Thanks, Catherine! Big congrats too on this paper! Super cool– excited to read. Paula Rettl was also just here visiting Philadelphia this weekend :)

Same pattern observed using an alternative measure: the share of jobs that can’t be done remotely (“teleworkability”).

We leverage staggered timing of COVID business closures in the U.S.—a rare economic shock decoupled from race. Using an event study design, we find lockdowns boosted Trump support in states with more low-education workers, but had no effect in high-education ones.

🚨New paper out in @cpsjournal.bsky.social with Torben Iversen: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
We empirically separate economic factors from cultural backlash as competing explanations for right-wing populism, and find evidence for the former. We define the concept of “unfunded public goods.” 🧵

The paper introduces self-interest in reducing intergroup externalities as a mechanism for cooperation for p.g. Using mechanism vignettes, I show social affinity or racial tolerance cannot explain the results. Integration even generates middle-class aversion toward the poor.

The analysis draws on a mixed methods approach that includes focus groups w/ neighborhood associations, a proposed identification strategy for estimating segregation, and a large-scale door-to-door survey of over 4,000 residents across 420 neighborhoods in São Paulo, Brazil.

Why do cities of comparable capacity and size provide different levels of public goods? Why is Brasília, the capital of Brazil, so deficient in public goods? Why does the city of Belo Horizonte provide more? I argue that class-based segregation explains this difference. (2/n)

Excited that this project (JMP!) is now FirstView @APSR!

doi.org/10.1017/S000...

I show that segregation encourages the privatization of urban services. Conversely, integrated cities produce intergroup externalities that align the middle class w/ the poor in coalitions for public goods 🧵