Development economist, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Illinois, USA
Joined May 2019
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🆕 Can home visits enhance the impact of cash transfers?
Today on VoxDev, @RichardAkresh (@EconatIllinois), @damiendwa (@wb_research), Harounan Kazianga (@okstate) & @a_j_stocker (@williamandmary) discuss a social safety net programme in Burkina Faso: voxdev.org/topic/social-prot…
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Met a few of their extremely impressive JMCs: sites.google.com/illinois.ed…
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-> All are doing very creative natural experiments in devo . The future is bright
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Hi #EconTwitter! Job Market Update!
I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining @DartmouthEcon!
Big thanks to my advisors and mentors @RichardAkresh @adammosman Rebecca Thornton and @lwantchekon.
I am also very grateful to my family and friends for their support.
Super fascinating visualization of the impact of ignoring social distancing.
Want to see the true potential impact of ignoring social distancing? Through a partnership with @xmodesocial, we analyzed secondary locations of anonymized mobile devices that were active at a single Ft. Lauderdale beach during spring break. This is where they went across the US:
Some really good advice from @AlexBartik about things to consider when picking research projects. Goes beyond "select a credible identification strategy" and gets at the human side of the project, something economists often forget about
Thanks to @bIGIdeas_UoB for organizing the lecture. And to @interfields and @chriskdarko for inviting me to Birmingham. Wonderful inter-disciplinary visit meeting lots of non-economists doing research in Africa. Learned a lot this week.
Huge thanks to @RichardAkresh who delivered today’s @bIGIdeas_UoB lecture on the inter generational effects of the Biafran war. Great to see economists, medics and regional experts come together for this one.
Cool NY Times arricle about my new @EconatIllinois colleague @andy_garin Unfortunately they only cite the first author (Brett Collins), but Andy's part of the "other collaborators"
Excellent overview of the state of the gig economy in the US by @Neil_Irwin, featuring our recent work at IRS.
The thread he finds connecting all the recent research is spot on.
nytimes.com/2019/09/15/upsho…
Very cool assignment for courses on Africa by @texasinafrica I have a similar discussion in my class and I also have the students consider what stereotypes students at African universities might have about America and why those might or might not be accurate.
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Powerful thread by @michelson_hope Also depressing some of the things faculty at US schools need to be thinking about. I'll tag #econadvice because I doubt grad schools are teaching this.
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Check out this important new paper by @germancaruso and the write up in BBC
This note is based on the paper that we have with @Val_Mueller_ASU
and @cgomezcanon about the impacts of the Venezuelan migration in Colombia:
The gig economy is a double-edged sword for migrant workers bbc.com/capital/story/201907… via @BBC_Capital
Richard Akresh retweeted
What were the chances of surviving childhood in the past?
For millennia, 1-in-4 died in the first year of life; half did not reach puberty.
Our recent post:
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Super interesting new work on job search/training by my colleague @AlexBartik. Excited to see this project coming together and can't wait to see the final results.
J-PAL North America's Work of the Future Innovation Competition is now open! Learn more about the new research being conducted under the Work of the Future initiative: j-p.al/c82ab @JPAL_NA
Congratulations @LeonardoBM_dev
I'm very happy to announce that my paper with @ivanhigueram "Protected Areas under Weak Institutions: Evidence from Colombia" was accepted for publication at World Development! Special thanks to @gotonura for his guidance and suggestions. Details in thread:
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Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating! Nothing like that first morning tea when you've gone without for a month. Gives you a tiny taste of what those who are food insecure go through all the time. I'm blessed to have a job that let's me try to do something about it.
Thanks for sharing
Building schools boosts long-term & intergenerational outcomes, @GlobaldevB on the impact of over 61,000 primary schools built in #Indonesia in the 1970s, research by @mariekekleemans @DanielHalim93 @RichardAkresh globaldev.blog/blog/building…
Agree. Was taught by Mike Boozer to always start projects with graphing and simple descriptive stats and then go from there. Graduate students often want to start with the complicated econometrics first.
Great advice that @AnneKaring passed along from @tedmiguel
Thanks @voxeu and @cepr_org for publishing my blog post about the long-term and intergenerational impacts of school construction in Indonesia. The project is joint with @mariekekleemans and @DanielHalim93. Here's the post: voxeu.org/article/long-term-…
Thanks @voxeu for the blog post on my paper with @RichardAkresh and @DanielHalim93 on the long-term and intergenerational effects of school construction in Indonesia: ow.ly/dRjo50uhbOk
I was in Burkina Faso doing dissertation research in 2000-2001 soon after Zongo was killed and this was still all my colleagues wanted to talk about, but it was always in hushed tones and never in public. Fascinating history.
Norbert Zongo, investigative journalist from Burkina Faso, was murdered for his work. This novel, published a decade before his death, is a fast-paced, biting satire of a fallen despot, peppered with dark humor. davidevans.blog/2019/05/18/r… #ReadAfricanWriters book 22 for 2019
