Jacob Edenhofer
@jacobedenhofer
BA, PPE @warwickuni / MPhil, Comparative Government @UniofOxford / DPhil student in Politics @NuffieldCollege & @Politics_Oxford Link to my blog “Often wrong, but sometimes useful”:
Glad to have this @cesifo.org working paper out — it’s taken a while, but happy with the first draft. More detailed thread to follow. Very grateful for being able to learn from Théo, @jansteckel.bsky.social, Thomas, and Jens. www.ifo.de/DocDL/cesifo...
Great paper by @trfetzer.com and @econopete.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...
Lovely thread -- also gives me the chance to shamelessly promote my Substack. jacobedenhofer.substack.com/p/do-ostroms...
worker’s perceived attractiveness as a potential partner. Among male respondents, this penalty increased with endorsement of masculine norms. Overall, our treatment likely failed because it wasn't credible (and power was low, given our theory). Where does that leave us? - perhaps the vignette
all the possible explanations for this, but my money is on a lack of credibility. Respondents likely understood the words without believing that a coal worker could move into social/interpersonal work while keeping the same income, status and working conditions. See also below. Although both
Yet the signal did not persist. Counting missing answers as failures, 74% in the masculinity-preserving arm later recalled an aligned occupation, versus 21% in the reduced arm. Even some initial recognisers of the reduced-arm cue later reverted to technical/manual work. We can't disentangle
were largely not borne out. The main weakness was that our treatment vignette did not provide a clean and durable manipulation of masculinity-related status. The problem likely wasn't that the treatment was too subtle. Respondents noticed the contrast (also evident in the open questions we asked).
Vielleicht von Interesse -- wir sind an kritischen Rückmeldungen immer interessiert. mwfk.brandenburg.de/sixcms/media...
@anthlittle.bsky.social. 2025. “How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating.” Political Behavior 47 (4): 1501–25. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Fascinating new paper by @fixbierbrauer.bsky.social, Mattias Polborn, Marten Ritterrath, and @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social. cepr.org/publications...
Hello, median voter theorem in ageing societies, my old friend … muse.jhu.edu/verify?url=%...
@nilsblossey.bsky.social. 2025. “Austerity and Social Spending: Estimating the Long-Run Effects of Fiscal Adjustment.” British Journal of Political Science 55 (January): e107. doi.org/10.1017/S000....
Vlandas, Tim. 2026. “Aging Advanced Capitalist Democracies: The New Electoral Politics of Economic Stagnation.” World Politics 78 (1): 48–90.
Here is a simple way to think about the political economy of nuclear power. 1. Nuclear’s costs are spatially concentrated, while its benefits are diffuse. In a dense country, every plausible site affects a fair amount of nearby residents & municipalities. Low density, however, provides an easy way
Issue bundling at the limit. For the record, I do think the nuclear phase-out was a mistake -- and I'm, big on pro-AC advoc. But I think pro-nuclear people (i) overestimate its efficacy and (ii) underestimate the economic cost & political challenges of expanding NP in a densely
Very cool new paper in @cpsjournal.bsky.social by @isabelamares.bsky.social and Sander Trubowitz! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For those who are interested in facts, rather than vibes pushed by a man who went along with Bush's lies about the existence of WMDs, I'd recommend reading this piece by @steveakehurst.bsky.social (see below).The key point is that anti-net-zero sentiment is mostly an elite-driven phenomenon. It has
Very interesting paper by Scheve, Serlin, and White! theo-serlin.github.io/papers/draft...
The formal theory paper of the day is this beauty by @niallehughes.bsky.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Like last year, I will be teaching "A second introduction to formal political economy" this term. Perhaps some of you are interested in the syllabus. I also just uploaded the first set of slides. Let me know what I got wrong, what is (un)helpful, etc. github.com/jacob-edenho...
Let me just re-up our review of Dani Rodrik's new book ("Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World") in light of this very interesting podcast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Mazzuca, Sebastian, and Adam Sheingate. 2026. “Pathways to State Capacity: The United States in Comparative Perspective.” Studies in Comparative International Development, ahead of print, April 2. doi.org/10.1007/s121....