PacDev 2024 done well! Congratulations Stanford King Center on Global Development! Great feedback on my work, so good to meet old friends and colleagues, and always a pleasure to make new ones! And accidentally getting a good spot for the PacDeV 2024 selfie!

Bangladeshi young folks, go for it! Very good opportunity in Dhaka.

It’s a wonderful conference that I have been a part of since its inception. It attracts young researchers who have been working in South Asia, please apply. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions.

During the 1st year of my PhD, I bought a car (hard to navigate with a family without it!), one of my TAs told me ‘how do you know that you gonna survive the qualifying exams? I think it’s a bad investment!’ Well the attrition was around 40% at that time…anyways I survived..

Interested in India/RCTs/women's labor force participation? Come work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner (@gabikw.bsky.social) Akshay Mangla｜अक्षय मंगला Arielle Bernhardt and me on interventions aimed at helping the police retain women officers. RA position J-PAL South Asia. More info here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… cc Econ RA Listings

Excellent opportunity to work with one of the nicest and brilliant Economists! Go for it guys!

Great to see this new evidence on kiln productivity + child and bonded labor from a large team including our new IFPRI colleague Moogdho Mahzab

A brick by brick! Finally our working paper on Brick Kilns and Air Pollution is out.

Happy to share our latest article published in ERSS! Among other things, this paper exemplifies the crucial role of pilot experiments in paving the way for successful full-scale RCTs. Don’t rush with your RCT, the success depends on a brilliant pilot👇🏽 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

‘We are just getting started! Development Economics - so much yet to be done!’ Excellent podcast by James Robinson!

⚡ NEW REPORT ⚡ IFPRI's report on food security and nutrition in Bangladesh highlights critical insights into progress and challenges, and identifies district-level food insecurity hotspots to target vulnerabilities. Read the full report: bangladesh.ifpri.info/2024/11/report… #EconTwitter

Long-overdue on 2024 recap of cool young researcher! #econtwitter My favorite part of social media + it's exciting to highlight a year's worth of exciting researchers. (Given cross-platform posting, won't link to the original 🧵s but direct to researcher sites)

So happy and excited to share that our paper on air pollution from brick kilns in Bangladesh is now published in Science! Even more exciting—it’s on the cover! Huge congratulations to our amazing team of co-authors. So proud to be part of this incredible work!

Please find an excellent summary our work on Brick Kilns in Bangladesh published today in VoxDev.

🧱🔥🌏 This #WorldEnvironmentDay, read this 🆕 study co-authored by Moogdho Mahzab in Science Magazine that found that simple modifications to operational practices at 'zigzag' kilns in #Bangladesh reduced their energy use, emissions, and fuel costs while improving brick

Icymi. . .@ifpri is on fire in the latest issue of JDE (well, soon-to-be the Jan 2026 issue of JDE) with six separate papers from 7 different researchers

🇧🇩 Bangladesh exports £16.5B of garments to Europe but at huge environmental cost. Join us at #LSEEnvironmentWeek to discuss: 🌱Are we using water wisely? 🌱Is greener fashion possible? 23 Sept | 12:30 BST / 5:30pm Dhaka 🔗theigc.org/events/lse-env… #SustainableFashion