New Working Paper! 🚨 Taller people earn more, especially in low & middle-income countries @tedmiguel.bsky.social, Michael Walker, & I study why — using rich longitudinal microdata on 4,000+ Kenyan adults 🧵: 1/5

NBER@nber.org · 6mo ago

A study of middle-aged Kenyan adults finds that monthly earnings increase by 1.07 percent per centimeter of increased height, from Wilson King, Edward Miguel, and Michael W. Walker www.nber.org/papers/w34769

Exactly this. Reviewing foreign aid for consistency w/admin policy goals is reasonable. Many programs can absorb a 90 day pause w/o catastrophic impact. But a real stop work on bi-partisan malaria & HIV programs--delivering lifesaving medicines & bednets--quite literally means people will die.

Charles Kenny@charlesjkenny.bsky.social · 2y ago

Glad to read there has been a waiver for emergency food aid, but the same has to urgently apply to other programs providing life-saving support where 90 days could be too late: PEPFAR, PMI... www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Studying the problem of estimating the average causal effect of treating every member of a population, as opposed to none, using an experiment that treats only some, from Stefan Faridani and Paul Niehaus https://www.nber.org/papers/w33319

In economics, editors, referees, and authors often behave as if a published paper should reflect some kind of authoritative consensus. As a result, valuable debate happens in secret, and the resulting paper is an opaque compromise with anonymous co-authors called referees. 1/

New @cgdev.org policy paper: *MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out. We examine why, and how to go faster. 🧵

Today's #econjmp is by Steven Brownstone (UCSD). He does a village level RCT in Telangana, India, introducing drum seeders to rice farmers. He shows mechanization by some farmers then lowers the wages others have to pay, & how this depends on women's job options blogs.worldbank.org/en/impacteva...?

When is agricultural mechanization most effective for development? Guest post by Steven Brownstone

When is agricultural mechanization most effective for development? Guest post by Steven Brownstone

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