Ariel BenYishay
@ariel_benyishay
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Associate Professor, Economics @ William & Mary | Chief Economist, AidData
Joined April 2020
RT @ecupito: Hi friends, want to come work with me at Michael Kremer’s Development Innovation Lab at UChicago? Please get in touch! Key ski…
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RT @DanStein_econ: Buying sketchy offsets is NOT an acceptable strategy for businesses to reckon with their contributions to climate change…
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Fantastic work by @m_clem estimating the total losses from (inhumanely) rejecting, barring, and deporting refugees and asylum seekers
The previous US Administration pursued a policy of mass refugee exclusion. What are the lasting economic and fiscal effects? My estimates of this impact just published in @OxRepJournal —> Preliminary but ungated: Summary thread ☞
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Job Alert! We're hiring a Geospatial Analyst in our AidData lab at William & Mary (Master's level training or BA w/ solid GIS experience). Join a multidisciplinary team of long-term staff using GIS + social science to improve development around the world!
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RT @and_joy_: Co-author measures who wins and who loses from inflation, taking into account all parts of households' budget constraints.
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RT @masera_federico: My paper with Pauline Grosjean and Hasin Yousaf is now accepted at @QJEHarvard 🎉🎉 We show how political campaigns ca…
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RT @MarshallBBurke: We have a new paper + dataset out today measuring daily wildfire smoke PM2.5 across US back to 2006, expertly led by @m…
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On the Development Impact blog today, I conduct a Q&A with editor Aisha Bradshaw (@AishaB05) about publishing in the journal Nature Human Behaviour (@NatureHumBehav) - where I'm seeing quite a few recent papers related to development
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RT @rglenner: 10 years after @WorldBank supported #SierraLeone govt aid program gave grants to communities to help them recover from civil…
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Very excited to launch #GeoField, a new initiative that will showcase how #EarthObservation can power more impact evaluations of ag and climate interventions. Thanks to @gatesfoundation for their generous support.
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of #GeoField, a new $4.74 million, four-year investment to @AidData, DevGlobal Partners, and @mercycorps from the @gatesfoundation.
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RT @GreggRSparkman: 🗞️Hot off the press @NatureComms📢: Americans think a minority in the US are worried about climate change & support cli…
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RT @MaggieECJones: This paper has been around for awhile now, but @DonnFeir, @robgillezeau and I are happy it’s now out as an NBER working…
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Sobering stuff, all around, but more evidence that donors need to do better. and, scene. 6/6
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