Thanks to Yale news for this article on the endowed professorship appointment ! Yale School of Public Health news.yale.edu/2024/09/04/bhr…

#EconTwitter Calling out to all JMCs and esp. the macroeconomists on the job market!! We are hiring!! Come work with us at IIM Calcutta. A vibrant research group and a fantastic pool of PhD students. Great place to work - very reasonable teaching load. iimcal.ac.in/call-for-facul…

Review paper out today in ⁦Science Magazine⁩: a big group of us explain how climate change aggravates agriculture’s environmental impacts and what researchers and public/private leaders can/must do in response. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Join the WEFIDEV network (CEPR, Kellogg School International Growth Centre, @lsenews, Aceli Africa, Università Bocconi, and the Review of Financial Studies) for a conference on finance and development. Read the call for papers ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Application form ⬇️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Really excited for this event Center for Global Development on Monday. Finalists for our year long competition of the best market shaping designs to address pandemics and climate change pitch their idea, with judges, prizes and amazing speakers. Join us online (in person invite only)

Very happy that our forthcoming article apoorva.lal & Ben Pasquale on forest conservation in India won the inaugural Rajni Kothari Award for the best article on politics of South Asia. Thanks to the committee (Rikhil R. Bhavnani Niloufer Siddiqui Sushmita Pati) for the recognition 🙏🏽

🚨SHORT TERM RESEARCH POSITION🚨 Young researchers interested in the intersection of #Bollywood and Indian politics? I am looking for a remotely located intern for a short project. Basic data analysis skills using MS-Excel/STATA/R are expected. #econtwitter

Details on the 14th Workshop on the Economics of Risky Behavior coming soon. 👀 Stay tuned for an announcement! 📢

As a young girl visiting my grandparents in India, my grandfather took me on his morning walks, where he would discuss the importance of fighting for equality and fighting corruption. He was a retired civil servant who had been part of the movement to win India’s independence.

Catch us on CSPAN tomorrow. Market Shaping for climate and pandemic preparedness Center for Global Development with Market Shaping Accelerator (MSA). Or watch the whole thing here cgdev.org/event/accelera…

BREW-ESA is back! Ashoka University (Delhi) 15th-17th Dec, 2024. Keynotes: Andrew Schotter (New York University) Anandi Mani (University of Oxford) Researchers of behavioral/experimental economics & its many applications and methods are welcome to submit their work by 15th Sep.

My piece in The Atlantic today: Break Up Big Econ The economics profession has become insular and status-obsessed, and not focused enough on making a positive impact on the world. theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Break Up Big Econ by David Deming The Atlantic theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Thrilled to receive this honor from South Asian Politics Section APSA for my book #MakingBureaucracyWork. Glad I could share the moment with friends and colleagues in Philadelphia, and grateful for all the kind support. It's a privilege to be part of this community. 📚 🙏

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Binta Zahra Diop, currently a postdoc Stanford King Center on Global Development + later joining BC (congrats!) bzdiop.github.io

With help, I got my website refreshed: nishithprakash.com. In particular, I am very excited about the page: nishithprakash.com/fieldwork-in-p…. A asked a 10th grader (a friends son who wanted to learn making website) what I was looking for, and he literally got exactly what I wanted!

The submission deadline has been extended to Sept 17

Looking for help. Saw a paper at NBER Education years ago comparing Texas UI data (restricted only to students now working in Texas) to a student match to national data - I believe it was IRS data. Does anyone remember the paper and author. Having trouble finding it.

I'm hiring pre-docs for fall 2025. Come work with me on housing policy, urban economics, and inequality with big data. rebecca-diamond.com/pre-doctoral-f…

Was lovely to meet renowned journalist, writer, and Deputy Chairman of the Rajya Sabha Harivansh; we exchanged books and discussed both ideas and ways to communicate them more broadly.