Maria Puolakkainen

Political economy PhD @Politics_Oxford @NuffieldCollege, prev. @ACLEDINFO, @LACOxford, @PPEwarwick. Politics of trade, industrial policy, informal labour.

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

Welcome! I will share my experiences of doctoral fieldwork in Brazil and reflect on the value of qualitative fieldwork to probe at mechanisms theorised within causal quantitative work + to generate new research ideas. Ongoing fieldwork generously funded by @LeverhulmeTrust.

[Juan Felipe Riaño R. @JuanFelipeRiano]

🚨New NBER working paper alert 🚨

🤔2021–2024 was the worst U.S. inflation in four decades. The question: Did voters react to the rising prices, or to the shrinking paychecks?

😱We approached this paper with one major surprise: there is no official measure of inflation at the county level in the U.S.

🌟To study the relationship between inflation and electoral outcomes during, we first had to construct local inflation measures using county-level data on family budget costs and incomes.

The answer? -> Check it out! 👇
🔗 https://t.co/itZi8KOZfS

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@LeverhulmeTrust @LACOxford

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

Welcome! I will share my experiences of doctoral fieldwork in Brazil and reflect on the value of qualitative fieldwork to probe at mechanisms theorised within causal quantitative work + to generate new research ideas. Ongoing fieldwork generously funded by @LeverhulmeTrust.

[Mateo Hoyos @mathoyos]

Enough with the bleak local politics for a minute. Very excited to share that pre-proofs are out for our JDE article, “Local and Spillover Effects of Trade on Structural Transformation: Evidence from Brazil,” with @JosecoronadoAr and @GuilhermeKlei11. Thread below. 1/9

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@rduartegonzalez @FIU @fiu_sipa @YaleCowles Many many congratulations!!

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@dsanco I admire her so much, what a loss.

[Eduardo Moncada @EduardoMoncad]

This looks fabulous! @BMagaloni and @AdamPrzeworski.

[Giancarlo Visconti @gvisconti]

🚨 Exciting news! Today, we’re launching DMV-WEPS — the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) Workshop in Empirical Political Science — together with Alicia Cooperman and @ricarthuguet.

https://t.co/yd5cvUXVdN

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@SlaterPolitics @umichpolisci Thrilled to see students reading @naomukoyama!

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@hillaryvipond This is great -- but how did they stay awake writing this? :)

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@MariaBe45600461 @LACOxford @OSGAOxford @ODID_QEH Felicidades y bienvenidos a Oxford!

[Gonzalo Contreras @gontrerasa]

My @cps_journal article is now out with issue and page numbers! New article from our latest issue (Issue 8, 2025): "Outsourcing Machines. How Programmatic Parties Include Clientelistic Strategies" by Gonzalo Contreras @gontrerasa.bsky.social

https://t.co/OYZhshBwkq

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

@JohnHolbein1 Do you know what is updated in this new version? Worth reading again?

[Nicolás Dip @Nicolas_Dip]

¿Nos ayudan a difundir esta convocatoria abierta?

Hasta el 20 de julio de 2025, pueden enviar artículos para participar en el dossier “Juventudes globales. Protestas, organizaciones y activismos estudiantiles internacionales y transnacionales desde América Latina y el Caribe, siglos XIX - XXI” que va a publicarse en la revista "Cahiers des Amériques latines".

Este dossier recibe artículos producidos desde distintas disciplinas de las ciencias sociales (antropología, sociología, historia, geografía, ciencia política) que indaguen en las protestas, organizaciones y activismos estudiantiles internacionales y trasnacionales que se impulsaron desde América Latina y el Caribe en los siglos XIX, XX y XXI.

Cabe señalar que en las reflexiones habrá que tener en cuenta los múltiples determinantes y facetas de lo social (el tríptico class, gender, race, al cual se pueden agregar la etnicidad, la nacionalidad, la religiosidad y la edad como construcciones sociológicas).

► Pueden leer la convocatoria completa en:

- https://t.co/bw5SZn9j4Z

- https://t.co/bKLtcT6Bmk - https://t.co/yuaD3Jl2mq

► Por dudas o consultas pueden escribir a [email protected] y [email protected]

► Se reciben contribuciones en español, inglés, francés y portugués.

Se agradece mucho la difusión

[Pablo Velasco @pablovelascoec]

Para aquellos colegas analistas de datos que estaban interesados en el análisis espacial de los resultados electorales, les comparto el código para minar los datos del CNE y los shapefiles base para descarga: https://t.co/DXEEmgY3Np

[Maria Puolakkainen @MariaLingon]

Finland: where attempts at vote buying in come wrapped in blue foil. Stokes was right — but forgot to model the chocolate elasticity of voter compliance.

[LAC Oxford @LACOxford]

Join us for the 2025 Brazilian Studies Programme Annual Conference. Register on eventbrite: https://t.co/C6yL5CmMEm

📅 Date: Tuesday, March 25th
🕘Time: 9am - 6pm
📍Where: Mordan Hall, St Hugh’s College

[César A. Hidalgo @cesifoti]

How will global trade rewire following "Liberation Day"?

For the past few days, @ViktorStojkoski and I have been working on a new global trade simulation. This network shows our most recent run of the model. Our current forecast is that trade will hollow out around the US--except for Mexico and Canada--and reconfigure around China and Germany. In this scenario, countries like Japan, Brazil, and South Korea gravitate towards China, whereas France, Italy, and the Netherlands gravitate towards Germany.

While this network presents an aggregate view, our model also provides sectoral resolution, which we plan to make available in the future. Some of the trends we anticipate here are France becoming even stronger in the exports of aircraft and East and South East Asia losing some of their footwear exports to Mexico, The Caribbean, and Central America.

Stay tuned and enjoy this network.
More is coming soon.

[Guillaume Blanc @gguillaumeblanc]

🚨 Call for applications - Research Assistant 🚨

Valeria Rueda and I are recruiting someone to work on projects on "Violence and narratives in Colombia"

Looking for students interested in pol econ/dev, with a good knowledge of Colombian history

Deadline: April 15

[Patrick Inglis @patrickinglis]

.@alicekrozer y yo estamos encantados de compartir la convocatoria para el segundo encuentro de posgrados que estudian los temas de las élites, la riqueza y el poder en México. La fecha límite de entregar los solicitudes es 15 de abril. #elites #desigualdad @CIDE_MX @elcolmex