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Are people using the current generation of U-DISE India education data for research? I've only seen very partial datasets posted, and the previous generation of DISE was incredible noisy. I'm curious if this has improved and if people are using it.

My new favorite absurdity about working for a UK university: apparently the pension employer matching scheme involves...no matching...but is still called The Match...

We are pleased to announce an experiment intended to stimulate academic discussion and exchange, centered on papers published in Econometrica 1/5

Hiring!!  Come work with Dr Sanjay Jain Department of Economics, Oxford, @DrSoumya @MSSRF Chennai and me London Business School on an exciting Gates Foundation India funded care delivery innovation  project with Tamil Nadu Dept of Public health Directorate of Public Health & Preventive Medicine. 4 predocs + RAs w Econ/CS/Stat expertise.  Please RT!  #EconTwitter

Call for Papers! Join the IGC/Yale Economic Growth Center Conf. on Firms, Trade & Development, at Yale University, 24–25 Oct 💼 Funding is available for presenters! 🗓️Early deadline: 30 May 🗓️Final deadline: 27 June 🔗theigc.org/call-papers-ig… #EconDev #CFP #Trade

If you're still looking for PhD slots in Econ, check this out. Especially if you're interested in Health Econ or Development, Imperial could be a fantastic match.

What have we learned about the informal sector? Issue 2 of our #VoxDevLit on Informality by Gabriel Ulyssea, Matteo Bobba, Lucie Gadenne & Mariaflavia Harari is out now! ➡️ voxdev.org/voxdevlit/info… Today's podcast covers the update ➡️ voxdev.org/topic/labour-m…

📢Official pincode boundaries dropped yesterday! India's open-data ecosystem keeps giving. I know many people who'll have a jump in their step on the way to office today.

This Zvi Mowshowitz post on AI cheating is worthwhile and asks many of the right questions. But he's wrong to conclude that AI means what you learn in college doesn't matter. This really misses the point. College builds brainpower like going to the gym builds muscle. 🧵

Excited to be heading to Barcelona next month to present our work on cultural capital! If anyone will be in town those days, hit me up.

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📣We’re hosting our 4th annual conference on economic opportunity on October 9-10 with opening remarks from Raj Chetty and a Keynote from @DavidAutor. This is an excellent opportunity for both junior and senior scholars to share their work. ⬇️

In the second part of the series, I suggest 3 steps Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation could take to end the 'great Indian GDP controversy': 1) Release raw data and clear documentation 2) Provide sectoral error margins in each release 3) Set up a national accounts research unit #TruthLiesandStatistics

Amazing work Pratik! This is exactly the kind of contribution we're hoping to get more of for the SHRUG: valuable datasets that unlock lots more research, in this case by connecting all of the SHRUG data to panchayat-level datasets like elections or NREGS.

This is an exceptionally clear data-driven post about immigration and the use of social services in the UK. My read: there is not much evidence that immigrants are straining social services. And if you count doctors and nurses, it's very much the opposite.

People overrate genes as a source of success b/c they don't have good intuition for how flexible early brain development is, and hence how much tiny pieces of nurture can matter. 1/x

Irresponsible reporting from The Hindu The Indian Express Business Standard & others about Indian being 4th equal country. They compare India’s CONSUMPTION inequality Gini of 25.5 with INCOME inequality of other equal countries. INCOME inequality of India is 62! Thread explaining: 1/8

Very interesting. I haven't read the tables in detail yet, but it highlights why "heritability of cognitive skills" is so much less straightforward than smart parents -> smart kids, duh its the genes. Two highlights: 1. Heritability falls when ed quality goes up. Many genetic