In total, this provides a new model for how big animals avoid cancer - maybe they’re just better at DNA repair than us? As a next step, I’d love to see this validated in an animal model - if you drive high expression of whale CIRBP in the mouse, are they cancer-resistant?

"Live Tutoring Calls Did Not Improve Learning during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Sierra Leone" is now forthcoming at the Journal of Development Economics! Read the nearly final working paper here cgdev.org/publication/li… by @LeeCrawfurd, @SusannahHares, Justin Sandefur, & me

12% of Americans live in California - but 30% of homeless Americans, and 50% of unsheltered Americans, call California "home." This prompts endless schadenfreude from "red state" partisans, and is waved as proof of the failure of liberal policies. 1/

A new global database of intergenerational mobility for 153 countries has been offered by Roy van der Weide (Roy Van Der Weide) and colleagues at the World Bank and UN Refugee Agency with PSID 2015 survey as the US representative. myumi.ch/AWM4e

Thinking of Vikram Sarabhai and CR Rao today.

ILO has a very useful piece on Myanmar's conflict-ridden labor market ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/… Great to see my report "A Growing Crisis: Work, Workers, and Wellbeing in Myanmar, 2023" cited in it worldbank.org/en/country/mya… #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Xavier Estupinan

Great story about an exceptional officer Divya Mittal in Indian Express today. She might be facing a minor career hurdle right now but she is inspiring many far and wide. indianexpress.com/article/cities…

Internal migration is central to India’s development. Big cities pull in professionals from across the country. Meanwhile money sent home by lower-skilled migrants brings relief to areas that desperately need it. So why are Indians not more mobile? econ.st/4ah2bHe 👇

On this International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the 2024 World Bank Report on Poverty, Prosperity, and Planet #3PR warns that the goal of eradicating extreme poverty by 2030 is out of reach. Nearly 700 million people still live on less than $2.15 per day, and a