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Have you ever wondered how social networks differ by gender? Check out my team's new dataset, which uses Facebook data to measure regional differences in social networks by gender all across the world! A 🧵 with examples, a description of our methodology, and a download link:

We are hiring predocs at Development Data Lab! Application link in next tweet. What you get: an inspired research team (N=10) with tons of cooperation, work on important topics for human wellbeing, work in the best research workflow in the discipline, explore the frontiers of using AI

After being alerted about possible misconduct, the I4R are reproducing published papers that use data from a specific NGO (GDRI). This thread releases the first 2 reports and provides more information about the work and responses/statements from authors journals and journals. 🧵

Big kudos to this team for doing the work of uncovering what looks like large-scale research malpractice. Some highlights in this thread.

📣Now hiring: Predoc in Economics and Data Science Elliott Ash Ash and I are hiring a predoc -- work ETH Zurich Zurich on exciting projects in applied econ (education, political econ etc.), using AI, NLP, and causal inference. Apply here: econjobmarket.org/positions/11505 Econ RA Listings

Dev Patel's interactive site describing how he estimates flooding in Bangladesh using satellites and ML is soooooo cool! Link in thread.

When whites and minorities drive at identical speeds (according to objectively measured data from Lyft) Florida police are 24-33% more likely to issue speeding citations to minority drivers and charge them 23-34% greater fines. These are not small effects!

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Creating Cohesive Communities: A Youth Camp Experiment in India," from Arkadev Ghosh, Prerna Kundu, Matt Lowe and Nellis: restud.com/creating-cohes…

James Robinson (Harris Policy) and I are hiring one or more predocs starting Summer '25. Come work with us on political economy, economic history, and AI. Link: uchicago.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/External… PREDOC.org

Conducting a field experiment in rural India to test whether effective communication training among married women impacts their labor supply, from Namrata Kala and Madeline McKelway nber.org/papers/w33747

We (me, Jeff Weaver, Anahita Karandikar) are looking to hire a Gujarati-speaking field intern (paid) and RA to help with lab-in-the-field work on barriers to trade in rural Gujarat. Full details in the link, and feel free to help us by RTing! docs.google.com/document/d/1X-…

This is a very nice paper which clarifies something that many people working on close elections get wrong. Most of the time, close election RDs do not identify the causal effect of candidate characteristics.

New evidence on the intergenerational effects of intergroup contact: male civil servants exposed to female colleagues have daughters that are more likely to work. Link here: guoxu.org/docs/AFX_Beyon…, from Aneja, Silvia Farina, Guo Xu

🚨 Thrilled to share that our paper, "Sexual Harassment in Public Spaces and Police Patrols: Experimental Evidence from Urban India," is now in print at the QJE! 🇮🇳🚔👩🏽‍🦰 With Sofia Amaral, Girija Borker, Nathan Fiala, Anjani Kumar, & Maria Micaela Sviatschi 🧵👇 Northeastern CSSH NU Economics

Cool paper in Nature using data for a few million kids in France: no gender gap in Maths test scores at the start of first grade, big gap by the end. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Presenting a broad set of stylized facts about developing country labor markets, synthesizing the recent literature, and highlighting promising directions for future work, from Emily Breza and Supreet Kaur nber.org/papers/w33908

Children that work in markets in India are good at maths when a customer makes a complicated request, but bad when facing an abstract maths problem as presented in school. Children that don't work in markets show the opposite pattern. Very cool. nature.com/articles/s4158…

J-PAL is once again accepting self-nominations to join our network and become an invited researcher. The application process is currently open and will close on August 1st. Learn more about the self-nomination process: j-p.al/invited-resear…