Working papers (please email me for drafts if interested)
"Fields and Foreign Lands: Pre-Industrial Climate Risk and International Migration"(with Miriam Manchin and Alex Newnham)
Empires, gender attitudes and tolerance: Evidence from Romania , with Aurelian Plopeanu
The Unorthodox Orthodox? Religion, Compromise, and Attitudes Toward Women in the Labor Market (with Mrdjan Mladjan and Dusan Markovic)
Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Arab Region: Assessing the Impacts of Land and Property Ownership, also published as UN ESCWA report.
Publications
Are we happy yet? Revisiting life satisfaction in Eastern Europe (with Mrdjan Mladjan), 2025, forthcoming, in the De Gruyter Handbook of Eastern European Politics, Society and Culture, edited by Gerald M. Easter
GLO working paper (ungated)
Dzenopoljac, V., Nikolova, E., & Ozel, Z. (2024). Entrepreneurial universities and transformational entrepreneurship: the case of the Zayed University-Minerva Project partnership. In Cases on Transformational Entrepreneurship (pp. 10-25). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Ganguly, S., Nikolova, E. (2023). The Benefits of Considering Gender in Economic Development. In: Drucza, K., Kaddour, A., Ganguly, S., Sarea, A.M. (eds) Centering Gender in the Era of Digital and Green Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38211-6_11,
working paper version (ungated)
“The effects of economic austerity on pro-sociality: Evidence from Greece” (with Nicholas Sambanis and Anna Schultz), 2022, EU Politics.
Featured in the Washington Post (Monkey Cage), Mentioned in the New York Times
Educating Children with Disabilities: Comparative Evidence from Ethiopia, Burkina Faso and Niger (with Priva Hang'andu, Emmanuel Mensah and Beth Hayward), 2023 in the Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems,
Religion and Institutions (with Mrdjan Mladjan and Olga Ponomarenko), 2023 in the Handbook of Labor, Human Resources, and Population Economics, edited by Klaus Zimmermann
GLO working paper (ungated)
“Children and female employment in Mongolia” (with Jakub Polansky), 2022, Economic Systems
GLO working paper (ungated)
“Transition, height and well-being” (with Alicia Adsera, Francesca Dalla Pozza, Sergei Guriev, and Lukas Kleine-Rueschkamp) (2021), Economic Policy, 36(1), 77-120.
“Conversionary Protestants do not cause democracy” (with Jakub Polansky) (2021), British Journal of Political Science, 51(4), 1723-1733.
GLO working paper (ungated)
“War and social attitudes,” with Travers Barclay Child (2020), Conflict Management and Peace Science, 37(2), 152-171, also HiCN working paper, UCL Centre for Comparative Studies of Emerging Economies working paper and GLO working paper.
“Using data analysis and instrumental variables to study the drivers of corruption” (2019), SAGE Research Methods Cases, UCL discovery - ungated version.
“Communism as the unhappy coming,” with Simeon Djankov (2018), Journal of Comparative Economics, 46(3), 708-721, also World Bank working paper and GLO working paper.
More media buzz: Economist, US News and World Report, Vjesti (Montenegro, front page of print newspaper), American Conservative, faktor.bg (in Bulgarian).
“Do public fund windfalls increase corruption? Evidence from a natural disaster,” (with Nikolay Marinov) (2017), Comparative Political Studies 50(11), 1455-1488, SSRN version.
Featured in Financial Times, Washington Post (Monkey Cage), Standart newspaper (in Bulgarian), Bulgarian National Radio (in Bulgarian, 20.04.2015), Capital newspaper (in Bulgarian).
“Can diversity encourage entrepreneurship in transition economies?,” IZA World of Labor, 2017: 313. One page summary in German and Spanish (forthcoming).
“Suffrage, labour markets and coalitions in colonial Virginia,” with Milena Nikolova (2017), European Journal of Political Economy 49: 108-122, IZA dicussion paper 10226 and SSRN version.
“Destined for democracy? Labour markets and political change in colonial British America”, British Journal of Political Science, 2017, 47(1), 19-45, also EBRD working paper 134 (older version); SSRN version.
Featured in: VoxEU, Policy Space, Washington Post (Monkey Cage)
“How much should we trust life satisfaction data? Evidence from the Life in Transition Survey,” (with Peter Sanfey), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(3), 720-731; EBRD working paper 174, SSRN version
“The happiness gap in Eastern Europe,” (with Simeon Djankov and Jan Zilinsky), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(1), 108-124; EBRD working paper version, SSRN version.
Featured in: FT.com, Forbes Magazine Russia (in Russian)
“The Great Recession and social preferences: Evidence from Ukraine,” (with Ralph De Haas and Milena Djourelova), Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44(1), 92-107; EBRD working paper version, SSRN version.
Presentation at JCE conference: Ukraine: Escape from Post Soviet Legacy? (Youtube, starts at 1:28), presentation slides
Featured in Novoe Vremya (in Russian, April 2015) and once more in Novoe Vremya (in Russian, May 2015)
“Religious diversity and entrepreneurship in transition: lessons for policy makers” (with Dora Simroth), IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2015, 4:5