I grew up across Jharkhand , West Bengal and Orissa. In 7th grade I convinced father to send me to a boarding school way beyond our means. He took an 11 yr old seriously bc he swears by intergenerational mobility having spent a lot of his childhood at refugee camp! 1/n

Honored to share my fantastic co-worker Aditi Roy Bhowmick honest and inspiring story as a first tweet! She has off-the-chain research skills, a knack for outreach, and is an awesome partner-in-crime in DDL's gender research.

Our new paper estimating age-specific COVID infection fatality rate in India: ⬇️very low in the South ⏫extremely high among returning lockdown migrants 📈does not rise with age as much as in richer countries Thread 🧵 1/N hindustantimes.com/opinion/indias…

Hey Folks, I'm in the hospital with moderate covid. Any leads for Remdesivir please share with Aditi Roy Bhowmick (my coworkers are cool!)

New substack post with Sabareesh & your friendly neighborhood satejsoman. How do we determine how deadly COVID is in India?, by Anup Malani anupmalani.substack.com/p/how-do-we-de…

A huge amount of non-sensitive data is languishing on government hard drives in Excel sheets. Watching my PIs present their vision for releasing that big, non-sensitive data to empower citizens and civil society.

My first paper at Development Data Lab came out last week! 🥳 Infection fatality rates from COVID-19 in India are likely as high as in richer countries. Under-reporting of deaths creates huge uncertainty within India and across countries.

For my fav researcher this week #EconTwitter (well, actually last week, because should've posted on Fri): Anja Benshaul-Tolonen at Barnard does fascinating work on impacts of resource booms, as well as gender-related questions around menstrual hygiene anjatolonen.com