C. Austin Davis

Dev Economist @au_sis | Migration, entrepreneurship, and the complexities of scale | @YaleRISE affiliate

[Sandra Rozo @svrozo]

The World Bank McNamara Fellowships program is accepting applications. The deadline to apply is February 28, 2024. The program matches aspiring development economics researchers with World Bank research economists like me. More info here: https://t.co/8ASm2m42c1

[Paul E Williams @PEWilliams_]

It bothers me that “immigration is bad and we need to stop it” is taken for granted in all of the media discourse.
Is it bad? Why? What’s bad about it? Is it good for anyone? Who is it good for?
I haven’t seen any of these questions asked on mainstream outlets the past month.

[Cynthia Kinnan @cynthia_kinnan]

So happy to see great work by our @TuftsEconomics and #Fletcher student @Mai_Mahmoud_ featured in Dev Impact! Mai is on the market; this is her JMP. https://t.co/11LdfZeoLK

[Dr Anne Fitzpatrick @AnneFitz13]

So excited to see this paper in @nberpubs working paper list!

It's a collaboration with our colleagues @poverty_action Ghana Ministry of Ed and @UNICEFEducation known as the STARS evaluation
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[Oren Ziv @zivoren]

I've rarely seen such an amazing and clear abstract! I couldn't resist reading the paper, and it didn't disappoint either.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

.@MattYglesias captures the challenge of scaling effective reading interventions in the US.

For a great examination of how that works internationally, read @LeeCrawfurd, @SusannahHares, & @JustinSandefur's piece on "What has worked at scale" for @CGDev https://t.co/6bFx7GjW6U

[PHD Comics @PHDcomics]

Your Presentation

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

Today's cool young researcher is @JoshDeutschmann
@DILatUChicago who works on questions related to agriculture, public services, + tech adoption in LMICs
https://t.co/ppGYnnTAgM

[Jessica Leight @leightjessica]

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is @ana_p_melo @HowardEcon who works on questions related to education, development + labor, with a focus on equality of opportunity
https://t.co/aiRDpsPoqY

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

@duosec @duohelp I'm currently unable to access university systems because Duo MFA is "under high load." Please help! Classes start next week and I have a few important things to do!

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

@michaelbalint It takes several years to execute a study like this and you know better than I do how fast the technology is moving. But yes of course it would be interesting to compare against more recent LLMs.

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

Interventions work differently at scale for many reasons including GE effects and TE heterogeneity. Here, implementation issues bite; the scalable, low-cost version of the intervention is ... just worse.

Silver lining: chatbots are, for now, less persuasive than humans.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

When people reach out to high schoolers via WhatsApp, they can boost enrollment in teacher training programs. But when the bots do the outreach, it doesn't (yet) have the same impact. https://t.co/BJ1IRDe6rb Evidence from Chile by @Nicolas_Ajz and others

[VoxDev @vox_dev]

Falling groundwater levels in #India have enabled politicians to manipulate aid for electoral gain.

Today on VoxDev, @MeeraMahadevan @UCIrvine & @AjaycencyMatrix @ucsc outline how political incentives shape responses to increasingly dry conditions: https://t.co/K0GWPrOkzz

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

Call for @YaleRISE Dec meeting now open. Please come share your work on the complexities of scaling up effective policies!

Let me highlight the entrepreneurship session I'm coordinating. What do we know about scaling programs targeting entrepreneurs?

https://t.co/xCw99AWlfz

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

I hope she gets her day in court.

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

Gino sues Harvard and Data Colada, alleging i) if anyone's to blame, it's the RAs, ii) unfair process, and iii) sexism, while selectively quoting qualifying statements to underplay the evidence she committed fraud.

https://t.co/YC42c2sgaA

[C. Austin Davis @caustindavis]

That she punishes replication in social science, already vastly under-provided to the detriment of the entire enterprise.