How can housing subsidies change the trajectory of beneficiaries’ lives? CEGA faculty affiliate @tanukumar.com’s new book explores how subsidized home ownership in India shapes beneficiaries’ economic, social, and political behavior. Learn more: go.cega.org/buildingsocialmobility

"... shows how a different form of public policy-subsidized home ownership-can transform poor people's lives by bolstering not just wealth but also agency and civic participation." 'Building Social Mobility' by @tanukumar.com. Coming Soon - 📚 cup.org/3Hu4o9k 📚

The new paper from Adam Auerbach & @tanukumar.com, challenges the conventional understanding of urban peripheries as neglected zones & demonstrates them as crucial sites of negotiation, innovation & contestation. Indeed, future of urban India can't be shaped just in city centres but at their edges.

Sure many academic books are padded articles but also

Really grateful to be receiving McCourt's Tech & Public Policy grant---with @tanukumar.com and @gabikw.bsky.social---to study how citizen-generated information influences civic action for governance in India! Other fantastic projects funded here: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/tech-pu...

Terps 🤩 JuJu 💔

I'll be starting at the World Bank as a Governance Specialist in the Public Institutions and Data Analytics Unit in May. Excited to work with a great team on important work, and to be back in my hometown is a dream. Thanks to everyone at CGU for all you've taught me.

My book, Building Social Mobility is available for preorder! shorturl.at/jlgQv

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

"We are attempting to survive our time, so we may live into yours."

ICYMI Ryan Atwood from the OC wrote a bestselling book on crypto www.amazon.com/Easy-Money-C...

You know it’s bad when even Trump is pity posting through it 💀

How can citizens drive accountability in resource-strained bureaucracies? 🌍 GLD Policy Brief No.26 explores how community efforts, empathy, and mobilization improve service delivery in rural India. Read the brief to learn more! bit.ly/4feVFm1 By Gabi Kruks-Wisner, @tanukumar.com, Jessica Mayberry.

Pick a movie, keep one actor. The rest are muppets. Interstellar Michael Kaine

Policy brief on my work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner and Video Volunteers on how citizens can demand responsiveness from bureaucrats who are overburdened and not formally accountable to them: gld.gu.se/en/publicati...

🎉 Thrilled that my new book, *Creating Partisans: The Organizational Roots of New Parties in Latin America*, is finally out! 🎉 @cambridgeup.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/us/universit... A brief summary: 1/n

Just watched ucla wbb CRUSH South Carolina. Insane!!

You are a PhD/postdoc & have a paper on how citizens view or understand representation, or what they expect from representatives? If yes, please send us your paper proposal for a fully-funded place in a workshop on "Citizens' Views on Representation" 👇. t.co/aJ0SOwyCge

Love how in lotr people are like “be back with the other fighters in two days” and correctly estimate so people are always in time for the war

can someone explain to me how relying on starter packs to discover people to follow is different from pre-twitter forms of information dissemination where it was hard for people not central in networks to be seen?

Great paper showing how flood risk information affects housing choices. Connects well with our finding (w/ Balboni, Waseem: jmboehm.github.io/Pakistan_Flo...) that agents are imperfectly informed about flood risks. Clear evidence that better information can help adaptation to climate risks.

Seems important: a policy to remove undocumented migrants reduced not just their employment, but also those of citizens.

Some casual shocking stats on wealth inequality in the US. Today, bottom 50% holds 2.5 percent of wealth compared to top .1% holding 13.5, top 1% holding almost 30%. www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/...

which policies build enduring social mobility? My take: those that 1) give beneficiaries a sense of agency and control and 2) not only improve econ. outcomes, but social status as well. Most welfare policies do not do 1, and virtually none do 2. Exception: housing (1/2)

perennial plea to APSA/MPSA/SPSA to consider adding someone with expertise outside the US and Europe to the editorial boards of the APSR/AJPS/JOP, our discipline's top general interest journals.

Excited to host the Southern California Political Institutions and Political Economy Conference at @CGUnews tomorrow, March 22! If you are in the area, feel free to drop by!

Reupping a post that got lost in the holidays: The South Asian politics section of APSA now has prizes for best book and best article on South Asia. Please nominate work you admire (even your own).

did you know: you can search for "thank my driver" on amazon and they'll give a $5 tip at no cost to you!

The Midwest Workshop in Empirical Political Science (MWEPS) is now accepting applications for its Spring 2024 meeting! The 11th meeting of MWEPS will be held in-person at the Department of Political Science at Penn State on Friday, March 29, 2024. Link: t.co/wUT0IFuw6h

My team is hiring interns! Applications welcome from PhD students with expertise in causal inference and experimentation and an interest in developing and/or applying methods to industrial applications. jobs.netflix.com/jobs/306716846

My take on the elections results in India. Competitive welfarism leaves parties undifferentiated. Elections are fought on a larger range of issues, which explains why popular CMs can in fact lose. economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c...

Looking for anyone willing to share code for conjoint programming in surveyCTO. Thanks! Polisky Econsky

Just read @dmasterson.bsky.social's latest in the APSR. Wow! It's the rare instance of an RCT that assigns *network structure* then observes problem-solving behavior. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... We learn network density has upsides (⬆️ engagement) and downsides (⬇️ unique resources).

My cover for today's A.I. issue of The New Yorker more: www.christophniemann.com/detail/nyerc...

Pacific Conference for Development Economics (PacDev) Saturday, March 9, 2024 Stanford King Center on Global Development Submit Your Paper Paper submissions are due by 11:59 PM PST on Sunday, December 10, 2023 #Econsky cega.submittable.com/submit/27734...

We are still searching for a program manger here at PDRI-DevLab, who would manage a portfolio of studies around migration, displacement and human trafficking. Come work with Erik Wibbels, and I and our great, fun, and collegial team. Please consider applying (or nudging others to apply).

What is the most interesting question in your subfield that PhD candidates could consider pursuing? I’ll start:

Some of my thoughts on citizen behavior, bureaucrats, and outer space. Thanks for the opportunity to do this interview, GLD Gothenburg! gld.gu.se/media/3049/t...