cc : Agha Ali Akram

Yep, and on the reduce spoilage front I recommend taking a look at my colleague Saher Asad's excellent work on the impact of cellphones on coordinating produce markets better = reduced spoilage. Podcast coming soon! cc: Umair Javed bit.ly/31eCzJC

Long story short, the model implies that the 'optimal' policy when calibrated to, say, Uganda, would have a much less strict lockdown, reducing both covid infections and consumption levels less than the same model calibrated to US incomes and infection fatality rates. 7/

cc: Maha Rehman

cc: Akib Khan Abu Syeid Shonchoy Hina Khalid

Ohmygod!!! How did I not see this in David McKenzie's last Weekly Links - dad jokes in Stata! cc: Mahrukh Khan

Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end. This is how world population growth peaked in 1968 and has been going down almost continually ever since, possibly falling below 0.1% in 2100 according to the UN’s projection ow.ly/BwdI50yh2zY

Yes, please!

Neat! Really cool and very policy relevant work on groundwater use. Proper environmental econ! Nice job Sanval Nasim :)

This is funny! cc: علی حسنین Ali Hasanain

cc: Sa'ad Mohamed - seems about right!

Max hunts down Valtteri 💪 #ImolaGP 🇮🇹 #F1

I have discovered, to my dismay, that I am always Reviewer 2. I'm just an as***le. I am never nice. Sorry to whichever unfortunate has the bad luck of getting me as a reviewer.

Fantastic work by Yasir Khan! I love it. Really cool. Hina Khalid - have you seen?

‘Energy, Environment & Public Health’ Cluster The fellows in this Cluster are working on Pakistan’s critical environmental challenges, energy demand, access, efficiency and conservation and on critical public health issues across the country

Nice!

This paper is totally crazy: nber.org/papers/w27799 Originally they intended to test the impact of parateachers in Guinea Bissau a la this paper (alexeble.com/s/Eble-et-al-P…) in The Gambia, but the people they trained held out for way higher wages and sued them(!). After winning...

We need YOU! Opening for an Asst Manager/Senior RA for my WASH RCT in Karachi (w/ Ali A [Mathematica], Gabriella F [Kennedy Sch] & Reshma H [Harvard Business Sch]). Pls spread the word! Happy to answer queries via DM/email. Econ RA Listings ird.global/job/assistant-…