New Year's resolution is to share good fiscal data with interested researchers. Here is a historical database with primary deficits, interest payments, and public debt for 155 countries, going back to 1800. Hope you find it helpful. https://t.co/raM77yNTny
Excellent thread by @parker_rog discussing his JMP. If you are interested in #innovation, public finance, health, he's the guy! Check him out: https://t.co/ez63PHZTvV
How does FDA regulation affect innovation and market concentration? #EconTwitter
In my JMP, I show that deregulation:
-⬆️innovation by as much as 400%
-⬆️firm entry by 1000%
-⬇️prices by 40%.
In some cases, deregulation drives product safety innovation.
More details:
Yesterday Gujarat - India's most industrialized state - announced that they would partner with my colleagues Michael Greenstone, Rohini Pande, Nick Ryan and I at @UChiEnergy@YaleEGC to create India's first carbon market (1/3)
https://t.co/pXvQSaTe07
@DrNathanNunn@JamesAlanRobin1@emontero_CR and I are looking for a summer intern in DRC. Please apply! Fluency in French required; BA or MA; preferred field work experience. Appreciate retweets :) Job application info here: https://t.co/qZegtinbwz @econ_ra
Come work with me in India!
Interested in behavioral & development economics? I am looking for a full-time RA to study gender norms and caste dynamics. Please apply:
https://t.co/7NC1qrsbXe
We are hiring full-time data scientists AND predoctoral researchers at @devdatalab (with @thesamasher). Work with us, develop ninja tech skills, do ace research, create new open data, make the world a better place. Please share, and apply here: https://t.co/3iQIfLfRGt
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Job alert!
Come and run the newly established Program on the Indian Economy at @UCSDEcon, closely working with @karthik_econ and Prashant Bharadwaj
https://t.co/RGco8tcYbx
Just got flowers for writing grad school recommendation letters. now unsure if I should have been sending gift baskets to my advisors for *all* the letters over the last 15years.
Do you send your letter writers "thank you" flowers?
There is so much to learn from lawnmowers. Grit and hardwork aside, they have ridiculously good forecasting models for predicting *precisely* when my zoom meetings are. Even unscheduled spontaneous ones.
If you're a job candidate this year who wants to work on Indian policy reforms and education, do check this out.
@karthik_econ and I are hiring for multiple India-based postdoc positions. Tons of exciting work!
Great job alert: 3 career development postdoc positions @BlavatnikSchool Oxford! Open to brilliant policy-engaged researchers with any topic/disciplinary/regional focus. 3 years, comes with own research budget.
Deadline noon GMT 17 Jan, please RT/share!
https://t.co/t9MRr3SzUN
.@UCSanDiego is looking for an outstanding senior scholar or practitioner focused on India to join the faculty @GPS_UCSD and serve as the Founding Director of the #21stCenturyIndiaCenter; please apply at: https://t.co/lkN67pA4NH or https://t.co/1IOCYXGlhq