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One of the most consequential statistic passed by without much noise. India's total fertility rate fell below population replacement rate to 2.0, with many states far below that level, thanks to effective campaigns around family planning & contraception. hindustantimes.com/india-news/ind…

"everything sucks right now, but I guess I'm doing ok" isn't just *a* whole vibe it might be *the* whole vibe

I got a referee report today asking me to cite the Twitter thread in which Nils Enevoldsen announced the solution to the PLFS renumbering mystery. 21st century scholarship!

Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya I was looking for the best way to publish a simple fact like this — to formally enter it into the academic domain so that it could be cited — but I didn’t find a great solution. We need a Journal of Simple Observations!

Can the Periodic Labour Force Survey provide a household panel? EGC consultant Nils Enevoldsen has found a remedy for a flaw in India’s Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS). He explains in an EGC technical post: egc.yale.edu/egc-voices-fil…

Even if per-capita incomes of LMIC countries catch up to rich ones, that won't be enough to end extreme poverty. Why? Read EGC's Rohini Pande & Nils Enevoldsen column, originally in Ideas for India International Growth Centre , now in National Herald: nationalheraldindia.com/india/not-by-g…

We're using a particle accelerator and AI to read a lost library from a dead empire. People have been trying to read the Herculaneum Papyri for 275 years. With your help, we'll do it in 2023. Thrilled to announce the Vesuvius Challenge: scrollprize.org

This is an open letter from 436 IZA fellows to the Deutsche Post Foundation and the Rectorate of the University of Bonn, in response to the new leadership announcement at IZA. docs.google.com/document/d/1kZ…

EGC is proud to announce the 2023 Annual Report focusing on #GenderInequality, recapping a remarkable year for the center. Read more about EGC's research, programming, teaching, and mentoring across a broad range of areas of international development. egc.yale.edu/about/annual-r…

Touching the void. The glider that almost became a spaceship, how to surf the polar vortex and one man's extraordinary vision to fly higher than anyone... ...Without an engine. The Perlan project, a thread.

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

NEW: "Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections" In AEA Journals: Applied Economics, by Abhijit Banerjee (MIT Economics J-PAL), Nils Enevoldsen, Rohini Pande (Yale Economic Growth Center), & Michael Walton (Harvard Kennedy School): economics.yale.edu/research/publi…

After 16 years training 10,000+ policymakers and generating research to better serve the poor, EPoD is transitioning its work to Harvard CID as CID launches new research programming on social protection, global education, evaluation, and more! Follow Harvard CID to stay engaged.

achyuta adhvaryu @a_rozenas Stefanie Fischer Heather Royer Corey White Banerjee Pande Nils Enevoldsen Walton show in Delhi, municipal councillors informed 2 yrs prior to election that their performance would be assessed in a newspaper report card engaged in more pro-poor spending aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Check them out!

#NewStudy: "Public Information Is an Incentive for Politicians: Experimental Evidence from Delhi Elections" By EGC’s Rohini Pande & Nils Enevoldsen, and Abhijit Banerjee (MIT Economics J-PAL) & Michael Walton (Harvard Kennedy School) in AEA Journals. Our summary: egc.yale.edu/research/pande…

Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.