🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 We show that India's PDS program reduced child stunting Forthcoming at AEJ:Applied : aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

📢 #AMIE’s Call for #Mentees for 2025–26 is live! tinyurl.com/yca8ycjk Ready to expand your network and get PhD guidance? Apply by July 11: forms.gle/PFjKKCV336Q7v6… Know more at econmentoring.org #econtwitter

🎓Want to support the next generation of economists? #AMIE's Call for #Mentors for 2025-26 is live! tinyurl.com/49er8bpk Apply by July 11: forms.gle/FXpw6MUW5WBeT3… We are excited to hear from you! Find out more at econmentoring.org #econtwitter

We are delighted to have Jessica Leight and Nishith Prakash as coordinators this year!

Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings Last week on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (DartmouthEcon), Priya Mukherjee (UWMadison Ag&AppEcon), Nikhilesh Prakash (Stockholm School of Economics), Nishith Prakash (NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs NU Economics) & Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

"Floods", by Dev Patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

Difference-in-differences for practitioners from the diff-in-diffs dream team!

As demand for heroin decreases in the US—driven by the growing dominance of synthetic opioids—drug cartels have pivoted to an unexpected but profitable venture: avocados🥑 Read this week's article to learn more: voxdev.org/topic/institut…

FYI: The "dollar a day" global poverty line is now $3.00

Every journal acceptance is special, but this one means the world. Our #RCT on girls’ education & bicycle access in Zambia began in 2016. After years of work, 7 rejections, and revisions, it’s finally found a home at The Economic Journal! Grateful to Basit Zafar & two generous referees.

#Mentors, apply now! Nishith Prakash Jessica Leight Priya Mukherjee

Deadline just a few weeks away. Apply now! Nishith Prakash Jessica Leight Priya Mukherjee

Do food transfers actually reduce stunting? Evidence from a program reaching 500 million people in India

Delivering mental health care to adolescents in low-resource settings Last month on VoxDev w/ Eric Edmonds (DartmouthEcon), Priya Mukherjee (UWMadison Ag&AppEcon), Nikhilesh Prakash (Stockholm School of Economics), Nishith Prakash (NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs NU Economics) & Shwetlena Sabarwal (World Bank): voxdev.org/topic/health/d…

Just one day left to apply to the flagship #AMIE Mentoring Program! Jessica Leight Priya Mukherjee NBER AEA Journals

This looks a must read for those interested in triple differences (DDD) designs. It shows that the standard way many estimate DDD is wrong. It shows why and gives you tools that work with covariates and staggered adoption. Bonus: free R package.

Amazing presentation by Priya Mukherjee on our joint work on impact of delivering mental health care in Nepal at NBER today! Joint with Eric Edmonds Shwetlena Sabarwal, and Nikhilesh Prakash! Northeastern CSSH NU School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs NU Economics Northeastern Global News Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative

For anyone in Madison this summer: I'm looking forward to speaking about my new book, "Reinventing Protestant Germany," in conversation with Jonathan Pollack at Leopold's (Regent St.) on Aug. 26! tockify.com/leopoldsmadiso…

We’re experimentally evaluating an AI-powered mental health app among women in Mexico. What do you predict the outcomes will be? If you work in development, AI, or mental health, we’d love to hear your predictions about potential impacts. 👇 #psychtwitter #econtwitter

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development isid.ac.in/~acegd/acegd20… It's a great conference, I'm on the program committee and hoping to attend this year