Gabriel Kreindler
@thetahat.bsky.social
Economist interested in urban transportation in developing countries. Economics Department, Harvard University https://sites.google.com/site/gabrielkreindler
This will devastate our research+innovation capacity, bedrock of the 21st century economy. 35% of *all* employed people in the US with STEM PhD degrees are both foreign-born *and* graduated from a US university. —> nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/292... Shutting them out is extremist folly.
🆕 Why workers avoid unfamiliar neighbourhoods – and how one visit can help eliminate fears Today on VoxDev, Josh Dean (University of Chicago), Gabriel Kreindler (Harvard University) & Oluchi Mbonu (World Bank) discuss barriers to job search in Nairobi: https://ow.ly/eHPL50ZFYqG
Why workers avoid unfamiliar neighbourhoods – and how one visit can help eliminate fears
A field experiment with casual workers in Nairobi finds that people are reluctant to work in unfamiliar parts of their own city. A single visit to an unfamiliar neighbourhood is enough to eliminate this aversion.
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A great way to re-frame the way migrants are/should be viewed almost everywhere. africasacountry.com/2026/06/the-...
The right to belong imperfectly
In South Africa, one of xenophobia’s quieter moral mechanisms is the way foreign wrongdoing is made to carry more meaning than citizen wrongdoing.
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The United States is now a country where soldiers with powerful military weapons can and will detain you simply because you are not white. It’s not hidden. The Supreme Court has explicitly approved the practice. Rare bodycam footage of what it looks like in practice, from local police partners—>
Opinion | White Drivers Got a Warning. Latino Drivers Got Detained.
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My 2 cents @goodauth.bsky.social on Orban's loss in the Hungarian elections based on survey data from last week. goodauthority.org/news/the-end...
The end of Viktor Orbán’s ‘Hungarian model’?
New data show why Orbán’s Fidesz party finally fell after 16 years in power.
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Much of the econ discourse around increasing use of agentic coding revolves around implications for the demand for RAs, predocs; wanted to do a short post on how I see this unfolding for those of us, whether inside or outside universities, who primarily conduct development field research.
NBER Summer Institute submissions are due by Thursday. If you're doing urban economics, please send your paper to us! www.nber.org/conferences/...
HIM: what are you thinking about ME: "Resting and grazing cattle and deer tend to align their body axes in the geomagnetic North-South direction. The mechanism(s) that underlie this behavior remain unknown." www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Need alternative to PDF. Reading research articles as PDFs on a phone screen is miserable. LLMs consume plain text more easily. I used Claude to write a pipeline to convert my LaTeX to HTML with the Tufte CSS. Here’s Dingel and Neiman (2020) as a webpage: www.jdingel.com/research/Din...
How Many Jobs Can be Done at Home?
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this is valuable. The future of reproducibility could be interesting: Step 1) stress test existing replication packages using new AI tools to catch errors or non-robust findings Step 2) Publishing work with errors will become much harder if such checks become standard or anticipated
Michael Wiebe@michaelwiebe.bsky.social · 6mo ago🚨Replication alert🚨 I'm pleased to announce that my replication of Moretti (2021) is now accepted as a comment at AER. I find ten issues in the paper. My comment focuses on two major problems; in the appendix, I document eight (relatively) minor problems. 1/
I don't understand the outrage over this as implying unfettered capitalism. Utilities are heavily regulated on quality and price.
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 6mo agoChatGPT boss Sam Altman on AI "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter"
I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...
David Autor (@davidautor.bsky.social) just wrote a very kind and thoughtful review of "The Means of Prediction" for the Journal of Economic Literature (@aeajournals.bsky.social): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.
First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says
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New blog post: LLMs are going to summarize your papers whether you like it or not — and they're going to drop your limitations every time. Here's a proposal for how to fix that (and help with the reproducibility crisis at the same time!): paulgp.com/2026/03/10/l...
LLM-Friendly Academic Papers: A Proposal
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The hubris 🤬 Harvard has determined Summers is unfit to teach its students… ...SO Summers concludes he shouldl now spend all his time advising the world on public policy www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
New NBER paper finds that US crash deaths rise by ~15% on dates of major album releases. Distraction from smartphones is a likely culprit. www.nber.org/papers/w34866
🌟 New @novafrica.bsky.social Working Paper! "From Destination to Origin: Experimental Evidence on the International Spillovers of Migrant Integration" By @catiabatista.bsky.social #NovaSBE #LaraBohnet #NYU @gazeaud.bsky.social #CNRS & @juliaseither.bsky.social #UofC 🔗 tinyurl.com/627brza4
"The IDF has also accused Jad of throwing a rock, which, under their rules of engagement, can permit soldiers to use lethal force. But the footage of the incident shows an IDF soldier dropping an object next to Jad after he was shot, then taking a photograph of it"
Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 7mo agoTruly horrifying. A very difficult read. [& the BBC at its best] www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Would anybody like to read one of my long threads about a 2.5bn year old rock, bacteria that could produce oxygen but not consume it, and tank production in wwii
Some useful rules of experimentation: (1) change one thing at a time, never more (2) run the edge cases to confirm they work the way you expect Gets you surprisingly far
Deep breath. I'm honored and excited to join the faculty of America's oldest research university, Johns Hopkins. I'll start this summer as a full professor, one of the founding faculty at the brand-new School of Government and Policy. We're building something unique & important, even historic.
Home - JHU School of Government and Policy
Johns Hopkins School of Government and Policy advances governance with research, data-driven analysis, and innovative solutions to today’s challenges.
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Taxing rich people into oblivion is good for democracy. The revenue generated, while not sufficient for our purposes, is just a secondary benefit.
The Economist@economist.com · 7mo agoIt will not work, and is wrong in principle
😢 "I also had the benefit of years of positive memories and joy, saved and accumulated in my knapsack for hard days. Children often lack some of these tools and supports due to their limited life experience, making them particularly vulnerable." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
After my ICE arrest, I learned one crucial way to respond to trauma. We can all take part | Rümeysa Öztürk
I was detained for co-writing a op-ed about Gaza as a student at Tufts. My experience has only made me feel more connected to others facing oppression
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