Department of Economics, Princeton University

Nikita Melnikov

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    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 (job market paper)

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    • Media coverage: The Boston Globe, Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen’s favorite 2021/2022 JMP).

    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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