Gábor Nyéki

[ˈɡaːbor ˈɲeːki]

I am a recurring visiting scholar at Princeton University’s politics department and an assistant professor at the African School of Economics. I received my PhD in economics from Duke University.

My research falls into political economy, development economics, and the economics of social networks. I study unequal societies.

E-mail: gabor.nyeki@princeton.edu. For more information, see my CV.

Papers and works in progress

Does Nonviolence Work? The U.S. Civil Rights Movement and Institutional Change. February 2020.

• Peaceful protests made US congressional districts more liberal on civil-rights and welfare issues. Violent protests were ineffective and may have backfired.
• Civil-rights protests prompted the GOP’s entry into Southern politics.

Network and Spillover Effects with Endogeneous Multidimensional Networks (with Rob Garlick and Kate Orkin).

• How do development interventions affect household networks? How do household networks moderate their direct and spillover effects? We answer these with a large randomized trial in rural Western Kenya.

Code

• sacsv: Swiss Army csv—command-line tools to manipulate csv-formatted data.
• json_this: wrappers around reg, reghdfe, ttest, and arbitrary r-class and e-class Stata commands to save their results in JSON files.
• coeftable: two command-line tools to generate arbitrarily formatted tables from JSON files.
• extract_from_stata: a command-line tool for harvesting regression results from Stata log files and translating them into csv and tex tables, an alternative to esttab.