Associate Professor of Economics @SUNYGeneseo. Alum: @UCRiverside @DSE. Tweets related to development economics, politics, food, India, and nature. Views=Own.
It is official -- Promoted to an Associate Professor with tenure! 🥳 Came to the US in 2010 to start my Econ Ph.D. and a dream of securing a tenure-track position to work towards tenure. I feel blessed. So many people to thank that a tweet can't do justice! #EconTwitter
LACDEV is such a great conference to present your work for faculty at LACs!Such a friendly environment with amazing feedback on your work. Fantastic people discussed their research at the beautiful @WilliamsCollege this year! With @OwenOzier@seema_econ#EconTwitter
@Shooshan5@antonyhsu Congratulations! I use the 8th edition for my Health Econ class. I scrounged together a discussion of pandemics in my class since 2020. Glad to see it’s in the updated edition. Looking forward to reviewing it!
Thanks @leightjessica for highlighting my work. A fascinating area to work on with large heterogeneous effects across regions, countries, and households!
Indians spend more than 13 hours in the kitchen every week, because of our insistence on having three fresh and homecooked meals everyday. This is a terrible waste of resources, and it is time we stopped romanticising cooking.
I write in @womensweb
https://t.co/ZFxgTmLEZR
How can we make it easier for foreign-born STEM graduates to stay in the US?
High-skilled immigration policy has a budget problem.
In a guest post for @mattyglesias, former CBO director Doug Elmendorf & I detail how Congress can fix it:
https://t.co/9U9ZZaRQ05
Stoked to share my new paper (with Pasita Chaijaroen), now published online at the Economics of Education Review. The paper investigates the impact of compulsory education policy on teens in Thailand. 🧵 1/7
Access full paper (free rn): https://t.co/33etODaovr
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This study adds to the literature showing the importance of compulsory schooling laws in changing the outcomes for women in Thailand.
We are thankful to the three anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments and @Prof_Nishith_P and editors for such a smooth process! 7/7
✅The policy is effective in reducing teen pregnancy (partly due to the incarceration effect)
✅We also see a catch-up effect in fertility indicating short-term human capital effects
✅But, there are longer-term human capital effects of the policy on Muslim women 6/7
This has been really heartbreaking. Jorge was a gem of a person. Always so generous. I was blessed to have him as a mentor and advisor. I owe him a lot. I keep imagining his smiling face from the last time we spoke! I will miss him terribly and I feel deep loss. 💔 @taitarasu