Nikita Melnikov

Publications

3G Internet and Confidence in Government

(with Sergei Guriev and Ekaterina Zhuravskaya)

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

Working papers

Mobile Internet and Political Polarization

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Gangs, Labor Mobility, and Development

(with Carlos Schmidt-Padilla and Maria Micaela Sviatschi)

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

Work in progress

Censorship, Propaganda, and Political Popularity

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Organized Crime and Public Goods Provision during a Pandemic

(with Maria Micaela Sviatschi)

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