Many folks talk about how high tech satellites can help small scale farmers in developing regions. But do they actually work? In our new paper in Nature Reviews, we synthesize how tech has, hasn’t, and can aid in ag risk management. (1/8)
Interested in using data and evidence to create social impact? After being tentative for most of 2020 due to COVID, @IDinsight is ramping up hiring, and we have A LOT of open positions posted. Check it out and tell your friends! https://t.co/z53Xuy7C4z
Come work with an excellent group of researchers in the SLS- @IBLI_Africa team at @ILRI, @CGIAR. It's a great opportunity to develop impactful research agendas, work in the field, run RCTs, and collaborate with folks from many different countries & fields. https://t.co/4klYFe4IUO
Attn econ undergrads & their profs: The Hispanic Pre-Doctoral Economics Pipeline Conference is Nov 6!
Co-hosted by @TAMU Econ & @ASHE_ASSA. Keynote address by @J_C_Suarez.
Deadline to apply: Oct 5, 5pm PT.
Please RT! #EconTwitter@econ_ra@AEACSMGEP
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Warming stripes: each stripe represents the average global temperature of a single year, ordered from the earliest available data (1850) to now https://t.co/8q5fWZRqPo
Dear #poverty scholars, it is time for a reckoning. It is long overdue. #Discrimination, #structuralinequality & the lived experiences of the poor is not a tangent, it is core to "mainstream" poverty scholarship.
New evidence that raising the minimum wage can boost workforce productivity. That means that paying workers more need not come at the cost of fewer jobs or lower profits. Consumers win too. My column in the NYT. https://t.co/31rsQBFJLy
After weeks of teaching on Zoom and years of research on inequality, I’ve been thinking a lot about how Zoom essentially provides windows of inequality and literally highlights unequal backgrounds of our students. This is concerning for a few reasons: 1/n
This is big: Biden would rescind Keystone XL's cross-border permit, effectively killing the pipeline.
I know cynicism has a certain allure, but with the right inside-outside strategy, a Biden administration might even pleasantly surprise the naysayers.
At least 237 Kenyans have now lost their lives due to the ongoing floods in Kenya, and another 161,000 families displaced since the onset of the heavy rains.
So sad. Signs that we are already in a new and more dangerous environmental era! We are not acting fast enough!
SHOTS FIRED
Biden - with coauthor Elizabeth Warren - sends warning to every Trump official to expect to be indicted for any corruption.
https://t.co/OnYN796P4Z
retweet if you were previously going to write a bad dissertation but now, due the pandemic, have reconsidered and will be now be "buckling down" to write an "outstanding" one
Just so you know— around 70% of meat packing employees are black or Hispanic. Nearly 50% are immigrants. 15% lack health insurance. Forcing them to work in a pandemic has nothing to do with a “free market” but everything to do with ruthlessness and disregard for human life.
I graduated college into the Great Recession, applied to dozens of jobs, and got zero (0) interviews. Did a masters and it led to an interesting job, great friends, and lots of knowledge. Not right for everyone, but definitely worth considering imo.
Grad school this fall?
As job & promotion prospects evaporate, grad school should look a lot more attractive. Application deadlines have been extended.
Time for a thread.
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Climate change is one of the most important economic phenomena. Very pleased we were able to hire @hobbservation to join us as a tenure-track faculty member starting this fall!