India now spends ₹2 trillion/year (0.6% of GDP) on cash transfers to 130M+ women—yet we know little about their effects. In a new paper (bit.ly/4mE6EtW), @karthik-econ.bsky.social Paul Niehaus Jeff Weaver & I present findings from the first large-scale RCT of maternal cash transfers in India (1/10)

Long time (8 yrs!) in the making, but it's here! Our article on gender, policing, & institutional change is out (Open Access) in @apsrjournal.bsky.social! Working on this @amangla.bsky.social & @sandipz.bsky.social was a privilege, adventure, esp in mixed method research. tinyurl.com/yc4f6ste

Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social‬ paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India

What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does the impact differ across income groups due to a difference in abilitie…

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Congratulations to J-PAL affiliated professor @sandipz.bsky.social and coauthors for winning the APSA-PSA International Partnership Award! Read about their #RCT evaluating the impact of women's help desks in Indian police stations: povertyactionlab.org/evaluation/i...

Increasing Access to Security and Justice through Women's Help Desks in Police Stations in India | The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

Researchers are employing an RCT to evaluate whether the establishment of police station-level Women’s Help Desks (WHDs), as well as the deployment of additional female personnel to these WHDs, improv...

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Political Studies Association@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social · last yr.

*PSA Prizes* 'Policing in #Patriarchy' wins APSA-PSA International Partnership Award 2025. @apsa.bsky.social. Congratulations @amangla.bsky.social @sandipz.bsky.social and @gabikw.bsky.social buff.ly/jm7zMOk

*PSA Prizes* 'Policing in #Patriarchy' wins APSA-PSA International Partnership Award 2025. @apsa.bsky.social. Congratulations @amangla.bsky.social @sandipz.bsky.social and @gabikw.bsky.social buff.ly/jm7zMOk

Our first round of decisions for UVA Econ Phd admissions went out on Fri Feb 28. We will have an Open House on Mon Mar 24, both in person and virtual. We can only host a limited number in person, so only admitted students and those high on the waitlist will receive invites for visiting C'ville. 1/n

Trump’s attack on US institutions, even if fully expected, is dispiriting, discombobulating and dangerous. In this very difficult time, we have to remember one thing: This is not normal, and it should not be normalized.

One last conference announcement for today... Submit your papers to the BREAD Development Economics conference at Princeton, May 2-3! Submission deadline Feb 25. ibread.org/conference/b... #EconSky

Here’s a piece I wrote with @rfisman.bsky.social in the NYT, collecting some of our thoughts about what the oligarchic embrace of Trump can do to our economy and our politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/o...

Opinion | TikTok, Trump and the Economic Cost of C.E.O.s Cozying Up to Trump (Gift Article)

The fealty that corporate chieftains are showing the new president is a worrying sign for our economy.

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We spent time thinking carefully about best practices/suggestions for the use of social media in Economics and the report is now out here: www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... #Econsky 1/n

Tim Bresnahan@timobres.bsky.social · 2y ago

Report from the AEA Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Social Media in Economics is out. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @belindaarch.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @sarahjacobson.bsky.social @corinnelow.bsky.social & I were the committee thanks to everyone who answered survey or commented.

Report from the AEA Ad Hoc Committee on the Use of Social Media in Economics is out. www.aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... @belindaarch.bsky.social @florianederer.bsky.social @sarahjacobson.bsky.social @corinnelow.bsky.social & I were the committee thanks to everyone who answered survey or commented.

Forthcoming book review in the JEL: "Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan" by Jishnu Das. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Accelerating India’s Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance by Karthik Muralidharan

(Forthcoming Article)

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1/ This very important paper by Tim Conley and Morgan Kelly is now forthcoming. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The standard errors of persistence

Many studies of historical persistence find that modern outcomes strongly reflect characteristics of the same places in the distant past. However they…

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Pretty striking findings! www.parisschoolofeconomics.eu/app/uploads/...

How to Promote Equality without Backlash? This is a major challenge, exacerbated by social media. I welcome critique and would love to see further research www.ggd.world/p/how-to-pro...

An intervention within schools in Mozambique aimed at reducing gender-based violence mitigated violence by deterring potential perpetrators and fostering a proactive stance among victims, from Amaral, Garcia-Ramos, Gulesci, Ramos, Ore-Quispe, and Sviatschi https://www.nber.org/papers/w33203

Mark Cuban gets it. See my op ed from last year: www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/o...

Opinion | Your Homeowners’ Insurance Bill Is the Canary in the Climate Coal Mine (Published 2023)

Wharton’s Ben Keys on how climate change is already reshaping the insurance and housing markets — and how our denial is only making the problem worse.

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Mark Cuban@mcuban.bsky.social · 2y ago

Home insurance in areas hit by repetitive disasters is going to be the number one housing affordability issue over the next 4 years. And possibly going into the midterms. More so than interest rates. Florida in particular is going to have huge problems.

I've posted several times about the working paper, but the publication on "AER: Insights" is a good occasion to do it again: immigrants to the US have been less likely to be incarcerated for over 50 years **even without controlling for demographic characteristics.** www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Postdocs on industrial policy at Columbia University www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc @AereOrg

Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia

Apply for Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics and Frank Batten School of Leadership & Public Policy job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Res...

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Please spread far and wide: we (Johns Hopkins SAIS) are looking for an assistant professor in international macro. Come work with our amazing group of economists (and beyond), in our wonderful new building right at the heart of Washington, DC! apply.interfolio.com/159423

Maybe an example of negativity bias - there is a massive literature (deservedly so) on India’s missing women, but very little on the recent normalization of the sex ratio www.pewresearch.org/religion/202...

Some announcements related to admissions to our PhD program @UVAEcon! Please see full thread below for updated information on application deadlines, application fee waivers, and TOEFL waivers. All information is also available on our updated website, economics.virginia.edu/graduate 1/n

Application fees should not deter you from applying to our PhD program @UVAEcon! Waivers are available for US and international applicants. US applicants please see: graddiversity.virginia.edu/application-.... Internationals from countries below get automatic waivers!

Since my co-authors Paul and Karthik are not on this site, it's up to me to point folks to this wonderful piece by Pramit Bhattacharya on the impact of India's workfare program (NREGS) on the rural economy, drawing on our recently published Econometrica article www.hindustantimes.com/opinion/the-...

The welfare programme economists loved to hate

Unlike several populist schemes that disproportionately benefit rural elites, MGNREGS reaches precisely those who need the State’s help the most.

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617 of 1700 IZA fellows have signed this letter, including Nobel Prize and Clark Award winners If you are a fellow who loves the network and has not signed, please understand the status quo is not an option if Falk takes over, 1/3 of the fellows are gone The network you value is gone

Prof Dynarski@dynarski.bsky.social · 3y ago

There are 1700 IZA Research Fellows worldwide 436 out of the 1700 have signed a letter committing to resign on Jan 1 if Armin Falk is elevated to IZA's top leadership This was organized in just a few days

Hi Everyone! New job ⚠️ alert for UVA| Batten. We are looking for a *Full* or Associate Professor with specialty in Health Economics. Deadline: December 9, 2023 More information at apply.interfolio.com/135055 Feel free to email me questions and help me spread widely!

🆕 Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings. Today on VoxDev, Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus & @sandipz.bsky.social outline their research in #India: voxdev.org/topic/public...

Reforming India’s public works scheme raised incomes

Improving the payment infrastructure for India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme raised incomes — mostly through increases in non-programme earnings

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I have a PhD and consider myself a fairly sophisticated user of technology, but I have failed after multiple attempts to access the academic readiness results that my kids' school district has allegedly placed online. There's got to be a better way.

We're hiring "bigly" @UVAEcon ! At the senior chair level (any field), and junior level in both micro and macro. So at least 3 (hopefully, possibly more) hires, + our friends across the street @UVABatten hiring too! Please apply: aeaweb.org/joe/listing....