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The Washington Post recently featured research from a new paper in American Economic Review by BSE Affiliated Professor Ruben Durante (ICREA-UPF and BSE) on "The Political Legacy of Entertainment TV" (with P. Pinotti and A. Tesei). The work focuses on entertainment television in Italy in the 1980s and whether it made voters more likely to support Silvio Berlusconi’s populist party, Forza Italia.

Why is entertainment TV linked to support for populism, and how did the researchers pin down causality? WaPo asked them in an interview titled, "Junk television promoted populist politics long before Fox News and Trump."

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Rosa Ferrer and Joan Monràs awarded BBVA Foundation Leonardo Grants

Professors Rosa Ferrer (UPF and BSE) and Joan Monràs (UPF and BSE) have each been awarded a prestigious Leonard Grant...

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Fellowship call: Women for Africa Foundation (deadline Sep 30)

The Women for Africa Foundation (FMxA) has announced the 10th edition of the Science by Women research fellowship program. The...

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2024 PhD job market results in the BSE research community

Congratulations to the new PhDs from the doctoral programs at UAB and UPF on their success in the 2024 job market!...

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Flip Klijn wins 2024 SEIO-BBVA Foundation Award

Barcelona School of Economics Research Professor Flip Klijn (IAE-CSIC and BSE) and his co-authors Péter Biró, Xenia Klimentova, and...

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