Abhijeet Singh
@singhabhi
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Dev economist at Stockholm Sch of Econ @handels_sse . Past: @NuffieldCollege @EconUCL .Tweets on econ, edu, India, miscellanea.
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Super thrilled to have received an ERC Starting Grant of ~€1.5 million to study social inclusion in Indian schools.
This is a good day :)
📢 The ERC's 2022 Starting Grant competition results are now revealed. Over €636 million to fund the best ideas of younger scientists.
Find out who, where and why 👉
🇪🇺
#EUfunded
@HorizonEU
#FrontierResearch
#ERCStG
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Feeling extremely grateful to colleagues at
@handels_sse
for the support they've shown me (and anonymous reviewers who agreed!).
I was very lucky in the job market to have found such a good fit at SSE and in Stockholm.
(If you're on the job market, do apply!).
Congratulations to
@singhabhi
who has been granted tenure at SSE! Abhijeet's research lies at the intersection of Development Economics and Economics of Education. To read more about Abhijeet’s research visit his personal web page.
#econtwitter
#tenure
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This video from India is sobering.
Migrant workers returning home as jobs in cities dry up. These are hard times - often informal jobs, no safety net.
Returning home makes sense for them individually, but could spread the virus nationally. The coming weeks will be critical.
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We're hiring!
Two Assistant Professor positions in Economics at SSE this year. All fields. We're a broad (and very friendly) department, Stockholm is a great city and the research network here is excellent.
Ask folks to apply!
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I'm glad
@TheEconomist
is writing about deteriorating statistical capacity in India.
The op-ed includes a bit on my paper on auditing education data in MP, plus work by several friends.
Since opeds have no cites, here's a thread on (likely) sources
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Today's the big day! So thrilled to be invited to the Nobel prize ceremony.
There's something very special about setting your professional heroes awarded for work you've always loved.
#BanerjeeDufloKremer
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Schools in India closed for 18 months during COVID-19.
@karthik_econ
@marome1
and I show just how severe learning losses were (very!) but also that recovery is possible, even at scale.
And what we learn from this will be imp for tackling the `learning crisis' even post-COVID
Covid-19 disrupted education around the world, with more extended school closures in LMICs
In a new paper with
@singhabhi
&
@marome1
, we present evidence on learning loss, recovery, and impacts of remediation in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu
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Check out our new article in
@ScienceMagazine
(w/
@karthik_econ
) on a bird’s-eye-view of the evidence informing India's New Education Policy.
We talk about the research so far and challenges in pedagogy, governance and implementing at scale.
Link:
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Twitter-folk, I have a new paper out in
@JEEA_News
:
Basic q:
(a) how early do gaps in learning between developing countries show up?
(b) how much is this because a year of schooling teaches much more in some countries than others? (1/5)
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"Brain drain" is a bad argument for limiting immigration.
Folks worry hiring nurses from Philippines, India etc. deprives the origin country of scarce medical staff --- the opposite is typically true!
Increases in visas for nurses from the Philippines caused a brain gain, rather than brain drain, of nurses. In the January 2024 issue, by Caroline Theoharides (
@ctheoharides
), Paolo Abarcar (
@pabarcar
)
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The Fundamental Problem of Causal Inference, Ishiguro edition.
🔷 KAZUO ISHIGURO
Born on this day, 1954
@NobelPrize
“There was another life that I might have had”
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Today's Nobel pick is inspiring in so many ways.
One of them is recognizing important *descriptive* work built painstakingly over decades. This is rare.
Two big examples are Fogel (C.Goldin's advisor) and Kuznets (Fogel's advisor). Few other examples (Stone, Deaton, Ostrom?).
By trawling through the archives and compiling and correcting historical data, this year’s economic sciences laureate Claudia Goldin has been able to present new and often surprising facts. She has also given us a deeper understanding of the factors that affect women’s
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Today was great!
Got my first vaccine dose, the first proper mangoes this season, and found jalebis in Stockholm (syrupy Indian sweet, the taste of childhood!)
Can't say whether I'm more thrilled by the vaccine or the mangoes, tbh!
(Jalebis had a kill-joy nutrition sticker)
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Three Research Assistant positions at
@handels_sse
Econ department.
The RA will support different groups of researchers/projects (e.g. me and
@bjorkmanmartina
in Dev).
Apply by May 10.
@econ_ra
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A good friend died yesterday, she was 35 (w/ existing conditions). Nearly everyone I know has someone who's currently COVID ridden. This is a massive tragedy.
And when it's over, we need a really hard look at how we got here and the absolute lack of state capacity or leadership.
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Delighted to be in such good company as an Associate Editor at
@EJ_RES
Here's to hoping I'm never late on a referee report again!
The EJ is delighted to announce the following new Associate Editors from October. Welcome on board! Elliott Ash
@ellliottt
, Jeanet Bentzen
@JeanetBentzen
, Swati Dhingra
@swatdhingraLSE
, Wioletta Dziuda
@WiolaDziuda
, Patricia Funk, Lucie Gadenne
@LucieGadenne
...
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Econ folks, submit your papers to the annual EEA conference/Econometric Society meeting.
This year, it's in Barcelona, Aug 28 - Sept 1.
Submission deadline Feb 28.
@GUlyssea
and I will be coordinating all the Dev Econ submissions.
#EEAESEM23
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TIL Sweden has individual level test score data, linked across generations, FROM 1800 ONWARDS!
Fascinating work by
@eriklindqvist1
and
@Emil_Bustos
They construct intergenerational and inter-sibling correlation in test scores from 1800 to modern times!
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Super inspiring to hear Prof. Claudia Goldin talk about her work at SSE today.
Esp after a series of deeply discouraging professional news, it's just very refreshing to see genuinely long-term work on topics you like too recognized.
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Ha, this hits close to home on a day that I'm writing code for a new RCT in UP!!
I am going to print this, full sized on A4, and pin it up in my office.
@ben_golub
and
@Noahpinion
get it even if referees in 4 years might not 😁
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As a dev economist, *nothing* beats hearing that folks find your work informative in settings other than your own.
Thanks so much to the
@lacealames2023
Program Committee for choosing to award
@marome1
and my paper on private school quotas in India.
The LACEA-LAMES 2023 Program Committee has selected the two best papers presented to the LACEA track, they are awarded with the Juan Luis Londoño Prize. Congratulations to
@Daniela_Sola_
and to
@marome1
&
@singhabhi
!! We look forward to their presentations at the conference!
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This was the first project
@karthik_econ
and I set up together.
7 years later (mostly in the field) we have results.
Govts around the world are trying school management reforms. In a new paper using a large-scale RCT in India ()
@singhabhi
& I find no evidence of impact from several "best practices"
Yet, the program was scaled up to >600,000 schools (w/ no effect)! 1/
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I may regret a post this upbeat :
Honestly, the reason to stick to a research career is you get to work on fun things and there's just enough of a community of really clever but nice folks to make it work (in your social pool, if not your reviewers!)
Overall, a pretty good gig!
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I have a new paper out in
@JPubEcon
. See this 🧵 by
@JustinSandefur
for a quick explainer.
It's a simple paper that asks how much do test scores correlate w/ adult schooling in LMICs (vs. SES)?
Written mostly since Jishnu,
@AndresYiChang
and I wanted to know this ourselves.
New in
@JPubEcon
Tests scores at age 12 are not super great predictors of your eventual educational outcomes in low- and middle-income countries.
Family wealth matters relatively more than it does in the rich world.
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Old age pensions in India are a pittance. The lack of a rudimentary safety net for the elderly should worry us.
Honoured to join 51 colleagues (coordinated by Jean Dreze) on this.
For international friends, we're asking for entitlements to go from ~$3.5 to~$6.5 *per month*
51 eminent economists write to the Finance Minister, for the *third* time, arguing for a major increase in expenditure on social security pensions and maternity entitlements. Long overdue!
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I'm glad it looks like we have a serious national opposition again. We're back to national elections being competitive!
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This thread (and the paper) are worth reading.
Failing the McCrary test is *not* definitive of manipulation although supporting evidence (voter roll purges etc) does suggest it. Even if it didn't change results, it is concerning.
It took real courage to write this paper...
The BJP won the 2019 parliamentary elections in India: but was it ALL fair and square?
This astonishing new working paper by
@sabya_economist
provides scientific evidence that suggests vote(r) manipulation by BJP.
And no, this is NOT about EVMs.
Thread🧵
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I am so happy for my friend and dear colleague
@bjorkmanmartina
who was promoted yesterday to Full Professor *and* received an Endowed Chair at
@handels_sse
.
We are so, so lucky to have her at SSE.
For those who don't know her work, see
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Lucas left a mark on all of Econ, a true intellectual giant.
Every development economist remembers the last line of this (justly famous) quote.
India *did* grow at the counterfactual rate he set out in 1985, and it's been one of the most transformative changes in 40 years!
Today is a sad day for economics. Robert E. Lucas, Jr., a great researcher and teacher died this morning.
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The World Bank's LSMS guides ("the blue books") taught a generation of dev economists how to run household surveys.
This latest offering from DIME is full of many practical skills crucial for contemporary micro-dev econ but (understandably) never the focus of PhD lectures.
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I've looked at this post multiple times this evening.
If it seems that *everything* in the world is worse, or that q we study on econ growth, public health, basic service delivery are small/ incremental, it's worth coming back to this. Hard to think of metrics that matter more!
The reduction of child mortality is one of the big achievements of our time.
But it is hard to celebrate something that is *not* happening. So, for my new article, I turned things around.
👇This is the main chart and takeaway.
Here is the article:
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The NFHS is pretty much the last national survey dataset in India that is widely available, on schedule, for a whole range of development indicators.
The govt should celebrate it (and the rest of our once-strong, now-embattled statistical system...)
Union govt suspends director of the International Institute for Population Sciences, K.S. James, after being “unhappy with data sets”.
IIPS prepares National Family Health Surveys & other such important exercises on behalf of govt.
@Banjotkaur
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Excellent Nobel pick today. Card, Angrist and Imbens!
Alan Krueger will be missed today. Great to see Card/Krueger work for 50% for DiD, Angrist and Imbens 50% for IV.
#NobelPrize
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Publish your null results, people, publish your nulls!
We should normalize talking about failure
Wordle 213 X/6
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I have a new working paper!
*NEW WP* Myths of Official Measurement: Auditing and Improving Administrative Data in Developing Countries by Abhijeet Singh (
@singhabhi
)
(1/2)
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That X-axis is a disaster!
More generally, a constructive argument would:
a) push for the (overdue!) census to update data frames
b) assess sensitivity of trends to different urban/rural weights
c) push to release NSS micro survey data so that folks can debate themselves
Major surveys that policymakers rely on — NSS, NFHS, and PLFS — are based on unsound data collection frameworks and systematically underestimate India’s progress and development. Dr
@ShamikaRavi
, Member,
@EACtoPM
writes.
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Dev Econ friends: the next CEPR Spring conference is at
@handels_sse
. Stockholm's lovely in May and the whole troop of Stockholm dev econs is lovely year-round.
Do submit, we'd love to see you here.
Committee:
@elianalaferrara
@bjorkmanmartina
@dmckenzie001
, A Olofsgard and me
Call for Papers: CEPR/Misum/SITE Development Economics Conference - Spring 2022; 19-20 May 2022; Stockholm -
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V happy about this. We wrote the paper coz even the descriptives felt important. Plus the (massive) policy response to COVID ed loss deserved a good look.
Sometimes you just have to write the papers you want, even when you (correctly) foresee identification won't be perfect!
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This book by Nikhil Menon is great.
The most readable account IMO of how India ended up with its statistical capacity. I'd highly recommend to anyone interested in India, development or how statistical research actually feeds into policy.
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If you're a job candidate this year who wants to work on Indian policy reforms and education, do check this out.
@karthik_econ
and I are hiring for multiple India-based postdoc positions. Tons of exciting work!
I am recruiting multiple post-doctoral fellows based
@JPAL_SA
to work with
@singhabhi
and me on several projects on improving governance, data integrity, education, child nutrition, and quality of public expenditure. Please apply by 8 Jan 2022 at:
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Man, all rejections hurt!
But it definitely hurts less when you see referees and Editor really engaged with a paper, disagreement is reasonable, the decision feels fair. Today's like that.
And now, logging off from thinning about this. It's Friday night!!
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We're delighted to welcome 5 new colleagues to
@handels_sse
Econ dept!
3 Asst Profs:
@BlasuttoFabio
: family econ, labour
@SampreetGoraya
: macro and dev
@celine_zipfel
: applied micro and dev
2 postdocs:
@LeroutierM
(environment)+ Manuel Sanchez (macro)
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This is a great reflection on just why the Nobel today has lessons not just for Econ but also more broadly.
It's ridiculous for medical journals to insist that even well-identified observational studies in be written as "associations" only because they are not an explicit RCT.
On the occasion of today's
#Economics
@NobelPrize
awarded for methodologies to uncover causality in non-experimental situations, I want to share a thought with other adjacent fields of academia that rely on empirical evidence: public health, medicine, other social sciences.
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Thank heavens for Abhijit Banerjee who familiarised *all* development economists on pronouncing my name much before I ever got to grad school.
I can happily summarize my career ambition as being the second-best Abhijit/Abhijeet working on Indian dev 😁
"having a name that takes longer to pronounce is associated with...
1) a significantly lower likelihood of...obtaining a tenure track position;
2) an initial placement at an institution with lower research productivity"
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This is the best discussion I've seen on the need to reopen schools in India (and how to think any it).
Reetika Khera and Karan Thapar talk at
@thewire_in
Everyone interested in Indian kids, edu, policy or inequality should take a look,watch the video.
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My take is similar to
@mushfiq_econ
but maybe a bit more grim.
There are now only two ways that I can see which take you from an Asian university to a top-20 Econ PhD:
(a) A Master's degree at LSE/Oxford/Yale IDE etc
(b) A predoc with faculty at select schools
Many have both.
But if you studied at, say, Davidson/JNU/Nankai/Rosario/WSU/Nebraska/IBA-Karachi/AU-Cairo/Makerere/Dhaka and don't have a letter-writer who can clearly signal your skills,
an RA job with faculty who can send a clearer signal to admissions committees about your skills can help.
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Investing in reliable data systems *is* investing in state capacity.
I wish this was higher on the radar of dev orgs (and of dev economists). There's some great work (e.g.
@devdatalab
) but we've basically neglected these public goods as if they are someone else's problems.
The pandemic has taught us that for creating resilient public health systems we need good data infrastructure. Since I am a data dreamer ( but I am not the only one), I created my wish list for COVID-19 data from India. Some are easy, some are hard. Nothing is impossible.
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This is a big deal. More good news!
Dengue is a pretty awful disease to get. A vaccine would be awesome!
Extraordinary. RCT shows that after 2 years Dengue vaccines have 80% efficacy for those without previous exposure and 89% for those who had been previously exposed - averaged across all age groups. This is a game changer.
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Whoa, this is an outstanding choice.
Congratulations
@PaulFNiehaus
@jhaushofer
@tedmiguel
on winning the Frisch medal!
ECMA is happy to announce the 2024 Frisch Medal has been awarded to Dennis Egger, Johannes Haushofer, Edward Miguel, Paul Niehaus, & Michael Walker for their outstanding paper: General equilibrium effects of cash transfers: experimental evidence from Kenya
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I see where Dina's coming from and struggle with this too.
Ideally, we'd just have "economics" (and I could just identify as an edu/public/labour guy working on India).
But, with econ as-is, there's a lot of good IMO in "dev econ" as a field label for teaching/research
My two cents FWIW: Having a field called "development economics" makes no sense. It is essentially all fields of economics related to the 84% of people in the world who don't live in high-income countries. It is good to see it gradually absorbed into the other fields of econ.
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This is a very important thread.
The work that
@mushfiq_econ
, BRAC, Y-RISE and the many collaborators have done during the pandemic is outstanding. Among the best work that I've seen in the social sciences on COVID response -- and def in Dev Econ!
This is stuff to be proud of!
Some misinterpretation of our
#Bangladesh
Mask RCT by those who don’t read research, which I’ll ignore, but also some parochial/racist reactions, which I must respond to
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Sweden *is* one of the most innovative countries in the world per capita.
Unfortunately, not every innovation is Spotify...
It's National Pizza Day in Sweden, mostly due to the fact that almost the entire nation is hungover.
Which perhaps explains this abomination featuring ham, banana and curry powder, and which can be found everywhere.
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This is such a great description of good academic instincts.
"That looks a bit too good. Are we sure that's not an error somewhere? Did the world really just decide to be nice to my hypothesis?"
Caveat emptor, I made these on a plane yesterday because the article matched my prior a little *too* comfortably 😅
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This was the booster we needed right now.
Esp with bleak recent news about academic fraud and peer review.
It's worth celebrating how basic science and (war-speed application during COVID-19) helped shorten one of the biggest disruptions of our lifetime!
BREAKING NEWS
The 2023
#NobelPrize
in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
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This interview with David Card is great reading (and super candid on his views on Econ academia, applied research, publishing etc).
David Card on navigating the publication process in economics.
Full interview:
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This 👇
This work is also the best example of the value of research departments at the World Bank and multilaterals (alongside the PPP calculations). University research groups are great for innovation, not decades-long systematic work that aims to be comprehensive.
Just to help understand the importance of Martin Ravallion's work on global devt, would like to point out that w/o the data that Martin was crucial to help collect & analyze, we would not know today what is the state of the world in such important aspects as poverty & inequality.
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This is a hugely exciting microdata release -- a game changer for doing national high resolution research on India.
Huge kudos to
@paulnovosad
and
@thesamasher
for the decade of work and for making this so generously available!
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Finally managed to make it to
@EconAtAshoka
!
I'm super excited to join the annual Delhi conference circuit this year (next week at ISI). Haven't managed to do this since before the pandemic!
A glimpse from the 2023
@EconAtAshoka
annual conference dinner. Featuring
@Sudiptahere
@maits225
@singhabhi
@kanmahajan
@asanishasharma
@BD_ashoka
@ayush_pan
@mihirb85
@ohetuk
and others
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The NFHS is one of the last trusted representative household surveys in India that gets updated, makes micro data available.
Going after the statistical system for inconvenient truths does our country no good. This trajectory, across surveys/indicators/orgs, is depressing.
#Governance
| The
#health
ministry suspended IIPS director KS James on July 28, apparently because it was 'unhappy with data sets' in NFHS-5. His suspension was formally revoked last week, only for his resignation to be accepted hours later.
@Banjotkaur
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The news out of India -- like how we're repurposing festivals as a time to bully religious minorities -- is really grim. Maybe, living abroad, I just see all the dark news/tweets, none of the everyday kindnesses.
But it feels like we're taking a very dark turn as a country.
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This statement is a model of solidarity for academics.
This whole episode is very unfortunate, great to see the department put out an official statement.
This is the official statement of the Department of Economics at Ashoka.
@rodrikdani
@SonaldeDesai
@N_Kabeer
@tajmahalfoxtrot
@rbalakra
@IAFFE
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Read this article.
School meals are a rare success in the Indian education system. Their disruption in the pandemic may be one of the most damaging fallouts of the pandemic for poor children.
Empty plates, no nutrition, days of hard labour. What life without school, and the mid day meals that come with it, means for the children of a Musahari tola in Bihar. Story six of the Bhagalpur series.
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2 reasons to read this paper carefully (besides Khoa, ofc!):
-- Higher education in low/middle income countries is very understudied.
-- Vietnam is a *great* context to study: fast growing, dynamic, high quality schools, in need of exactly the skills that colleges provide.
Have you ever wondered whether higher education can be an important driver of growth in developing countries?
My job market paper tries to answer this question by looking at a national expansion of higher ed in Vietnam.
Over 100 new universities were opened during 2006-2013!
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I'm thrilled to see both these outstanding researchers recognised this way.
Farzana's work on school feeding and school report cards, and Tarun's recent work on changing gender norms, happen to be personal favourites.
The prestigious "Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (National)" award for the year 2020 goes to Prof Farzana Afridi (ISI Delhi) and Prof Tarun Jain (IIM Ahmedabad)
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Lots to ponder in this paper but the methods bit that really stood out to me:
Is this the first high-profile Econ RCT that spends an entire section (VI) AND an appendix describing qualitative data collection/analysis? Maybe the profession's tastes are changing?
@peterbergman_
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If you're interested in development economics, you should be interested in listening to Jean Dreze. (1/n)
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Re-upping this job alert:
Three RA jobs open at
@handels_sse
Econ:
1) with
@bjorkmanmartina
+coauthors (inc. me!)
2) with me on my
@ERC_Research
Starting grant
3) with multiple applied researchers in SSE Econ (
@celine_zipfel
@jmerilainen
)
Non-EU applicants equally welcome!
Job alert 📢Three Research Assistant positions at
@handels_sse
. Come work with Abhijeet (
@singhabhi
) and me next academic year. One RA will support researchers at the Econ Dept. See the job ad below. Apply by April 17.
@econ_ra
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I had just about made my peace with not being an ``early career researcher'' any more.
But to be called ``an elder''??! 😭😭
to better understand the elders' job market experience i'm going for a run in dress shoes and then standing outside my apartment for ten minutes
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Huge loss for development economics.
His work on poverty estimation and social security/workfare were formative for my own early interest in these topics.
So sad to hear of the tragic loss of
@MartinRavallion
— pioneering poverty researcher, one of the most influential economists of the
@WorldBank
, and a respected
@Georgetown
professor. His contribution to our understanding of development was truly enormous.
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When COVID stops us all from going to dept Xmas parties, the Christmas spread comes home to us...
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I know it's only Feb but this might be the most rewarding event I'll help organize in 2023.
Great to be able to convene a great set of scholars working on econ of ed in India + sum up 7 years of work!
@riseprogramme
@IIMA_Economics
@JPAL_SA
@Hyderabadi_chai
@karthik_econ
A successful end to the first day of IIMA-RISE Research Conference on education economics.
@jpal
@jsw
@RJMCEIATIIMA
#EconTwitter
#educationresearch
#jpal
#iima
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I have a new working paper. It's short, simple, descriptive: take a look.
Or, if you wait a few days, we'll have a blog explainer and I'll do a proper Twitter thread :)
*NEW WP* Test Scores and Educational Opportunities: Panel Evidence from Five Developing Countries by Jishnu Das, Abhijeet Singh (
@singhabhi
) and Andres Yi Chang (
@AndresYiChang
). 👇(1/2)
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This!
In India, schools have been closed since March 2020. They opened very briefly and now they've shut again with omicron. Prob until March at least -- 2 years lost!
Remote instruction is very limited, v unequal. Recovering from this will be the edu policy issue for years!
An old friend in Uganda messaged me today: “After 2 years, at last the schools have reopened!”
That’s madness, especially in a country where covid ranks far behind the risks from other disease.
These decisions will devastate the education and wealth of a generation or more.
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Sweden has a great clusters in development research -- in econ, in global public health, in environment, in conflict and peace studies, political economy --- punching way above its weight in these areas.
This insular turn is very unfortunate.
Disastrous decision by the Swedish government to scrap funding for development research. Including just submitted grants—thousands of wasted hours. Bad for Sweden’s standing in science; worse for people in low-income countries. For shame,
@SwedishPM
@matsperspektiv
@JohanForssell
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This is India's best annual Development Economics conference. It welcomes submissions broadly.
If you work on micro development in India, you really should consider submitting (esp if you value well-informed comments from Indian colleagues).
@AbhiroopMukho
Submissions open for the 18th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development at the Indian Statistical Institute Delhi:
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This is a great post for *anyone* involved in policy design or research in dev (or anywhere).
Even in the UK, the US or Sweden, sensible policy discourse needs an ecosystem (beyond top tier researchers). What those ecosystems need is just a different beast than top journals.
On why policymakers in low-income countries shouldn’t outsource their jobs to academics.
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I'm not going to repost that horrible video of child cruelty.
But if a teacher, in a classroom, thinks it's okay to get kids to beat up and humiliate their Muslim peers, we've really lost it. Leave aside skills etc., what kind of citizens are we creating?
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I thought Raj Chetty and Opportunity Insights come out looking very good here.
Their definition of elite colleges, of reaching out to get applicants etc. all seems way broader than what I'd typically expect in top 3-5 PhD programs (which is the right comparison IMO).
“Does Raj Chetty Practice What He Preaches?
His research skewers elitist systems. But some former employees say his lab is part of the problem.”
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Econ JMCs, any field: apply to
@handels_sse
.
(1) Great colleagues across fields (theory, macro, dev, behavioural, labour)
(2) People across fields *support each other*. I can't overstress how much this matters!
(3) Low teaching, lots of research support.
(3) Stockholm's lovely.
Eager to move to a gender-equal country? The Dept. of Economics of the Stockholm School of Economics is looking for 2 Assistant Professors. We will be interviewing both in Rotterdam and in San Diego. So apply and spread the news!
@EEANews
@ASSAMeeting
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This interview with
@AnanyaKotia
and
@utkarsh__saxena
really struck a chord. Makes you root for them so hard!
The law shouldn't need great poster couples to do what is right but, if people need a good story, this interview is *such* a wholesome exhibit for equal marriage...
"Urban & elitist" says centre on demand for Same Sex Marriage & yet the optimism and sense of hope as Supreme Court begins hearings tomorrow is unmissable . Here's
@utkarsh__saxena
@AnanyaKotia
& most moving, Kotia's parents & Utkarsh's sister. Full show
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If they were Indian or South American, this would've been a WhatsApp group (+ Overleaf + Dropbox)!
I’m collaborating with some youngs on a new project 👶🐤
they have invited me to a Slack channel 😳🛸
This had to happen eventually, right?
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This feels pretty good.
The kind of wholesome achievement that we can celebrate across all partisan divides.
Kinda like my European friends feel after their team wins the football World Cup or Euros... 😃
Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3
Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.
Congratulations, India🇮🇳!
#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3
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This is the heartwarming content I come here for!
Everyone assumed this was his mom, but it was the national team cook! So awesome
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With SHRUG, the COVID work and now the NDAP,
@thesamasher
@paulnovosad
and the Dev Data Lab folks have done a massive service to Indian economic research (and public outreach).
Providing these public goods, even when incentives don't align, is a very big deal!
Another NDAP thread! We've spent a decade matching location IDs in the Econ and Pop Censuses. Now, NDAP allows users to merge these and many more datasets. In minutes, a user can compare female literacy and employment at the district level in Madhya Pradesh.
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More science good news.
This is a big deal, way way bigger than the gimmicky studies of whether duplicate sunglasses make you feel unclean we've collectively fretted about for months (and for good reason)...
The world now has a 2nd vaccine against malaria. Incredible.
Malaria kills more than half a million people every year.
Over half of these deaths are in children younger than 5.
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@JonathanColmer
I learned this with considerable regret once. Saw this on the menu, assumed the coffee shop was being cute and this'd be a small cappuccino (like a cappuccino/cortado baby).
Reader, it was not. I was a grown man drinking milk with sprinkles...
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🥳So nice to see the market work out for candidates you've been rooting for. Here's one of ours from SSE (more to follow).
Several others are at the same stage from elsewhere (former RAs, mentees, students w/ shared interests). The market's tough, good jobs feel really welcome.
We are proud to announce that
@toveforsbacka
has accepted the job offer as Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Industrial Organisation
@NHHEcon
and
@NHHnor
. Tove is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Stockholm School of Economics.
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Periodic reminder: this is NOT true in European schools, esp for US candidates.
Most places read cover letters, any (credible) signal that you'd seriously consider moving is incredibly valuable to get interviews. See this great post by
@DSchindlerEcon
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All countries have some quirk that nobody born outside could ever get. This particular one is British.
I lived in the UK for nearly a decade and this *still* makes no sense to me 😂
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Whoa, different frames of reference at play.
I knew lots about the Indian history of forced sterilization, but I hadn't realised the direct role of Ehrlich and Johnson in pushing for this!
Ok WHAT. I had no idea “The Population Bomb” led to the sterilization of 8 million Indians and Paul Ehrlich just lives out his life as a beloved professor. From a recent ACX post—
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Retweeting this, because
@eriklindqvist1
and
@robertostling
are too classy to advertise their successes :)
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I'm delighted
@yloxford
goes on for a 6th round!
For a bunch of questions, long-running panels are the only way we'll get to answers - and developing countries have far too few of them. These are long-term investments - so happy this wasn't allowed to just wither away.
Today the Sec of State announced further funding to YLs as part of DFID's commitment to girls' education. She quotes YLs Education findings and impact.
@LydiaMresearch
@Rhi_Moore
@caine_rolleston
@jrossiter0
@padmini_iyer
@singhabhi
@yloxford
@majogando
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I feel so sorry for the authors of this honestly-done trial with taxpayers in Guatemala with precise zero effects.
Even apart from the huge waste of time and resources in setting up this intervention, just check out *how much* they had to speculate to explain their null!
The scale of this academic fraud is outrageous - two trials in one paper! It also had very real-world impacts. We replicated these findings in a large trial with the Guatemalan Tax Authority which produced a (v. precisely estimated) null effect.
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An excellent read on what the very top scorers from Indian schools do (literally, one-in-a-million!).
If you ever needed proof that you shouldn't generalise based on Indians in global tech, finance, academia, check this thread out. This is a *very tiny* sliver of our ed system
At a time when varsity cut-offs have hit 100,
@IndianExpress
tracked down a generation of Board exam toppers between 1996 & 2015 to find out the consequences of a convention that celebrates a few students every yr.
Our 3-part deep dive: Tracking India's Toppers 👨🎓🥇
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Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo at
@handels_sse
on what they (and we!) have learned since Poor Economics. Always fun to hear senior researchers do a stock take of what they got right and what they didn't! (1/3)
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@deaneckles
This one seems particularly strange since the EU/UK require 250 hours!
Not exactly Wild West low-safety, low-regulation jurisdictions.
Is there any evidence to show there have been more accidents in these places?
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The Stockholm presence among
@EJ_RES
Associate Editors continues to grow!
@arash_nekoei
and
@ProfNilsson
from
@IIES_Sthlm
,
@ProfMariassunta
and me from
@handels_sse
, Peter Fredriksson from
@UU_University
.
That's a pretty dense non-UK cluster for
@EJ_RES
Peter Nilsson
@ProfNilsson
has been appointed Associate Editor of the Economic Journal
@EJ_RES
. Peter's expertise lies within the fields of labor and health economics and he is looking forward to contribute to the EJ. Many congratulations Peter!
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This is the first state-wide report of excess deaths vs reported COVID deaths in India that I've seen in this wave.
Gujarat data suggests excess deaths from Mar 1 - May 10 (N =65k) are 15x reported COVID deaths (N=4.2k).
@BhramarBioStat
@jburnmurdoch
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This is such terrible news.
I met Konrad at UCL. We chatted, went out for pints post-work, talked a lot when I was on the job market. It's incredible how kind he was, with his time and with just good cheer (to someone junior, in a different field, to whom he owed nothing). RIP
We are profoundly saddened by the loss of our colleague and friend, Konrad Mierendorff who died on Saturday 7 August in an accident. He will be sorely missed by us all at UCL.
We send our deepest condolences to his loved ones at this difficult time.
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