Gábor Nyéki

[ˈɡaːbor ˈɲeːki]

I am a senior research specialist 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: gnyeki@princeton.edu. For more information, see my CV.

Working papers

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.

Work in progress

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.

Origins of the Demand for Education: Evidence from Early Schools in Nigeria (with Léonard Wantchékon and Dozie Okoye).

Image Concerns and Voting Order in Group Decisions (with Gergely Hajdu).

Et cetera

• Code.
• Useful advice and other resources.