Jessica Leight
@leightjessica
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Development economist, @Yale / @UniofOxford / @MIT. Senior Research Fellow @IFPRI. Asso editor, REHO / CER / PloS One / BMC Public Health
Washington, D.C.
Joined September 2013
Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)
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@mikekofoed I feel like he is unintentionally revealing a certain lack of familiarity with the average American's home. No tennis court here, no golf course, but I do have a plastic kiddie basketball hoop
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RT @JeremyKonyndyk: “We have lost contact with Washington. We are on our own.” Please read this powerful interview with a USAID official a…
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Yes! And if you've ever received a USAID grant you would know this
The truth is that USAID is one of the most heavily scrutinized agencies in the federal government, with layer upon layer of process controls, safeguards, and oversight mechanisms to prevent waste fraud and abuse.
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@vaishnavisur @bijurao Evidence that self-help groups can improve risk-sharing but only in areas with high institutional capacity where they are high-functioning @aprajitmahajan And lots more. . .check out her work!
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USAID was deliberately structured to benefit US farmers and associated institutions. Its destruction will hurt them
The University of Missouri is part of the Soybean Innovation Lab. Missouri, as a state, is #7 in the nation for soybean production. It is our #1 crop. The annual on farm value of Missouri’s soybean crop is more than $2.5 billion. #moleg @GovMikeKehoe /1
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Good 🧵. USAID is still worth fighting for. Don't stop calling Congress
The state of play, a week into Elon's assault on USAID. USAID is in a state of suspended animation - it has been powered down, but it's not *quite* to the point where it can't be powered back on. What happens next comes down to the courts & Congress. 🧵
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@wwwojtekk Though as a grant writer I don't like indirect costs much either! Still, it's a major question what would be a better alternative
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@wwwojtekk I think it quickly becomes a very challenging admin problem to keep track of whether many different grants separately amortizing 10% of a janitor's salary or whatever have paid for a full janitor
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@albrgr Agreed. Nytimes has been far and away the best calling attention to this absolute disaster
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Adds up to, they pass around a bug for 2 weeks + all act insane for that entire time [happening to coincide with the period in which the field to which I've devoted my livelihood is destroyed.]
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