📣📣 new paper alert 🔔 50 days free access to new paper w Rajesh Ramachandran at @monashuniversity.bsky.social "Discriminatory social norms & early childhood development". How stigmatising caste norms, esp untouchability, affects childhood stunting adversely. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Some photos from a recent visit to #princeton Centre for Global India. It was really nice of Avinash Dixit to come to campus just to meet me 😊 Thanks to Tanushree Goyal for all the warm hospitality 🥰

On Monday at Princeton. Trying to unpack the puzzle of India's low female labour force participation (the recent rise notwithstanding). (What's demand got to do with it? 🤔) @seema.bsky.social

It was wonderful to be a small part of this exciting @lsepublicpolicy.bsky.social project!

@ashwinideshpande.bsky.social @timdobermann.bsky.social @pgourinchas.bsky.social @pjtheeconomist.bsky.social @michaelmarmot.bsky.social @pisaniferry.bsky.social @dannyquah.bsky.social

Excellent discussion about tariffs and industrial policy between @drodrik.bsky.social and @martinsandbu.ft.com! Rodrik talks about Trump’s tariffs as an ineffective Swiss army knife to industrial policy. I would specify that it is a one-blade army knife. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Love it when I get purple first 😎 Connections Puzzle #607 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

What happens when women are denied a wanted abortion? ... ... ... In the short run, their risk of death rises. In the long run, they have... -more health issues, -lower education/labor-force participation, and -higher rates of single motherhood, poverty, and reliance on government assistance

"The Impact of Being Denied a Wanted Abortion on Women and Their Children Get access Arrow" academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...

My take in the IndianExpress today on the Larsen and Toubro 90-hour work week controversy. Instead of glorifying burnout, we need to focus on more sustainable work schedules, fair compensation and genuine equity.

🆕 Can political representation boost forest conservation? Today on VoxDev, @saadgulzar.bsky.social, @apoorvalal.com & @benpasquale.bsky.social explore how decentralising power in India impacted forest conservation: voxdev.org/topic/energy...

"The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals" (w/ E Aigner and J Greenspon)--a much revised and updated version now forthcoming at World Development. (Incidentally, my very first academic publication was in that same journal back in 1981!) drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/publications...

Connections Puzzle #582 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪

Frightening!

“In one of the most astonishing political transformations in the history of democracy,” Hitler destroyed “a constitutional republic through constitutional means,” writes Timothy W. Ryback. Read about how Hitler overcame democracy in just 53 days:

The Getty Center, one of Los Angeles’s most renowned art museums, is now squarely in the mandatory evacuation zone as the Palisades fire’s footprint has grown. An active fire is about a half mile away, but the blaze is not threatening the museum’s main buildings. nyti.ms/3PwJWVC

Farm to table: freshly harvested kumquats converted to delish marmalade. Joys of #gardening & fresh #produce

Maus author Art Spiegelman’s next comic will be about Gaza, in collaboration with Joe Sacco. He thinks he will struggle to find a publisher in the United States. “I’ll finish this thing or die trying.”

I like a lot of figures in the paper, but this figure showing the wage effects across the wage distribution is one of my favorite. Those at the bottom 10% of the wage distribution see the largest gains.

If only there were a study using a higher education expasion to examine whether encouraging students to pursue affordable higher ed boosts their income and enables them to pursue higher paid jobs.

We’ve lost a great man. The economic reforms led by Manmohan Singh lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and gave them livelihoods, dignity— and hope. And by all accounts, he remained empathetic, humble, thoughtful, and gentle to the very end.

Amazing pioneer of trade and industrial reforms in India. The 1991 reforms changed the trajectory of India's economy & the course of history, in many ways he was the Deng Xiaoping of India.... Manmohan Singh, Indian Premier Behind Economic Changes, Dies at 92 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

I have moved my open textbook on inequality research to a new address: https://maxkasy.github.io/inequalityresearch/ (The textbook has not been updated recently, but hopefully is still useful.)

When the former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to DSE for Kaushik Basu’s 65th birthday conference in 2017. An erudite, gentle, courteous presence, he interacted with all of us with utmost ease. Deepest condolences to my Ashoka Univ colleague Upinder Singh & rest of the family.

🥇of my 2024 reads. Happen to be written by women but that's not the (only) reason I found these excellent. The writing is empathetic, nuanced, lucid, moving & the analysis is sharp with new insights. Reveals a face of India that urban, upper middle class, Eng-speaking Indians are mostly oblivious to

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx... (cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!) A short 🧵 on what's new...

NaviHealth algorithm has a “known error rate” of 90%. A man in Tennessee broke his back, was hospitalized for 6 days, moved to a nursing home for 11 days, was informed by UnitedHealth that his care would be cut off in 2 days. He left nursing home, died 4 days later www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Me to AI: Show me a photo of a doctor and nurse at work. First photo: ChatGPT. Second photo: MetaAI. Docs always male; nurses female. Meta has non-White images, ChatGPT predominantly white. AI inherits & reflects our stereotypes & labour market imbalances

Algorithmic bias? I asked ChatGPT “Show me a picture of a professional at work”. It was always a white male. With Meta, first it showed several white women, then a black man (photos in the next post 👇🏽)

Didn’t like this picture version

"Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College" www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

"We show that male [college] students are 18.6% more likely than female students to receive favorable grade changes."

Latest from Rajesh Ramachandran of @monashuniversity & moi in @OxrepJournal. Caste gaps significant but some convergence in asset ownership bet OBCs and UCs. AA in edu for OBCs in 2006 ⬆️ the likelihood of them acquiring tertiary edu. #EconSky #Quotas #India academic.oup.com/oxrep/articl...

Why do you think economists are required to do real analysis in grad school?

I am told I use my hands a lot when speaking 😮 #AHEC2024.

new WP y'all www.nber.org/papers/w33236

Real footage of a synthetic control model

Great tip!

Best day at work! Getting to meet the G.O.A.T maestro A.R.Rahman 😍🤩🥰

My entry into the very crowded field of "What Went Wrong for the Democratic Party in November?"

Great piece from @drodrik.bsky.social on how Bidenomics missed shifting nature of the working class. Lessons for the UK on the "everyday economy". As you'll see from my post yesterday I also see limitations of Bidenomics in reaching the real economy.... www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/d...

The Vietnam story is fascinating and should be studied more.

We've created a starter pack for all of the economics journals on Bluesky. Please nominate other journals to join the list. go.bsky.app/4kR21vX

So excited about this! “The Many Lives of Syeda X” by Neha Dixit is one of the best books I’ve read recently, absolutely fabulous, and Namita Bhandare is an old favourite. Moderated by our fantastic Ceda director, Akshi Chawla, this should be fun conversation. #Datascape 2024 @IHCDelhi

I haven't kept this up, but a while ago I started compiling a list of movies for teaching development (which does not equal economics, but there's overlap). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Lots of new econ lovers here & lots of new resources. A🧵. The #EconSky feed built by @paulgp.com is the central place for econ discussion here. Displays posts with that tag. Click here, Pin it. Shows up as a tab on far right of ur Home screen ribbon 8 more resources... bsky.app/profile/paul...

📣Three of the four panels at Datascape by CEDA.

James is one of the best books I’ve read this year.