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Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵 1. All roads lead to Rome

MUHAS brings to you information session on practicing medicine in the USA Register here to secure your slot docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… The session will be facilitated by Dr Minja Frank J. Minja MD Please watch this video before the session youtube.com/watch?v=iTeCVB…

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I think this might be the chart that most triggers Republicans.

Academics: "As you will clearly observe in the following figure..." The figure:

In Tanzania, the introduction of free secondary education reversed trends. Before, having an older sibling get into secondary school made you less likely to go. After, you were more likely to go. waynesandholtz.com/pdfs/tz_siblin… by Ferreira & Wayne Sandholtz

🆕 in World Development by Aine McCarthy & Brooke Krause: --> A multidimensional empowerment program ⬆️ women's empowerment among younger women, but not older women [as measured by #proWEAI] among Maasai in 🇹🇿 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

🚨 Job Market Paper alert! "How Much Should We Trust Modern Difference-in-Differences Estimates?" at osf.io/bqmws I assess the fit between modern DID-style estimators and real-world data features, and point to approaches for improving inference. Quick thread ⬇️

Thrilled that my paper with Christopher A. Neilson and Seth Zimmerman on elite universities and the intergenerational transmission of human and social capital is conditionally accepted at AER AEA Journals. Below a short threat summarizing it...

Just concluded a great week co-teaching with Dina D. Pomeranz 🟣 in Switzerland that has left me very hopeful of the future!

Welcome new faculty members, Drs. Amsale Alemu and Chambi Chachage to the Dept of African Studies at Howard! cfas.howard.edu/articles/welco…

🚨New NBER Working Paper🚨 👉Bayesian Meta-Analysis on the Impacts of Unconditional Cash Transfers (UCTs) in Low & Middle Income Countries! Considering a broad set of outcomes, we find strong & persistent pos effects of💰, w/ interesting nuances. A short primer in 22 tweets🧵

I'm excited to share an update to the theory of my paper on democratic norms. The model now covers how norms impact citizens' private (voting, donating) and public (attending rallies) support for anti-democratic politicians, and expands on the microfoundations of norm enforcement

Meet the Haitian immigrant who founded the city of Chicago. britannica.com/biography/Jean…

The past few years I've been developing a new research agenda exploring how the built environment -- the architecture of urban space -- shapes grassroots politics in urban Africa. Really excited to share part of this work AJPS: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/5

Pretty strong evidence of negative mental health effects of doing a PhD. Recent working paper by Eva Ranehill, Anna Sandberg, Sanna Bergvall, and Clara Fernström. Paper link: swopec.hhs.se/lunewp/abs/lun…

Excited to share my job market paper! I study how racial minorities develop political ambition, from initial interest to candidacy. Using field experiments and observational analyses, I explore what factors influence their entry decisions and how these factors evolve over time.

Come do a PhD with me!

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

I highly dislike this as well. Only because it amounts to lying about the true process the author went through to generate their hypotheses.