How much of Chinese growth is *TFP growth* vs ‘merely’ Solow catch-up growth? A mini lit review, for the purpose of attracting real experts to correct my errors 🤠

Excited to announce that I will be starting today as a Research Fellow at Open Philanthropy, working on investigating cause areas in global health and development!

Taxes and empires - my little review of Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State! Dipping into the why and how of fiscal policy under colonial rule, via Charles Maier (for some reason…) open.substack.com/pub/unevenandc…

Forgot to share this earlier, but I'm now qualified to respond to in-flight emergencies. My gratitude goes out to my PhD committee—Edward Miguel, Jon Steinsson, Barry Eichengreen, & Ben Faber—for their steadfast support of my (at-times unconventional) research

How did East Asia get Rich? Podcast with the great Oliver Kim!! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/7c3TaB… Full transcript: ggd.world/p/how-did-east…

This Labor Day, thinking of this quote from Studs Terkel’s Working: "I would like to see a building, say, the Empire State, [with] the name of every bricklayer, the name of every electrician, with all the names... Everybody should have something to point to." - Mike Lefevre,

!!!! Pollsters often ignore sampling weights when computing margins of error, reporting them based on the SRS formula... "Errors should be increased by a factor of 30%". And this is before getting into other problems! –Shirani-Mehr, Rothschild, Goel, and Gelman (2018) in JASA

I've read through Oliver Kim and Jen-Kuan Wang's paper. In short, this empirical study is groundbreaking. It provides evidence for what some historians have been arguing: Taiwan's land reform success has been exaggerated and turned into a miracle narrative. Thread (1/15)

Nothing cleans out a kitchen like giving a talk the next day

Just a reminder that undocumented immigrants were killed in 9-11 and also around 2000 helped clean up the wreckage after — and many suffered chronic health issues due to that work. documentedny.com/2023/09/12/911…

Thanks Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 for the kind writeup of my 🇹🇼 Taiwan land reform paper with Jen-Kuan Wang! Haha and I promise will blog more, between finishing my PhD and getting the TW paper out and starting at Open Phil and trying to move to SF it's been quite the summer🫠