We're hiring 'bigly' UVA Economics! At the senior chair level (any field), and junior level in both micro and macro. So at least 3 (hopefully, possibly more) hires, + our friends across the street UVA Batten School hiring too! Please apply: aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

📢The 2023 Caste Census of Bihar allows us to see century-long demographic change in castes for a sizeable Indian region for the first time.

This thread compares the Bihar Census of 1931 with 2023 and reveals: Broad stability+ The significance of migration selectivity (1/12)

How British colonialism killed 100 million Indians in 40 years.

Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined. aje.io/gqlggv via Al Jazeera English

At Oxford Politics and IR we have some really talented students on the academic job market. Great projects, top publications, fascinating backgrounds. Please check them out! I'll be telling you more about each one of them in the coming days:

politics.ox.ac.uk/job-market-can…

Starting salary of an economics faculty at Stanford is nearly 50% higher than a computer science faculty. You may wanna check Google/Meta salaries for a top-notch CS PhD. Whatever is your explanation for economists' unusual salaries, it can't be their 'outside market value.'

NEW: Oxford R21 malaria vaccine receives World Health Organization (WHO) recommendation paving the way for global roll-out.

The vaccine developed by Oxford & SerumInstituteIndia demonstrates a high efficacy.

The jab could reduce over half a million malaria-related deaths annually.

#OxfordVaccine

I want this too!!!

Can only happen in India

1/ What is the value added of local democracy? Fascinating paper by Vijayendra Rao and colleagues on a natural experiment in India: Local democracy aligns spending more closely with citizen preferences, but these gains accrue more to advantaged groups. documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

I propose a space reserved for those who don’t want to sit next to people who make such fuss.

Very relevant to the current debate over marriage spurred by Melissa S. Kearney's work, my paper with Jeanne Lafortune is out today in AEJ: Applied! We try to ask *why* marriage rates have declined so much for less wealthy individuals. 🧵 aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

This melted my ❤️ and warmed my soul!

Next time someone tells me
women politicians affect change in India by changing attitudes or norms or role model effects, ill hit them with a printed version of this report, along with a working paper of mine.

Today's TheHindu.
She is Ayesha, 6 months pregnant, from Pusesavali town in Satara dist, Mah.

10 Sept her husband went to the Masjid a 10-min walk from home for the final prayer of the day. Never returned.

Besides her Zaiben the mother will never see her Nurul again. 1/11

Across the world, female workers are subsidising health systems, Maher Sattar and I wrote for Foreign Policy & The Fuller Project

Read the story which has amazing photographs by Asix Photo

fullerproject.org/story/the-wome…

Seriously powerful journalism and coverage of an important issue in india - heat - washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Super glad to have Gareth Nellis in the cp colloquium and hear about this fantastic one-of-a-kind experiment in India.