Iman Sen

Development and behavioral economics | Graduate student in Ag and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland | Formerly at World Bank, JPAL, and IPA

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

@311DCgov there is a dead squirrel in front of 3712 22nd St NE on the public median. Could you please assist?

[M.R. Sharan @sharanidli]

(1/N) Much of India still lives in its villages. Yet, everyday Indian policy rarely incorporates the voices of those who live in them.

We've spent the last few years trying to do something about that. Today, we want to introduce GRAMA. 🧵

https://t.co/xliWFGb8JT

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

@EconomicMisfit @a_ha256 @UofMaryland Thank you for sharing!

[James Ahabyona @a_ha256]

Can Ethnic Diversity Actually Work? What Women’s Networks in Rural India Reveal by Iman Sen @imansen2 (University of Maryland @UofMaryland) is now live on The Economic Misfit (@EconomicMisfit)

Read more here: https://t.co/IahQHPabhg

[Y-RISE @YaleRISE]

Talk about a program at #scale - building sanitation infrastructure & enabling behavior change in a country of 1.4 BILLION. Did it work? @YaleRISE founder @mushfiq_econ & co-authors Urmila Chatterjee, Juan Munoz and @imansen2 carefully assemble multiple data sets to answer. 1/n

[Dr. Caroline Krafft @ckrafftc]

"Women’s Labor Force Participation in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Study of Social and Psychological Barriers" by @imansen2 @zeina_afif @varungauri and Gohdar Mohamed https://t.co/1pWucEjhK6

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

Interventions, including changes to perceptions of toilet use by others and association of toilets with cleanliness, increased toilet usage.

[Varun Gauri @varungauri]

Now published - Shifting social norms to reduce open defecation in rural India - @1969ajo @CassSunstein @BPPjournal https://t.co/oneVa9d2kV

[International Growth Centre @The_IGC]

Empowerment programmes improve adolescent girls’ educational and labour market outcomes; financial incentives are effective in reducing child marriage.

@rglenner discusses in a new @vox_dev video 📺 👇
https://t.co/egpp669xih

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

Furthermore, we dig deeper with front line health and nutrition workers to uncover different world views wrt to the causes of stunting, constructed from unprimed reporting, and show that these are correlated with service delivery.

[Varun Gauri @varungauri]

New working paper - Mind Over Matter in the Philippines : A Study of Key Stakeholders' Perceptions of Childhood Stunting - https://t.co/cAuDHaHSi7

[Arianna Legovini @alegovini]

Nice and fast tables in Stata? https://t.co/Y1yrLDVSKZ via @WorldBank

[Renos Vakis @rvakis]

Helping Women in Kurdistan region of Iraq to Find Jobs https://t.co/y8g8JNfx8h via @WorldBank Promising insights from our work on job search led by our very own @zeina_afif and @imansen2 #WB_eMBeD

[PS @payalsoneja]

@sdbernard

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

Just wow, causal metrics, in a couple of animations!

[Nick HK @nickchk]

I've been getting used to gganimate and thought it would be useful to put together some illustrations of what various causal inference methods *actually do to data* and how they work. Here, for example, is what it means to control for a (binary) variable

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

Perfect for your next class reading list/Friday procrastination/or quick advice - I've updated our master Curated List of Our Postings on Technical Topics – Your One-Stop Shop for Methodology https://t.co/z5dw1oKVwl

[Iman Sen @imansen2]

Thanks @markus_gold for this much needed conversation. Having worked a bit on both sides, my takeaway is to not to assume a survey firm knows a lot (i.e outsource completely) or too little (override everything), the key is to find the right level of collaboration each time.

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

TODAY ON DEVELOPMENT IMPACT

What can researchers learn from survey implementers? https://t.co/4NiVe8v365 Part 1 of a 2-part series from @Markus_Gold

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

IE Analytics: Introducing the Development Impact Evaluation Wiki https://t.co/BBKmjZYuhV

[David McKenzie @dmckenzie001]

How can machine learning and artificial intelligence be used in development interventions and impact evaluations? My take on last week's #SmartDev2018 conference https://t.co/sT8YoO6Lur

[IndiaSpend @IndiaSpend]

MLAs colluded to unfairly award rural road building contracts worth Rs 3592 cr, or 4% of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana total spending between 2001 & 2013, says Princeton University study. https://t.co/VOAGCwsTNL

[Arvind Subramanian @arvindsubraman]

Great piece by Prof. Seema Jayachandran (@seema_econ) on the #economicsurvey18 analysis of the 21 million “unwanted girls.” The focus on sex ratio of last child instead of sex ratio per se was inspired by her terrific research. https://t.co/aXVdVHNbrz

[Leonora Risse @leonora_risse]

Do male & female economists differ fundamentally in their views on economic policy issues? Yes.
Does this finding accentuate the need for more equal gender representation in economic policymaking? Yes!
@WomenEconAU #gendereconomics #womenineconomics #genderbalance #economics