Happy to share new research with
@ohetuk
and Devvrat Raghav, now out in PDR
@Pop_Council
. Enduring opportunities to collaborate with faculty was one of the many things I was grateful to have at
@EconAtAshoka
!
Meet the incoming 2022-2023 PhD cohort at the Vancouver School of Economics! 🎉 We’re thrilled to have them join the
@UBC
community & look forward to celebrating their many successes. Learn more about the cohort & their fields of study here:
#EconTwitter
📢Super excited to share the results from the survey of RA experiences in Econ/Dev in India that
@prashansa_25
and I carried out!! 💃
Short blog here:
Full data appendix here :
🧵w/ results summary ⬇️
#WiEPSocial
in DC: It was incredible meeting this group of women doing so many cool (and varied) things in the Econ/Policy space. Super glad to have a fun & inspiring group to see whenever I’m in DC!
@weconpol
Sunshine, snacks and much needed catching up with cohort mates to mark the end year 2 of the PhD.☀️ Time flies when you are having fun and stressing in equal measure!
🚨HIRING: Research Support Assistant for a project on women’s labour force participation. You will
👉 manage a full-scale RCT
👉 design, translate & digitise survey equipment
👉 supervise data collection & field teams
Fluency in Bengali is required. Apply
📢We are super excited to share an update with our community.
Women in Economics and Policy is now a registered non-profit as WIEP India Association with a new board of directors 🎉
Meet our Directors -
@prerna394
@Riadutta28
@anahitark
🧵on
@AshokaUniv
Econ discussion papers, starting with most recent. Check out exciting research by the fantastic Econ faculty at Ashoka:
1. Road Access, Fertility & Child Health in Rural India: Aparajita Dasgupta,
@anahitark
, Devvrat Raghav
#EconTwitter
I spent the day reading this work of absolute genius by
@rkarnad
I'm not one to pick up anything war related, but so glad I did! Was repeatedly taken by the writing style and ease of storytelling. 100%
#Recommended
(gr8 way to spend
#JantaCurfew
)
If you identify as a woman & are a final year UG/master's student in Econ/Policy consider applying for the Young Women in Econ Program. If selected, you get access to 1-1 mentoring+A BUNCH of resources to support job & grad school applications! More info 👇🏽
@weconpol
is kickstarting Young Women in Econ & Policy for all those who identify as women & are in final year of college. We aim to support women who don't have access to placements & strong alumni networks. Know more & be part of YWEP, here👇
I had an amazing time chatting with Prof. Kanika Mahajan & much like the classes I took with her while at Ashoka, I learnt SO much!
Cannot wait for all of you to hear about all the amazing work she does & gain from her breadth + depth of knowledge!
4 already(?!) 🥳 It’s always exciting to celebrate WiEP milestones, this year especially — as we plan & execute new (bigger) initiatives for the run-up to the 5 year mark!
Join us in celebrating another milestone as we mark FOUR years of our initiative to address the gender gap in Economics and Public Policy. We are, as always, deeply appreciative of the unwavering support from our fantastic community. 🎉
If you identify as a woman + are interested in curating content on economics, public policy & dev, while learning a bunch in the process - apply apply apply!! ⬇️
🚨 Come work with us! We are currently looking for interns who are interested to join our Outreach & Design teams. Here are the application forms
➡️ Design Intern -
➡️ Communication Intern -
@hmmlowe
,
@Jeff_Weaver_
and I are hiring a Sr. Research Associate (SRA) & a Research Associate (RA) to assist with data collection involving field work for a project measuring social norms and discrimination in rural India. For details see:
Love having something that isn’t first year coursework to stress me out! :) Jokes aside, working with Prerna, Ria and all the brilliant women that run
@weconpol
is not only fulfilling but so much fun! Lots of good things coming in Y2 of being registered 🤞🏽
Had a realization today that
@weconpol
has completed a year as a registered nonprofit! Never thought I'd be worrying about fundraising, org culture, and how to pitch a company (while doing a PhD) but I'm glad I'm doing it alongside a wonderful team!
@ria__dutta
@anahitark
So excited to work closely with these inspiring women as we build
@weconpol
! ✨
We have many (ambitious) plans and will need all the advice we can get. So grateful to have such an amazing group guiding us!
2021 has been action-packed for Women in Econ/Policy! None of this would be possible without the support of our ever-growing community. To end the year on a high note here's a quick recap of the key themes that were explored by us in 2021
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📢 3rd year of the YWEP! If you identify as a woman, and want to apply to be a mentor or mentee, details ⬇️
As always, it’s entirely free, and priority in mentee selection for DBA, rel. minorities, LGBTQIA+ women & those from non-elite acad. institutions
Help spread the word!
WiEP is back with the III cohort of the Young Women in Economics Program!
Through
#YWEP
we connect young economics graduates in non-elite colleges, Bahujan students and LGBTQ+ students across India with female Economics and Policy professionals for guidance.
A compilation : Bollywood's contribution to making entitlement such a commonly found male attribute --
#1
"Kya karu o ladies, mai hun aadat se majboor"
Waking up to this excellent news!! 👏🏽👏🏽Claudia Goldin’s incredible, important and pathbreaking work has been an inspiration for me (and many many many others) and it’s so heartening to see it get the acknowledgment it deserves!
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
1. On September 2nd, 2023, Under The Banyan Tree at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Women in Econ and Policy (WiEp) held another successful gathering of budding economists of the nation.
#economics
#Pune
@anahitark
@weconpol
We are extremely happy that
@DupasPascaline
(Professor
@Stanford
) would be joining us a speaker for our next interactive session! If challenges around global poverty interest you, then do join us for this session on Sept 4, 2020, 8:30 pm IST. Register here
@anahitark
writes, "[the book] builds a clear case that more needs to be done to allow data-driven analyses to emerge, and tells us exactly what needs to be done and how" about Whole Numbers and Half Truths by
@Rukmini
Read here
Here is a 🧵 of threads for application season! Advice on applications to MA programmes or tips for PhD apps or general advice, getting fee waivers, we’ve tried to collate all the useful threads we could find!
#EconTwitter
@AcademicChatter
"My public writing in support of a politics that tries to honour constitutional values of freedom and equal respect for all citizens, is perceived to carry risks for the university." 💔
#NotMyAshoka
#AshokaUniversity
#PratapBhanuMehta
Misinformation makes the fight against COVID tougher. Our
@weconpol
team has been working to create simple, shareable resources covering key information on COVID-19 precautions from medical journals and academic papers.
Download them here:
I am obviously a little bit biased, but I think the last 5 minutes of this episode are the EXACT advice & motivation you need as a woman in Econ/policy, So GO LISTEN!! 🚀
We've expanded to include resources from 10+ districts in Tamil Nadu, and our wonderful team continues to verify them at high frequency! Please amplify -- beyond Twitter too!
It has been about 10 days since we began verifying COVID-19 resources in
#TamilNadu
(here: ). A group of researchers (
@anahitark
,
@GunjitaG
,
@Nitink_Shankar
+ other wonderful people not on Twitter), along with a fantastic team of trained enumerators
Another wonderful session! Covers two very interesting, policy relevant papers and some useful advice from
@asanishasharma
on pursuing independent research projects.
Missed the session? Check out the recording here:
Listen from our Directors about what we have in store for 2022! The Directors of WiEP wish for you a happy and healthy new year despite the tumultuous start. Stay tuned for our upcoming projects ✨
So grateful to be a part of this wonderful community ✨
As
#WiEPturns1
🎉 we share some of the things the group has accomplished in the past year, and the things we have planned for the future!
#WiEPturns1
today!
@weconpol
was set up on June 1, 2020, by
@prerna394
and
@prashansa_25
with the aim of creating a free and inclusive space for women interested in economics, policy and development to learn and grow together.
Follow this 🧵 to learn more about our work (1/n)
We’re launching round 2 of the Young Women in Economics program! This is a great opportunity to mentor women who are just starting out in their econ/policy careers! How to be a mentor & what it entails ⬇️
4/n This data makes a strong case for taking active steps such as affirmative action to increase representation of people from historically marginalized/oppressed backgrounds! S/o to
@GoodBusinessLab
for taking a step in this direction with their new summer internship program!
🎉 We would like to extend our gratitude to the WiEP family, who helped us achieve our fundraising goal! Thank you for your continued support, we hope to grow and celebrate more of our work and milestones with you.
We just sent out our first newsletter, the theme of which was Development through a Gender Lens. Today we will be tweeting about the readings included in it! If you like the readings and would like to subscribe to our newsletter, you can do so here:
We are beyond excited to host a conversation with
@Rukmini
on 8th January 2022, at 6:30pm IST/8am EST.
If you are interested in joining this members-only event & identify yourself as a woman, join our community to register for the event below
n/n Before we sign off - we are also putting together a community sourced RA guide to make these resources, tips and insights transparent and accessible to all! If you would like to contribute to this project, please DM/email me or
@prashansa_25
! THANK YOU!
It’s been a challenging year- health wise, safety wise, work wise, *gestures to generally everything* wise, so to end the year on a joyful note and ring in some holiday cheer we asked our members to share photos of their pets, extremely joyful thread ahead ⬇️🧵🐶
We get to hang out with the some really cool folks on weekends.
This evening, we have the lovely
@prashansa_25
&
@anahitark
join us :)
EPE is excited to learn more about the research landscape in India, the results of this survey & lots more!
#EquityInPolicyEd
#WeekendsWithEPE
If you’re a woman working in the Econ/Policy space and living in Bangalore, the
@weconpol
x
@GoodBusinessLab
chai mixer is a great opportunity to meet other fantastic women in the field, discuss life & ideas (and maybe even make friends?) Details 👇🏽
We are excited to announce our next mixer in Bangalore!
For our fourth event, we are excited to host the mixer in collaboration with
@GoodBusinessLab
. The mixer will take place on Saturday, 11th Febrary, 2023, from 4-6pm IST at Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Vasanth Nagar.
We are super excited to announce that to celebrate
#InternationalWomensDay
we will be having Dr Rukmini Banerji (CEO,
@Pratham_India
) joining us! Join us for an interactive discussion on 8th March 2021 at 6 pm IST!
✍️Register here:
Since the lockdown began, a bunch of us got together and started building the Ashoka Campus on Minecraft. Here are some of the stills from the platform and our progress.
@AshokaUniv
We are delighted to announce our next external session! A research presentation with
@kanmahajan
, join us on 28th November, 7 pm IST to discuss gender and jobs, conducting independent research and more!
📝Register here:
From women's entrepreneurship to political participation, and sexual harassment to the gendered digital-divide, they've carefully curated research articles & policy papers on many themes + compiled regular updates on job openings. I keep going back to this incredible resource!
3 years of WiEP! 💪🏽 Ever grateful for the unique energy, purpose and solidarity of 2000+ members — it’s what makes the group so special & what’s brought us to this milestone!
As always: 🔧work is in progress to do more and do better. Can’t wait to see where it takes us! 🚀
Join us in commemorating this incredible milestone as we mark three years of our movement to solve the systemic gender diversity problem in Economics and Public Policy. From our humble beginnings to where we are today, we are grateful for the support of our amazing community.
Register for a Q&A session with the wonderful
@ShobhiniMukerji
, moderated by Lavanya Garg from
@GoodBusinessLab
. Don't forget to submit questions for Shobhini using the link below⬇️
Happy International Women's Day! Come listen to the brilliant Prof. Rohini Pande speak to Lisa Ho about her journey and pathbreaking research on Thursday.
I am deeply inspired by both Prof. Pande and Lisa & know you will be too! Details ⬇️
We are hosting Dr. Rohini Pande at WIEP this Thursday !
A distinguished economist and academic, Dr. Pande will speak about her career and path breaking research.
Register here 🔽
😷 Infographics on mask-use in 6 regional languages are now available on
@weconpol
's website!
Share with friends, on family Whatsapp groups, with field team groups, household help and whoever else may find this useful!
Our infographics on mask-wearing are now available in Assamese, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, and Urdu. Watch this space for translated versions over the coming week - starting with Hindi today.
📢 LAST Session of 2020
Super excited to announce an interactive session with Seema Jayachandran! ✨
Register & send us your questions using the links below 🔗
We are delighted to announce that
@seema_econ
will be joining us as a speaker for our last session of the year! Moderated by
@Dweepobotee
, join us for an interactive discussion on 22nd December 9 pm IST/7:30 am PST!
📝Register here:
We are super excited to announce our first research presentation with a member of the group
@AditiBhowmick18
on 22nd Nov at 6 pm IST to discuss an exciting new paper, an open Q&A covering her RA-ing
@JPAL_SA
and the MPA
@Princeton
!
Register here:
@weconpol
has joined the Clubhouse bandwagon! Join us there for weekly discussions on careers and concepts in econ and policy, and to get to know our team better! Check out our discussion guide for the month of July:
Up next: a recap of the events we hosted in 2021. Working with the events team to plan sessions for the community is always such an exciting task! Hoping to put together more inspiring & useful sessions in 2022 ✨
#Events
As a part of our
#WiepRecap2021
, here’s a sneak peek into the WiEP 2021 sessions, where our speakers shared their expertise, experiences and journeys with us!
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Also, Aparajita Dasgupta (
@AshokaUniv
) whose class helped me truly find what I loved about economics, and whose advice both during and after I graduated was invaluable.
A classic question in development economics is whether (and what types of) poverty traps exist. This new paper by Balboni,
@orianabandiera
, Burgess,
@maitreesh
,
@anton_heil
finds evidence for poverty traps in Bangladesh. Let me try to explain... [1/N]
Echoing what
@prashansa_25
said, a lot of great advice & tips collated from 70+ respondents who took out time to share them are in the data appendix! Check it out!
It felt like liberal, private universities would continue to be spaces for academic freedom in circumstances where these are fast-depleting. This breaks my heart.
#PratapBhanuMehta
BREAKING: Two days after PB Mehta’s exit, economist Arvind Subramanian also resigns from Ashoka Univ.
In his letter to V-C Malabika Sarkar, Subramanian cited circumstances involving Mehta’s exit & the fact Ashoka could not protect academic expression
Current & former, part-time or full-time RAs in the Econ/Dev space in India, if you haven't yet, please consider filling this (short) survey! It will help make info on these roles more widely available.
🔗 in tweet ⬇️
We are extremely grateful that
@RuthLevine5
(CEO,
@IDinsight
) signed up to be a member of our group, and will be our first Invited Speaker! Join us for an Interactive QnA session on 8th August, at 8 pm IST! Register here: !
3/n First, WHO is getting RA positions? Our sample is predominantly Hindu & majority belong to the ‘general’ caste category. 96.1% of our respondents come from families where parents have completed at least an undergraduate education.
To everyone asking how you can support Goans in their fight to save their forests, please click here.
Any support is welcome. Even a tweet/ RT helps.
Thank you.
#SaveMollem
#GoyantKollsoNaka
Never really did a thank you thread, but this is a good moment to say a HUGE HUGE thank you to
@FrankSchilbach
, Gautam Rao, Lisa Ho and Kevin Carney for all their advice, wisdom and support. You’re the kindest, best mentors anyone could have!
RAs in Econ/Dev : We're closing the form at 10am IST on 15th February. Please please please fill it out if you haven't yet. Every additional response helps make the output more informative!
@VKsharma_
@RifatJawaid
@narendramodi
In fact,apologies are the sign of the brave. Aggressive chest thumping and ignoring your own mistake in the face of a calamity, is in fact, very weak and selfish.
भाजीपाला व इतर जीवनावश्यक वस्तू खरेदी करताना Social Distancing या उपायाचा अवलंब करताना नागरिक.
Citizens practising social distancing while buying vegetables & other essential commodities.
It is our pleasure to invite you again to a conversation with distinguished economist and academic Dr
@_ADeshpande
moderated by
@sonakshi_93
. The session will take place on Wednesday, 5th April 2023 at 7 pm IST/9:30 am EDT.
Register here:
As the world moves to phone surveys, how are we reaching women by phone? And most importantly what are the implications on the data we collect due to remote data collection? Important cautionary note!
Excellent article by
@ayushi195
and
@kanika_jha
on the impact of COVID-19 on women's work in the informal sector and SEWA's efforts to assuage the challenges.
This article looks at the impact of collectivisation efforts through SEWA’s programme to assuage the socio-economic challenges faced by informal women workers. |
@kanika_jha
@ayushi195
12/12 All these videos can also be found on:
#WiEPturns1
To end this recap, we would like to hear what kind of events you would like to see us host in the coming year:
We are super excited to announce our next Member Research Presentation with
@Divya_Pandey4
and
@MadhulikaKhanna
on their paper on the role of mothers-in-law in female labor force participation!
🗓️11th December 7 pm IST/8:30 am ET
📝Register here:
17/n Lastly, advice for future applicants💪: (1) build a rapport with professors & develop coding skills before applying; (2) apply widely & don't self-censor!; (3) talk to other RAs, ask your potential supervisors ques; (4) prioritize mental health, be clear about expectations!
@weconpol
’s chai mixers have come to Pune — register soon! Really looking forward to meeting all the amazing women working in Econ & policy in and around Pune.
@gipe_official
× WiEP
We are excited to announce our seventh mixer in Pune following the remarkable success of our recent gathering in Mohali last month!
The mixer will take place on Saturday, September 2nd, 2023, from 4-6 pm at the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.
15/n ~37% expect to be co-authors on research output. We find that the likelihood of co-authorship is almost twice in non-academic orgs compared to academic ones
It was wonderful speaking to members of
@equityinpolicy
yesterday! The group is doing important work towards creating a pipeline for Bahujan students interested in policy. Looking forward to more opportunities to collaborate!
Still recovering from the stellar session conducted by
@prashansa_25
&
@anahitark
!
Read more here:
We will be collaborating with
@weconpol
& other such orgs to democratize networks to make the policy space more accessible & equitable!
#EquityInPolicyEd