Development Data Lab

We develop cutting edge data sources and harness the latest analytical tools to help people in poverty around the world achieve their true potential.

[Sam Asher @thesamasher]

A huge thanks to my amazing colleagues @devdatalab and our partners in this project @IDinsight for their leadership and management! @tobylunt @alicampion13 @paulnovosad @sankalpsharmaa @kritarthjha @BexCai @AditiBhowmick18 @ronabraham83 @vksdimble Vishan Pattnaik

[Paul Novosad @paulnovosad]

We (ie. @tobylunt) made a district-level COVID forecast for India: https://t.co/avTssKmBk3

A lot of places are past the peak of the second wave. In a lot of places, case counts are still rising.

We show Rt calculated from a model based on Bettencourt and Soman (2020). 🧵1/3

[Aditi Roy Bhowmick @AditiBhowmick18]

Plugging this — any leads for remdesivir in Delhi? Oxygen concentrator is now sorted! Help me help our @devdatalab soldier out 🙏🏽

[Development Data Lab @devdatalab]

We are so fortunate to work with you @AditiBhowmick18 - thank you for sharing your story and for your leadership at DDL!

[Women in Econ/Policy @weconpol]

I grew up across Jharkhand , West Bengal and Orissa. In 7th grade I convinced father to send me to a boarding school way beyond our means. He took an 11 yr old seriously bc he swears by intergenerational mobility having spent a lot of his childhood at refugee camp! 1/n

[Sam Asher @thesamasher]

Are night lights (NL) a reliable proxy for local GDP?

An answer, in our paper “Development Research at High Geographic Resolution” aka the SHRUG paper (forthcoming at WBER). 🧵1/14

TL;DR: don’t trust existing GDP elasticities. With @paulnovosad @tobiaslunt @ryu_matsuura