How can we design institutions to establish the rule of law in society? Political Econ & Development; some econ history. Prof. @NES_Moscow.
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10 Oct 2018
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10 Oct 2018
If you're not having fun, you're not learning. There's a pleasure in finding things out.
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🎓 Big news from NES!
HSE–NES BAE students Margarita Kudaeva and Georgii Marinichev co-authored a paper (forthcoming in Journal of Development Economics) with @ProfSultanEcon and secured top placements: MIT PhD and UChicago predoc. More: bit.ly/3QscdR1
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In our new paper, we show that Stalin’s radio was not just propaganda; it was an infrastructure for terror.
Better reception meant more arrests, more executions, and more sentences later overturned 👇
Can mass media facilitate political persecution in a dictatorship? Sultan Mehmood, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy, and I investigate this question looking at radio in Stalin's USSR in a new paper "Transmitting Terror".
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Feb 14
Around 10 years ago, I finished my PhD. The main paper was published in 2022.
🧵 "The real effects of monetary expansions: evidence from a large‑scale historical experiment"
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Do monetary expansions affect the real economy—or just prices?
ʜɪꜱᴛᴏʀʏ gives us a rare experiment 👇
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I'm looking to hire an RA in Lahore for a project with Muhammad Yasir Khan and Bakhtawar Ali. Please see details below.
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At the CEPR Annual Symposium, @timsvengali caught up with the exciting research of three talented economists at the start of their careers. In today’s episode, hear from Alishuba Philips @UZH_en on slum redevelopment, Lucie Giorgi @amseaixmars on the end of single sex education in France, and @bakhtawar_a @amseaixmars on lawfare in Pakistan.
Find out more: cepr.org/voxeu/voxtalks
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Jan 19
This article is an overview of a very interesting paper by Sultan Mehmood @ProfSultanEcon, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy, and Hosny Zoabi on the harms generated by Stalin's efforts to raise Soviet fertility via an abortion ban. It is a nice example of the growing body of economic history research on Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union that has emerged through the emergence of new data sets.
Beneath the ban of abortion: Evidence from the USSR
Sultan Mehmood @mrsultan713 @NES_Moscow, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy @essec, Hosny Zoabi @NES_Moscow
ow.ly/39B650XX9qv
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Beneath the ban of abortion: Evidence from the USSR
Sultan Mehmood @mrsultan713 @NES_Moscow, Yaroslav Prokhorskoy @essec, Hosny Zoabi @NES_Moscow
ow.ly/39B650XX9qv
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🎓 Congrats! @ProfSultanEcon has been promoted to Tenured Associate Professor at NES, effective January 1, 2026.
Looking forward to his further contributions to the School and the academic community! #econtwitter
More: bit.ly/4ql7DBd
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Jan 8
In new work with @ProfSultanEcon and @gochristoph, we study a nationwide AI tools training program in Pakistan courts, leading to broad AI usage. Early evidence suggests improved decision quality and increased court productivity.
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22 Apr 2025
#NES Professor @mrsultan713 Mehmood, together with researchers at ETH Zurich, developed JudgeGPT — the world’s 1st generative AI system designed for writing judicial opinions and supporting decision-making in courts. It's actively used by 1,500 judges in Pakistan
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10 Feb 2025
The fight for judicial independence in Pakistan isn’t over—why it matters now more than ever. My thoughts in @Dawn_News: dawn.com/news/1890996/the-st…
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10 Jan 2025
My thoughts on the current state of judicial independence in Pakistan and the future of democracy:
youtube.com/watch?v=q6HegfSv…
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15 Dec 2024
#ICYMI: A Brown-Harvard Joint Seminar on South Asian Politics with @mushfiq_econ and Martha Chen explored the November 1970 Bhola cyclone in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), one of the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. Watch the recording: youtu.be/tpkNAwmehzo?si=UCQl…
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25 Nov 2024
Proud to announce that the article "Teacher Vaccinations Enhance Student Achievement in Pakistan: The Role of Role Models and Theory of Mind" by #NES Professor Sultan Mehmood @mrsultan713 has been published in PNAS @PNASNews — one of the world's most-cited scientific journals
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21 Oct 2024
NES Professor Sultan Mehmood @mrsultan713 took part in the Lunch on International Economic Policy (LIEP) Series at @Harvard. The expert gave a presentation on the rise of judicial independence at the @Kennedy_School
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19 Oct 2024
Scholars worldwide—Paris, Moscow, Chicago, Oxford, Tokyo—denounce Pakistan’s amendments undermining judicial independence and human rights. This isn't reform, it’s coercion. Our Signed petition below 👇👇👇#UpholdTheRuleofLaw drive.google.com/file/d/1ORm…
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