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Congratulations Prashant! For his brilliant work at the nexus of early childhood health, economic development and gender, Prashant Bharadwaj has been promoted to full professor. He also serves as the director of our graduate program. See his work here: prbharadwaj.wordpress.com

A modest universal income transfer (of 1% of GDP) offers a fiscally-feasible way to deliver social protection & alleviate several micro-constraints to growth & development. Paper (with Maitreesh Ghatak): bit.ly/2MXeHm1; Op-ed: bit.ly/3f7DArr; VoxDev interview below:

Webinar with Karthik Muralidharan, Ashok Meena & @ShagunSabarwal: August 6 at 7 PM IST. Speakers will discuss lessons from rigorous #evaluations in India on the design, coverage & scope of unconditional cash transfers in addressing poverty in #India. Register: j-p.al/ct2

I greatly enjoyed this conversation with Amit Varma on making sense of the Indian education system It is over 3 hours long, but you get a distilled summary of 2 decades of research, policy ideas, NEP, politics, philosophy, federalism, and much more! seenunseen.in/episodes/2020/…

Welcome (virtually) to UCSDEcon's new first year graduate students, who start math camp today. We look forward to seeing you in person, but are excited to begin the graduate student journey with you and make it a successful one regardless of the obstacles.

How does the use of #education technology impact students in the developing world? In this VoxDev video, Karthik Muralidharan UCSDEcon discusses research in urban areas of #Delhi, #India on using #technology to personalise instructions to individual students: ow.ly/4i7V50B8knY

how is Universal Basic Income affecting lives during the pandemic? some early results. w Abhijit Banerjee, Michael Faye, Alan Krueger, and Tavneet Suri econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/pape…

So proud of everyone involved in this study, 2nd of the USAID #cashbenchmarking initiative. @AndrewZeitlin and Craig McIntosh, edc.org, GiveDirectly💸, USAID Rwanda, Innovations for Poverty Action, Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) , @LizBrow29385570 and the incomparable Daniel Handel BIG REFLECTIONS THREAD

Proud to announce that Karthik Muralidharan has been added to the World Bank's Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel. This is a bridge between academia and policy making in Education. Academics making things happen! bit.ly/3jzMksk Karthik Muralidharan

Excellent thread on Bihar's development successes in the last 15 years, and the challenges ahead. Much of the low-hanging fruit has been harvested, but the path ahead requires a focus on boosting investments, productivity, skills, and jobs.

a warm welcome to Samuel Bazzi who is joining us here UCSDEcon and UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy. Sam does great work at the intersection of development and political economy. He is rugged but not at all individualistic. sites.google.com/site/samuelbaz…

Pleased to announce multiple post-doctoral positions UCSDEcon for policy-relevant research on the Indian economy; we're building on our broad strength in UCSD Development Economics with a deep focus on India. Apply by 4 January 2021 at: econjobmarket.org/positions/7129

PacDev 2021 is being hosted (virtually) by UCSD Development Economics & Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA); we welcome paper submissions on all topics in development economics from anywhere in the world. Submission deadline is today (Dec 31, 11:59pm)! Submission portal: bit.ly/3pPV4ih

In a new NBER WP, with Renata Lemos & @danielascur, we show that the quality of school management (esp. people management) in Indian schools is strongly correlated with both teaching activity & school effectiveness at improving student learning: bit.ly/3sfuEI0 1/n

.UCSDEcon prof, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project director, and IGCC Research Director for International Security Studies Eli Berman Eli Berman reflects on his academic career and what keeps him motivated in our most recent Why We Research posts. Check them out here: tinyurl.com/y43vanef

Excited to support the ACT initiative to deploy philanthropic capital to encourage ed-tech innovation to facilitate improving education quality for all and not just for those who can pay; register for the program starting at 5pm IST today

may I draw your attention to the interdisciplinary keynote session at this year's PacDev, featuring anthropologist James Ferguson and economists Tavneet Suri and Leonard Wantchekon (the anthropologist is not on twitter, holding out for >280 chars)

What are the reasons for mistrust of western medicine in Africa? UCSDEcon's Sara Lowes examines this in a paper published in the American Economic Review. More information at go.ucsd.edu/3wAH8fu

This underscores the need for policy to be based on evidence (Yay, RCT's!) and not just hunches.

India's ICDS is the world's largest early-childhood development program. In a new NBER WP bit.ly/2QYgTjl, @aganimian Christopher Walters & I show with a large-scale RCT that adding a worker to ICDS centers improved education, and nutrition, and was highly cost effective 🧵1/