En 1974 Shaikh cogió una función de producción y dibujó con ella una gráfica que decía "HUMBUG" (disparate, engaño). La función era matemáticamente correcta, pero con datos "torturados" podía dar lo que uno quisiera. Y económicamente no significaba nada.
Policy debates celebrate rising female labour force participation but are we asking the right questions?
My new paper challenges the U-shaped narrative and shows why context, norms, and aspirations matter.
Read: https://t.co/REcYFhRsdh
📢 New paper out in Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy!
A bottom up view of how gender, social norms, and institutions shape women’s labour outcomes in rural India.
🔗 https://t.co/REcYFhRsdh
“I guess when you are young, you believe that you will meet many people with whom you'll connect with, but later in life you realize it only happens a few times.”
— Before Sunset (2004)
A major cheat code in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.
As we all know, it is increasingly difficult to get students to actually read. To solve this, I am requiring students to take and turn in hand-written notes on the readings. I made a handout on how to take notes that some of you may find useful. cheers! https://t.co/F7VE3aHxQD
Evening viewing recommendation? On @criterionchannl, watch our new edition of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s CURE (1997)—a masterpiece of Japanese horror that pushed the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. https://t.co/3jLml8JEzY