Shreya Chandra

PhD Candidate at ARE Berkeley. Interested in labor and development. ~ normal is just a distribution ~

[Shreya Chandra @shreyachaa]

#HIRING an STC to support an evaluation that studies the workers' willingness to pay for flexibility in their working conditions. You will: conduct quantitative surveys at firms, and manage field implementation.
Email Apoorva Limaye ([email protected]) to apply!!

[Ashwini_Deshpande @_ADeshpande]

A beautiful tribute by Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee. #EconTwitter & Normistas (UN system, World Bank): pl note. Norms are never static, they change. More imp, shifting norms is only half the battle. Social & eco structures need to change too.
https://t.co/M22TYWUtvB

[M.R. Sharan @sharanidli]

The National Family Health Survey remains among the few credible publicly conducted pan-Indian surveys. (NSS last accepted "thick round" survey was in 2011). This systematic dismantling of existing data systems ensures WhatsApp University prevails.

https://t.co/3ZMQ7unHjk (1/2)

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

This NYT article tackles an important problem, but presents a cliched & outdated view on how to solve it.

This is *extremely frustrating* to someone like me who works on research/policy aimed at putting people w criminal records on a better track.

https://t.co/OEY9N8T2en

[शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek]

Data, data everywhere, but not a thought to think
Propaganda and nuance never really go together, with propaganda having to cater to the lowest common denominator.
My column in the Deccan Herald.
https://t.co/LKMHSc98aI

[Shreya Chandra @shreyachaa]

@DaveEvansPhD 1. Air and Where India Goes by Dean Spears
2. Sense and Solidarity by Jean Dreze

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I stand in strong solidarity with the 48,000 academic workers at the University of California who are on strike for higher wages, better child care benefits, and expanded paid leave.

[Berkeley Agricultural and Resource Economics @AreBerkeley]

The campus feels eerily empty of activity as the graduate student strike begins this morning at UC-Berkeley

[UAW 4811 @uaw_4811]

"What does it say about a university system touted as one of the Golden State’s best attributes if its intellectual workforce can’t afford to live in the state?"
The @latimes is asking the right questions!

[UAW Local 5810 @UAW5810]

We, the Postdocs, Academic Researchers, Academic Student Employees, & Graduate Student Researchers at UC announce a multi-unit strike starting November 14.
United with @sruuaw & @uaw2865 we will make
@UofCalifornia stop their unlawful conduct & bargain in good faith.

[Christopher Udry @chrisudry]

Please spread the word about this opportunity for researchers from low and lower-middle income countries to be predoctoral fellows as a bridge to PhD econ programs. We're hosting our first fellows at @NU_GPRL this year and plan to continue.

[Shreya Chandra @shreyachaa]

@parijatlal Parents are somehow always undefeated. Especially indian ones.

[Livia Alfonsi @livia_alfonsi]

🚨New WP alert!🚨 w/@SaraSpaziani & Mary Namubiru we investigate gender disparities in the effect of COVID-19 on the labor market outcomes of skilled workers in Uganda.

We document 1⃣the arising of new gender gaps 2⃣their persistence and3⃣the widening of pre-existing ones.

🧵

[Raveesha Gupta @raveesha_gupta]

PhD applicants of #EconTwitter, as offers start coming & you’ve to make a choice, plz plz ask current & former students about the support they get from dept & faculty. Good profs can make a tough situation many times better & you’ll need it for as long as you’re in the dept.

[Susanna Berkouwer @BerkouwerS]

📢Please retweet!📢

@Wharton Professors Shing-Yi Wang, @ArthurvBenthem & I are hiring a pre-doctoral researcher in development & environment economics to start 1 July 2022

Great fit if you're considering a PhD Economics!

Apply by 5 Dec 2021

More info 👇https://t.co/6ZQ6FveuSU

[Faye DSouza @fayedsouza]

Congratulations to the farmers who have stuck to their demands and refused to give in their protest

[Economists for Equity at Berkeley (BEE) @CalEcons4Equity]

Currently applying to Berkeley’s Economics or ARE PhD programs? The student-led BEE Graduate School Application Bootcamp on November 6th will help underrepresented minority applicants prepare their SOPs, personal history statements, and letters of recommendation packets. 1/2

[Nick Tsivanidis @NTsivanidis]

🚐🚐Research Assistant for Research Project: Informal Transit Networks In Lagos. Prof Nick Tsivanidis (UC Berkeley) is hoping to bring on board a research assistant for a project (approximately 16 weeks).

[#Tokyo2020 @Tokyo2020]

Unbelievable scenes here!

India, yes, India is into #hockey women's semi-final after stunning Australia 1-0!

Woah.

[kanika mahajan @kanmahajan]

In a new working paper co-authored with @sugatchaturvedi and Zahra Siddique @BristolUni we use techniques in machine learning to explore what lies behind the gender requests placed in job ads in India and applicant response to these.
https://t.co/bilkU9nhYl