If this happened in Africa, the donors would all pull out 😡
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Jacob Winter
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Jacob Winter
@JacobWinter5
International Development, Political Economy and (ideally) camping. PhD Candidate at @UoftT_PolSci.
Toronto, Ontario Joined Kasım 2012
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I'll be at APSA with a phenomenal crew discussing some very cool research. Come find us tomorrow at 2pm!
Politicians and Public Provision in Africa: Elites, Elections, External Finance
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Top notch work from @NicolaNones
Cambridge University Press - Politics@CUP_PoliSci
#OpenAccess from @IntOrgJournal - Trade and Exchange Rate Competition in East Asia - cup.org/3Uw6Mzk "We provide evidence that exchange rate depreciations are undertaken at the behest of export industries" - @MarkManger & Nicola Nones (both @munkschool) #FirstView
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@CUP_PoliSci @PSRMJournal @UofT_PolSci @StrathPolIR @teresakramarz @MarkManger Thanks for posting! Excited to see this out in the world. 🙌
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#OpenAccess from @PSRMJournal -
Reassessing World Bank conditionality: beyond count measures - cup.org/4jws0HN
- Jacob Winter (@UofT_PolSci), Ben Cormier (@StrathPolIR), @TeresaKramarz & @MarkManger
#FirstView
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💸Does the World Bank give easier loan terms to the allies of its most powerful member states?
➡️Using Latent Semantic Scaling, J. Winter B Cormier @TeresaKramarz @MarkManger find little evidence of favoritism toward powerful allies cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView
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There's a funny facial expression people get when you ask em what their PhD is about. A second or more of anguished freezing as they:
1) desperately try to infer how smart you are, so that they can pitch it at a level neither insultingly vague nor nerdview inside-baseball
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CB income: grupobimbo-com-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/ev…
Food Banks: cbc.ca/news/canada/to…
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In 2014, Canada Bread's operating revenue was $1,439 million. A $50 million fine for price fixing is a rounding error.
Meanwhile, food bank visits are up 60%.
ctvnews.ca/business/canad…
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"Random noise continues to limit our understanding of public opinion!"
This is why they don't let me write headlines 😐
@CTVToronto
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"Spadina Bus" is truly an anthem for the people.
West End Phoenix@westendphoenix
Did you catch @mmmbarclay "33 Songs From Here" in the Music & Sports issue? We thought we'd make a playlist so you could listen along while you read! (excluding 3 songs that aren't on streaming) on Spotify 🟢: open.spotify.com/playlist/7p95x… and Apple Music 🍎: music.apple.com/ca/playlist/33…
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In 1847, Toronto's population was 20,000, and we admitted 40,000 refugees 😮☘️
(Okay yes this did lead to sectarian violence, but my point is that Canada still has lots of space)
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Took a break yesterday from being confused by my own data to being by confused someone else's!
🙏 @SkelAlex @amusulan @I4Replication 🙏
Alexandre Fortier-Chouinard@SkelAlex
I had an amazing time yesterday replicating research from @AJPS_Editor in the Toronto Replication Games with brilliant & fun colleagues, @amusulan & @JacobWinter5! Thanks to @I4Replication, Profs. Abel Brodeur, @RohanAlexander & others for organizing!
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Great piece by Ted Chiang on ChatGPT et al. "Think of ChatGPT as a blurry JPEG of all the text on the Web" – and its "hallucinations" are actually compression artifacts. kottke.org/23/02/ted-chia…
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If I could do it all over, I would go back and write my field exams in the form of progressively deranged first-person dialogue.
David Schönholzer@davidfromterra
Probably the most insightful abstract of a book review ever written. I have a whole new level of respect for James Fenske.
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TIL: Along with "Diarrhoea of the mouth" and "Constipation of the brain", Zambia's Handbook on Unparliamentary Language includes the phrase "Chinese Money" in its 37-page list of terms which "lower the dignity and integrity of the House".
parliament.gov.zm/sites/default/…
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This isn't cuts- it's money that was already budgeted but didn't get spent.
What could we have done with this money? Well, $1.2 billion is the *annual* budget of @sickkids hospital, where surgeries for children are being delayed this fall.
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Oh good, Ontario saved $1.2 billion this quarter by not spending on schools and hospitals.
Not like those have been under any pressure the last few months 🙄
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Genuinely one of the best ways to spend your money.
GiveDirectly💸@GiveDirectly
Together with @Canva we’re delivering money to people in extreme poverty in Malawi. They’re free to spend it however they like and decide for themselves how best to design their own future. More at GiveDirectly.org/canva
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