While international migrant workers’ home regions experience income gains after an exchange rate shock, 80% of the gains are from domestic sources and 20% from more investment in education, from Gaurav Khanna, Emir Murathanoglu, Caroline Theoharides, and Dean Yang nber.org/papers/w29862

Were there gendered effects of #COVID19? In a G2LM|LIC Policy Brief Natalie Bau, Gaurav Khanna, Corinne Low, Manisha Shah, Sreyashi Sharmin & @AlessandraVoena show the pandemic and containment policies adversely affected well-being of Indian 🇮🇳 #women. 👉 bit.ly/3atXrEF

Hi #econtwitter — I’m so excited to announce that I will be joining the amazing faculty at UC San Diego as a professor at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy and the inaugural director of the UCSD GPS India Center in January 2023!

Thrilled and privileged to join stalwarts like Karthik Muralidharan, Paul Niehaus, Gaurav Khanna, @teevrat, Gareth Nellis, @AnitaRajUCSD, @tom_vogl, #PrashantBharadwaj and more. Thankful for guidance and leadership of Chancellor #PradeepKhosla, former EVP #SureshSubramani, many others.

How does cultural proximity shape production networks and what are the aggregate effects? Cevallos Fujiy, Gaurav Khanna UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy & Toma U-M Economics explore new firm-to-firm trade data in #India ow.ly/6xuN50MmVCY #STEGWorkingPapers #EconTwitter FCDO Research, Science and Technology

In India, dowry payments alleviate sons; traditional obligation to care for elderly parents, making it easier for sons to migrate for economic opportunities, from Natalie Bau Gaurav Khanna Corinne Low and Alessandra Voena nber.org/papers/w31176

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nice new addition to the "brain drain" literature. Gaurav Khanna (one of my fav economists of my generation!) and Nicolas Morales argue that increased *probability* of immigration leads natives to upskill, even if they dont actually immigrate. econgaurav.com/_files/ugd/f85…

Indian firms under climate risk diversify identical inputs from suppliers across space, trading off the probability of a climate shock against higher input costs, from Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna, Nicolas Morales, and Nitya Pandalai-Nayar nber.org/papers/w32218

How do firms adapt supply chains in response to of climate risk? New work with Gaurav Khanna Nicolas Morales Nitya Pandalai-Nayar #EconTwitter Short thread below!

New working paper! Joint with Agos Brinatti Mingyu Chen Parag Mahajan Kevin Shih We combine US employer-employee data with data on the 2007 H-1B lottery to study the impact of skilled migration on firms and workers. Short 🧵 below #EconTwitter docs.iza.org/dp16917.pdf

Ongoing violence in a student’s area of origin increases their efforts to invest in their education in the destination country. Cevat Giray Aksoy The EBRD KCL Department of Political Economy, Gaurav Khanna UC San Diego, V Marino The EBRD, Semih Tumen TED Üniversitesi ERF IZA ow.ly/zabu50RbgRx

🆕 Hometown conflict & refugees’ integration efforts Cevat Giray Aksoy The EBRD, Gaurav Khanna UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy, Victoria Marino & Semih Tumen TED Üniversitesi show that heightened violence in the hometowns of Syrian students led to ⬆️ scores in their new Turkish schools: voxdev.org/topic/migratio…

Forthcoming in the AER: "The Price of Power: Costs of Political Corruption in Indian Electricity" by Meera Mahadevan. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

.Gaurav Khanna & Nicolas Morales showed that high skilled immigration from India to the US is positive sum. Sometimes the unintended consequences are good! econgaurav.com/_files/ugd/f85…

Counterpoint: H-1B visas, i.e., the opportunity for Indian software engineers to leave India for the US, helped power both the US *and Indian* IT booms.

The H-1B program induced Indians to switch to computer science (CS) occupations, increasing the CS workforce and overall IT production in India by 15%. It also induced US workers to switch to non-CS occupations, reducing the US native CS workforce by 4.7%.

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Female labor supply and rural pension eligibility in Brazil" By Gaurav Khanna, Margaret Lay, Stephanie Lee, & Ben Thompson #econtwitter sciencedirect.com/science/articl…