In our upcoming online panel discussion on 'Measuring Poverty in India', chaired by Professor Madhura Swaminathan (Madhura Swaminathan), the panellists are Gaurav Datt (Gaurav Datt), Himanshu (Himanshu), P.C. Mohanan (PC Mohanan) and R. Ramakumar (R. Ramakumar). 📅 3 pm IST,

Today on NSB, Alex de Waal and Aditya Sarkar of The Fletcher School explore "traumatic decarbonization" through case studies in 6 countries, offering insights into how global climate policies and peacebuilding efforts must adapt to address new challenges. 👇 buff.ly/406eUJ7

Morning market scenes, Laos

January winter at JNU: misty paths and chilly air.

just stumbled on a real jaw-dropper of a line in an essay -- “The corollary of being interested in a great range of things is to have sympathy with a great range of outlooks” -- and that, my friends, is why reading is so important.

If you are creating data for the public, PLEASE just release it with an open license!!! Orgs like the Census, USAID, etc. often use restrictive licenses, for no good reason, b/c they want some control / visibility on who is using their data. The benefits are really tiny— they

Interestingly I have also seen this in Maharashtra. Here's a reading room in Latur, one of my favourite photos from the field.

Short thoughts: this is a banger of a replication report(s). Like many on EST, I read it open-mouthed before bed last night. Want to focus on one, very simple point: before any of this phenomenal replication detective work - the experimental effects were very, very, very large

Today's harvest

Mannequins being kidnapped. Masindi district, Uganda.

JNU wrapped in gold. #jnu

The sweetest little post office in Ambajogai block, Beed, Maharashtra.

"Floods", by Dev Patel, is one of the more astounding Big Data econ papers I have ever seen. Machine learning can be used on satellite data to essentially do magic. How damaging are floods? How much do they affect human capital attainment? A thread on the paper 1/

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Latest on #FoodPricesForNutrition, a review article for the 50th anniversary of Food Policy on rapid adoption since 2020 of least-cost diets for monitoring food access, globally by Food and Agriculture Organization & World Bank or in countries by NBS Nigeria, Ethiopian Public Health Institute etc.: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lND015oGpOO…

NEW: Is the internet changing our personalities for the worse? Conscientiousness and extroversion are down, neuroticism up, with young adults leading the charge. This is a really consequential shift, and there’s a lot going on here, so let’s get into the weeds 🧵

If you live in Delhi and are looking for a strength/mobility trainer to come home (morning or evening), please let me recommend our trainer, Diwakar - he's really *really* good (in >1 yr we've never once repeated workouts! 💪🏾) and super trustworthy. Happy to share more info!

Congratulations to Aghion, Howitt, and Mokyr for a well deserved Nobel on growth and innovation. Mokyr carefully showed why it started. Aghion & Howitt showed how it continues: a process of "creative destruction," where new technology must be allowed to displace the old.

Be a donkey, not a horse. 🫏