Nikhitha Mary Mathew

PhD student at @LKYSch | International Fox Fellow @Yale | Education policy | Development Economics

[Nikhitha Mary Mathew @nikhitha_mathew]

Check out my website to learn more: https://t.co/O1nkLyDCrq

[Nikhitha Mary Mathew @nikhitha_mathew]

I am on the #EconJobMarket
I study topics at the intersection of education and social inequality. Happy to share my job market paper where I study the differential impacts of school consolidation policies on educational access across social groups in India.

[Saravana Ravindran @saravana_econ]

I am excited to share that I have three excellent PhD candidates on the job market this year! Please do check out their profiles and amazing work!

[Nikhitha Mary Mathew @nikhitha_mathew]

Excited to participate in the APPAM Fall Research Conference #2024APPAM

[APPAM @APPAM_DC]

We kicked things off this evening at #2024APPAM with a session for first timers, where APPAM leaders met with first time attendees to network and talk about how to get the most out of the conference experience! Check our Student Info page for more tips: https://t.co/Z3woyjBEdZ

[Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative @GAP_NU_]

#NEUDC2024 Human Capital Formation, chaired by Alejandro Ganimian, shared novel insights on the human capital impacts of a wide range of policies and shocks, including the introduction of indigenous-reserved schools, eradication of illicit crops, and local economic shocks.

[Global Action for Policy (GAP) Initiative @GAP_NU_]

#NEUDC2024
Presenter @nikhitha_mathew examines how schools reserved for Scheduled Tribes in India affect their educational outcomes. She finds Scheduled Tribes students sort into reserved schools, leading to large significant impacts on school enrollment and grade retention

[Applied Young Economists Webinar @ayew2021]

TOMORROW (16 October): AYEW Development Economics Workshop!

Join us at 11:00am BST to listen to @olayusuff14 (@GSU_Economics), @nikhitha_mathew (@LKYSch) and @Nichogachet (@ManUniEconomics)

Sign up for Zoom details: https://t.co/9uqg3n69rP

[Karthik Muralidharan @karthik_econ]

For folks in Singapore:

I will be giving a talk on my new book this Friday (27 Sept) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy @LKYSch at @NUSingapore; chaired by @BajpaiKanti

The event is open to the public, but please register at:

https://t.co/gx1ju6ftKF

[AMIE @econmentoring]

Welcome Group 2 - @nmeriggi, @roxanagutz and our mentees Henry Bernal, @nikhitha_mathew and Kaibalyapati Mishra! 🎓 #AMIE2024

[Vijayendra Rao @bijurao]

Seeking an RA to assist me on a variety of projects on gender dynamics, political economy & well-being in South Asia using a mix of econometric, ML/NLP and qualitative methods. Must be proficient in Stata/R. If interested, pl send your CV to my email here: https://t.co/ZsPgTeXEla

[Sam Asher @thesamasher]

An amazing opportunity to work on the most important dataset in India! India's only long-run panel; really rich individual, household, and location information. @weconpol @BahujanEcon @karthik_econ @sandipz @JustinSandefur @paulnovosad

[Society for Economics Research in India @SERI_Network]

📢 Call for Papers for second annual SERI-D conference (workshop for PhD students in India)
Online conference: December 9-11, 2022
Submission deadline: October 1 at 11:59 PM IST
https://t.co/63Ogd9GtwS #EconTwitter #EconIndia #EconC4P

[Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay @AbhiroopMukho]

We welcome submissions to the #ACEGD Dec 2022 and look forward to interesting papers and networking #EconISIDelhi #EconTwitter @Debasis37144717 @MoniBishnu

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

We're hiring a postdoc in Critical Caste Studies @UChicago, to help think through caste, exclusion, intersectionality & more

Open to any discipline in humanities + soc sciences, for scholars whose training was not primarily in US/Europe

Please circulate!
https://t.co/Jg0RVo8J4i

[Aaditya Dar (aadityadar.bsky.social) @AadityaDar]

Five days to go to @SERI_Network's workshop at @ISBedu Program and important details https://t.co/IuSXdNN4kw Please let us know at [email protected] if you would like to attend the in-person workshop.

[Noam Angrist @angrist_noam]

Happy to have contributed to this important @TheEconomist article on the enormous costs of covid-19 school closures and also essential recovery strategies, including keeping schools fully open, remote & in-person tutoring + Teaching at the Right Level
https://t.co/ksxDFsUIps

[Seema Jayachandran @seema_econ]

I'm hiring a predoc, based at Princeton, to work with me on development econ projects (and a smattering of US-focused ones). Start date: Early- to mid-July. Can sponsor a visa. Please help me spread the word, thanks! cc: @econ_ra

https://t.co/KktRpDISTL

[Sonalde Desai @SonaldeDesai]

The IHDS team at NCAER is looking for several field coordinators and trainers. If you like data and travelling and want to work with an enthusiastic team, look at the opening. Friends of IHDS, please retweet https://t.co/qlDTLF3ZBj
@ncaer @ihdscorner

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded with one half to David Card and the other half jointly to Joshua D. Angrist and Guido W. Imbens.

#NobelPrize

[Akshay Mangla｜अक्षय मंगला @AkshayMangla]

Pleased to share my new article on how street-level bureaucrats implement girls' education reforms in Uttar Pradesh, India. Forthcoming in PAD special issue on street-level bureaucracy in developing countries. Summary thread below. 1/n https://t.co/udcqmbOEc2

[David Evans @DaveEvansPhD]

Who's in the mood for a Monday morning education research round-up?

Friday was the third and final day of the Research on Improving Systems of Education annual conference (#RISEConf2021)!

https://t.co/cZguS9xTda

In case you missed it, here’s a quick catch-up!

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