Now in American Political Science Review: What do politicians think about their voters? Fielding face-to-face surveys to 982 sitting politicians in 11 countries, and surveys of 12,000 citizens, we find they have remarkably consistent - and cynical - theories of voters: /1 doi.org/10.1017/S00030…

New working paper co-authored with Muneer Kalliyil who is an excellent PhD candidate at IIM Bangalore and on the job market this year. Full draft of the paper is available here: docs.iza.org/dp17404.pdf. Thanks Saksham Khosla for the nice summary.

Alexandra (Lexi) Schubert JMP: "Self-Detrimental Avoidance of Rest" Website: lexischubert.github.io

While India boasts very successful elementary education enrolment, the country still faces challenges in enrolment for higher education. As of 2022, over 40 million young Indians (age 18-23) were enrolled in higher education programmes, but India’s enrolment rates is still below

I've been at the Inter-American Development Bank for exactly one year, and I'm marking it with a new working paper! "Ten Findings about Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean" publications.iadb.org/en/ten-finding… (co-authored with Chang & Carolina Rivas).

.The Economist on India's sudden (artificial?) increase in female labor force participation: "More women in the workforce is good news for India, and for its women. But it is only when they earn more, too, that it will be time to celebrate." economist.com/asia/2024/11/2…

"Impacts for conditional cash transfers and in-kind transfers [on women's economic achievement and autonomy] are small and either marginally significant or insignificant." cgdev.org/publication/so… by Amber Peterman et al

1/ Out now: "How Indian Voters Decide"--a compendium of 10 essays that Carnegie Endowment published in 2024 to explore the underlying drivers of political behavior in India as part of our #IndiaElects2024 initiative.

Studying bureaucracy is my thing. Here are some insights from my research about the ongoing efforts to transform teh US bureaucracy newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/is-the-u-s-civ…

*How* did so much of the world's population exit extreme poverty? Vinny Armentano 📈 , Tom Vogl and I wanted to know; here is what we've found.. econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape…

New Carnegie India paper by Anirudh Suri: The Missing Pieces in India’s AI Puzzle: Talent, Data, and R&D

"Initially, I thought this would be a story about the dark promise of technology and the lure of easy money. But over weeks of reporting, what emerged was a portrait of two Indias colliding – one chasing material progress, the other bent on survival." A Snigdha Poonam must-read