#ArthaConversations| We were delighted to launch Karthik Muralidharan's book 'Accelerating India's Development: A State-Led Roadmap for Effective Governance.' This insightful read delves into the crucial role that state capacity plays in shaping India's growth bit.ly/3TSUvFm

We are very excited to share that Frank Schilbach, Gautam Rao and I are run a special issue at Journal of Development Economics on a very important topic, “Mental Health and Socioeconomic Outcomes”! Deadline: 01/30/2025. Thank you Andrew Foster! #economics sciencedirect.com/journal/journa…

📢 We are hiring for a data RA position! Come work with Sandip Sukhtankar, Paul Niehaus, Karthik Muralidharan, Gaurav Chiplunkar and Kartik Srivastava : unique opportunity to work on both data analysis and data collection for a large scale RCT! 🔔 Apply: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear…

Different mechanism but reminds me of this classic Sandip Sukhtankar paper on political connections and sugar mills in Maharashtra uva.theopenscholar.com/files/sandip-s…

Huge pick-up for Harvard Harvard Kennedy School. Jeremy is a wonderful scholar, practitioner, and human.

Some thoughts about the militarized response to recent protests: I've heard people say things like “What else was administration going to do?” or “You need to enforce the rules consistently.” I think these arguments are based on a fallacy. 1/

The Spring 2024 BREAD Development Economics Conference at UCSDEcon UCSD Development Economics (on 10-11 May 2024) will be livestreamed for viewing from anywhere in the world. Program is at: ibread.org/conference/bre… Webinar link is at: ucsd.zoom.us/j/92369739782 Pascaline Dupas Imran Rasul

.SVRI 2025 research grant call for proposals now open! * focus on VAW + VAC in LMICs * $40k - $150k over a 12 - 18 month period * preference to orgs + researchers based in LMICs * submissions accepted in EN, SP or FR Closes: July 9th svri.org/svri-research-…

Interested in India/RCTs/women's labor force participation? Come work with Gabi Kruks-Wisner Akshay Mangla｜अक्षय मंगला Arielle Bernhardt and me on interventions aimed at helping the police retain women officers. RA position J-PAL South Asia. More info here: povertyactionlab.org/careers/resear… cc Econ RA Listings

A new era for CGD! 🌍🌟 We are thrilled to announce that Dr. Rachel Glennerster Rachel Glennerster will be the new President of CGD! Building on the legacies of Nancy M. Birdsall and @MasoodCGD, Rachel is set to propel CGD forward with her rigorous approach to development economics,

'Prof. Shamika Ravi IIT Delhi Bharti Institute of Public Policy Indian School of Business (ISB) Mudit Kapoor Election Commission of India Spokesperson ECI Press Trust of India Anandabazar Patrika Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) HospitalsApollo World Health Organization (WHO) ICRIER Health NITI Aayog Ministry of Health Gates Foundation India Sandip Sukhtankar Karthik Muralidharan Ashwini_Deshpande Shreya Biswas Centre for Economic Data & Analysis (CEDA) MoEF&CC CEEW International Growth Centre

Incredibly delighted, honored, and humbled to be selected in the "40 under 40 list" with some of the most talented, young, business school professors from around the world! Thank you for this wonderful honor, Poets&Quants! Darden School at UVA UVA news.darden.virginia.edu/2024/05/20/dar…

I was on the Econ job market in 1997-98. The chair of a hiring committee and I were trying to schedule my interview at the meetings. I mentioned one time that would work and he said, we could do that, but the department chair would have to miss it… 1/x

Forthcoming in the AER: "In-Kind Transfers as Insurance" by Lucie Gadenne, Samuel Norris, Monica Singhal, and Sandip Sukhtankar. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Congratulations Lucie Gadenne, Sam Norris, Monica Singhal & Sandip Sukhtankar! Their previous article outlines this research, showing households can benefit from in-kind transfers as they serve as insurance against price fluctuations in essential commodities ➡️ voxdev.org/topic/social-p…

I love this Max Roser manifesto: ourworldindata.org/much-better-aw…

So cool to see the study of price risk hitting the big time. Very nice work by Lucie Gadenne, Norris, Singhal, and Sandip Sukhtankar: In-Kind Transfers as Insurance aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… Adding this right now to my dev micro syllabus

How can we improve outcomes in education, and health in fiscally feasible ways? How can we create more high-quality jobs? Learn more in Episode 3 of my 3-part conversation with Mukesh Bansal on the Indian economy: youtube.com/watch?v=iMHzyt…