New in #JDevStudies: Anders Kjelsrud & Sjurgard examine India's #MGNREGA & impacts on violence against women 🇮🇳, identifying a potential backlash effect Universitetet i Oslo OsloMet tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

♀️ + 🚴🏾‍♀️ = 💪🏾 Govt of Bihar's 🚴🏾‍♀️ prog [cash + conditions for enrollment] for girl's secondary school had spillover effects! --> 6 yrs post-prog older ♀️ in HHs have ⬆️ decision-making, political participation + more Anders Kjelsrud Mitra & Moene /🧵 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

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Modi trekker India i en klar antidemokratisk retning og han bør absolutt ikke være et forbilde for ledere i Europa, eller andre steder. Jeg og Kalle svarer Erik Solheim i DN i dag. dn.no/innlegg/utenri…

At our first Replication Games in Oslo, Montero (2022, JPE, journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…) was assigned to Anders Kjelsrud, Andreas Kotsadam and Ole Rogeberg (2023). econstor.eu/handle/10419/2…

Vi svarer på svaret på svaret på Solheims beskrivelse av Modi i DN dn.no/innlegg/india/…

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Really enjoyed having this conversation with Jennifer Doleac: probablecausation.com/podcasts/episo…

🚨 Blogpost alert! In the latest @the_JOP blog piece, Anders Kjelsrud (Anders Kjelsrud) & Andreas Kotsadam (Andreas Kotsadam) show that increased employment substantially increases female turnout in India. Read more on this ⬇️jop.blogs.uni-hamburg.de/political-empo…

Disastrous decision by the Swedish government to scrap funding for development research. Including just submitted grants—thousands of wasted hours. Bad for Sweden’s standing in science; worse for people in low-income countries. For shame, SwedishPM Mats Persson Johan Forssell

The new thing in macro today seems to be to discuss greedflation. The idea is that firms contribute to higher inflation because they exploit the situation to increase their margins, amplifying the initial impulse and worsening the situation. Here are some thoughts on the issue.

For prospective Ph.D. students: Is it a good or bad experience? It depends, but it will probably be both... You need to write at least three papers. Coming up with novel research is hard. If you do something "new", people might tell you it's too exotic.

This is the official statement of the Department of Economics at Ashoka. Dani Rodrik Sonalde Desai Naila Kabeer naresh fernandes Radhika Balakrishnan International Association for Feminist Economics

New articles in EDCC! Anders Kjelsrud Mitra + Moene show that providing girls in India (Bihar) cash for bicycle payments has a significant positive empowerment effect for older female family members journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.108…

Was Marx right? Did employers replace their strike prone workers with machines? Or did employers instead adopt labor-intensive approaches to enhance flexibility during strikes?

Jeg og Kalle forsøker å aktualisere egen forskning i DN (og å slenge litt dritt om Modi) dn.no/innlegg/india/…

Democratic accountability can save lives – Anders Kjelsrud, Kalle Moene & Lore Vandewalle study cases in India and find inequality causes higher #InfantMortality and worse healthcare, but these effects disappear in areas with high political competition. doi.org/10.3368/jhr.07…