Alishuba Philip

Econ Grad student @econ_uzh

[VoxEU @voxeu]

Catch up with VoxTalks Economics, recorded at the PSE–CEPR Policy Forum 2026. In this epsiode, Tim Phillips speaks to three rising economists about work that challenges conventional wisdom.

🔹@GuidoLamarmora (@UoNEconomics) shows that once land is taken into account, low-income countries can actually have relatively high agricultural productivity, rather than low productivity.

🔹@CostanzaTomase1 (@ImperialBiz) uses a natural experiment from Mexico to examine how firms respond to energy shocks.

🔹Mushegh Tovmasyan (@UnivParisSaclay) uses detailed Armenian trade data to study what happened following sanctions on Russia.

And as an added bonus, all three researchers share their views on where AI can help economics students and researchers, and where using it risks becoming a substitute for thinking.

🎧Listen now: https://t.co/8p8Q0nuDzQ

#VoxTalks #FrontiersofEconomicResearch #AI #NextGen

[Kalpana Sharma @kalpana1947]

Excellent story bringing out the many layered problems that face tenants in cessed buildings in Mumbai by Sabah Virani @IndianExpress

[Alishuba Philip @AlishubaP]

Thanks so much for this great thread! @paulnovosad

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

Mumbai has an elegant solution for slums: relocate residents to tall buildings on some of the slum real estate, develop the rest.

This is an elegant solution to the perpetual slum dilemma: cast out the poorest, or accept low value land use in perpetuity. Did it work? 1/

[Fernanda Rojas Ampuero @ferrojas90]

My first NBER WP :)

[Development Innovation Lab @DILatUChicago]

Our partner is hiring!

The Development Innovation Lab (DIL)- India, based at the UChicago Trust in India, is expanding its research team and recruiting for several exciting roles working on cutting-edge development research. 1/3

[Tim Phillips Talk Normal @timsvengali]

At the CEPR Annual Symposium, @timsvengali caught up with the exciting research of three talented economists at the start of their careers. In today’s episode, hear from Alishuba Philips @UZH_en on slum redevelopment, Lucie Giorgi @amseaixmars on the end of single sex education in France, and @bakhtawar_a @amseaixmars on lawfare in Pakistan.

Find out more: https://t.co/Sk5XKLzVOE

[Soumyarendra Barik @imsoumyarendra]

🚨Ground report: I spent 3 days as a gig worker for Zomato, Blinkit & Swiggy in Delhi.
23 deliveries. 15.5 hours. 105 km.
Total earnings: Rs 782 (Rs 34/hour)
After fuel: ₹532
This is India's convenience economy. A thread on what I learned @IndianExpress

[Road Scholarz @roadscholarz]

Hear from Jaimanti about gross delays and false promises when it comes to availing work and wage payments under #NREGA in Bihar. 3/n

[Gagandeep Sachdeva @notgaganshallow]

I'm excited to announce that I am on the 2025-26 economics job market!
I’m an applied microeconomist working on education, gender, and inequality—with a focus on how teachers and institutions shape student outcomes.
A 🧵on my #JMP and other projects:
#econtwitter
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[Marcel Caesmann @MarcelCaesmann]

In 1550, naming your son "Matthias" in Germany meant nothing.

By 1650, it marked you as Catholic.

How do arbitrary symbols become identity markers—common knowledge that organizes group boundaries?

My JMP studies this in the Protestant Reformation. 🧵

[Victoria 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @Hanasaku_Yuri]

yeah, fuck it. why not

[Florian Scheuer @Florian_Scheuer]

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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[Aparajita Bharti @BhartiAparajita]

No matter who forms the government, policy professionals should celebrate this moment nonetheless! Hung Parliament = more deliberation = more room for serious discussions on policy and more stakeholders for advocacy.

*And please don't get started with "oh but it will slow down the process". Under a majority govt., Data Protection Law took 5 years of deliberation and the farms laws took 0 but had to be rolled back because no effort in consensus building. I believe India will continue to grow and prosper- we are at that moment in time in our history, but a more deliberative democracy can ensure more equitable growth and better policy design!

[Anish Tiwari, Ph.D. @Anish_Tiwari]

Material realities of rural India have superseded the hubris of urban India. INDIA prevails!

[Siddharth @DearthOfSid]

Time for the pessimists (including myself) to apologise to the optimists.

[V Vinay @ainvvy]

0. On Independence day, I look briefly at how some of the current states came into being. Some of them I had not even heard before.

This is now India looked before partition.

[Alishuba Philip @AlishubaP]

@prerna394 But this graph is really interesting - some very surprisingly blue countries in there! Glimmer of hope?

[Alishuba Philip @AlishubaP]

@prerna394 Likely, although a significant fraction would have pursued their PhDs abroad I would think (all unsubstantiated by data). This year at UZH, someone's JMP explored how women tend to drop out from male-majority settings based on an experiment at the department.

[Alishuba Philip @AlishubaP]

@prerna394 But my hunch (based on personal experience, unfortunately) would be that a lot of women have to drop out after masters, maybe get a 'real' job because of the societal pressure to 'settle down' and get married in a couple of years? The 'marriageable' age is much higher for men.

[Alishuba Philip @AlishubaP]

@prerna394 This paper discusses the attrition numbers: https://t.co/d435fuc4mo (just found this on a quick Google search - haven't read the entire paper).