This is clinically insane!

new blog post at Ideas for India 45% of India’s manufacturing is informal. My work shows GST is slowly changing this: an input credit system creates a formalisation cascade where firms demand invoices from suppliers & this pulls the entire supply chain slowly into the formal economy

Offering large incentives to enroll in social insurance increased coverage dramatically, but many dropped out. Just Accepted new paper by Benjamin A. Olken, Rema Hanna, Phitawat Poonpolkul, and Nada Wasi. zurl.co/t8yxv

🚨📄 New preprint! We find the “boiling the frog” equivalent of AI use. In a series of RCTs, we show that after just 10 min of AI assistance people perform worse and give up more often than those who never used AI. w Grace Liu Brian Christian Mira Dumbalska and Rachit Dubey 🧵

Why/how should multiple hypothesis testing be done differently in empirical work? We give an economic foundation trading off research costs and incentives with implications for empirical practice. New paper by Davide Viviano, Wüthrich, and Niehaus: restud.com/a-model-of-mul…

Forthcoming in the AER: "Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption" by Jorge García-Hombrados, Marcel Jansen, Angel Martínez, Berkay Özcan, Pedro Rey-Biel, and Antonio Roldán-Monés. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

I am very happy to share that our paper, “Ideological Alignment and Evidence-Based Policy Adoption,” is now published in the American Economic Review (#AER). This is a hugely ambitious project that has taken more than four years of work together with an amazing team of

A software engineer in Chennai, who files his taxes on time, speaks four languages, and has responsibly produced exactly 1.7 children, gets one vote. A man in Gorakhpur, who has produced eight children, each of whom will also one day produce eight children, also gets one vote.

The Free Speech Delusion (Written on Feb 12, 2025) It’s curious how the First Amendments of the American and Indian Constitutions are the complete antithesis of each other. The First Amendment of the American Constitution reads: “Congress shall make no law respecting an

No journalist covering the #Bengal elections can ignore this: SIR deletions while they are - aren't just rolls purification —there is also clear  disenfranchisement. .. - Have met scores outside appellate tribunals with complete documentation— even links to the 2002

I personally think the question of Lok Sabha seat reapportionment (aka 'delimitation') is an opportunity for a grand bargain. Let me explain. #thread

Why do people prefer costly environmental standards over efficient market-based policies? Misunderstanding of tax incidence and cost-effectiveness. 3-min educational videos change policy preferences, from Chenxi Jiang, Maximiliano Lauletta, Ro'ee Levy, Joseph Shapiro, and @dtaubinsky

Hiring a Research Assistant at Indian School of Business (ISB) to work on projects in private equity and climate finance. Looking for candidates with strong data skills (big data, AI workflows) and an interest in pursuing a finance/econ PhD. Apply here: isb.edu/work-at-isb/ac…

Evidence-based policy change is hard, even from inside government. Some insight from my long-time collaborators at South Africa's Department of Basic Education. jacobuscilliers.github.io/posts/models-o…

The second part of my essay in Hindustan Times with Tanika Chakraborty on the West Bengal economy, focusing on consumer expenditure levels, poverty, and the rural-urban divide.

People act like good writing is just a thing you have or you don't, like gonorrhea. But good writers know exactly what they are doing and exactly what is wrong with bad writing. You can learn these things but you must study them.

What does it look like when leading dev economists teach together? Professors Oriana Bandiera & Robin Burgess (LSE), plus PhD researchers, lead the IGC-G²LM|LIC Online Development Economics Course. 📅 Starts 11 May 2026 👉 youtube.com/watch?v=6mxPW5… theigc.org/events/2026/ig…

I’m really excited about this paper! Some of my work has pointed out problems in empirical work, but this one is all about new 🔧s. If you (or your referees) want to know about the mechanisms by which a treatment affects an outcome, you may be interested. A 🧵.

Follow our work at International Economic Association - Women in Econ for updates from our project on women in Economics in the Global South. #econtwitter Dani Rodrik Monica Biradavolu navika Inés Berniell raquel fernandez Fiona Tregenna

#BREAKING Election duty officers move Supreme Court saying they themselves are not on West Bengal #SIR List Se Adv MR Shamshad: These are 65 petitioners who are on election duty. Their duty orders mention EPIC numbers. Now those numbers are deleted. Now the persons conducting