Daniel N. Posner

Does bottom-up accountability generate improvements in health outcomes? EGAPers @DougParkerson @piaraffler @DanielNPosner investigate experimental evidence from the Ugandan heath sector. Learn more: buff.ly/4iGfCFh

I am shocked to hear of Nic van de Walle’s passing. He was an extraordinary scholar and mentor, and taught so many of us through his hugely important and insightful research. My heart goes out to his family.

@juanf_vargas Congratulations, Juan!

Friends from #EconTwitter in Europe, cari colleghi italiani: I very much hope to get together soon and catch up!

A long overdue announcement (and possibly common knowledge by now): This fall I joined @EconomicsUnito as Prof. Ordinario di Economia Politica. Bonus: Shortly I will also be joining @CollegioCA. A short thread…

@squig You might find our recent paper on PAPs useful: danielnposner.com/wp-content/upl…

Looking for some "bad" but relatively common anti-open science takes for a class. Things like: If you preregister you are never allowed to explore your data / deviate from it. Requiring appropriate power is unfair to people with lower research budgets etc.

@MITPoliSci @MITstudents Congratulations, Jasmine!

So proud of Political Science PhD candidate Jasmine Hope English for winning the 2023 Kendra Koivu Award from the American Political Science Association! polisci.mit.edu/news/2023/phd-… @MITstudents

@cblatts What a wonderful tribute. I'm so sorry for your loss, Chris. Your dad really sounds like an extraordinary person.

We lost my dad Jim to heart and lung disease this week, at 73. Young, but he was a model of how to live life. I've spent my career city to city every few years. He and my mom did the same, until 1984 when they finally settled in Ottawa with their three boys. They built a community here, and touched so many people it's hard to count. We're not sure we'll find a large enough place to fit them all. Dad grew up in Montreal. He finished secondary school early—I think it was 16—and started college younger than everyone else. He always kept the details suspiciously hazy (it sounds like there was a lot of poker playing involved) but whatever transpired, he decided to drop out his first year. Dad always loved cars and mechanics and driving, and so he ran off to become the crew chief for a race car driver, traveling around North America on the Formula Atlantic circuit. But dad had a girlfriend at home, a nurse in training. They'd met working as bank tellers. One day her father got on the phone and told my dad to come home and marry her or get lost. So he quit racing, came back to the Royal Bank of Canada and to Montreal. He and my mom Rita spent the next 51 years together. They bounced around from little bank branch to branch in small towns ands cities across eastern Ontario until they finally landed in Ottawa. That became home. Over the next 20 years he built one of the most successful technology banking practices in Canada—to his surprise most of all. It all started when he met a handful of guys starting telecom companies. One tiny little startup was called Newbridge, another Mitel, and later another called Corel. They ended up becoming some of the largest telecom and tech companies in the world. But despite his success, dad was never really a career man. I cannot remember a time he wasn't home by 5pm to be with his family. And even if the business he built was important, the most legendary thing he and my mom built was a community. He and my mom touched so many people it is overwhelming. My brothers and I have spent half the week figuring out how to manage the sheer number of people that want to stop by, come to a service, and send a note. It's humbling and inspiring. Even though he died too soon, he had a great run. He retired at 55 and he and my mom traveled, golfed, and spent time with their grandkids. A lifetime musician, he started a rock band with his friends and played gigs around Ottawa. He even returned to car racing, in a way, by teaching high-performance driving at a race track nearby. And he drank a lot of red wine. He will be missed by friends and family, but also by the vintners of California. We love you pops.

@RobinsonAmandaL @osu So happy to see this coming out. It’s a fantastic project!

@EfrenPoliPsy @REPS_Lab @yuen_huo @roddominguezv Congratulations Efren and Margit!

cc: @REPS_Lab @yuen_huo @roddominguezv

@cblatts That’s exactly why I like loading the dishwasher and cleaning up from dinner.

Took apart and fixed broken dishwasher tonight. Am sufficiently over-proud that I’ve decided I really need more potential for short term accomplishments and satisfaction in my job. “Journal acceptance after 8 years of work” just does not give same constancy of endorphin rush.

@jkertzer Usually not a fan of cutesy titles. But this one is a gem.

My new goal in life is coming up with a paper title that beats "Donetsk, don't tell". Truly a masterpiece. 10/10, no notes. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@ryancbriggs Frustrating. But don’t lose sleep over it. Vindication will come when the paper is widely cited, wherever it ultimately appears.

Thank you, Johannes! @BusaraCenter is an extraordinary institution with amazing, dedicated staff doing superb work on important questions. We are all grateful for your entrepreneurship and vision in getting it started!

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 WGAPE Small Research Grants!

@Sarah_Brierley1 @miguelmaria @Res_Pol Congrats, Sarah! This looks like a really nice contribution!

WGAPE is now accepting paper submissions for the 2023 Annual Meeting to be held @StrathU in Nairobi, Kenya. We seek papers on the political economy of African development. Early career professionals are especially encouraged to apply. Deadline: March 17th cega.berkeley.edu/event/working-…

@FeyaadAllie @Harvard Congratulations, Feyaad! That’s great news. Harvard is lucky to have you.

Alhamdulillah, I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining @Harvard Government as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2024 after a one-year post doc. I’m so grateful for this opportunity and for my community who helped me get here especially in the moments when I thought I wouldn’t. 1/5