Really enjoyed talking to Deepak Bhatt about Nitish Kumar’s and Education Department, Bihar flagship Cycles Program for girls! Thank you for the invitation! NBER AEA Journals पंकज त्रिपाठी J-PAL South Asia Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative Northeastern CSSH NU Economics Northeastern Global News NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Anil Agarwal

Forthcoming in JOLE: "Gender Gaps in Access to Medical Intern Positions: The Role of Competition" by Marina Diez-Rituerto, Javier Gardeazabal, Nagore Iriberri, and Pedro Rey-Biel journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73… Chicago Journals Society of Labor Economists #EconTwitter

In #Colombia, birthplace is one of the strongest predictors of life outcomes — and inequality. A new World Bank Policy Research Working Paper shows that 49% of income inequality — as measured by the Gini coefficient — in Colombia is explained by circumstances at birth, with

What are your favorite examples of randomized controlled trials carried out entirely with administrative data? Any country!

Forthcoming in the AER: "An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children" by Eric Chyn and Diego Daruich. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

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I'm putting together a talk on a new applied micro paper, and I'm reminded that (I believe) it's very hard to outperform the structure proposed in this piece by Jesse Shapiro. shapiro.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/…

How to Publish Statistically Insignificant Results in Economics blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu… Still a challenge!

🚨 New J-PAL blog: In Cairo, women were offered subsidized childcare & job-matching services. Uptake was still low. Why? Norms matter. A large-scale evaluation shows how gender norms shape decisions—and what programs must consider beyond services. Read 👉

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2025 wildcard: actually learning about sports & leagues… and kinda enjoying writing about it 👀✍️

Someone stole my lunch in the Econ department today 🙃 Kinda wild how people can be mean like that. PhD life is already tight and difficult, and then stuff like this just makes the day feel heavier. Guess grad school really is survival of the hungriest 😂

I’ve started an ongoing project to collect all the datasets which economists can use, all in one place, organized by topic. Started with 50, further suggestions are extremely welcome. It will grow considerably.

Mañana en el congreso de Red Investigadores de Economía no se pierdan a Darwin Cortes presentando trabajo conjunto con Andrés Gallegos acerca de choques a la salud y consumo en Colombia. ¡Es el último paper del día en la sesión de la 1:30 PM!

Hello everyone. A friend told me that I shouldn't post this message because it made me and other PhD students look bad. But I actually think it's important to show how PhD students (especially foreign ones) have to deal not only with research-related difficulties, but also with

turns out the idea of being a grad student is much nicer than being a grad student

Looking for municipal-level internet penetration data in Brazil (2011–2024). I’ve checked BDDados, PNAD, Anatel, and World Bank sources, and I have also reached out to local institutions. The Índice Brasileiro de Conectividade starts in 2021. Any suggestions from #EconTwitter?

Do Investments in Early Grade Literacy and Numeracy Pay Off? Our best evidence says yes, in a big way! Last week, Center for Global Development highlighted new evidence on long-term earnings gains from improvements in early grade literacy & numeracy. Here's a quick summary: cgdev.org/blog/do-invest…