Teju Velayudhan

AP Economics at @UCIrvine. Postdoc at @OhioState 2019-2020. @umichECON PhD working on public finance in developing countries. Former @CGDev
RA.

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@Florian_Scheuer @econ_uzh @DinaPomeranz @Todd_A_Hare @jakub_steiner Congratulations @DinaPomeranz!

[Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social @AnneBrockmeyer]

📢 The new @vox_dev lit review on taxation & development is out! Lots of insights from recent research + outline of open questions for future research & policy experimentation.

For recap of key takeaways, tune in for Anders Jensen's presentation this afternoon at 2pm UK time 📅

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@m_clem @GeorgeMasonU @PIIE @CGDev Congrats Michael!

[Nancy M. Birdsall @nancymbirdsall]

#1 of 2 Embarrassed by your vaccine privilege ? (https://t.co/1He2giXRyV)

Then check out Go Give One (easy to find) and donate. Tell your friends and family: $5 per dose!

Enough donors could matter as a message to rich country govts.

h/t @louis boorstin @glassmanamanda

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of the scale of this policy and its consequences.
They're enormous. (thread)

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@sharanidli Super interesting thread! I especially found the expenditure decentralization to ward members interesting. Curious though why you think this should be unambiguously good especially at this scale? Implementing piped water infrastructure at a scale of 3 streets seems inefficient..

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

The voters have spoken, and they have chosen @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris to be our next president and vice president.

It's a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America.

Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Onward, together.

[Patricia Mazzei @PatriciaMazzei]

👋! Latina reporter here. I have a thread about how we gave our readers a more nuanced understanding of the vote in Florida. For inquiring minds. 1/x

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@real_eric_ohrn I think what you're looking for are linear regressions without an IV/ exogenous shock? If so, here's one that comes to mind. Liu, Lockwood, Almunia and Tam (2019), ReStat .
https://t.co/cIiYpqKFLR

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

Interesting evidence that taxation --> accountability and political participation.

[American Political Science Review @apsrjournal]

@jesselyoder examines the role that property ownership plays in motivating participation in local politics. #polisciresearch #APSR

https://t.co/RPiiOE6Ssb

[Christian Meyer @chrmeyer]

💡 Looking for PhD candidates & young scholars w/ ideas to promote private sector dev in low-income countries!

We are organizing a @PEDL_CEPR workshop to match high-/low-income country scholars + develop ideas together. Pls share and reach out with q’s!

https://t.co/42467Qdqct

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@AnneBrockmeyer @TheIFS @EconUCL Congrats Anne!

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

This story is so shocking and yet unsurprising.

[Justin Sandefur @JustinSandefur]

What happens when the World Bank assigns a Cameroonian macroeconomist to cover an Eastern European country?

Sometimes, the country would rather cut off relations with the Bank. Yikes.

https://t.co/SSpyTMMy9Q by @CelestinMonga

[Diego Castrillon @castrillon_dm]

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[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

Useful compilation of various immigration policy changes in the US post COVID.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

We @immcouncil wrote a special report on every major policy change that's happened since the pandemic began, and we'll update it ASAP with this new decision on student visas.

Our report reveals extensive changes across the entire immigration system.

https://t.co/JyDa22xg3e

[Bloomberg Tax @tax]

The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a conservative-allied group headed by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, took Covid-19 small business relief funds from the federal government, according to data. https://t.co/MqF2NgskGk

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

Piling on the uncertainty...

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Second, this is almost certainly going to be challenged in court. I can't give anyone specific legal advice on their cases (especially because I am not an expert on student visas), but I wouldn't encourage anyone to book a flight "home" this exact moment. Lawsuits are inevitable.

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

Great new paper showing that consumption taxes may not be as regressive as we think, even on an annual income basis.

[NBER @nberpubs]

Consumption taxes are redistributive in developing countries, lowering inequality by as much as income taxes, driven primarily by differences in informal consumption along the income distribution, from Bachas, Gadenne, and Jensen
https://t.co/X9kyPUwmhF

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

This brings back painful memories of times when I have been the "token" woman.

[Jennifer Doleac @jenniferdoleac]

New (awesome) working paper!

"Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender,
Influence, and Group Dynamics" by @ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @OlgaStoddard.

https://t.co/V9KzAR0Flh

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@matzatecon @thesamasher @paulnovosad

[Teju Velayudhan @tejunair]

@matzatecon @thesamasher @paulnovosad I am pretty sure you can find it on this local government directory site. Use the "download directory" link: https://t.co/Cp9S2wboOX