Our piece in The Hindu shows how 🇮🇳 is steadily moving from a technology consumer to a technology creator, and that universities are at the crux of this transformation. PMO India Abhay Karandikar Arindam Ghosh CAFRAL Shouvik Chatterjee

The fertility decline is everywhere in the world today. In rich OECD countries, this decline began decades ago. Birthrates have been below replacement in the U.S. and Europe since the mid-1970s but have fallen further.

Xing Xu Xing Xu, PhD student at UMN Economics and research analyst at Minneapolis Fed and I have just finished a study that compares economic experiences of China and Mexico after they opened to international trade and foreign investment. minneapolisfed.org/research/staff… Heller-Hurwicz Economics Institute

Reminder: Deadline for submitting your paper for the 20th ACEGD conference at ISI-Delhi is approaching soon (15th of September). isid.ac.in/~acegd/acegd20… I particularly encourage public finance-macro researchers to submit their papers.

We're Hiring! Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi invites applications for: 1. Professor 2. Associate Professor #IEG #JobAlert #hiring #academia #Economics #ResearchPapers #HiringNow #HiringAlert Click here for more details- iegindia.org/wp-content/upl…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "Wealth tax enforcement in Sweden: Filing requirements and pre-populated returns" By Emmanuel Saez & David Seim sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics

Bruno Pellegrino QJE VoxDev Link: voxdev.org/topic/macroeco…

Just published in Journal of Public Economics: "VAT incidence in real VAT systems" By Giacomo Brusco & Tejaswi Velayudhan sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #econtwitter #publiceconomics

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Happy to see the Govt. addressing key policies: we need discussions on (a) the time and money costs of raising children in cities, (b) the role of extended families when market childcare is scarce, and (c) income security for retirees after investing in kids, among others.

Global current account imbalances are widening again, reversing a post-crisis trend and signaling possible structural shifts, according to the IMF’s 2025 External Sector Report. imf.org/en/Publication…

Recently, I posted about measuring aggregate efficiency with heterogeneous agents. Here, we apply that idea to incomplete markets. We quantify misallocation in domestic and international settings, without assumptions on productivity shocks, financial frictions, ownership of

Institute of Economic Growth and Ministry of Finance , GOI is jointly organising the 4th edition of the Kautilya Economic Conclave during October 3-5, 2025. Ministry of Finance Nirmala Sitharaman Office N. K. Singh #KautilyaEconomicConclave2025 #KEC2025 Read-pib.gov.in/PressReleseDet…

No need to win in every small thing. Win when it is actually needed :)

China’s New Rural Pension Scheme unexpectedly lowered the high cost of migration by freeing younger workers from household duties – boosting migration, wages, household welfare, and even national GDP. Read this week's article to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

Excited to announce a Call for Papers in Economic Inquiry in honor of Louis Putterman. We welcome contributions in a) Experimental Economics and b) Long Run Growth. I am honored to be coediting the growth section w/ Ola Olsson Ömer Özak. Due Aug 31, 2026. #econtwitter

We are hiring! Join the stellar Economics @ Ashoka faculty & further enrich the most diverse range of research expertise in 🇮🇳. Esp if you work on environmental econ & finance: the 2 areas we are looking to strengthen. #econtwitter Ashoka University

New paper on the impact that human capital accumulation has on growth convergence across regions. Take a look.

Thrilled to share that my ISI - Delhi colleague Debasis Mishra has been named one of the 25 new Fellows of the Econometric Society this year! Huge congratulation!!