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Yasir Khan

@yasirkhan.bsky.social

"Tongues have been tied......"

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Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · last yr.

Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding. Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26) (Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)

Table of the 25 universities that receive the most money from the Department of Health and Human Services (basically NIH); Johns Hopkins, Duke, UCSF, Penn and Pitt are at the top.
Beth Popp Berman@epopppp.bsky.social · last yr.

Put another way: only 7 of the top 20 university R&D spenders are also on the top 20 endowments list (if you treat UC as separate institutions)

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 2y ago

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

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Yasir Khan@yasirkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

May I add that it is not just students, though they are more vulnerable, but faculty on visas of different types who are also at risk. Please share resources with Chloe if you know of any. #EconSky

Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Soon I'll be sharing resources on how we can support our international students in higher education going forward. If you have suggestions of things to make sure we include in the resource list please comment, DM or email me! And please uplift this request. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Soon I'll be sharing resources on how we can support our international students in higher education going forward. If you have suggestions of things to make sure we include in the resource list please comment, DM or email me! And please uplift this request. #EconSky #AcademicSky

Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · 2y ago

Catch me here talking about international students concerns over upcoming changes to immigration policy (I also talked a little about my university’s lack of response so far to reassure students but that didn’t make it in.) www.bbc.com/news/article...

Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · 2y ago

Question about std errors: In an RCT, treated people are randomly assigned to "pods" and interact (e.g., treatment = WhatsApp group membership). The norm (e.g. Cai-Szeidl) is to cluster on indiv for control group + on pod for treatment group. Why is clustering needed if any ICC is due to treatment?

Yasir Khan@yasirkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

My fantastic student, Priyoma Mustafi, is on the market. You should hire her because she 1- has a very interesting #JMP combining experimental, gender, and development topics 2- is super productive. Already has two R&Rs in top journals 3- is a great colleague sites.google.com/view/priyoma...

Priyoma Mustafi@priyomam.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am on the #EconJobMarket ! 🚨 JMP Alert 🚨 Individuals fail to incorporate information held by their spouses. Is it because they are generally reluctant to learn from their spouse? In my #JMP, I show: NO! It's because communication is challenging in the absence of expertise. 🧵below:

Jeffrey Wooldridge@jmwooldridge.bsky.social · 2y ago

Consider the simplest DiD setup with panel data. T = 2, controls X(i) don't change over time. D(i) is the "ever treated" indicator, f2(t) the second period time dummy. W(i,t) the time-varying treatment W(i,t) = D(i)*f2(t). The X(i) appear flexibly to allow selection and heterogeneous trends.

Yasir Khan@yasirkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

I am not American so I wonder why did I spend last few days explaining a lot M*sk propaganda posts to my Pakistani friends who were inclined to believe him. Such a thankless immigrant life :)

Jaishri Srinivasan@jaishrijuice.bsky.social · 2y ago

For me: Paper 1 written and sent for review. 9 months later, still no word. Paper 2 (review paper) written and sent for review. Reviewers rejected because they didn't like the way it was organized and I have to rewrite. Paper 3 written and sent for review....reject and reanalyze. Man, I'm done!

Yasir Khan@yasirkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

At my school: Unit A: You need unit B approval before WE approve that u can APPLY for a grant. Unit B: Fill export control from Unit C bcoz this is an international project to *check notes* work on mental health Unit C: Your laptop will go with you? (I haven't even applied for the grant yet)

Lisa Spantig@lisaspantig.com · 2y ago

Why does research take so long: exhibit # 5486 Unit A: to fill in this form, you need permission from Unit B. Me: emailing Unit B for permission. ... Unit B - two weeks later: here is a form created by Unit A that you need to fill in - no permission from us needed. Me: emailing Unit A & B: 🤨?!

Yasir Khan@yasirkhan.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is vintage @pseudoerasmus.bsky.social thread of old twitter days. It provides a succinct overview of the role "institutions" played (or did not play) in pre- AJR development economics. As an admirer of AR's work, I find this contextualization of AJR very useful.

Pseudoerasmus@pseudoerasmus.bsky.social · 2y ago

Here is my extremely brief (potted) history of institutions in macro-development thinking -- just before the AJR intervention. I had most of these thoughts prior to the Nobel week, but now they are crystallising.