An analysis by Avner Vengosh's lab shows that coal ash produced at a Tennessee Valley Authority power plant near Knoxville contains more than three times the amount of uranium previously reported. tennessean.com/story/news/202…

The COVID-19 Pandemic, Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Fishing Communities tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This graph is amazing. It shows that measuring #SARSCoV2 levels in municipal sewage almost perfectly predicts forthcoming #COVID19 cases with a full week's notice (R=0.994). It's one of several discoveries in this new study from Yale University: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. C-19 is #InThePoop

Once in a while, I am homesick. #COVID

I can't stop thinking about this graph. Kids from high-income zip codes made more math progress DURING the COVID shutdowns than they did BEFORE. Kids in middle-class areas held steady. Kids in low-income areas made much LESS progress. Chart via: tracktherecovery.org

Research by Hoang Duong Le @nguyenminhha20 @VuongTuanNguyen published in #JDevEcon finds negative income and employment effects of exposure to the 2016 #Formosa marine environmental disaster in #Vietnam. Link to the full paper: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New visual libraries for R and Stata users blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… via World Bank

As the world struggles to scale up #vaccination in the face of new waves & variants, continued emphasis on #Covid #Testing could help limit #infection without recourse to costly #lockdowns, argue Ergys Islamaj, Duong Le & Aaditya Mattoo (World Bank): ow.ly/uOBm50F8f01

🎺📜 Paper Accepted! “Democracy and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Indonesia” (w/ Ama Baafra Abeberese Prabhat Barnwal Priya Mukherjee) is now accepted at The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat). We thank editor Rema Hanna and the amazing referees. 🧵 summarizing the paper 👇🏽. (1/10) #econtwitter

A new synthesis and key lessons from the recent difference-in-differences literature - I summarize the great new overview paper by Jonathan Roth Pedro H. C. Sant'Anna Alyssa Bilinski & John Poe and offer my takeaways plus what the literature still does not do well. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…

China🇨🇳, Indonesia🇮🇩, Malaysia🇲🇾 and Vietnam🇻🇳 have recovered to pre-pandemic output, but many countries in #EastAsiaPacific are still lagging behind. Read the World Bank’s new #EAPUpdate ➡️ wrld.bg/5yXn50Ixtpx #BravingtheStorms

So excited to see our new paper on the importance of MPA governance with Alliance 4 Conservation Evidence & Sustainability (bit.ly/3vK7PjF) online at Science Advances (doi.org/10.1126/sciadv…)

Michael Kremer's contributions to economics, development policy, health policy, and other areas have been exceptional. bit.ly/3PEY3Wz In a new paper, I survey Kremer's work and its impact (so far)!

OUT NOW: #EastAsiaPacific is sustaining growth, restraining inflation, but facing risks ahead, says World Bank’s new #EAPUpdate📊➡️ wrld.bg/atmy50KTOz2 [1/2]

Investments in the development and maintenance of existing infrastructure spur the growth of microenterprises and stimulate rural economic activity. Today on VoxDev, Ritam Chaurey Johns Hopkins SAIS & Duong Le World Bank outline their research in #India: ow.ly/FXoa50L6zZe

Recently published paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "Infrastructure maintenance and rural economic activity: Evidence from India" Vol 214 (Oct 2022) by Ritam Chaurey (Ritam Chaurey ) & Duong Trung Le (Duong Le ) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Our new #PNAS paper comparing different types of marine protected areas (MPAs) shows that well-managed fished MPAs can provide strong conservation benefits, even similar to no-fishing MPAs pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Import Competition and U.S. Sentiment Toward China | Rabah Arezki Duong Le Ha Nguyen, Hieu Nguyen #econtwitter cesifo.org/en/publication…