📢 Early career researchers working on economic development and policies pertaining to India: We organize virtual seminar series at 21st Century India Center UC San Diego every month with a discussant for specific feedback. Please register gps-ucsd.zohobackstage.com/CarbonFootprin…

The Green Revolution in India brought huge agricultural productivity and calorie gains. But some note concerns of unintended negative effects. Aditi Singh studies these in her job market paper (aditisinghubc.netlify.app). A 🧵

Join the AERE Graduate Student Engagement Committee for this exciting panel on "soft skills" in academia and beyond! Monday, Dec. 2nd, 1pm EST, featuring: ✨ John List (John A. List) ✨ Brittany Tarufelli ✨ Aaditya Dar (Aaditya Dar (aadityadar.bsky.social)) buff.ly/4fSkDIT

I have two fantastic students on the market this year. Anyone looking to hire in development + labor should take a serious look at them. First up, Varun Kapoor sites.google.com/view/varunk/ho…

The 2023 census in Bihar provides a unique mapping of caste inequality. The chart below illustrates, for example, the striking convergence of educational and economic rankings among individual communities. #castecensus #bihar

Are you a PhD student working on conflict and economic development? We are looking for papers for the PhD poster session at the ReCIPE inception conference in PSE (13-14 February): recipe.cepr.org/event/4553. The deadline is 15 December. CEPR Dominic Rohner Paris School of Economics

I'm very excited to join the Brooks School of Public Policy and the Department of Economics at Cornell University in January. And we're hiring pre-doc fellows in development economics! Great 1–2 year PhD preparation. Please share widely! cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCareerP…

My course "Global Policy Analysis" will again be open to a select number of remote students from low- and middle-income countries via Zoom. Course starts on Feb 18th, application deadline Tuesday, February 5th. Link to the application form below 👇

Need high resolution daily air pollution data for India? We've got you. Great new work led by Ayako Kawano developing satellite+ML-based measures of PM2.5 going back decades, and using it to evaluate recent progress in improving air quality. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

🚨Fresh data release alert 🚨 2023-24 Household Consumption Expenditure Survey microdata is out today. We are celebrating by sharing the cleaned files! Bulk of the work was done by Vijayshree, so make sure to thank her for the speedy availability! github.com/advaitmoharir/…

I wrote about how you can streamline your workflow using VS Code—check it out here: esmaozer.github.io/resources/all_…

Studying bureaucracy is my thing. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform teh US bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-civ…

This probably requires a longer discussion than a place like social media might allow. However, I will try to address some key points. First, caste discrimination is systemic, institutional and ritualized and has been around for centuries. The Nazis were able to practice and

I'm recruiting a PhD student in political economy & comparative political behavior at Ahmedabad University (elections, political parties, federalism, welfare, or climate) We believe in interdisciplinary work & offer great training in models of political economy & applied stats. Pls apply!

3 days. 15 sessions. 40+ speakers. No parallel sessions. Focused sessions for the history-buffs. 3rd ed of the History Literature Festival in Bengaluru on Feb 28-Mar 2 covers science, business, food, music, theatre, cartoons, and much more; ancient world to 20th c. historylitfest.com/register-now/

Half of India’s population is under the age of 30, making it a far younger country than its European, North American or East Asian counterparts. The median American or Chinese person, for instance, is over a decade older than the median Indian. However, India is ageing. From the

In the midst of the 1962 Sino-Indian war, Khrushchev wrote to Nehru, saying India should "rise above the heat of passion & hurt feelings," accept a ceasefire & China's proposals. Knowing it could upset his Soviet partner, Nehru nonetheless rejected the "demand for surrender."

6. In closing, Zelenskyy was set up. There was no good faith effort to support Ukraine or come to a peace agreement because Trump does not care about Ukrainians sovereignty. He care about "making a deal." Any deal he can sell to Americans that he brought peace--even if it doesn't

Building on this generous release by Advait Moharir and Vijayshree, here is a slightly more granular and readable release of the HCES microdata. The tables are now searchable by descriptions and names of goods, to help avoid external lookups. github.com/jaidevd/hces-2…

Washington Post columnist quits after her opinion piece criticizing owner Jeff Bezos is rejected washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…