🚨🔥 🥳We’ve recently finished collecting the 1st wave of what we hope will be a helpful panel data resource, which we’ve uncreatively called the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Here is a quick thread, as we have just released a report with all the main descriptive findings. 1/N
Delighted to share some personal AND professional news: we are going home! I've accepted a faculty position
@ANUCrawford
@devpolicy
, and could not be happier. Canberra will be a very different place with two kids, but hopefully not that different.
🥳 🥳 🥳 After 7 rejections and 12 ref reports from 9 refs, my JMP got a [big] R&R. Long way to go yet, but celebrating the marginal gain. Thank you thank you thank you, most reasonable editor.
🚨 My job market paper 🚨 measures the distributional impacts of rapid agricultural export growth. The case: Indonesian palm oil. RTs appreciated. \begin{thread}
I will running our PhD Econ seminars, and have started putting together a list of others’ tips I like. Link here for now, in case you find any helpful too. Please let me know if I’ve missed anything great!
👏Don't 👏strategically 👏omit 👏citations 👏you are aware of 👏to 👏play up 👏your 👏contribution, 👏especially when those 👏 citations 👏are from 👏people, countries, and journals at👏 different levels 👏of the👏 perceived 👏discipline 👏hierarchy 👏
It’s been a few months since I accidentally stumbled across it (well, a colleague did), and I still can’t believe that a special cruise for people who don’t like
@paulkrugman
actually exists.
In the spirt not only sharing the good things but the hard and bad things with you guys: today is my five year wedding anniversary, and one month break up anniversary. In case you were wondering where I've been, and why I'm lurking again, slowly.
So
@Facebook
has a few neat datasets which might be of interest to researchers, especially development economists, including electricity grids (Africa only), population density (most countries), and demographic estimates
So our house got broken into last night while everyone was asleep. Our dog (in pic, recent rescue) alerted us to their presence,—waking us to see the flashlight outside our bedroom door—spooking them to run away. Hero. Kids all spooked but glad they didn’t actually see anything.
Just posted a revised version of my paper "Spillovers from agricultural processing". Comments and suggestions extremely welcome, as I plan to submit it soon.
🚨🔥New paper 🚨🔥"Causes of Indonesia’s forest fires" just out in
@WorldDevJournal
, freely available until 1/14. Part of a delightful collaboration w/ Wally Falcon, Roz Naylor & Matt Higgins
@Stanford
@FoodSecurity_SU
. Quick thread on main findings. 1/N
The financial success of films in different markets is strongly influenced by their alignment with the traditional folklore, ingrained cultural narratives, and core values of each society, from Stelios Michalopoulos and Christopher Rauh
🚨😊 Job alert! We
@devpolicy
@ANUCrawford
are looking to hire up to two postdocs/research fellows in development economics and/or migration, with a particular focus on the Pacific. Applications due 9 July 2021. Shoot me any questions.
A randomized controlled trial from 2021 shows that hybrid working from home can reduce quit rates by 35%, increase working flexibility, and potentially improve productivity, from
@I_Am_NickBloom
,
@hrbatanu
, and James Liang
In a brief celebration of mediocrity, I just hit 200 google scholar cites. Yay. Shout outs to my still unpublished JMP which has the most, and to my most proud project (the fire RCT) which still has none.
Big morning today with lots of feels. My partner started an awesome job after being out of the workforce for three years, two kids, and one hell of an adventure across the U.S. Couldn't be more proud and grateful.
Lovely to finally see "Mortality Change among Less Educated Americans" out in print today in AEJ Applied. Important contribution to the popular "deaths of despair" discussion, and a neat methods contribution. Congrats, Paul, Charlie, and Sam.
The
@worldbank
recently released a new report on water in Indonesia. You can access it here and it covers a lot of issues, but water quality is a huge concern.
Very proud to share that
@dpritadrajati
, the first student
whose PhD I agreed to chair
@ANUCrawford
, has just had her first chapter published in Labour Economics!
It estimates the labour market impacts of cash transfers in crises.
Congrats Prita!
YAY. Paper accepted. Non-conventional for economists, we wrote up the fieldwork and desk research behind our field experiment in the hope that its helpful for others and policy makers. It is on decentralization and the environment, focusing on Indonesia. Will share when online.
One class on migration and development (in origin countries) in a course. What should the reading list for that class be? My best, quick, guess here. Let me know anything super important I've missed
When you ask the authors of articles in Science® to share their data, which the journal told you was mandatory when you submitted your article, the response very often boils down to GFY.
In the last two decades, the world managed to cut extreme poverty by half - a feat never before achieved in human history - and almost nobody talks about it.
🚨 DATA ALERT 🚨 For the first time ever, a DHS survey from one of 22 Pacific island countries and territories has been made publicly available for researchers, policy analysts, and civil society. The 2016-18 PNG DHS. 1/N
You may have heard about this year's Economics Nobel Prize winners - David Card, Josh Angrist (
@metrics52
) & Guido Imbens.
Their publicly available work has helped us solve tough problems
@Twitter
, and we're excited to celebrate by sharing how their findings have inspired us.
Our new paper on using distance to care as an exposure or instrument and why it often violates all of the causal inference assumptions is now online at
@AmJEpi
! Check it out and stay tuned for a tweetorial!
cc
@elliecaniglia
Personal news: can’t bloody wait to see my two kids tomorrow evening.
Switch from 2–2-3 days to week on-off is no joke. And this is the longest I’ve been apart from them. Fleur turns 5 soon.
Can happily report that we survived the Hanover-Boston-LA-Sydney-Canberra journey, our first with the two kids. Fleur was so excited she successfully fought off sleep until one hour into the LA-Sydney leg: 4 am in the origin, after leaving at 1130 am. In recovery mode now.
Happy first birthday to this cheeky one—can’t believe it’s been one year since we were at DHMC in Hanover, teaching while taking care of the 2 year old, cobbling together birth and moving documents. What a year.
Just got my first referee request from a top journal outside economics: ten-day deadline. Ten days. As in less than two weeks. I'm jealous of the authors.
Blog your development PhD research: a rolling call for posts from penultimate PhD students and postdocs, from any discipline,
@devpolicy
@ANUCrawford
Details here:
📣 The
@WorldBank
Group’s new country income classifications are out!
See which countries changed income categories in 2022.
📈 Explore the
#data
, including new classification thresholds:
📝 Read our analysis:
WEDNESDAY: join us online as David Atkin (MIT) delivers the latest International series seminar - The returns to face-to-face interactions: knowledge spillovers in Silicon Valley. Full series details:
Good that
@AEAjournals
are making article access free for a few months. Here are my three favourite articles, by quite the margin, from the last few issues of AEJ: Applied Econ. 1/4
PSA for econs: these days REStat is turning around submissions with three referee reports in just over 3 months, including the holiday break in my case (
@amitabhchandra2
suggested as much on here a while back, thought it might be helpful to some to share)
Fascinating new study looks at the effect of immigration on nursing home (which face labor shortages) staffing and care quality in the US.
Immigration significant raises staffing, and this in turn has a very positive effect on patient outcomes.
Yay, they accepted my new* paper "Spillovers from agricultural processing" for MIEDC. Pretty excited, it's my first proper venture into the urban/local labor markets/spatial space. Look forward to catching up with loads of you there.
*will likely post/tweet paper next week.
Hi everyone. We
@devpolicy
@ANUCrawford
are hosting a one-day workshop in June on Pacific migration research---in person and via Zoom if needed---to attempt to bring together the research community interested in this area. Please share. 1/3
My first
@ANUCrawford
economics masters research essay student got the highest possible grade (a high distinction) for his term paper on palm oil mills and local forest loss dynamics in Indonesia. Teaching/advising rocks.
New policy paper just out. It sketches out and provide some principles around what a better, next phase of Pacific labour mobility might look like.
"its time for a new regional compact"
@devpolicy
@ANUCrawford
@UNSWCanberra
Starting a long (due to layovers) journey home from Indonesia now—a very wonderful, and productive visit, and great to get out to the countryside again. Ate like this a few times. ❤️😍🔥
Just received an R&R with two very kind, extremely brief referee reports. Meanwhile, I trim a long and critical one back to be as short and constructive as I can, feeling like Satan's spawn.
Excellent new paper by
@dpritadrajati
on the link between family size and domestic violence.
We were thrilled to support this work though the
@devpolicy
-
@ADBInstitute
Pacific Research Partnership call on applied micro of dev last year.
Someone next to me at a cafe is working on PowerPoint slides and it’s killing me not telling them the text is way too damn small, why do you hate your audience?
🚨🦘Awesome job alert!🚨🦘 The economics department
@ANUCrawford
is recruiting for a 7-year tenure-track appointment: someone with deep Indian expertise and excellent India papers. We also really need more female faculty. Please share widely. Details: 1/N
Reviewing a paper for a general interest non-econ journal where it seems standard in these to pick RHS variables based on statistical significance and the estimation sample based on having the highest prevalence of the outcome, then claim causality. Genuinely confounded.
Delighted to learn that our impact factor at Asia and the Pacific Policy Studies
@ANUCrawford
@devpolicy
has roughly doubled to 2.014 since last calculated.
Send us your papers!
I’m still on a Twitter break, but have come back to share an exciting thing and some reflections. Reflections first. I missed so many of you! Taking a break made salient what I appreciate here: the community, and keeping up to date with research and the community. 1/N
Sometimes emigration is met with hostility in sending countries. “Losing workers”, “brain drain”, “dependence”, all terms you hear. In today’s blog I ask: How do migrant sending communities themselves feel about temporary migration schemes and does participation change views? 1/N
New policy paper just out. It sketches out and provide some principles around what a better, next phase of Pacific labour mobility might look like.
"its time for a new regional compact"
@devpolicy
@ANUCrawford
@UNSWCanberra
Amazed that so many Twitter friends don't know who Arthur Lewis is, including some development economists. Was the focus of the first class I took in economic development, and I make a point of making sure every one of my development students knows who he is and his main ideas.
Sun sets on
#ASSA2019
. Was fantastic to share my research with so many new and wonderful people, and find that all you
#econtwitter
friends are just as nice and inspiring in real life. Looking forward to a long, hopefully relaxing trip home tomorrow. Wishing you all the same
Canberra friends, we have our first IN-PERSON
@ANUCrawford
econ seminar for the year next week!
The inimitable
@etjernst
is presenting her new paper: "Media and motivation: The effect of performance pay on writers and content."
Register/details here:
My undergraduate development economics calendar and reading list for Winter 2018, in case it is helpful or of interest to anyone: (much credit and thanks owed to everyone who taught it before me)
Having a pretty crummy week, but just reshaped two new datasets correctly on the first try (without looking it up) then merged a bunch of others in with a near-perfect match, so there's that.