After a long journey, our paper "Is Mobile Money Changing Rural Africa? Evidence from a Field Experiment" is now finally available online in the Review of Economics and Statistics! Read here: doi.org/10.1162/rest_a…

I am happy to see the new Econometrica paper, by my friends and collaborators Michael Peters and Fabrizio Zilibotti, @FabrizioZilibo1 Very important issues about service-led growth which may become even more relevant with greater automation in the west.

My latest working paper with @hjghassell: "George Floyd's Murder Prompted Thousands of Americans to Register to Vote." osf.io/xv4je

Our paper on Caste, courts and business came out in Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. Thanks to IDRC | CRDI for funding this project. Here is the link for the paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… with Tanika Chakraborty, Sarani and Divya.

Should economic class be used as the basis of affirmative action in India or caste? In our article published in Ideas for India, we propose a theoretical framework to understand this issue and provide supporting empirical evidence: ideasforindia.in/topics/social-…

I've been telling people about this paper for a while, it's sooooo neat. Prayers for rain only "work" in places where the probability of rain is increasing in the length of the dry spell ---> so these places have more religious belief. nber.org/papers/w31411

Excited to organise the #Warwick_India workshop on 13th July at Warwick Economics. Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay anirban1976 #EconTwitter CAGE @ Warwick Anant Sudarshan Titir Bhattacharya sarthak joshi Royal Economic Society University of Warwick Warwick Newsroom

Cell phone mobility data can be used to infer wages in areas within a city. In the July 2023 issue, by Gabriel E. Kreindler @thetahat and Yuhei Miyauchi Yuhei Miyauchi. zurl.co/hZps

📊 We have built a new free online tool that allows you to examine how much funding each area in England received for key public services and how that compares to estimated spending needs. Explore here: ifs.org.uk/calculators/ho…

Moves to higher opportunity areas in childhood substantially increase voting later in life. In the November 2023 issue, by Eric Chyn (Eric Chyn) and Kareem Haggag (Kareem Haggag) zurl.co/wNZQ

📢 Our new Working Paper "Intergenerational Persistence of Education, Smoking and Birth Weight: Evidence from Three Generations" is now available at IZA and HEDG 📢 - this is a joint work with Chiara Costi (lead author) and Giuseppe Migali. IZA DP: docs.iza.org/dp16775.pdf

New WP: we study the production of race-related research in economics since 1960. What have economists studied, and how does such research fare in the publications process? Joint with the amazing team of Elliott Ash Arun Advani Anton Boltachka & David Cai bit.ly/Race_Publicati…

New WP, forthcoming in AEA P&P: Difference-in-Differences Estimators with Continuous Treatments and no Stayers. We propose het-robust estimators for continuous treatments, when there are no stayers: treatment of all units changes from one period to next. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Here is a common problem with importing txt or xls data in #Stata (or other languages): One ends up with leading white spaces! Getting ridding of these is not so trivial. Why? Spaces are more than just a spacebar space. They also contain tabs, hidden characters, line breaks etc.

Our paper is published this month in the Journal of Public Economics 🥳

Do yourself a favor and read this article on skilled immigrants and firms by my superstar colleague Britta Glennon. It's a masterful summary of why firms are crucial to understanding how immigration affects our economic prosperity.

Most countries don't publish official sub-national population data. Luckily, there are several geospatial population datasets we can use instead. Here's a list of them (I wish I knew about 5 years ago):

Which peers matter in individual outcomes? A new paper by @VtBoucher, Michelle Rendall, Philip Ushchev, and Yves Zenou proposes a new methodology to answer this question and shows that the Linear-in-Means model is not the correct model in most activities econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

New paper in the Review of Economics and Statistics The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat): Human Capital and Climate Change - Addressing climate change requires behavior change & voter support for pro-climate policies shorturl.at/qtLX4 with Noam Angrist Joshua Graff Zivin + Winseck