitioning from window-dressed diversity to full-blown alliance architectures. Read more here.
Dawn | September 17, 2020Information Aggregation in Competitive Markets
Economists Lucas Siga and Maximilian Mihm characterize the information environments where prices can aggregate information in a competitive auction market with a large population of traders. Read more here.
Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming) | September 24, 2020Election Administration, Resource Allocation, and Turnout: Evidence from Kenya
J. Andrew Harris studies the consequences of a legislated threshold that determines the capacity of polling centers to quickly serve voters by reducing election-day lines, in context of Kenya’s August 2017 elections. Access the article here.
Comparative Political Studies | September 24, 2020Congratulations, Alessandro Citanna
Alessandro Citanna was elected the Economic Theory Fellow by the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory. Economic Theory Fellows are selected for their scientific excellence, originality, and leadership; high ethical standards; and scholarly and creative achievement. He is also Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement.
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It’s Getting Crowded in Here: Experimental Evidence of Demand Constraints in the Gender Profit Gap
Assistant Professor of Economics, Morgan Hardy, and Gisella Kagy (Vassar College) uncover a gender gap in the market-size-to-firm ratio and observe disproportionate self-reports of “not enough customers” from female owners of garment making firms in Ghana. They show that female-owned firms expand production and experience profit increases in response to random demand shocks, while male-owned firms do not. Access the full paper here.
The Economic Journal | August 05, 2020Ten Research Grants Announced to Combat COVID-19
NYU Abu Dhabi has awarded ten COVID-19 Facilitator Research Grants to faculty across a range of disciplines including science, engineering and social sciences. The projects include: medical approaches to COVID-19 detection, diagnostic tools to support screening efforts, policy analysis and the collection of data to support government responses to the crisis. Congratulations to NYUAD Social Science faculty Robert Kubinec, Joan Barceló, Kinga Makovi, Malte Reichelt, Jean Imbs and Etienne Wasmer for receiving the grant.
NYUAD | August 05, 2020Ordered Beta Regression: A Parsimonious, Well-Fitting Model for Survey Sliders and Visual Analog Scales
Computational Social Scientist Robert Kubinec proposes a new way of analyzing human subjects' data collected through visual/slider scales. Read his paper here.
SocArXiv Papers | August 05, 2020The Impact of COVID-19 on the Lives of Women in the Garment Industry: Evidence from Ethiopia
Developmental economists Morgan Hardy and Marc Witte, along with colleagues, are investigating the economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis for women working in the garment industry in Ethiopia, and the interaction between health behaviors, trust in government, and economic preferences. Read more about their project here ; Click here for latest updates and materials
Innovations for Poverty Action | August 13, 2020Sovereign Wealth Funds and the COVID-19 Shock: Economic and Financial Resilience in Resource-Rich Countries
How did SWF react to the COVID-19 crisis? How resilient are oil-rich nations against the shock? And, how will the future of SWF look like? Read a few, tentative, answers in Bernardo Bortolotti’s paper.
Sovereign Investment Lab | August 13, 2020The Necessity to Develop a Workforce and a Work Environment to Deal with Exceptions
Nancy Gleason talks to Al Bayan about developing a workforce and workplace that is conducive to dealing with exception. Read the full article, in Arabic, here.
Al Bayan | August 13, 2020
Pink Tax
Saba Karim Khan writes about COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on women. Read her article in Dawn here.
Dawn | August 13, 2020Mortality Risk Associated with Venous Thromboembolism: A Systematic Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis
Read Barry Hashimoto’s latest article (with co-authors) published in The Lancet Haematology here.
THE LANCET Haematology | August 13, 2020Tracking the Economic Consequences and Response to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
Peter van der Windt, and colleagues from Yale, Columbia, IGC Sierra Leone, and Wageningen University, Y-Rise, and UofT, were asked by the Sierra Leonean government to set up a phone-based survey throughout Sierra Leone (195 communities) to learn about the economic consequences of COVID-19. Read more about their project here.
International Growth Centre | August 20, 2020Mortality Containment vs. Economic Opening: Optimal Policies in a SEAIRD Model
Etienne Wasmer and colleagues (Alberto Gandolfi, Elena Beretta and Andrea Aspri) describe the joint dynamics of COVID-19 infection and the economy and discuss how to improve on both preserving lives and minimize economic losses. Read the paper published in COVID Economics by CEPR here.
CEPR | August 20, 2020Trade and Wage Inequality: The Mediating Roles of Occupations in Germany
Sociologists and Economists Malte Reichelt, Samreen Malik, and Marvin Suesse find that globalization affects wage inequality in Germany not because of rising imports. Instead, increasing exports are responsible for the effects of trade integration on inequality. Drawing on a task-based approach, theories of power relations, as well as self-selection by firms they show the central role of occupations in this relationship. Read the full paper here.
KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie | August 20, 2020Strength in Numbers
NYU Abu Dhabi is implementing a university-wide COVID-19 research study to estimate the prevalence of asymptomatic coronavirus cases and ensure the protection of the community. Read more here.
NYUAD | August 27, 2020Worlds Apart
Kevin O'Rourke spoke to BBC about the history of globalization, and what we can learn from it for a post-pandemic world. Listen now by clicking here.
BBC | August 27, 2020Concrete Dreams: Some Roads Lead Home
Saba Karim Khan was interviewed by The National about her documentary 'Concrete Dreams'. Supported by the Doha Film Institute, this documentary features the story of two young men who went from playing football on the streets of Karachi, Pakistan to Rio.
Watch the heart-warming trailer of the award-winning documentary here.
Read Saba's views on the documentary here.
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Keeping it Halal
Sociologist John O'Brien reflects on his book, Keeping it Halal, and provides a uniquely personal look into the worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. Watch the video here.
NYUAD Institute | July 02, 2020The Digital Economy and Learning
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice and Director of Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Nancy Gleason, shares valuable insights on adapting teaching and learning for the digital economy. Read her article, especially relevant in the current circumstances, in OpenMind here.
OpenMind | July 02, 2020The Freedom to Move- or Stay Still
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, Malte Reichelt, and Postdoctoral Associate, Phi Hong Su, write about the privilege of mobility and how it has been impacted by COVID-19. Read the full article here.
Slate | July 02, 2020Subscribed Since 1832
Ideas of India is a collection of the English-language periodicals that Indians began publishing after the advent of modern education in 1832. Meet the NYUAD professor behind this vast collection.
NYUAD | July 02, 2020Early Investments in State Capacity Promote Persistently Higher Levels of Social Capital
Political Scientists Adam Ramey and Jeffrey Jensen write on the long-run impact of postal growth on social capital, in the prestigious PNAS. Access the full paper here.
PNAS | July 09, 2020Taj Mahal 1989
Wondering what to watch as you stay at home? Read Saba Karim Khan’s views on the Netflix TV Series Taj Mahal 1989 in Dawn.
Dawn | July 09, 2020Constrained Efficient Markets for Manipulation Economies
Alessandro Citanna and Paolo Siconolfi (Columbia Business School) design a competitive market for exclusive contracts in large economies with observable types where trades are subject to post‐contractual manipulations. Click here to access the full article.
International Economic Review | July 09, 2020The Balance Between Reducing the Spread of COVID-19 and Economic Prosperity
A team of mathematicians and economists, including Etienne Wasmer, at NYUAD have developed a model that could offer a template for policy-makers looking for the best approach to evaluate the human and economic costs of measures to contain the pandemic. Read more here.
NYUAD | July 09, 2020It Takes a Village: Peer Effects and Externalities in Technology Adoption
Melina Platas, Romain Ferrali (and co-authors') paper "It Takes a Village: Peer Effects and Externalities in Technology Adoption" won the networks section's Best Conference Paper Award by the American Political Science Association (APSA). The paper, which was also published in the American Journal of Political Science, can be accessed here.
American Journal of Political Science | July 16, 2020COVID-19’s Social Impact
A new long-term study out of NYU Abu Dhabi will assess the socio-economic impact of COVID-19 on the lives of 5,000 participants from the US, Singapore, and Germany. The project is led by Assistant Professors of Social Research and Public Policy, Kinga Makovi and Malte Reichelt, along with colleagues at Columbia University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Maryland. Read more here.
NYUAD | July 16, 2020Qui va payer la dette CORONA?
Global Network Professor of Economics, Jean Imbs, spoke to Forbes France about the economic consequences of COVID-19, especially the role of central banks, and the build-up of debt across the world. Watch his interview (in French) here.
Forbes France | July 16, 2020Tech and the Worker: Overcoming the Conundrums of the Great Decoupling Lessons from Past Industrial Revolutions
Global Distinguished Professor of Economic History, Robert Allen, participated in a discussion on past industrial revolutions, hosted by the Aspen Institute Germany, in collaboration with Microsoft.
Aspen Institute Germany | July 16, 2020Instrumental Variables Estimation of a Simple Dynamic Model of Bidding Behavior in Private Value Auctions
John Ham and Steven Lehrer (Queens University) provide the first, in experimental economics, consistent estimates of a dynamic learning model with a continuous outcome. The econometric approach we propose can be used in many experimental studies including auctions, bargaining with transfers, and gift exchange experiments. Access the full paper to read more.
Journal of the Economic Science Association | July 23, 20202020 Fiona McGillivray Award for the Best Political Economy Paper presented at APSA 2019
Congratulations to J. Andrew Harris (and co-authors) for receiving the 2020 Fiona McGillivray Award for the Best Political Economy Paper presented at APSA 2019 for their paper "Ethnic Bias in Judicial Decision-making: Evidence from the Kenyan Appellate Courts".
American Political Science Association | July 23, 2020Reducing the Detrimental Effect of Identity Voting: An Experiment on Intergroup Coordination in China
In a series of experiments conducted in China with Tibetans and Han Chinese, Global Network Professor of Politics and Economics, Rebecca Morton, Kai Ou (FSU) and Xiangdong Qing (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) investigate the effects of ethnic identities on group cooperation. They find that conflicting multiple identities appear to be the most difficult to overcome, but over time, they see that subjects achieve greater cooperation through communication. Read the full article here.
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization | July 23, 2020Ten Research Grants Announced to Combat COVID-19
Congratulations to NYUAD Social Science faculty Robert Kubinec, Joan Barceló, Kinga Makovi, Malte Reichelt, Jean Imbs and Etienne Wasmer for being awarded the COVID-19 Facilitator Research Grant. The research will focus on projects designed to respond to the challenge of the virus in the UAE and around the world. Read more here.
NYUAD | July 29, 2020Dominance of Truthtelling and the Lattice Structure of Nash Equilibria
New publication titled "Dominance of truthtelling and the lattice structure of Nash equilibria?" by Olivier Bochet and Norovsambuu Tumennasan (Dalhousie University). Read the full article here.
Journal of Economic Theory | July 29, 2020
It’s Getting Crowded in Here: Experimental Evidence of Demand Constraints in the Gender Profit Gap
Assistant Professor of Economics, Morgan Hardy, and Gisella Kagy (Vassar College) uncover a gender gap in the market-size-to-firm ratio and observe disproportionate self-reports of “not enough customers” from female owners of garment making firms in Ghana. They show that female-owned firms expand production and experience profit increases in response to random demand shocks, while male-owned firms do not. Access the full paper here.
The Economic Journal | July 29, 2020
Saving Face through Preference Signaling and Obligation Avoidance
Do people impose costs on others just to show that they care? Assistant Professor of Economic History, Jonathan Chapman and Matthew Chao (Williams College) test this in trust games and find that some individuals will reduce receivers' pay to signal reciprocity and generosity. Read the full article here.
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | July 29, 2020
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ASQPS Best Student Paper Prize
Research Fellow Hannah Melville-Rea wins the Best Student Paper Prize from the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science, for her research on the impact of drought on Australian politics.
ASQPS | June 04, 2020Frictional unemployment with stochastic bubbles
Etienne Wasmer and Guillaume Vuillemey (HEC Paris) argue that a theory of volatility of employment and unemployment must give a role to financial bubbles and their burst, and not only rely on technology shocks, insufficient to generate the large observed fluctuations. Click here for a link to their article.
European Economic Review | June 04, 2020
How life will look after Covid-19, from the economy to education
Ernesto Reuben and Nancy Gleason reflect on the new normal post COVID-19, providing insights on the economy, education, internet, social media, healthcare, and the workplace.
WIRED | June 04, 2020Coronavirus disrupts advertising industry as events are cancelled and consumer spending falls
Global Network Professor of Economics Jean Imbs talks to The National about the effects of COVID-19 on the advertising industry. Read the full article here.
The National | June 11, 2020UAE Ambassador for Nature
Research Fellow Hannah Melville-Rea has been named as one of the UAE’s Ambassadors for Nature. Hannah will undergo 10 months of training and community engagement with Emirates Nature-WWF and the Environment Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD). Learn more about the UAE Ambassadors for Nature here.
Connect with Nature | June 11, 2020Political Identity and Trust
Read Pablo Hernandez-Lagos's paper on political identity and trust in the Quarterly Journal of Political Science here.
QJPS | June 11, 2020Can violent protests change local policy support? Evidence from the aftermath of the 1992 Los Angeles Riot
Aaron Kaufman (with Ryan Enos, Harvard University and Melissa Sands, University of California) published in the prestigious American Political Science Review highlighting how the 1992 Los Angeles Riots helped mobilize voters and inspired increased support for liberal policies in areas most affected by the riot. Read the full paper here.
APSR | June 11, 2020Negative campaigns, interpersonal trust, and prosocial behavior: The mediating effect of democratic experience
Rebecca Morton, with Nicholas Haas (NYU) and Mazen Hassan (Cairo University) investigate the effects of campaign environments on interpersonal trust and prosocial behavior between voters in Egypt and USA. Read the full paper here.
Electoral Studies | June 11, 2020A Retrospective Bayesian Model for Measuring Covariate Effects on Observed COVID-19 Test and Case Counts
Robert Kubinec and Luiz Max Carvalho (Getúlio Vargas Foundation) present a retrospective Bayesian model that is much simpler than epidemiological models of disease progression but is still able to identify the effect of covariates on the historical infection rate of COVID-19. Read the paper here.
SocArXiv Papers | June 18, 2020
Two NYUAD Social Science Alumni awarded the Yenching Scholarship
Marie-Claude Hykpo (Political Science and Philosophy, Class of 2018) and Juan Diego Serrano Ortega (Economics, Class of 2020) were both awarded the prestigious Yenching Scholarship. The Yenching Scholarship was founded in 2015, and aims to foster a deeper connection and understanding between China and the globe. Scholars are placed into an immersive learning environment where they are able to explore China’s historical, contemporary, and future reality, be that in political, economic, cultural, or diplomatic fields. Read more here.
NYU Abu Dhabi | June 18, 2020
Our Policies to Stop COVID-19 are Missing the Point
Computational Social Scientist Robert Kubinec argues that existing policies to stop the spread of COVID-19 must minimize social costs while maximizing compliance. Read the article here.
Medium | June 18, 2020Rethinking Democracy | Marginalized Groups
Professor of Legal Studies, Rosemary Byrne, shares her views on how COVID-19 is affecting those on the margins of society. This workshop, organized by The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, examines the pandemic in relation to criminal justice systems, ageism, the care sector, economic policy, and potential human rights implications.
Watch the video here; Access the podcast here
The Heyman Center | June 18, 2020Measuring the Content of Presidential Policy Making
Aaron Kaufman published in the top journal on presidential politics, Presidential Studies Quarterly, about using cutting-edge tools from computer science and machine learning to study the US President. Read the full article here.
Presidential Studies Quarterly | June 25, 2020COVID-19’s Blow to World Trade is a Heavy One
Kevin O’Rourke shares his insights with The Economist on COVID-19’s impact on world trade. Read the full article here.
The Economist | June 25, 2020Jonathan Chapman Awarded the T.S. Ashton Prize
Assistant Professor of Economic History, Jonathan Chapman, was awarded the T.S. Ashton Prize for best paper in Economic History Review by a junior scholar. Click here to read the full paper, "The contribution of infrastructure investment to Britain's urban mortality decline, 1861-1900".
Economic History Review | June 25, 2020
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Elena Korchmina received the Marie-Curie Seal of Excellence
Postdoctoral Associate Elena Korchmina received the MCSA Seal of Excellence designed for outstanding researchers.
MCSA | May 28, 2020The past’s long shadow: A network analysis of economic history
VoxEU's network analysis places Robert Allen and Kevin O'Rourke as two of the most influential Economic Historians in the past 40 years.
Vox EU | May 28, 2020
When the pandemic recedes, the world may see the rise of new soft powers
Countries and public perception post-Covid-19 – Tom Fletcher shares his views in The National UAE. Click here to read his article.
The National | May 21, 2020
How TV is connecting communities this Ramadan
Saba Karim Khan shares her views on Ramadan TV series and family bonding in CNN’s “How TV is connecting communities this Ramadan”. Watch the video here.
CNN | May 21, 2020
Implementing novel, flexible, and powerful survey designs in R Shiny
Build your Political Science surveys in R Shiny with recommendations from Aaron Kaufman’s latest paper in PLOSONE. Click here to read the paper.
PLOS ONE | May 21, 2020
European Macro History Online Seminar Series
Kevin O'Rourke presented the working paper “The Ends of 30 Big Depressions”, co-authored with Martin Ellison (Oxford University) and Sang Seok Lee (Bilkent University) at the European Macro History’s recent Online Seminar series. Click here to watch the presentation.
European Macro History Online Seminars | May 14, 2020
Getting Off the Gold Standard for Causal Inference
Robert Kubinec argues that social scientific practice would be improved if we move away from gold standards of causation and instead look to three main inference modes: experimental approaches and the counterfactual theory, large-N observational studies, and qualitative process-tracing. Click here to read this publication.
SocArXiv Papers | May 14, 2020
Subjects in the Lab, Activists in the Field: Public Goods and Punishment
Article by Alicja Reuben, Chetan Dave (University of Alberta, Canada), Sjur Hamre (Duke University, Durham, USA) and Curtis Kephart (R-Studio, Portland, USA).
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Racialization, Religious Conservatism, and Political Leaning in Contemporary American Life
John O'Brien's latest publication with Eman Abdelhadi finds that the relationship between religious and political conservatism in the US is conditioned by race.
Social Forces | April 30, 2020Disaster Risks and Conflict
Associate Professor of Political Science, Muhammet Ali Bas recently co-authored an article examining the relationship between disaster risks and interstate conflict with Elena V. McLean (University at Buffalo).
Political Research Quarterly | April 30, 2020Global Behaviors and Perceptions in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Research by Marc Witte and colleagues from 12 international institutions that draws data from more than 100,000 respondents across 58 countries.
#covid19study | April 16, 2020Interpretation and identification of within-unit and cross-sectional variation in panel data models
New co-authored publication by Robert Kubinec argues that two-way fixed effects (FE) models that are widely used by researchers for cross-country comparisons are based on faulty assumptions and provide inaccurate results. It shows the effectiveness of simpler statistical models and also finds a strong correlation between a country’s democracy and wealth.
PLOSONE | April 22, 2020Identity Politics and Populism in Europe
Abdul Ghafar Noury's latest article that he co-authored with Gérard Roland (University of California).
Annual Review of Political Science | April 19, 2020Dissolving a Partnership Securely
John Wooders and Matt Van Essen (The University of Alabama) examines three mechanisms for dissolving partnerships: the Texas Shoot-Out, the K+1 auction, and the compensation auction, in “Dissolving a Partnership Securely.” Click here to read their paper.
Springer Link | April 19, 2020Interpretation and identification of within-unit and cross-sectional variation in panel data models
New co-authored publication by Robert Kubinec argues that two-way fixed effects (FE) models that are widely used by researchers for cross-country comparisons are based on faulty assumptions and provide inaccurate results. It shows the effectiveness of simpler statistical models and also finds a strong correlation between a country’s democracy and wealth.
PLOSONE | April 16, 2020CoronaNet: A Dyadic Dataset of Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Joan Barcelo, Robert Kubinec, and colleagues from Technical University Munich and Yale University are collaborating with 180 interdisciplinary social science scholars from around the world to document data on government action and policies in response to COVID-19.
CoronaNet Research Project | April 15, 2020Future Work Changing — New York University Abu Dhabi
Nancy Gleeson spoke to Dubai Eye about New York University’s research on how coronavirus is changing the future of work.
Dubai Eye | April 12, 2020Are Western-Educated Leaders Less Prone to Initiate Militarized Disputes?
Research by Joan Barcelo finds that western-educated leaders are less likely to initiate militarized disputes than non-Western-educated leaders.
British Journal of Political Science | April 12, 2020The time to "sober up" has arrived
Could COVID-19 provide the global wake-up call the world needs?
Asian Dynamics Initiative | April 6, 2020Social Groups and the Effectiveness of Protests
by Rebecca Morton, Marco Battaglini (Cornell University) and Eleonora Patacchini (Cornell University) - a theory of how social groups can play an important informative role in facilitating effective protests and petitions is tested in experiments online and in the lab.
April 5, 2020Autocratic Consent to International Law: The Case of the International Criminal Court's Jurisdiction, 1998–2017
Barry Hashimoto’s article explains why autocrats accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.
International Organization | April 2, 2020 -
Citizen Journalism and Credibility of Authoritarian Government in Risk Communication Regarding the 2020 COVID-19 Outbreak: A Survey Experiment
A working paper by Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung (National Taiwan University) and Wen-Chin Wu (Academia Sinica).
March 30, 2020NYU Abu Dhabi marks ten years of innovation
Ten years ago, NYU Abu Dhabi opened with an ambitious vision to become one of the world’s great research universities, addressing complex challenges of local and global significance.
Gulf Daily News | March 25, 2020A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early Agriculture
Christopher Paik and Ola Olsson's (University of Gothenburg) paper documents a reversal of fortune within the Western agricultural core, showing that regions (such as Iraq) which made early transition to Neolithic agriculture are now poorer than regions (like Sweden) that made the transition later.
The Journal of Economic HistoryThe Journal of Economic History | March 24, 2020New Sources for the Study of Cold War India
The Wilson Center features Rahul Sagar's Ideas of India database.
The Wilson Center | March 22, 2020Abu Dhabi plans innovative ways to 'nudge' away social issues
DCD signs an agreement with New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) for research in the field of behavioural economics and social change. NYUAD researchers will apply the 'nudge theory' to come up with easy-to-implement and cost-effective solutions to the social issues.
Khaleej Times | March 12, 2020Remote Instruction of Courses Due to Covid-19: What I learned training faculty
Having spent the last week conducting online teaching workshops to NYUAD’s faculty, Nancy Gleason shares what she learnt from the experience and offers some handy resources on remote teaching.
March 12, 2020The Middle East grapples with a knowledge and skills gap
Nancy Gleason, Director, Hilary Ballon Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, Associate Professor of Practice, Political Science says “As automation outmodes pattern-based hard skills, the ability to adapt and learn new things will be a valued skill in and of itself.”
Arab News | March 10, 2020NYUAD undergraduate mooting team to represent UAE in the White & Case International Rounds
Our undergraduate mooting team has advanced to the prestigious White & Case International Rounds as the UAE National Representatives! This is the 61st Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition where over 700 law schools compete for a spot in April’s International Rounds in Washington, D.C.
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Shortlisted for Christopher Ewart-Biggs Literary Prize
Kevin O’Rourke’s A Short History of Brexit: from Brentry to Backstop
The Irish Times | February 12, 2020 -
Endogenous democracy: causal evidence from the potato productivity shock in the old world
Does economic development cause democracy? Joan Barcelo and Guillermo Rosas (University of North Carolina) exploit exogeneity in the potato productivity shock to identify a causal effect of urbanization on democratization.
Political Science Research and Methods | January 28, 2020 -
The NYUAD professor mapping the birth of modern India through rare publications
Rahul Sagar is collating a digital resource that indexes more than 300,000 rare Indian texts.
The National | December 9, 2019NYUAD Class of 2017 Graduate Alioune Fall Named as 2021 Schwarzman Scholar
Fall is NYUAD’s sixth student to be honored as a Schwarzman Scholar since the program’s inception in 2016.
December 7, 20192019 Books of the Year include Kevin O’Rourke’s A Short History of Brexit
Prospect | December 7, 2019The best politics books of 2019
As part of Prospect's Books of the Year special, we round up the best books about politics.
Prospect | December 7, 2019NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2017 graduate Alioune Fall named as 2021 Schwarzman Scholar
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Class of 2017 graduate Alioune Fall has been selected as a 2021 Schwarzman Scholar. Fall will pursue a Master of Global Affairs at Tsinghua University and spend a year immersed in an international community of thinkers, innovators, and senior leaders in business, politics, and society.
Go Dubai | December 7, 2019Discovering India’s intellectual past
Hundreds of journals, published between 1835 and 1947, have been found. They hold lessons.
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Our 2020 vision
How can we augur the shifts that will affect design, diplomacy, art or architecture in the year ahead? Here is a preview of The Forecast.
Monocle | November 28, 2019NYU Abu Dhabi researcher builds digital archive that indexes rare and historical Indian texts from the 1800’s
Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Rahul Sagar, has spent the past five years building a significant digital resource for the study of modern India.
The SME Times | November 27, 2019Kashmiri Businesses Can Finally Use the Internet Again—but at a Steep Cost
New rules force companies to give up their privacy and steer clear of social networks and Wi-Fi if they want their internet back. Regular citizens still have no access, 113 days into a digital blackout.
Foreign Policy | November 26, 2019Rediscovering Indian thought: How a scholar built a database of pre-Independence magazines
Rahul Sagar details the inspiration and execution of his project to index the contents pages of 255 English-language pre-Independence magazines from India.
Scroll In | November 24, 2019Two NYUAD students headed for Oxford University after winning Rhodes scholarship
Abdulla Alhashmi and Munib Mesinovic were selected as 2020 UAE Rhodes Scholars.
The National | November 19, 2019Two NYU Abu Dhabi students selected as 2020 UAE Rhodes Scholars
NYU Abu Dhabi has produced 14 Rhodes Scholars in just seven years, more Rhodes Scholars per student than any university in the world.
November 19, 2019New research in US reveals anti-Muslim bias towards Syrian refugees
Study found American citizens were more sympathetic towards individuals who were Christian, female and English-speaking.
The National | November 03, 2019 -
Exploitation and Profiteering: Palestinians Forced to Pay a Fortune to Work in Israel
Professor Adnan examines the illegal trade in work permits in Israel and estimates that 20,000 workers paid $140 million last year, each paying up to around $7000. The profits go to brokers and employers.
Haaretz | October 23, 2019Uganda hailed for allowing open discussion on people's grievances
Professor Melina Platas Izama says there are more active discussions and transparency discussions on people’s frustrations and grievances in Uganda compared to many countries in Africa.
The Independent | October 18, 2019Survey shows religious and gender bias against Syrian refugees
An analysis of US public views on Syrian refugees reveals religious, gender and age biases.
Nature Asia | October 15, 2019 -
After a year of Imran Khan, Pakistan is finally stepping into its role as a world player
The message to world leaders is loud and clear: In a dramatic shift from the past, our country is no longer a pawn, a joke or a global bystander. But there's still a long way to go.
Independent | September 26, 2019.The alternatives to privatization and nationalization
More public resources could be managed as commons without much loss of efficiency.
The Economist | September 12, 2019
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How to find a good restaurant? Economists can help
Finding a place to eat in a new city can be daunting. Economics and big data have a few tips to find the right place.
Times Live South Africa | August 16, 2019Outrage in Pakistan over abuse of child domestic workers
Despite shocking reports of assault and a social media outcry, there is little sign of stricter laws to protect children.
The Guardian | August 13, 2019NYU Abu Dhabi Graduate Selected as Yenching Scholar
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Class of 2019 alumni Rastraraj Bhandari has been selected as a Yenching Scholar. He is one of 130 outstanding young scholars in the fifth cohort to enroll in the interdisciplinary Master’s in China Studies program in September at the Yenching Academy of Peking University.
July 16, 2019O’Brien awarded the ASA 2019 Distinguished Book Award
John O’Brien’s (Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYUAD) most recent publication, “Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys” has been awarded the 2019 Distinguished Book Award by the Religion Section of the American Sociological Association. This award honors a book that has made an outstanding contribution to the sociology of religion. He will be presented with the award at the ASA meeting in August in NY.
American Sociological Association | June 10, 2019Capstone Project Wins Top Prize
Senior Ahmed Meshref's Capstone project on the transitions of single men with high school degrees or less, in and out of the labor force, and in and out of employment clinched the top prize in the Accounting, Economics, and Finance category at the seventh annual Undergraduate Research Competition held in Abu Dhabi.
May 5, 2019US voters appear unmoved by the Mueller report
Professor Adam Ramey of NYU Abu Dhabi says the Mueller report did not reveal anything "substantively new" about the Trump administration.
CNBC | April 22, 2019Hult Prize holds first summit in Manila
The Hult Prize Foundation staged its first Regional Summit in Manila, with three students from the New York University (NYU)-Abu Dhabi getting the nod of judges for their idea “Loveina” last April at the Samsung Hall SM Aura in Taguig City.
The Manila Times | April 11, 2019Women are suffering silently in Pakistan – is #MeToo the answer?
Inclusiveness and an appreciation of cultural nuances are key to changing attitudes in a society where harassment is the norm.
The Guardian | April 11, 2019The Future of Migration
Migration does not represent an existential threat to the strong governments and institutions of North America and Europe. Misperceptions informed by nationalism, populism, and a press more interested in quick scoops and clickbait than in investigative reporting contribute to a sense of threat.
Public Books | April 05, 2019[Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys. | Reviewed by Neda Maghbouleh
O'Brien's argument is that Muslim American teenagers must be understood, first and foremost, as teenagers.
The University of Chicago Press Journals | March, 2019
NYU Abu Dhabi students go on the Brexit trail
A handful of students visit Britain and Europe, rubbing shoulders with former prime ministers and politicians, in a bid to unpick Brexit.
The National | March 28, 2019Republican Strategist Frank Luntz on Toxic Politics
Walter Isaacson sits down with Republican strategist Frank Luntz to discuss the toxic rhetoric in America’s politics, and why he’s given up hope for a united America.
PBS | March 26, 2019[Book Review] Keeping It Halal: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys by John O’Brien | Reviewed by Hale Inanoglu
In a beautifully written prose, Keeping It Halal vividly and analytically illustrates the everyday lives of Muslim American teenagers. In this regard, it is a most welcome contribution to the growing field of American Muslim studies.
The Maydan | March 7, 2019NYUAD's First Luce Scholar
Lama Ahmad, Class of 2019, has been named as a recipient to the prestigious Luce Scholars Program, the first student from NYU Abu Dhabi to receive this award.
February 16, 2019Battle for tech dominance: China has appropriated the US economic playbook. Can the US reclaim it?
A full-blown trade war is on between the US and China, and we shouldn’t be surprised. The US has used tariffs before to protect its industries, with mixed results. Will the US be better off after imposing this latest round of tariffs?
Times of India | February 12, 2019A Study on Driverless-Car Ethics Offers a Troubling Look Into Our Values
To figure out how autonomous vehicles should respond during potentially fatal collisions, a group of scientists set out to learn what decisions human drivers would make.
The New Yorker | January 24, 2019Rahul Sagar named one of the next generation of Indian intellectuals in The Print
Rahul Sagar, Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science, has been identified as one of the brightest minds on the horizon in The Print India’s list of next generation Indian intellectuals. Raja Mohan comments on being impressed with “his pioneering work on putting together modern India’s thinking on world affairs over the last two centuries."
The Print | January 13, 20192018 Journal of Peace Research, Best Article of the Year awarded to Daniel Karell
Congratulations to our very own Daniel Karell, who was awarded the Nils Petter Gleditsch JPR Article of the Year Award, 2018, along with Sebastian Schutte (University of Konstanz) for their article ‘Aid, exclusion and the local dynamics of insurgency in Afghanistan’, Journal of Peace Research 55(6): 711–725.
The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) | January 13, 2019All 'Rhodes' lead to Oxford for ambitious Emirati students
Sheikha Majida Al Maktoum and Amal Al Gergawi are taking up studies at the University of Oxford.
The National | December 17, 2018Two NYU Abu Dhabi seniors named Schwarzman Scholars
Atoka Jo and Alexander MacKay will join the 2020 cohort at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing
December 4, 2018NYU Abu Dhabi's Two 2019 UAE Rhodes Scholars
Two seniors from NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Majida Al Maktoum (UAE) and Amal Al Gergawi (UAE), have been selected as 2019 UAE Rhodes Scholars. The prestigious international award allows exceptional students to pursue two to three years of postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford in England.
November 27, 2018Jobs for the boys? New study shows how career paths can be guided by gender
NYU Abu Dhabi professor's research reveals workers are allowing gender stereotypes to put limits on their own ambitions.
The National | November 24, 2018
Thrill-seeking is an overlooked catalyst for political violence
New research pinpoints how a desire for excitement inspires support for violent extremism.
Pacific Standard | October 31, 2018How to prevent political violence?
Exciting, peaceful activities: American Psychological Association says boredom may be driving rise in shootings and bombings.
Daily Mail | October 30, 2018Why Women Stay Out of the Spotlight at Work
Women in our study recognized that being less visible in the office could hurt their odds of promotion. But they worried that violating feminine norms could leave them even worse off.
Bob Morris | September 19, 20182018 Gregory Luebbert Best Article Awarded to Leonid Peisakhin
Leonid Peisakhin awarded the Gregory Luebbert Best Article Award from the APSA’s Comparative Politics Section on the paper 'The Legacy of Political Violence Across Generations'.
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Swethaa Ballakrishnen wins 2018 JPO Best Paper Award
Swethaa Ballakrishnen wins 2018 JPO Best Paper Award on her article, ‘She gets the job done’: Entrenched gender meanings and new returns to essentialism in India’s elite professional firms, from the Journal of Professions and Organizations. The $1,000 prize is sponsored by the Professional Service Firms hub at Oxford Saïd.
Oxford Academic | July 12, 2018NYU Abu Dhabi grant winners hope to solve social issues with their research
Maitha Al Memari and Hannah Taylor will use their grants to research ways to advance educational guidance in the UAE and to explore solutions to the US drug epidemic respectively.
The National | May 30, 2018Social Science Students Win Big at Research Competition
NYU Abu Dhabi student research into how people and societies behave earned standout honors at the annual United Arab Emirates Undergraduate Research Competition (URC) in Abu Dhabi.
May 24, 2018Two U.S. NYU Abu Dhabi students, Thomas Klein and Hannah Taylor, receive Fulbright Awards
NYU Abu Dhabi graduating seniors Thomas Klein of Hillsborough, N.J., and Hannah Taylor of Plymouth, Mass., have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
May 10, 2018Staff bonuses: there is no right way to reward employees
New research sheds light on the best ways to motivate people.
Financial Times | April 04, 2018When does Russian propaganda work — and when does it backfire? Here’s what we found.
After examining Russia’s 2014 disinformation campaign in Ukraine, we found that Russian propaganda has very uneven effects. Whether it sways individuals to vote for pro-Russian candidates — or backfires, and makes them less likely to do so — depends on the political predispositions of the target audience.
The Washington Post | April 03, 2018'Diplomats need narrative tone in digital age'
In a panel discussion at the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature, Omar Saif Ghobash, the UAE's Ambassador to France, joined the former British ambassador to Lebanon Thomas Fletcher, in a conversation on digital diplomacy.
Khaleej Times | March 03, 2018Will Millennials Return to Religion?
New books by pastors, parents, and experts address the challenge.
Publishers Weekly | February 28, 2018The pursuit of happiness is backed by science – happy people are more productive
There are proven links between happiness and achievement in schools and workplaces, writes Tom Fletcher
The National | February 11, 2018Quartz: Robert Allen one of 13 economists on research that shaped our world in 2017
Quartz identified 13 economists on the research that shaped our world in 2017. To identify the research that mattered most in 2017, they asked the greatest minds in economics today, including two Nobel prize winners, which study they thought was the most important or intriguing of 2017.
Quartz | January 2, 2018NYUAD graduate selected as 2019 Schwarzman Scholar
NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2015 graduate Mandy Tan has been chosen as a 2019 Schwarzman Scholar and will go on to pursue the Master’s programme at Tsinghua University in Beijing, starting in August 2018.
Emirates News Agency | December 06, 2017Welcome to Umbrella Town
Economic historian Robert Allen of New York University warns that China's loss of its competitive edge could see it follow the US and Britain on the path to de-industrialisation.
BBC World Service | November 30, 2017American corporations need a wake-up call
The emerging middle class in China, India and across African countries will soon dwarf the U.S. total consumption, yet U.S. multinational corporations seem to be missing out on the opportunity to tap into this market.
The Hill | November 29, 2017‘We Are Not Yet Free’: Living in Slavery’s Shadow in Mauritania
The rising prominence of voices like Dah Abeid’s is helping to chip away at any lingering slavery-related stigma the Haratine might feel, says Erin Pettigrew, a professor of history at New York University in Abu Dhabi who has studied social activism in Mauritania.
International Reporting Project | November 07, 20172016 Annual Bruce Russett Award
Peter Van der Windt receives Annual Bruce Russett Award for his article, Crowdseeding in Eastern Congo: Using Cell Phones to Collect Conflict Events Data in Real Time in the Journal of Conflict Resolution.
October 19, 2017Why are Crimean Tatars so hostile to Russia?
An article and study co-written by Leonid Peisakhin, assistant professor of political science.
Washington Post | September 5, 2017As the US gets more involved with Somalia, beware these fallacies
An article co-written by Michael Harsch, assistant professor of practice.
Washington Post | July 18, 2017The real issue with secrets and leaks
Classified leaks are devastating America, writes Rahul Sagar, political scientist.
Washington Post | February 27, 2017Leaks are totally American, it's just easier now
Rahul Sagar, political scientist, says President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress would very much like you to know that they are victims of betrayal.
Wired | February 16, 2017 -
Where do US candidates stand on foreign policy?
Political expert Adam Ramey answers questions about the US election from CNN's Becky Anderson.
CNN Connect the WorldWhy fund investors could roil bonds
A working paper by Lucas Siga studies the links between monetary policy and mutual fund flows, and any potential risks to financial stability.
Wall Street Journal | August 7, 2016UAE labor mobility creates winners and losers
A research paper co-authored by NYUAD economist Yaw Nyarko "reinforces the need to exercise caution with labour market interventions, as they sometimes backfire."
The National | August 20, 2016Failed states and the paradox of civilisation: New lessons from history
While cases of state failure have risen in the last decade, most notably in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, they are not a new phenomenon, writes economist Pablo Hernandez-Lagos.
Vox | July 26, 2016NYUAD professor wins Dan David international prize
A video interview with François Bourguignon, global distinguished professor of economics.
Dan David Prize | May 27, 2016
How a startup's burn rate influences its success
Economist Pablo Hernandez-Lagos discusses startup survival and balanced burn rates.
University of Pennsylvania | May 26, 2016
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