Publications
Publications
Corruption and Extremism (joint with Tommaso Giommoni, Massimo Morelli, and Antonio Nicolò) JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS.
Social Mobility and Political Regimes: Intergenerational Mobility in Hungary, 1949-2017 (with Pawel Bukowski, Gregory Clark and Rita Pető) JOURNAL OF POPULATION ECONOMICS
[Portfolio.hu] [Magyar Nemzet Interview] [Replication package]
Inequality Perception and Preferences Globally and Locally - Correlational Evidence From a Large-Scale Cross - Country Survey (With Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Valtorta, and Michela Vezzoli) JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY
[Blog post in English] [Replication package]
A Twofold-Subjective Measure of Income Inequality (With Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Valtorta, and Michela Vezzoli) SOCIAL INDICATORS RESEARCH [Codes]
Why are some countries rich and others poor? development and validation of the attributions for Cross-Country Inequality Scale (With Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Valtorta, and Michela Vezzoli) PLOS ONE
Working papers
Right-wing terrorism and far-right support: Evidence from anti-Roma attacks in Hungary (with Gábor Békés, Gábor Simonovits and Márton Végh) - Revised and Resubmitted to POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH AND METHODS [working paper]
Print It Yourself! The Electoral Impact of Door-to-door Newsletter Distribution in Hungary (with Flóra Drucker) - Revise and Resubmit at EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY [working paper]
Social Mobility and Political Regimes - Hungary, 1780-2020 (with Pawel Bukowski, Gregory Clark and Rita Pető) [working paper]
Biased Perceptions of Electoral Irregularities: Evidence from Hungary (with Gábor Simonovits and Andrea Szabó) - Under Review at BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE [available upon request]
We study perceptions of electoral integrity in Hungary using surveys and experimental data on over 4,000 poll workers that served during the 2022 general elections as observers and vote-counters. We first demonstrate that reports of irregularities were more common in areas prone to fraud, but were also shaped by the prior suspicion of poll workers suggesting that reports were partly driven by motivated reasoning. To rule out alternative explanations such as the selection of poll workers to ex-ante riskier areas, more vigilance exerted by more suspicious poll workers and “overinterpretation” of evidence driven by stereotypes, we fielded an experiment to the same poll workers where they evaluated hypothetical scenarios that were either perfectly legal, ambiguous, or unequivocally fraudulent Beliefs about fraud had a similar impact on perception as observing actual violations, questioning the reliability of survey-based measures of election fraud.
Mass Reproducibility and Replicability: A New Hope (as contributing author to Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook et al., Revised and Resubmitted to NATURE)
Comparing Human-Only, AI-Assisted, and AI-Led Teams on Assessing Research Reproducibility in Quantitative Social Science (as contributing author to Abel Brodeur, Derek Mikola, Nikolai Cook et al., Revise and Resubmit at PNAS)
Work in progress
“Deny Thy Father and Refuse Thy Name” - Nation Building and the Salary Differential of Family Name Changers in Hungary (with Rita Pető) [slides]
Technology adoption, labor substitution, and political preferences (with Győző Gyöngyösi)
Genius Loci - The Spatial Persistence of Human Capital through Historical Trauma (with Miklós Koren)
Workfare and Clientelism (with Győző Gyöngyösi and Balázs Reizer) [A somewhat dated earlier draft] [Telex.hu]
Dormant
Asymmetric Extremism - Theory and evidence from Sharia regulations in Indonesia
Publications in Hungarian
Average wages in exceptional times - Hungarian earnings in the first 18 months of the COVID pandemic [English translation]