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Gemma Dipoppa

556 posts

Gemma Dipoppa

@gemmadipoppa

Assistant Professor Columbia University - Political Economy, Crime, Migration, Environmental

New York, USA

gemmadipoppa.com

Joined September 2017

Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Dec 1, 2021
I'm so excited to join the amazing @BrownUPoliSci group together with @dhdannychoi! I would like to take this moment to thank some of the brilliant people who helped me in the journey to get here:
Eric Patashnik
@EricPatashnik
Dec 1, 2021
I'm thrilled to announce that @BrownUPoliSci has hired two outstanding scholars in our Assistant Professor Comparative Politics search: @dhdannychoi and @gemmadipoppa.
Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Jun 10, 2021
Extremely happy that my job market paper "How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States" won the 2020 award for best paper in European Politics of @APSATweets! 🎉 Many thanks to the committee @jrgingrich @JonathanPolk @halikiopoulou and Jeremy Ferwerda.
Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Jun 15, 2023
Extremely grateful that our paper “Fascist Ideology and Migrant Labor Exploitation” with @mfcarillo and Shanker Satyanath won the McGillivray Best Paper Award @APSAPolEconomy @APSAtweets! Thanks a lot to the selection committee! We summarize the paper below.⬇️
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Apr 8, 2024
Please submit your paper to the 1st Political Economy at Brown Conference (PEB) on October 18! Fill this form by May 31st: forms.gle/XNWR3hNR4xbZEm… Me and @briangknight are looking forward to reading your papers! We thank the Orlando Bravo Center and PPE for funding the event.
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Feb 12, 2021
Now in pre-print at @APSA_Preprints: my paper on the expansion of criminal organizations to strong states. I show how mafias from southern Italy expanded to the north through migrants' exploitation and political brokerage.
Cambridge University Press - Politics
@CUP_PoliSci
Feb 12, 2021
New on @APSA_Preprints - How Criminal Organizations Expand to Strong States: Migrant Exploitation and Political Brokerage in Northern Italy - ow.ly/RWO950DyOAY - @gemmadipoppa
Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Apr 10, 2024
Thank you @ppe_center & @The_JOP! 🎉 I study how criminal organizations can expand to strong states by exploiting migrant labor to strike agreements with local actors - that’s how southern Italian mafias moved north. Short summary of the paper here 👉
Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
@PPE_Center
Apr 10, 2024
How can Italian mafia groups migrate to areas with strong states? New paper from Gemma Dipoppa (@gemmadipoppa) uses novel data and a unique identification strategy to show how. Read more here: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…
Exploiting migrants can help criminal groups expand to new countries
From theloop.ecpr.eu
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Mar 29, 2022
How do states fight against organized crime? We know that repressive methods are often ineffective and can generate more violence. Can policies targeting criminal revenues do better? We study a policy targeting mafia misappropriation of public subsidies. Here is what we find: 🧵
Gianmarco Daniele
@Giammacco
Mar 29, 2022
Happy to see 👇paper published with @gemmadipoppa. We study a policy targeting mafia-linked firms misappropriation of subsidies. Some firms, with cues of ties with organized crime, manage to avoid checks by applying for smaller subsidies. academic.oup.com/jleo/advance-a…
Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Apr 29, 2023
Thank you very much @BrownUResearch @BrownUPoliSci! Project joint with @saadgulzar
Brown Research
@BrownUResearch
Apr 29, 2023
@gemmadipoppa has received a Salomon award for her project studying the political causes of environmental laws enforcement by focusing on polluting behavior at one of the most conflictual borders, the India-Pakistan border. ow.ly/8IEp50NM9x7
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Mar 20, 2024
Me and @saadgulzar are hiring a short-term research assistant (with possibility for renewal)! We are looking for someone with strong quant skills and interest in political economy. Please apply by March 29th!
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Research Assistant Position with Gulzar and Dipoppa
Professors Saad Gulzar and Gemma Dipoppa are looking to hire a full-time or part-time research assistant to work on research projects related to the political economy of development (for example,...
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Sep 22, 2023
Female politicians suffer an additional gender gap: they are 3 times more likely to be targets of violence. We study the reasons and the consequences. Thank you @voxeu for hosting a summary of our paper with @Giammacco and @massimo_pulejo. 👇👇
Gianmarco Daniele
@Giammacco
Sep 22, 2023
Check @voxeu coverage of "Attacking women or their policies? Understanding violence against women in politics" with @gemmadipoppa and @massimo_pulejo cepr.org/voxeu/columns/…
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Jul 14, 2023
Do women in politics experience more violent attacks than males? If so, why? Thread 🧵about our new working paper with @Giammacco and @massimo_pulejo ⬇️
Massimo Pulejo
@massimo_pulejo
Jul 13, 2023
🚨NEW WORKING PAPER 🚨 W/ @Giammacco and @gemmadipoppa: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… W/ > 10,000 Italian municipal elections, we causally estimate and systematically unpack the gender gap in political violence. Are female mayors attacked more than men, and why? A thread (1/7)
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Apr 28, 2020
***TWEET THREAD*** New paper with @guygrossman out at Comparative Political Studies "The Effect of Election Proximity on Government Responsiveness and Citizens’ Participation: Evidence From English Local Elections" journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GV3U7V9…
Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Mar 8, 2023
We (@mariacarreri @tinepalusen @abwiedemann @MiguelMaria) are excited to host the first 𝐀𝐏𝐒𝐀 𝐩𝐫𝐞-𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 on Political Economy w Europe focus. Send us your best papers! Conference: August 30th at USC Application deadline: April 15th Form
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Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference (PEEP)
Please complete this form if you would like to present or attend the 2023 Political Economy of Europe APSA Pre-Conference, organized by Maria Carreri, Gemma Dipoppa, Miguel Pereira, and Andreas...
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Gemma Dipoppa
@gemmadipoppa
Nov 8, 2023
Crop burning poisons the skies of South Asia, causing millions of deaths and diseases. What are states doing to stop it? What are the consequences? We study these questions in a paper w @saadgulzar 👇🌾🔥
Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار
@saadgulzar
Nov 8, 2023
Just released an updated draft of paper with @gemmadipoppa on crop burning and air pollution in South Asia. Comments welcome! osf.io/nyhz4
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