🇨🇳 vs. 🇮🇳: How did education shape their economic journeys? Li Yang & Nitin Kumar Bharti examine 100 years of diverging paths: China: Bottom-up, quantity first. India: Top-down, quality-focused. Download the paper ▶️wid.world/news-article/c… Key findings in 2/2👇

By synthesizing historical and educational reports and surveys, Nitin Kumar Bharti and Li Yang built a new dataset to compare human capital accumulation strategies of China and India and their effects on inequality and economic development. ▶️wid.world/news-article/c…

New on inequalitylab.world "The Making of China and India in 21st Century: Long-Run Human Capital Accumulation from 1900 to 2020”, WIL WP 2024/24 Congrats Li Yang & Nitin Kumar Bharti for this very important historical work Bottom line: China was better able than India to

The World Inequality Lab is happy to announce the update of its database! 🪩 Get more insights into the 2024 #inequalitydata by checking our news posts: 👉10 facts on global inequality in 2024 wid.world/news-article/1… 👉A closer look at six regions wid.world/news-article/i…

Really happy to see this in print. Will do a full thread later but big picture take-aways: (1) Admin data on learning in India has severe manipulation (2) No easy statistical fixes. Be v cautious using these for research or policy (3) We can do better (companion RCT in EJ)

Very delighted to see the coverage of our work :) Those interested in going through the paper or just glancing over the revealing graphs, here is the working paper - prod.wid.world/www-site/uploa…

Are you a PhD student working on conflict and economic development? We are looking for papers for the PhD poster session at the ReCIPE inception conference in PSE (13-14 February): recipe.cepr.org/event/4553. The deadline is 15 December. CEPR Dominic Rohner Paris School of Economics

A summary of our paper can be found here 👇

📰28 working papers published ▶️inequalitylab.world/en/news/ 🇮🇳🔍The study co-authored by Nitin Kumar Bharti Lucas Chancel Anmol Somanchi Thomas Piketty brought inequality to the forefront of India's election debate ▶️wid.world/news-article/i…

Join us online on January 30th! Register here: ysiproject.org/ecr

Hiring RA on a project on the criminal justice system in India. The RA will work closely with me, Sutanuka Roy (Sutanuka Roy), and Priyama Majumdar (Priyama Majumdar). Econ RA Listings Link to JD: dropbox.com/scl/fi/gul67sz…

The next ViCE seminar is this Thursday, March 13, at 1pm ET. Nitin Kumar Bharti will present: "Justice for All? The Impact of Legal Aid in India" More info: jenniferdoleac.com/vice-seminar/

Children in Sub-Saharan Africa receive just 3% of the public education funding available to their peers in Europe and North America. 🧵A thread on a NEW STUDY written with Nitin Kumar Bharti, Amory Gethin Thanasak Jenmana Zhexun MO & Li Yang [1/10] 🔗The study and a summary are available