So true! Silence is complicity Profiteering from vaccine inequity: a crime against humanity? bmj.com/content/374/bm…

It's less than two months to Cop26 and most campaigners from developing countries have heard nothing about how to get jabbed. Most haven't booked flights and accommodation: many fear they might have to back out of the summit at the very last minute. climatechangenews.com/2021/09/01/fru…

Important study showing that people in poorer countries are highly willing to get vaccinated, if only vaccines were available to them. We need vaccine equity and justice, not charity and colonialism. nature nature.com/articles/s4159…

I'm going to write an occasional column for The Washington Post that summarizes recent trends in the economics of education. My first column is about a suite of recent studies on the potential benefits of grade inflation. washingtonpost.com/education/2021…

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I always had the sense that some countries are underrepresented in economics research, but never knew how much. Here are some pretty stark statistics about NBER working papers. 1/3

BREAKING NEWS: The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens. #NobelPrize

A typical American refrigerator uses 5 times more energy than an average Ethiopian. This graphic from Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 never amazes a lot.

Looking for reliable data on oil and gas revenues by country. Any help is appreciated! Oil Change International I'm @Ketanjoshi.co on Bluesky Statista UK Resource & Energy Economics

Please view my new blog post about the difference between Ag Econ and Econ and why it matters. blogs.berkeley.edu/2022/04/20/on-…

Excited and intersted to read what I missed in grad school!!

Dream IE training team!📋 Last week five CEGA Fellows Solomon Zena Walelign, Saba Yifredew, Eyoual Demeke, Shibiru Melesse, and Habtamu Edjigu organized a four-day training for 25+ researchers and faculty UniversityOfGondar. Joined by the guest trainer, CEGA affiliate Michael Carter. Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)

Interested in causal inference? I updated my course last year and have posted the course materials online. If you're teaching a causal inference course, please feel free to steal my lecture notes! mattblackwell.github.io/gov2003-f21-si…

#Food #inflation heat map from the World Bank

This goes hard

Milestone unlocked: my research on the overstatement of GDP growth in autocracies is featured in this week's issue of The Economist economist.com/graphic-detail…

Any good leads to resources on #behavioral #Economics to undergrad students. My university is teaching it for the first time and any help is appreciated!

Country level policy engagement & use of impact evaluation methods workshop is kicked off today in Mombasa , Kenya. A team from #Ethiopia #Kenya #Nigeria #Uganda & #Tanzania were invited to attend. APHRC Cavens Kithinji (PhD) Jonathan Izudi 𝕯𝖆𝖒𝖆𝖟𝖔 𝕶𝖆𝖉𝖊𝖓𝖌𝖞𝖊 🦋 Benjamin mutia Saba Yifredew Fikreselassie Getachew

🌟NEW CSAE Working Paper 'The Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice' by Stefan Dercon. This paper offers a framework for assessing how to maximise the economic development impact of advice, allowing for the political incentives of those in power. csae.ox.ac.uk/publication/15…