I launched the KDIS Frontiers in Data and Policy Talk Series this semester. We have four speakers scheduled this semester: @cdcrabtree (Dartmouth AP), Jessie Trudeau (incoming Syracuse AP), Unso Eun Seo Jo (Hugging Face researcher), and Patrick Chester (UCSD postdoc).

Met with an assistant professor (diff. department) helping her RA apply to econ PhDs. She was worried/wondering if a letter of rec from someone junior would count for much. At UCSC the answer is definitely yes! Here are some tips to writing a strong letter for an RA:

Are you, your students, or your RA planning to apply to an Econ PhD in the U.S.? I'll be hosting a webinar covering the basics, and also some tips, on Thursday 9 AM PST next week! Link to join: ucsc.zoom.us/j/99728626666 Please spread the word to anyone interested!

Hey #econtwitter! Today let me share with you this thread summarizing my paper with Jorge Garcia Hombrados on how the creation of specialized courts affects the reporting of #IntimatePartnerViolence (IPV) and homicides using as case of study their staggered introduction in Spain [1/N]

Can public violence spill over to #IntimatePartnerViolence? In my #Jobmarketpaper, I show that women living in conflict-ridden municipalities have 8-12% more chances of experiencing #IPV. More on my #JMP here👇app.scholarsite.io/anousheh-alami… #EconTwitter #Econjobmarket ECARES

There are 2 things I wish more consumers of experiments grasped: 1. When researchers are incentivized to report significant results, low power reduces the likelihood that a significant result reflects a true effect (it's probably overestimated) shorturl.at/cfNRS 1/

Neat new article in JDE by Miguel Talamas shows evidence of a highly negative effect of grandmothers' deaths on mothers' employment rates (⬇️ 12 pp) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Five shapes of apartment buildings, each with 60 homes. Top left, a wide block with doors off a long hallway, is the most common type built today in the US. Top center is common in Europe. Today we'll also look at a few other styles. Which do you prefer? 1/

🎺New virtual Global Health Econ Seminar series (last Thurs of the month at 12p ET)! 🎺 The brilliant Jishnu Das will start us off (2/23), followed by stars Jessica Leight Jacob Bor and Elisa Maffioli Get the deets here and please retweet!: globalhealthecon.org/events/2023-vi…

Spousal communication training in Uganda 🇺🇬: *⬆️ spousal discussion about family health, nutrition & finances * no overall ⬆️ in adoption of health-promoting behaviors or child anthro Martina Björkman Nyqvist Seema Jayachandran & Céline Zipfel #EconTwitter seemajayachandran.com/mothers_voice.…

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Josh Merfeld at KDI (Korea) who works on a wide range of topics encompassing agriculture, labor + poverty joshmerfeld.github.io

New WP showing dynamic effects of GiveDirectly💸's large lump-sum UCT in Malawi 🇲🇼 & Liberia 🇱🇷 via bi-monthly phone surveys Lots of take away nuggets! David Sungho Park Shilpa Aggarwal Dahyeon Jeong Jon Robinson Alan Spearot & co #EconTwitter dshpark.com/files/dynamic_…

The dynamic effects of cash transfers. New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Jenny Aker Tufts Economics, Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Jonathan Robinson UC Santa Cruz & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/public-e…

🆕 DP: We experiment w/ interviewer vs. anonymous collection of violence measures in Senegal 🇸🇳 --> Anonymous [self-administered] methods ⬆️ reporting by 4-12 pp depending on type of violence Joint w/ Malick Dione Dr Fatma Lamesse Diédhiou IFPRI IFPRI_Africa ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collec…

The challenge of measuring intimate partner violence via self-interviewing. New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

The challenge of measuring intimate partner violence via self-interviewing. New evidence from #Liberia and #Malawi by David Sungho Park KDI School of Public Policy and Management, Shilpa Aggarwal Indian School of Business (ISB), Dahyeon Jeong World Bank Research, Naresh Kumar, Jonathan Robinson & Alan Spearot: voxdev.org/topic/methods-…

A large universal cash transfer in Liberia and Malawi improved food security for 1.5–2 years, driven by increased farm investment and production, from Shilpa Aggarwal, Aker, Dahyeon Jeong, Naresh Kumar, David Sungho Park, Jon Robinson, and Alan Spearot nber.org/papers/w32431

The State of Development Journals 2024: Quality, Acceptance Rates, Review Times, and What’s New - my annual post on submission numbers, etc. blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Join us for the 2024 KDIS-DIME Conference this November! 🌍📊 We’re excited to welcome scholars and practitioners for discussions on cutting-edge research in development economics. Don’t miss the chance to submit your paper by Sep. 22nd! 📅✍️