Department of Economics, Princeton University

Nikita Melnikov

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Contact information

E-mail: melnikov@princeton.edu

Twitter: @melnikov_n_v

Mailing address

Department of Economics

Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

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. On the job market.

Research interests: Political Economy, Development, Applied Microeconomics.

Publications

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

(with Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)

Quarterly Journal of Economics, November 2021, 136 (4): 2533-2613.

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

World Economic Forum, The Moscow Times.

Happiness Convergence in Transition Countries (with Sergei Guriev)

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

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

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

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

Working papers

Mobile Internet and Political Polarization (job market paper)

Media coverage: The Boston Globe, Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen’s favorite

2021/2022 job market paper).

Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

(with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla and Maria Micaela Sviatschi)

Media coverage: The Economist, Probable Causation, VoxDev, NBER Digest.

Work in progress

Censorship, Propaganda, and Political Popularity

Organized Crime and Public Goods Provision during a Pandemic

(with Maria Micaela Sviatschi)