'Electoral bonds and unemployment are issues for the big people. We aren't that educated…' (A thread)

Don't miss CID's Asim Ijaz Khwaja at this year's AIME conference on April 26!

This applies to in- country (HIC & LMIC) practices too where research careers in privileged (urban) institutions are built on data collection in rural, remote and First Nations communities.

For those who choose not to know, Jean Dreze is an Indian citizen, a saint-economist who has lived in slums, worked for and with the poor all his life, has shunned all power and glory.
He joined NAC to design rural employment guarantee and left it when NREGA was implemented.

Grad students interested in listening to Asim Ijaz Khwaja about his motivational lecture centered around his struggles, please register for this annual #AMIE event. Space is limited. Harvard Kennedy School Harvard CID NU Economics Econ RA Listings India J-PAL South Asia Y-RISE NBER CESifo

📢📢 We are excited to share that our Keynote Lecture this year will be given by Prof. Asim Khwaja Asim Ijaz Khwaja Harvard Kennedy School

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Many thanks to this year's amazing scientific committee! sites.google.com/view/amie-3rd-…

📢📢 Join us on April 26 for the **3rd Workshop in Applied Microeconomics**, on Zoom

Registration, schedule, and other information is now available on our conference website:
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The Fact Sheet from the 2022-23 NSO survey suggests that poverty has sharply declined. But we need unit-level data before we can understand all the implications of the survey.

Maitreesh Ghatak and Rishabh Kumar on poverty data, debates, and doubts.
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2nd- and 3rd-shift employees recognized for work ⁦UW–Madison⁩! More Universities should do this! news.wisc.edu/2nd-and-3rd-sh…

We are very excited to share that Frank Schilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you Andrew Foster! #economics

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Thread: After more than a year of work, we have now launched dataforindia.com, a public platform that seeks to expand access to Indian data for everyone, and deepen the understanding of the country that can come from this data

Today I'm launching Close, an interactive map that shows walkable, bikeable, and transit-friendly neighborhoods across every block in the United States. Try it out: close.city

“I will never allow patriotism to triumph over humanity as long as I live.” That was Rabindranath Tagore, in a letter to a friend, years before he won the Nobel Prize. This was clearly an appeal to the world, to go beyond narrow boundaries & cherish our common human identity.

Poorly implemented public infrastructure increased infant and under-5 mortality in Peru. Just Accepted paper by Antonella Bancalari Antonella Bancalari. zurl.co/ZGPs

🚨 forthcoming Journal of Politics @[email protected]: super excited that the 1st paper on project with Alyssa René Heinze & Rachel E. Brule is now accepted.

We show that inequality does not stop at the gate of political office: Indian women face large inequalities in voice & centrality AFTER they reach office 1/n

Very pleased to contribute to this updated assessment of the literature in agricultural technology adoption in Africa. A great introduction or synthesis for those not current on the relevant literature. Fantastic leads and fellow contributors.

Our Atlas of Gender and Health inequalities in India has over 75 maps, charts, and tables and 30 authors to analyze 2019-21 district-level data.
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Ismail Haque, PhD
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