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New dataset alert 🚨 Using LGD codes assigned by the Ministry of Panchayati Raj in India, I link villages across India with SHRUG (Development Data Lab) identifiers to their corresponding Gram Panchayats, allowing for GP level analysis of census and other village-level data. (1/4)

Every year South Asia’s brick kilns spew as much CO₂ as the entire U.S. car fleet. They poison the air 2B people breathe—and kill over 50,000 annually A new study in Science supported by Stanford Impact Labs Open Philanthropy & J-PAL shows how simple fixes can clean air & cut emissions🧵⬇️

I knew Justin Sandefur before he joined Center for Global Development but, for me, he's def been the longest link to that remarkable org. Work, interests, and many mutual friends kept bringing us together. I'm sure he'll be missed but even more that he'll catalyse big things at the next place.

I'm biased here but Justin Sandefur is an inspired pick. There just aren't that many people who get the technical limits of what we know or don't, the structure of policy institutions at the heart of Dev, and the sheer stakes involved for human welfare.

I'm so sorry for every international student at Harvard today. There's no version of this that won't be hugely stressful for everyone on visas right now (even if Harvard gets relief from courts). I've now spent ~18 years on visas. It's always hugely complex, but this...

Politics today in Germany, and everywhere: -538m for the university excellence strategy -4bn to reduce restaurant tax

Usually when tylercowen says something I disagree with, I can at least see how it is defensible. In this case, I don't see it at all (for the reasons Scott Alexander explains). Seems worth editing the post? Why launder misleading and harmful propaganda?

The "is economics a science?" discussion is so tedious. It's like the "is a hot dog a sandwich" debate---it has some sandwich-like qualities and some non-sandwich like qualities, but ultimately it's just it's own thing & it doesn't really matter

In the most recent issue of The Review of Economics and Statistics (REStat) (direct.mit.edu/rest/article...), we (with Kaspar Wuthrich and Karthik Muralidharan) provide guidance on how to analyze and design experiments with factorial designs (or cross-cuts). A🧵below:

One of the more wrong headed and dangerous pieces of policy analysis I have seen in a while - it is truly frightening how little the Indian government cares about the health of its people. Why? (1/4)

It seems that ignorance of economic policy knows little limits these days. First, tariff on penguins. Now, banning the Fed from paying interest on reserve? So doing would deprive the Fed of its modern tool to set the Fed Fund’s rate, destabilize markets, inflation, etc 1/15

Extremely sad news: Ghazala Azmat, an excellent economist and a wonderful person, died last weekend. My sincere condolences to her family, her colleagues at Science Po and CEPR, and the many friends she leaves here at LSE (where she studied) and everywhere she went.

This very importantly generalizes internationally!

This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.

EU has a Gavi Pledge Summit (commission.europa.eu/topics/public-…) right now - I pledge to Sweden to please continue to contribute to Gavi. Evidence shows that immunization works. E.g., research below shows that Gavi funding has saved about 1,5 million lives and most likely more...

My chart on the history of three infectious diseases —smallpox, polio, and measles — before and after a vaccine was available.

The best Illustration of Britain 's silly degrowth bias in all policy making is the way it discourages air conditioning in new buildings. Excellent call to arms by Duncan Robinson

Sharing IIM Ahmedabad case study "Learning from EdTech" w Ambrish on emerging solutions in #EdTech industry, drawing on rigorous research. Full case here - lnkd.in/dE7VFbXH #EducationPolicy #EdTech #PublicPolicy #CaseStudy #LearningOutcomes