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Jessica Leight

5 months

It's been a phenomenal year for cool young researcher! Excited to share the work of *40* great development economists based all around the world, here's a recap 🧵. . .follow them, read + cite their papers, look out for them!

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

1/ Wanted to do an #EconTwitter 🧵 on a new + important topic that's growing in the literature: rigorous evidence about how policy-makers use + respond to evidence! Most of these papers are very recent, many still WP

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

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Excited to share that I have now been promoted to Senior Research Fellow at @ifpri ! This has been a fabulous research home + I look forward to continuing to work with an amazing set of colleagues + coauthors in the coming years

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Jessica Leight

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3 years

Last September I had a pandemic baby! And apart from being a joyful distraction, he brought a streak of R&Rs in the first four months of life. All 7 are now published or forthcoming (4 in health journals, 3 econ), so in celebration, my baby publication 🧵

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Hot take for #EconTwitter : economics should have more talks structured around a whole research agenda, not a single paper. Recently gave such a talk at Harvard SPH (thanks @maggiemcconnell for invite!) focusing on my IPV work and it was incredibly useful (to me);

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

I'm still looking for about 15-16 PhD students or postdocs in econ or related fields at universities based in LMICs who would like feedback on a JMP (or advanced paper)! Have an excess of mentors, which is awesome. Sign up here! Spread the word!

Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

Tl;dr: need more PhD students from LMICs w/research papers who want feedback! Thrilled to see a lot of response to this mentoring initiative (see 🧵 below); right now, more mentors than mentees (thanks volunteers!)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

So much of what we hear around RCTs are exciting stories about how evidence is used to inform policy. Which is awesome! I love evidence-informed policy. However, I'm sure many of us have also had experiences that are different, and more challenging.

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Jessica Leight

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1 year

Planned on a baby sprinkle this weekend and instead I got a baby! Grateful for this little crasher who plopped onto my "there's still time!" to do list 4 weeks early :)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @akib_kn @EconomicsUU , who works on human capital + experiments. . .though I normally focus on post-PhD researchers, Akib is already so productive it's hard to believe he's a PhD candidate!

Home

I am an Economics PhD student at Uppsala University, Sweden. Broadly, I am interested in human capital investments in developing countries and international migration. Please see Research for...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

1/ Enjoyed seminar by @Susan_Athey at Georgetown yesterday presenting paper about the effects of contraceptive counseling + discounts in Cameroon, + an overview of process of running an adaptive RCT. Short #EconTwitter 🧵 about the latter, for interested applied researchers

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Recently, I became curious about what funders were funding RCTs of different types in development economics and where those trials are ultimately published or disseminated. Wanted to take a look! Here’s a short 🧵 on the first part of my findings. #EconTwitter

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

I’m interested in mental health! And I’ve had the general sense that a number of interesting papers had surfaced lately reporting effects of various psychosocial interventions on depression / mental health in LMICs, so time for a short 🧵!

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Wanted to do a short #EconTwitter 🧵 on an important Q I've been thinking about lately: how to choose research topics? I'm an outlier in this area b/c I work on a lot of different things, so my first comment is: follow your preferences.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @kanmahajan @AshokaUniv who works on questions related to gender, labor + agriculture; Kanika has a stunningly wide array of interesting papers, so here's a snapshot. . .

Kanika Mahajan

Welcome!

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

5 months

The first rule of research is that whatever you think of doing, someone else has already done with a larger budget and a better sample

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

Happy to share my first RCT conditionally accepted via pre-results review at JDE, evaluating the effects of a reduced graduation model program on child nutritional outcomes in extremely poor rural households in Ethiopia @dogilligan @kallehi @ifpri

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

This week's cool young researcher is @mahreenmahmud at Exeter who works on topics related to gender, behavioral economics, + migration

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Welcome! I am a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at the University of Exeter Business School Department of Economics. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Development...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

I’m coming up to my two year anniversary at IFPRI, my third job after starting at Williams and AU. Many people ask me how I find IFPRI compared to my previous academic positions, so. . .time for a short almost-anniversary 🧵

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

10 months

Great to see this fascinating paper by @evavivalt Coville analyzing how policymakers (WB, IADB) respond to evidence out in JDE tl;dr: they are overly optimistic; update more on good news; relatively insensitive to confidence intervals.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Neat new article in JDE by @MiguelTalamas shows evidence of a highly negative effect of grandmothers' deaths on mothers' employment rates (⬇️ 12 pp)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Lots of interesting papers coming out about effects of childcare on range of outcomes in developing countries, so time for a short #EconTwitter 🧵! Focusing here on papers that go beyond parsing out the daycare - employment relationship

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Caught up on this recent NBER WP on labor productivity growth and industrialization in Africa by McMillan and @AlbertZeufack Offers a very useful overview of trends in manufacturing and structural transformation in SSA; worth quick 🧵 #EconTwitter

Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

5 months

On the last day of 2023 #EconTwitter , highlighting my top 10 development papers (in dev journals) of the year! I love reading the fabulous research published in general interest journals, but here's your regular reminder there's much to learn outside the top 5 (or 10). . .

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Neat new paper by awesome colleagues @s_anukriti @Prof_Nishith_P and Kwon on saving for dowry in rural India, now published in JDE Joins a literature on dowry in India that seems to be growing really fast, so short 🧵 for my own edification

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Novel example of how to handle highlights vs. abstract in this new JDE article. . .

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

9 months

It's almost jm season! It's 10 years post-jm for me, so here are the 10 tips that would have helped me the most.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

It's been a long while since I did a real lit review 🧵 but here's one! Lots of new recent experimental evidence on interventions targeting women's LFP in South Asia. . .if you've missed some of those papers, here's a thread for you.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Today's take: economics would benefit from having more of a culture of sharing everything that we do in some form (briefs / short pubs / powerpoints / etc) rather than waiting for the one amazing 50-page paper paper that can make the top 5.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 months

Economists (or other social scientists) writing for health journals: a short #EconTwitter 🧵 on getting started! I now write around 50% of my papers for health journals. Writing for a different discipline is like learning a new paper language; but slope of improvement is rapid

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Jessica Leight

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2 years

#EconTwitter is it just me who finds the existing JEL codes a woefully poor match for literally anything I have ever written a paper about?

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

As I wrapped up another slew of referee reports this week (no worries, I actually love refereeing + learn a lot from it!) I thought it might be fun to do a little 🧵on my most common comments as a referee (and now, as an editor) - mainly for empirical papers

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Happy 2023 #EconTwitter ! This week's cool young researcher is @lydia_assouad at @LSE_ID who works on inequality and political economy, especially in the Middle East (a region often understudied by dev economists)

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Lydia Assouad

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

As new PhD students start to look forward to their first year, short 🧵 on challenges in collaboration in grad school (and its potentially gendered dimensions). Many people advise grad students to rely on their classmates: first in coursework, later on projects / as coauthors.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 years

Happy to share a new paper of mine on vote-buying and political accountability, recently published in @JPubEcon joint with Foarta, Pande and Ralston! (1/7)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @khalifa_suzanna @amseaixmars , soon joining Science Po, who works on questions related to gender + family economics

Suzanna Khalifa

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

I’ve lately been publishing more extensively in health journals (reporting on health-related RCTs), and while many have commented on the difference between publishing models in economics and health, wanted to briefly share some thoughts. 1/8 #econtwitter

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Three very recent papers share imp findings about survey fatigue relevant for many of the fieldwork-conducting members of #EconTwitter , so short 🧵 here. tl;dr: the later in a survey a question module appears, the fewer items respondents seem to report. . .

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 months

11 years post PhD and I'm still doing 1, 2 and 3

Life After My Ph.D.

@LifeAfterMyPhD

4 months

Mistakes I made during my PhD: • Comparing myself to others • Idolizing my research supervisor • Taking rejections too personally Things I did right during my PhD: • Consistently going to therapy • Maintaining an active social life • Staying out of the lab on weekends

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 month

Was excited to see the email announcing special issue of @J_HumanResource edited by Janet Currie on causes + consequences of child mental health drop into my inbox today. . .so a summary 🧵 on papers + findings

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 years

Excited to share new results from a large-scale RCT targeting the prevention of intimate partner violence and HIV risk behaviors in rural Ethiopia published today, joint with @VSharmaGlobHth and Negussie Deyessa (1/10)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

5 months

Happy to round out 2023 with the news that I'm joining the @PLOSONE team of academic editors; look forward to working on editing articles focused on IPV, mental health + psychosocial outcomes

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Thanks #EconTwitter for a robust discussion of value of machine learning methods to select controls in RCTs! Here’s a quick summary of all the replies as hopefully there are useful references here for others.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

10 months

Normally never do pictures, but worth celebrating. . 2 months on zone defense with this one + his big brothers! tl;dr fun + I'm extremely tired

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Fascinating new paper in the latest AEJ Applied by Edin, Fredriksson, Nybom, + Öckert capturing the evolution of returns to cog and non-cog skills over time using data on the universe of drafted men in Sweden #EconTwitter

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

This week's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @dveracossio at @IDB_Research who works on questions related to cash transfers, pensions, and poverty

Diego A. Vera-Cossio

Welcome to my website! I am a researcher at the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank in DC. I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from UC San Diego in 2018. My research studies how...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Happy to see the latest JEP table of contents and took a look at the @bfjo paper on teamwork right away (h/t @jenniferdoleac ). Really fascinating and some striking graphics on the rise of teamwork in econ; short 🧵 #EconTwitter

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @ffernandezbazan at the University of Piura in Peru, who works on education + health

Fernando Fernandez

Welcome to my home page! I am a postdoctoral researcher at the Wyss Academy for Nature of the University of Bern. I work with an interdisciplinary research team on projects that aim to make the gold...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

29 days

All these April 15 announcements about starting PhD programs are making me feel kind of bad I'm not starting a PhD

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Interesting new articles in the JHR today! In Spain, intro of a universal child benefit led to a (small) ⬆️ in births, while its cancellation led to a (small) ⬇️; authors can identify separately effects on conceptions + abortions @LibertadGonLu

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

8 months

This week's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @TanuGupta_ at IGIDR who works on topics related to gender, time use+ agriculture

Tanu Gupta

Tanu Gupta I am a Visiting Assistant Professor at CECFEE, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi. My research interest lies in the field of Gender Economics,...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

On the subject of coping with economists' criticism: in addition to crying, it's sometimes a perfectly reasonable option to shield yourself from criticism. Starting off as an AP, I had a lot of trouble publishing my jmp, for various reasons

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Here is the graph normalized by population (papers per billion) - Chile a notable outlier here

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

I’m working on a new (interdisciplinary) systematic review project reviewing RCTs. . . which has been incredibly interesting + educational, and made me reflect on some simple points about how we report on RCTs in economics. Short 🧵

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

My OLDEST paper is published in @JDevStudies #EconTwitter ! You joke about your old papers, but did 1st field visit for this project in 2010! Was planning that trip w/my relatively-new boyfriend, 10th wedding anniversary is next yr (+ we have 2 kids)

Community Health Educators and Maternal Health: Experimental Evidence from Northern Nigeria

The slow pace of improvement in service delivery and health outcomes for pregnant women and newborns in developing countries has been a major concern for policy makers in recent decades. This paper...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @sallyzhangecon , a postdoc at Princeton who works on questions related to intrahousehold dynamics + development

Sally Zhang

Welcome! I am a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. In August 2024, I will join the Fletcher School at Tufts University as an Assistant Professor in Economics. My research...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Fascinating new article in JDE by @gchiplunkar and @Jeff_Weaver_ documenting long-term trends in dowry in India. Key conclusion: dowry ⬆️ dramatically over about 40 years, primarily reflecting greater differentiation in groom quality (education)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Excited to start doing some more presentations again (ideally in-person) so I thought a little self-promotion wouldn't hurt #EconTwitter . . .here is some new work I'd love to present, if you're looking for speakers (VERY happy to travel for in-person, if domestic)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @dishag9 @Igidr_Mumbai who works on agricultural + environmental economics, with a particular focus on water resources

Disha Gupta

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. I completed Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics, Delhi School of...

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@leightjessica

1 year

Here's a hill I'm dying on a lot lately: if your paper is arguing that effects are different for 2 subsamples or 2 specifications, I REALLY REALLY want to see p-values for that test. If they're not significant bc standard errors are wide, but magnitudes very different. . .

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@leightjessica

2 months

One really important skill they don't teach in grad school: how to build connections with high-quality implementing organizations who want to collaborate on evaluations - and how to manage the risks when those collaborations fall through

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1 year

Congrats to @melesemesay on new work in JDE at effects of rural roads + extension on ag productivity in Ethiopia! Saw this paper presented at AU in 2019 on job market and most recently the polished version at IFPRI just last month - great to see in print!

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@leightjessica

2 years

#EconTwitter : what are the most costly mistakes you've made in running a RCT in the field (so we can all collectively avoid them)? I'll start (actually 2, but from the same project): launching the baseline without implementers having made non-reversible inv in the program.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

7 months

Am I the only one who has the impulse to tweet out "I referee'd that paper!" when I see such a paper being published? Which would be strange on many levels. . .but it's a good feeling when a paper you supported + hopefully helped at least a little bit sees the light of day

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Much to my surprise. . .cond'lly accepted for a grant that I've tried for several times, and never thought I would get! Will share more details once it's official, + public, but 3 cheers for trying one more time (as I nervously go read what we actually committed to doing 😂)

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1 year

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @jorgeghombrados at UAM who works on questions related to development, culture, + crime

https://sites.google.com/view/jgarciahombrados/home

I am a JIN Retos de Investigación Fellow at the Department of Economic Analysis: Economic Theory and Economic History at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). Before joining UAM, I was a postdoctoral...

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

New week, new twitter project! In recent years more and more randomized trials have analyzed interventions targeted at non-cognitive skills (soft skills, life skills, socio-emotional skills) broadly defined in developing countries. 1/n

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Anne Fitzpatrick @AnneFitz13 who works on health + education; she is also recently tenured + welcomed an addition to her family, so. . .big congrats!

Anne Fitzpatrick

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@leightjessica

1 year

Wanted to do a short 🧵on this interesting paper that popped up on #EconTwitter yesterday (h/t @jenniferdoleac @AmandaYAgan ) on the effect of including lower-ranked pubs on a cv. PSA: also now cross-posting on elephant site, user name in profile if you prefer to read there

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4 years

Despite supposed evolution in our profession, three recent rejections explicitly cited (in the editor's letter) the presence of (some) null results on an empirical paper as a reason for the decision. Surprised by this!

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2 years

Ready to pronounce the winner of the NEUDC paper title contest! @KailaHeidi Boone + Sahn: "Posh spice or scary spice? The impacts of Madagascar’s vanilla boom on household well-being." This is an awesome paper - exploits this notable ⬆️ in vanilla prices

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1 year

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @Monica_Lambon who works on issues related to health, education and social protection at the University of Ghana

Monica Lambon-Quayefio

Monica LAMBON-QUAYEFIO, Lecturer | Cited by 247 | of University of Ghana, Accra (Legon) | Read 25 publications | Contact Monica LAMBON-QUAYEFIO

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11 months

Fascinating new article in JDE by @AliceDanon Das @andydebarros Filmer on cognitive + socioemotional skills in LMICs + associated measurement challenges A belated 🧵. . .

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1 year

This is 1000% consistent with my personal experience + one of the reasons I was very uncomfortable w/incr move in higher ed toward accommodating any student request: those requests are NOT randomly distributed across students

Jennifer Doleac

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Forthcoming in AEJ: Policy: "Ask and You Shall Receive? Gender Differences in Regrades in College" by Cher Hsuehhsiang Li & Basit Zafar

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3 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @caroartc at U Toronto who works on topic related to health, education + crime in both Latin America and the U.S.

Carolina Arteaga

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2 years

1/ Wanted to do a new #EconTwitter 🧵 following on my previous 🧵 about structural transformation in SSA that is more ambitious: my favorite papers presenting causal evidence around structural transformation in dev world broadly

Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

Caught up on this recent NBER WP on labor productivity growth and industrialization in Africa by McMillan and @AlbertZeufack Offers a very useful overview of trends in manufacturing and structural transformation in SSA; worth quick 🧵 #EconTwitter

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Today's cool young researcher is @mahimavasishth at LEAP who works on topics related to education + gender

Mahima Vasishth

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Laboratory for Effective Anti-Poverty Policies, Bocconi University. My research interests are in the fields of Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Public...

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2 years

NOT desk rejected! Yes I'm celebrating the small ones right now

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9 months

Paper accepted! And I needed this one, bc I woke up either 4 or 5 times last night

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2 years

Happy to see our SELEVER results analyzing a light-touch intervention targeting poultry production in Burkina Faso now published in JDE Short summary: poultry promotion had essentially null effects.

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8 months

As part of R&R I cleaned up code removing all the variables etc I am not using. . .do-file still running, results the same!

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4 months

Sometimes it feels like the possible outcomes after RCT completion are: null results and everyone is angry; positive results and everyone has already moved on; decision to scale up was already made without seeing the results

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3 months

Today's cool young researcher is @sandraguilarg @EconomiaUAndes who works on topics related to environment + gender

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2 years

Neat new paper out in JDE! @LauraASchechter @srini_econ show that large-scale radio campaign in India ⬇ vote share for campaigns that heavily buy votes (w/the latter identified by journalists) ! Have liked this paper for yrs, happy to see it published!

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2 months

So I know some of y'all got jobs or got into PhD programs (congrats!). . .but I'm humbled to share that I in fact got off the wait list for 1 week of kids' summer camp, for *2* kids

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2 years

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @rchaurey from John's Hopkins SAIS who works on topics related to firms, public policy, and structural transformation in developing countries

Ritam Chaurey

Assistant Professor, International Economics Program Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Office: 558X 555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington DC, 20001 Email: [email protected]...

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10 months

Too bad I wrote most of my papers without RAs; not only did I have to do all the work, I have no one to pass the blame to

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1 year

Today is the 10 years to the day I submitted my dissertation! Seems like a weird thing to remember; I remember it because I got married the day after, marking 10th anniversary tomorrow! So, a decade in numbers (personal + professional)

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1 year

Neat new article in the JDE by @elsayed_iza @ashribosa on the effects of a large-scale construction project for public universities in Egypt on women's outcomes (education, labor markets, empowerment)

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12 days

Short 🧵on costs of field research: read another (extremely high-quality) paper reporting on a RCT today when I just thought: I really, really want to know how much this trial cost (not the intervention - though that's a separate discussion) but the actual data collection.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

H/t @DavidUbilava for the idea - realized I had all the titles of dev papers over 2 year period (2019-2021). Word cloud of their titles! (This is published in top general interest + top field)

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

9 days

Today's cool young researcher is @Mai_Mahmoud_ , an alumna of @ifpri who works on agriculture + social protection - and she just defended her PhD, socongratulate her!

Mai Mahmoud

Welcome!

www.maimahmoud.com

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

11 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @morgonomics @NYUAbuDhabi , a prolific researcher (you've probably seen her papers!) who works on firms, labor markets + gender

Morgan Hardy

I am an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Social Science Division of New York University Abu Dhabi. My research is in development economics, with a topical focus on firms and labor markets....

sites.google.com

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 month

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @JustineKneb , currently a postdoc at J-PAL and soon to be at Sciences Po (congrats!), who works on topics related to development + public economics, esp state capacity

Justine Knebelmann

Welcome ! I am a MIT - J-PAL Economics Postdoctoral Associate. I will join Sciences Po Paris as an Assistant Professor in September 2024. My research is mostly centered around state capacity in...

sites.google.com

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Following up on recent analysis of dev funding in top 5 journals and other top general journals I’ve been looking at the recent 2 years (10/19-10/21) of JDE to understand composition / funding of a top field journal. #EconTwitter

Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

3 years

Following up on my previous analysis of top-5 papers and funding I next looked at empirical dev papers in a set of top-tier general interest journals: ReStat, the AEJ family, Economic Journal, and JEEA, published 10/19-10/21. #EconTwitter

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 year

Organizing a session on violence against women / intimate partner violence in LMICs for ASHEcon next year + very interested in hearing from anyone who might want to present (including PhD students). cc: @jessicaleecohen @DavidSlusky

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

1 month

New publication! Open access at the Journal of Development Effectiveness @3ieNews @ifpri A light-touch video-based intervention targeted at ⬆️ aspirations among extremely poor adults in rural Ethiopia has null effects

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

As it's jm season #EconTwitter . . .wanted to do a short thread w/presentation advice! tl;dr: sparse, clean slides; practice on a big screen; don't forget to introduce + close the talk

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

2 years

R&R for my oldest paper! Started this project when I was just meeting my husband. It's our 9th wedding anniversary in 2 weeks and we have 2 kids, but this paper looks like it will finally be published.

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

4 months

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @teevrat @GPS_UCSD who works on environment + development - and is now a new editor at @JaereAere , congrartulate him!

Teevrat Garg

www.teevratgarg.com

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Jessica Leight

@leightjessica

9 months

New initiative #EconTwitter , short 🧵! Lots of information circulating about hidden curriculum here – very welcome. Sometimes more personalized information is needed, particularly for students at institutions outside of the U.S.

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