Karan Nagpal

India Regional Director @IDinsight. PhD Economics, Oxford. Previously: Trade Policy Advisor, Vanuatu. Interested in understanding how governments can be better.

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@ccphusrox I was there before the mcd, and yet I call it Basant Lok. Calling it Priya markets centers a specific neoliberal enterprise that shows capitalist propaganda and honestly that’s violence

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

Would just love to know how many AEs actually respond, and if they don’t, if the helpline works.

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[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

The odds are what they are because a lot of people don’t leave their children outside, unattended

[Cate Hall @catehall]

what??

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@notanastronomer @paulnovosad "improve" could mean make it more accurate (via digital transaction systems or third-party audits), more timely, more granular, easier to match...happy to chat more about all our (and other orgs') efforts in this space in India!

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@notanastronomer @paulnovosad I haven't come across a particular fund... but there are a bunch of funders that support orgs in India to work on improving admin data. The question is, for whom? For citizens, researchers or for governments themselves? And there are also many aspects to the word "improve" (1/2)

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@etjernst @DanStein_econ @paulgp Emilia - do you still have an invite left?

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

Delhi: Do you know my father?

[Naval @naval]

NY: What do you have?

LA: Who do you know?

SF: What do you know?

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

So weird to be binging on Narcos Mexico and watching gruesome murders and kidnappings in 1980s Guadalajara... and NYT 2023 is encouraging us to go there to celebrate queer diversity.

[New York Times Travel @nytimestravel]

21. Guadalajara, Mexico https://t.co/K3VAyJyz1l

[Nick Maggiulli @dollarsanddata]

Because the best writers aren't providing just knowledge, they are providing wisdom too. That wisdom comes in the form of novelty and asking new questions—two things an AI can't do yet.

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[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@SonaldeDesai I have in the past struggled with the colloquial Hindi translation of household, between ghar and parivar, and I think settled on "iss ghar mein" to enable the enumerators and respondents to focus on the physical space...

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

Lots of PTSD reading this thread!
A long time ago, when struggling with this topic, @BrownstoneEcon shared this b'ful paper on the intellectual history of household definitions, which reveals the high-modernist instincts lying at the heart of our efforts: https://t.co/Z0eKZS0MS3

[Sonalde Desai @SonaldeDesai]

1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

Great thread on why being so deeply embedded in a particular context helps you do development economics better:

[Kate Orkin @kateorkin]

This thread is for young ‘uns from poor countries who want to do development economics. We got a paper out that we wrote about South Africa, where a couple of the authors are from. Many people tell you writing about your home country is a bad idea

[Jeffery McManus @jefferyjmcmanus]

1/4 Happy to report that our paper (@jo_ruchika, @krnaa, @therealfraker) on using voter rolls for household sample surveys in India is out in Field Methods! https://t.co/NWq91JsSX5

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@albrgr should not fund the Jesuits. Clearly their efforts weren’t sustainable.

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@albrgr @davidnash But what if the training is online AND digital?!

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@thesamasher @paulgp @KhoaVuUmn @SeanKHiggins How come nobody is trolling you in the replies?!

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

A major challenge with all of India’s Covid systems - from Air Suvidha to the beautiful ICMR & NIC portals - is that they assume all of India lives in villages, and everyone knows their GP, tehsil, block, and district. So these systems fail for Mumbai, Delhi etc.

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

The Air Suvidha form was designed to make you regret coming/returning to India.

So much information asked for including which 'tehsil' I'm going to. I have no idea how secure the info is. And what tehsil is Mumbai in yaar?

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@_alice_evans @g_borker is an expert on this topic!

[Karan Nagpal @krnaa]

@buzzindelhi Haha, not your tweet, but I was talking about the govt's decision