Nikita Melnikov

Nikita Melnikov

Ph.D. Candidate (2016-2022)

Department of Economics, Princeton University

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Economics at Princeton University and expect to be on the job market in 2022.

Research interests: Development, Political Economy, Applied Microeconomics.

Curriculum vitae

Publications

Happiness Convergence in Transition Countries (with Sergei Guriev)

Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2018, 46 (3): 683-707.

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War, Inflation, and Social Capital (with Sergei Guriev)

Contact information

American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, May 2016, 106 (5): 230-35.

• Media coverage: The Moscow Times, RBC (in Russian).

E-mail:

Twitter: @melnikov_n_v

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Mailing address

Department of Economics

Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

Working papers

Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

(with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla and Maria Micaela Sviatschi).

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• Media coverage: The Economist, Probable Causation

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

(with Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya).

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• Media coverage: VoxEU, EBRD Transition Report 2019-2020 (p. 30-31),

World Economic Forum, Marginal Revolution,

KickBack - The Global Anticorruption Podcast

Censorship, Propaganda, and Political Popularity.

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