Our article in VoxDev based on the paper: aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… showing that border disruptions during the Covid lockdown in India resulted in a persistent change in trading patterns across the Indian states.

Live-tweeting Karthik Muralidharan's presentation on state capacity at NEUDC. Simple story of India's economy: - Top 10% drives demand and growth - Next 30-40% in service sector jobs supporting the top 10% - remaining 50% left out, supported by welfare programs Seems suboptimal 1/n

protip: the more you click refresh tonight the faster the election results will come in

Delighted to share that my TED Talks on how we can avail a 'free lunch' to accelerate global development by 'spending smarter' and increasing the effectiveness of public expenditure, is now online: Watch here: bit.ly/3Z1PMEb #TEDTalk #Education

The Environmental Inequality Lab is hiring 2 new pre-docs to join our team! We do research in environmental economics but those with interests in labor/public/urban/spatial/development economics should def apply. Apply here: tinyurl.com/EIL-pre-doc Econ RA Listings PREDOC.org AERE

Are you interested in the health and economic impacts of climate change? I've spent my PhD researching this. Now I'm on the job market! 🧵highlighting my published/working papers from my first publication to my #JMP I'll start with my first (and most cited) publication👇

Fascinating paper on where 6000 global elites went to college. Billionaires, CEOs, heads of state, central bankers, etc. In a word: Harvard. Fully 10% of global elites went to Harvard. Elite US schools are over-represented (23% IvyPlus), but nobody comes close to Harvard. 🧵

Thrilled to see our paper "NGOs and the effectiveness of interventions" finally out in the November 2024 issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat)!

Fact: It’s easier for the U.S. to hire Sriram Krishnan for a senior White House position than it would be for Modi to hire him as a joint secretary in some ministry that nobody has heard of.

I look forward to catching up with folks at the #ASSA2025 meeting in San Francisco. I'll present "Internal Trade Barriers in India" on Sunday at 1pm in an "Economics of Transportation" session in Hilton US6. Session: aeaweb.org/conference/202… Paper: jdingel.com/research/Barnw…

Announcing multiple job openings for Economics PhDs interested in policy research in India CEGIS Details at: econjobmarket.org/positions/11387 Applications will be considered on a rolling basis, but please apply by 12 Jan 2025 for full consideration.

Many social programs are presented as investments that will pay for themselves via better outcomes in the future. But is it true? What if govt funding was tied to outcomes rather than inputs? We Arnold Ventures and others tested that model in a first of its kind project. 1/12

I'd love to see a proper IO analysis of the deepseek shock on Nvidia. What we learned, is that you can do much more with an Nvidia GPU than we thought. But it’s not immediately obvious that this is bad news for Nvidia. Imagine Nvidia had just announced that its next-generation

*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…

It annoys me a little how unwilling econ students are to do case studies Say you're studying bank lending in the US, you learn a ton by getting on the phone with loan officers at a couple of banks, and surprisingly often people will write whole papers without ever doing this

The similarities between Abundance & Karthik Muralidharan's Accelerating India's Development; the need for tinkering, but also for stopping dumb polices - today's blog post is my attempt to draw out common themes and lessons blogs.worldbank.org/en/impactevalu…

Thrilled to share the phenomenal placements of our eight SIPA SusDev PhD job market candidates this year! Anna Papp – Postdoc: MIT Econ | AP: UCSB Bren Danny Bressler – AP: Bentley Econ Gabriel Gonzalez Suntil – Economist: Amazon Isabella Smythe – ML Engineer: Rhizome

A new study in JAMA tracks all children's breakfast cereals launched since 2010. Even starting from a low baseline, the trend was higher fat, sodium, carbs, and sugar and lower protein and fiber. There's a reason American cereals are sold in candy stores in Europe. via STAT

🚨 Hiring an RA/Sr. RA (based at Indian School of Business (ISB) ) o work on governance reform with the Punjab govt. Field-based, fast-paced & high-impact. Great for future policy leaders and econ PhD aspirants 🔗 JD : tinyurl.com/yuyascmv 📍 Mohali, India | Jun/Jul'25 Econ RA Listings Econ RA Listings India