Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

Biographic Data

ID1164589
NAMEEkaterina Zhuravskaya
GIVEN NAMESEkaterina
FAMILY NAMEZhuravskaya
SIGNATUREZHURAVSKAYA E
AFFILIATIONSParis School of Economics
ORCID0000-0002-3496-2086
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS75
TOTAL CITATIONS227
AUTHOR COUNT75
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX5

  • The Economics of Nation-Building: Methodological Tool Kit and Policy Lessons

    Open AccessDominic Rohner, Ekaterina ZhuravskayaARTICLEAnnual Review of Economics2025

    This article reviews the recent burgeoning political economics research on nation-building. We focus on three main aspects of this body of work. First, we discuss methodological issues related to measuring nation-building outcomes and provide a synthesis of studies that employ different techniques, such as surveys on identity, lab-in-the-field methods, and direct observation of actions signaling identity. Second, we explore preconditions for effe…

  • Mobile Broadband and the Decline of Incumbency Advantage

    Open AccessSergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2025

    Incumbency advantage in U.S. congressional elections has long been a well-established feature of American politics. Using a regression discontinuity design, we document that this advantage remained stable until the late 2000s, after which it sharply declined, falling from a long-term average of about 11 percentage points of additional vote share to about 3 percentage points by 2020-2024. Using a differences-in-discontinuities design, we show that…

  • Marshall Lecture 2025: Political Information and Network Effects

    Open AccessGeorgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev et al.ARTICLEJournal of the European Economic…2025

    Why do political campaigns so often yield unexpected results? We address this question by separately estimating the direct effect of a campaign on targeted voters and the indirect effect on others in the same social environment. Partnering with a local NGO during Argentina’s 2023 presidential election, we randomized the distribution of leaflets providing an expert assessment of the likely consequences of certain proposals by the outsider candidat…

  • I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You: Political Information and Network Effects

    Open AccessGeorgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev et al.PREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2025

  • Political Information and Network Effects

    Open AccessGeorgy Egorov, Sergei Guriev et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2025

  • The Economics of Nation-Building: Methodological Toolkit and Policy Lessons

    Open AccessDominic Rohner, Ekaterina ZhuravskayaPREPRINTSSRN Electronic Journal2024

  • The Economics of Nation-Building: Methodological Toolkit and Policy Lessons

    Open AccessDominic Rohner, Ekaterina ZhuravskayaARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2024

  • New Russian Economic History

    Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Sergei Guriev et al.ARTICLEJournal of Economic Literature2024

    This survey discusses recent developments in the growing literature on the economic history of Russia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Using novel data and modern empirical methods, this research provides important lessons for development and political economy. We address four strands of this literature. First, we present long-term trends in economic development, illustrating that throughout history, Russia significantly underperformed …

  • Independent Media, Propaganda, and Religiosity: Evidence from Poland

    Irena Grosfeld, Etienne Madinier et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Journal Applied…2024

    Exploring a drastic change in media landscape in Poland, we show that mainstream media can significantly affect religious participation. After nationalist populist party PiS came to power in 2015, news on state and private independent TV diverged due to propaganda on state TV, resulting in a switch of some of its audience to independent TV. Municipalities with access to independent TV continued to follow a long-term secularization trend, while mu…

  • Curtailing False News, Amplifying Truth

    Open AccessSergei Guriev, Emeric Henry et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2023

  • Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin’s Ethnic Deportations

    Open AccessAntonela Miho, Alexandra Jarotschkin et al.ARTICLEJournal of the European Economic…2023

    We study horizontal between-group cultural transmission using Stalin’s ethnic deportations as a historical experiment. Over 2 million Soviet citizens, mostly Germans and Chechens, were forcibly relocated from the western to eastern parts of the USSR during WWII solely based on ethnicity. As a result, the native population of the deportation destinations was exogenously exposed to groups with drastically different gender norms and behavior. We com…

  • Independent Media and Religiosity

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Etienne Madinier et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021

  • Reading Twitter in the Newsroom: Web 2.0 and Traditional-Media Reporting of Conflicts

    Open AccessSophie Hatte, Etienne Madinier et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021

  • New Russian Economic History

    Open AccessEkaterina Zhuravskaya, Sergei Guriev et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2021

  • G Internet and Confidence in Government

    Open AccessSergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov et al.ARTICLEThe Quarterly Journal of Economics2020

    How does mobile broadband internet affect approval of government? Using Gallup World Poll surveys of 840,537 individuals from 2,232 subnational regions in 116 countries from 2008 to 2017 and the global expansion of 3G mobile networks, we show that on average, an increase in mobile broadband internet access reduces government approval. This effect is present only when the internet is not censored, and it is stronger when the traditional media are …

  • Checking and Sharing Alt-Facts

    Open AccessEmeric Henry, Ekaterina Zhuravskaya et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2020

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

    Sascha O Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.ARTICLEAmerican Economic Review2020

    We study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, millions of Poles were forcibly uprooted from the Kresy territories of eastern Poland and resettled (primarily) in the newly acquired Western Territories, from which the Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected survey data to show that, while there were no pre-WWII differences in educational attainment, Poles with a …

  • Facts, alternative facts, and fact checking in times of post-truth politics

    Open AccessÓscar Barrera, Sergei Guriev et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Economics2020

    How effective is fact checking in countervailing “alternative facts,” i.e., misleading statements by politicians? In a randomized online experiment during the 2017 French presidential election campaign, we subjected subgroups of 2480 French voters to alternative facts by the extreme-right candidate, Marine Le Pen, and/or corresponding facts about the European refugee crisis from official sources. We find that: (i) alter- native facts are highly p…

  • Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

    Ekaterina Zhuravskaya, Maria Petrova et al.ARTICLEAnnual Review of Economics2020

    How do the Internet and social media affect political outcomes? We review empirical evidence from the recent political economy literature, focusing primarily on work that considers traits that distinguish the Internet and social media from traditional off-line media, such as low barriers to entry and reliance on user-generated content. We discuss the main results about the effects of the Internet in general, and social media in particular, on vot…

  • Political Effects of the Internet and Social Media

    Open AccessEkaterina Zhuravskaya, Maria Petrova et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2019

  • Diffusion of Gender Norms: Evidence from Stalin's Ethnic Deportations

    Open AccessAlexandra Jarotschkin, Ekaterina ZhuravskayaARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2019

  • G Internet and Confidence in Government

    Open AccessSergei Guriev, Nikita Melnikov et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2019

  • Middleman Minorities and Ethnic Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Russian Empire

    Open AccessIrena Grosfeld, Seyhun Orcan Sakalli et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economic Studies2019

    Using detailed panel data from the Pale of Settlement area between 1800 and 1927, we document that anti-Jewish pogroms—mob violence against the Jewish minority—broke out when economic shocks coincided with political turmoil. When this happened, pogroms primarily occurred in places where Jews dominated middleman occupations, i.e., moneylending and grain trading. This evidence is inconsistent with the scapegoating hypothesis, according to which Jew…

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

    Sascha Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.REPORTNational Bureau of Economic…2018

    We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in largescale migration. Poles were forced to move from the Kresy territories in the East (taken over by the USSR) and were resettled mostly to the newly acquired Western Territories, from which Germans were expelled. We combine historical censuses with newly collected …

  • Forced Migration and Human Capital: Evidence from Post-WWII Population Transfers

    Open AccessSascha O Becker, Irena Grosfeld et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2018