Anne Karing

When it’s all worth it. First time being back in clinics in Sierra Leone since 2019. Social signals ‘bracelets’ for childhood vaccines are now being scaled. Many new learnings talking to nurses and caregivers - things that I couldn’t have anticipated when we did the RCT. ❤️💉

📣 New RFI now open for malaria pilot programs and research across Africa! Apply through 1 of 2 submissions tracks by June 24. Learn more and apply at: • Pilot program track: bit.ly/3QHTQYy • Research and evaluation track: bit.ly/4waruWX

Back in the office and discovered this: Plein Air has soft serve!! 🍦😍 #UChicago

@alexolegimas 👏💪❤️

I'm sorry for the pause but regularly scheduled programming, but notice what exercise these grannies are doing at 89/91? Yup, the deadlift. The fitness industry is full of snake oil, but one of the biggest deceptions is discouraging the basic compound movements of deadlift and squat. The number of times I've heard the deadlift isn't worth the risk/reward, how it's going to mess up your back etc. No, the deadlift is what makes your back strong as you age. The biggest change to your body is that you start losing muscle mass, your bones have less and less support, including your spine. The deadlift puts an iron rod of muscle around your spine. I've had aches and pains around my back for more than a decade---regular weekly deadlift and squat fixed all of it. I haven't had so much as a tweak since I started lifting heavy. Here is me at 41, lifting 375 at 165lbs. We saw Christopher Waller lift the same at 67. This is what will help you age comfortably, not some random new fitness trend. With all that, you need good form. Get a trainer, practice light over and over again, and only when it's comfortable should you start loading it up. Everyone's *good form* will look a bit different, e.g., my back looks rounder than some others', but this what is more comfortable than a straight back for me. Once you have that down, you'll have the best anti aging hack out there.

Wonderful to talk to Mosa Moshabela, President of University of Cape Town, here at WEF about antibiotics—a powerful tool that has saved missions of lives—and the growing threat of antibiotic resistance, and economics at UCT.

Because of science: Your mother survived childbirth. You never got polio. You’ve never seen smallpox. Your friend with type 1 diabetes is alive. That infection you had? Antibiotics cured it. We don’t live longer because of luck. We live longer because science works.

Ed's job market paper is a tour de force: 27 RCTs harmonized, fundamental identification challenges solved, and the clearest empirical evidence we have on poverty traps. Brilliant work from one of the most thoughtful, ambitious, and technically gifted young economists!

Spot the difference. A life saving vaccine. #USAID #DevastatingCuts

I just found out there are beach squirrels!! #omg 🌊🐿️🏖️

🚨2-Year Postdocs in Dev Econ @uni_copenhagen🚨 Come work on some exciting experimental projects😀! Dedicated time for your own research. Reach out to hear more! ** PLEASE REPOST **🙏 Application deadline🗓️: Nov 11 👉bit.ly/4q2Uehf #econtwitter @Econ_jobs_

@_alice_evans ♥️

Congratulations to Mokyr!! I sketched this in 2019, visualizing his theory of how collective praise for innovation motivated wider scientific inquiry 👏 Prestige matters, but.. clearly it’s not a full explanation. We still need to explain why religion was displaced by science.

in grad school, i wrote 17 pages of a 25-page article from ~7pm - 4am. got a 98, was urged to submit it to a conference, got into the conference. at the airport, had a morning bloody mary, missed my flight, talked my way onto another airline, made it in time to present. no AI!

Bocconi Economics is hiring!! 2 junior positions open this year. Super environment, great colleagues, great students, great city, great outdoors. Love it!! Apply!! @Unibocconi @Bocconi

One of the most beautiful places on earth #SierraLeone

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ_uzh at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics. 🧵 1/7

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Pain au chocolat and fresh coffee after transatlantic flight with zero sleep. Europe you are heaven. 🥐❤️

Took a moment in class to remind my undergrads to get their flu and covid jabs. Not my usual role as an econ prof, but right now they have too few trusted voices. And if others are trying to avoid political strife (this ISN'T political!!!), they may not be hearing it elsewhere.

[Reading Group IP week 3] This week, we discussed the 2024 article by R. Juhász, N. Lane, and D. Rodrik "The New Economics of Industrial Policy". They survey the literature and argue for a more nuanced opinion on government interventions 1/6

We have the choice to use the gift of our life to make the world a better place- or not to bother - Jane Goodall Thank you for bothering, Jane.