Rob J. Omondi

Urgent living | Social Impact | Full-time dancer | Part-time kitchen wanderer | Cheerful lover

[Rob J. Omondi @omoshbjoe]

@Madam_pls This felt like a warm hug!!! 🥹🥹♥️♥️

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

I write about papers, and collect them here. There are now well over 150 papers cataloged for you to learn about. I’m starting a new thread to keep it manageable. Remember, if you like my work, you’d love my blog. I publish 4-5 times a week.
https://t.co/ep27yo4acK

[Cesar Chavez @CesarChavezP29]

New paper: "Automation Is Not a Sufficient Statistic: Robots, AI, and Inequality"

Why does the automation literature keep disagreeing about whether robots help or hurt workers? Because robots and AI have opposite effects on inequality, and each study that pools them into a single index is averaging a negative with a positive.

The disagreement is because different automation measures load differently on the robot vs. AI frontier. If your measure mostly captures robots, you find compression. If it mostly captures AI, you find widening. If it captures both equally, you find nothing. Same data, opposite conclusions, and the theory predicts exactly which measure gets which sign.

Link: https://t.co/dTnFn645Ij

[NBER @nberpubs]

The very rapid decline in fertility in Latin America is driven by behavioral change, rather than demographic changes. Childlessness plays only a minor role in, from @milagrosonofri, @InesBerniell, @raquel1fernan, and Azul Menduiña https://t.co/uXUMyexW8K

[QJE @QJEHarvard]

Recently accepted by #QJE: “How Do You Identify a Good Manager?” by Weidmann, Vecci, Said, Bhalotra, Adhvaryu, Nyshadham, Tamayo, and Deming: https://t.co/zXiMLeOVjb

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Here’s my Frantz Fanon library, which includes his books and writings about him a for anyone interested in reading

https://t.co/1kVR6UZXUB

[Soumitra Shukla @soumitrashukla9]

A very creative paper that bridges the best of economics and sociology. We know from Lareau, Bourdieu, Rivera, and Khan that elites have their own subtle codes for class reproduction, but it is often hard to quantify what they are and how much of an advantage they provide.

[Rob J. Omondi @omoshbjoe]

@kihorock @AnganaKeith Nairobi school was for settlers.

[Minority Africa @MinorityAfrica]

Forced into marriages to appease spirits of slain men, young girls in rural Mozambique still face a hidden cycle of trauma that persists decades after the 1977-1992 civil war.

[Rob J. Omondi @omoshbjoe]

@NairobiVisuals

[The Kenyan Vigilante @KenyanSays]

A Technical University of Kenya student documents his life while searching for attachment in Nairobi, Kenya!

[Gatwirii♊ @thatgeminibloom]

Additionally there's also urban poverty that is often overlooked, a family of 4+ in a one bedroom apartment is still a form of poverty but we don't view it as such

[foxygen @foxypiano]

pleased to share my essay on @republicjournal in which i write about the myth, language & philosophy of the literary legend, Amos Tutuola. kindly read

https://t.co/KfVzc9Jjrb

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

“each time I take a look at the kenyan bracelet on my wrist, i am confronted with the possibility that kenya might never be the same again after ruto’s presidency.”

my reflection on the protests in kenya for @TIME
https://t.co/xOVR9PP4li

[Kivutha Kibwana @ProfKibwana]

After teaching at University for 25 years, my gross salary was KSh 81,888 & 55 cents. Still university lecturers earn peanuts. Government research budget is minimal. Many top academicians have gone abroad. Large numbers of youth lack fees. Hence collapse of tertiary education.

[Rob J. Omondi @omoshbjoe]

@BellaEgessa Mrembo wetu! A baddie through and through. Mak kanyo 😘😘

[Rob J. Omondi @omoshbjoe]

@Madam_pls Plenty of hugs! The weather isn’t helping either 😭😭

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

hello!!! @Lolwe_ has a new issue out now! beautiful work from all over the globe. read, share, review and discuss. and remember to support @Lolwe_ however you can. ❤️❤️❤️

[Troy Onyango @TroyOnyango]

i am thrilled and honoured to be one of the judges for the international booker prize 2026 alongside such wonderful, brilliant people! thank you @TheBookerPrizes for this opportunity. 🙏🏿❤️