Rishabh Kumar
@Kumar_EconIneq
Assistant Professor @UMassBostonEcon writing about economic inequality & 'materialist' interpretation of history.
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Please apply and spread the word. Postdoctoral positions at the Centre for Sustainable Employment Azim Premji University
Shedding new light on why people dislike inflation, leveraging two new surveys in the US, from Stefanie Stantcheva nber.org/papers/w32300
The argument Jonathan Morduch and I make on our poverty paper (joshmerfeld.github.io/assets/papers/…) applies here, as well. It sounds like it’s the number of kids who never consume X, but that’s not quite right. With a 24-hour recall, the best you can generalize to is “kid days” of zero consumption.
On the Ethics of Theorizing: Ruminations on the Ironies of Economic Science | Three Lectures by @johnshopkins Professor Ali Khan @nssrnews @thenewschool #Economics Dept: April 11, April 18 & May 2 from 2-4 p.m. Please mark your calendars & please join us!
event.newschool.edu/alikhanslectur…
The India Forum is publishing a series of articles on the latest poverty estimates for India. The first one, by S. Subramanian, one of the foremost experts on the topic came out today. My article with Rishabh Kumar is up next!
The India Forum
theindiaforum.in/economy/househ…
Some beautiful words about the place I work. Want to send this lovely piece out with a big shout out to all my former students who are doing amazing work in Boston, Massachusetts, as well as nationally and internationally! bostonglobe.com/2024/04/02/met… UMass Boston UMass Boston Economics