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Using historic variation as IVs has become a fad in economics. This is an interesting paper reviewing the development over time. The push for IVs coincided with the advent of Cliometrics – the quantitative approach to history. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hi #EconTwitter! Wondering about a crash course on #MachineLearning specifically tailored for economists? 🤔💡 Colin Cameron from UC Davis has some very nice slides offering a clear and accessible overview on the subject! 📊📚 Check it out here! 👇

The history of Pakistan is the history of struggle between democratic and un-democratic forces. Have the travails of the Fatima Jinnahs, the Asma Jehangirs, the Habib Jalibs, the subverters, these traitors ever been easy? Sultan Mehmood tribune.com.pk/story/2436217/…

If this Intercept story is true, then the PDM government and the Pakistani army deserve the gratitude of the Pakistani people for deftly using a piffling amount of (alleged) arms transfers to Ukraine to avert an economic catastrophe in Pakistan. theintercept.com/2023/09/17/pak…

The judicial manifesto by Sultan Mehmood 👇might interest you cc Nida Kirmani M. Jibran Nasir 🇵🇸 Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir Atif Mian Fasi Zaka

🆕 Government real estate allocations to judges tilt the scales of justice in Pakistan's courtrooms. 🇵🇰 Today on VoxDev, Sultan Mehmood New Economic School & Bakhtawar Ali AMSE → 🦋 @amseaixmars.bsky.social uncover a quid pro quo between the Pakistani government and the judiciary: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

🚨 Election Countdown: With just 2 days left, the Toshakhana gifts scandal takes center stage! 🎁 We've crunched the numbers from leaks by Fact Focus & Ahmad Noorani to reveal some startling patterns. Stay tuned for some empirical facts! #Toshakhana A thread 1/5

Good news: an experimental drug that kills off old senescent zombie cells in the retina improved vision in 6 out of 8 patients 😮👏

If true, this would be disturbing indeed. One may agree with Tucker or not, but he is a major American journalist and such an action would greatly offend the American public.

Might be of interest cc cyril almeida Fasi Zaka Abbas Nasir Moeed Pirzada Waqas Hamid Mir حامد میر Details on Toshakhana Gifts based on data from Fact Focus and Ahmad Noorani 👇👇👇

Government real estate allocations to judges tilt the scales of justice in Pakistan's courtrooms. 🇵🇰 Last week on VoxDev, Sultan Mehmood New Economic School & Bakhtawar Ali AMSE → 🦋 @amseaixmars.bsky.social uncover a quid pro quo between the Pakistani government and the judiciary: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

For the workshop: Bakhtawar Ali Mohib Ali Monir Bounadi Alice Calder Davide Coluccia Tommaso D'Amelio @ryu_matsuura

1/ 🏛️ Judicial independence is the linchpin for holding the democratic order together. Next week we will convene with illustrious scholars & judges from Pakistan in Chicago at the Law and Political Economy of Development Conference hosted by Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Institute. Why care?

🎉 Just out in JDE! Together with S. Naseer & D. Chen, we show how empathy training can be made to work in the public sector by emphasizing its benefits. Empathetic Junior ministers were most effective leaders, full text 👇doi.org/10.1016/j.jdev…

Mattias Folkestad Monir Bounadi Mohib Ali Tommaso D'Amelio After Nina Liu on The Gendered Impact of Printing on Human Capital (sorry forgot to take the picture!) now Bakhtawar Ali on the Unintended Consequences of Anti-Corruption Campaigns

Chicago is just terrible.... SIOE

Very useful for applied economists

Join us April 28 & 29 for the 4th Workshop in Applied Micro for PhD students! Make sure to REGISTER for Day 1 and Day 2 sessions and Keyote Lectures using the links here: sites.google.com/view/amie-4th-… cc Catherine Michaud-Leclerc Ana Paula Melo Priya Mukherjee Nishith Prakash

Time to repost the great JMP of Bakhtawar Ali on lawfare and democratic backsliding: drive.google.com/file/d/15uUt39… "For my friends everything, for my enemies the law"