Devaki

⭐️Call for the 7th Women in International Economics conference is out! Hosted by @DukeEcon Nov 5-6, 2026, Deadline: May 15. Submit a paper to join two days of research and mentorship! Co-organized with @mayara_pfs, @StefaniaGaretto, @mmorl89 and @AmSantacreu.

I have recently received several DMs from both first year grad students and first year assistant professors. The link is not surprising because there is a specific kind of vertigo that comes with Year 1 of grad school and Year 1 of a professorship. It's the gap between who you think you should be and who you feel like you are in the moment, where two worlds collide: The Imposter Syndrome: "They're going to realize I'm just guessing." The Uncertainty: "There is no map for this, and I'm the one driving." For all of those out there, please hear me: the first year isn't a test of your intelligence; it's a test of your endurance through the "I don't know" phase. But I want to go further than just reassurance, because reassurance alone doesn't build anything. That discomfort you're feeling? It's actually diagnostic information. It means you're operating at the frontier of what you know, which is exactly where you're supposed to be in a research career. The people who never feel that discomfort are often the ones playing it too safe with their questions. And the fog doesn't just clear on its own. It clears because you do specific things: you read papers you don't fully understand and struggle through them anyway. You sit in seminars feeling lost and eventually start recognizing the shape of arguments. You write terrible first drafts and revise them into less terrible drafts. The endurance isn't just emotional, it's the endurance to keep doing the work when the feedback loop is painfully delayed. One more thing: there actually are maps. Advisors, reading lists, established literatures, methodological frameworks. The real challenge is that nobody hands you the map. You have to go find it and figure out which one applies to your particular problem. That's a learnable skill, not a character trait. So yes, you are not broken. But pair that knowledge with this: start building the thing you're missing. Find the map. Do the next hard read. Write the next bad draft. The fog clears for the people who keep walking through it. I'm rooting for you.

One of the best things you can do during grad school

How have trade and immigration policy evolved over time — and what do today’s policy shifts mean for the global economy? Douglas Irwin (@D_A_Irwin) joined Yale economists Amit Khandelwal (@akhandelwal8) and Leah Boustan (@leah_boustan) to discuss: egc.yale.edu/news/260323/co…

So excited to listen to Doug and present at the Kuznets

the current disruption to global fertilizer supply chains summarized in this @bryanrwalsh piece is a good time to highlight this excellent paper by @DevakiGhose et al on the consequences of a fertilizer import ban in Sri Lanka: link.vox.com/view/608adc209… openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publi…

We are pleased to share the release of a major open data resource on Harvard Dataverse: Indian Census Data Collection, 1901–2026: Digitised Subnational Population and Administrative Datasets DOI: doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ON… #OpenData #India #Census #SocialScience What’s included? • Population time series (1901–2011)- Census A02 (cleaned and strcutured) • first time digitization of Primary Census Abstract tables (state & district level)-1961, 1971, and 1981 • 2026 subdistrict-level administrative directory linked to census data (2011) #DataInfrastructure #ResearchData

@salimdotcomrade @IndianEmbassyUS @EvisaIndia3 @meaindia1 @DrSJaishankar It just got approved. Thank you so much ! It means a lot to us : he can finally come to his family here ❤️.

@DevakiGhose @IndianEmbassyUS @EvisaIndia3 @meaindia1 Any response? @IndianEmbassyUS @DrSJaishankar

@IndianEmbassyUS @EvisaIndia3 @meaindia1 can someone please help us in this situation ( ID I002V0E23325 with passport nr  NV7JFFDH6)? We have been married for 5 years and every year my spouse has been coming to India on an E-Visa. He needs to be with his family in India urgently.

@Karthik87403069 @CPVIndia @HMOIndia @MEAIndia @IndianEmbassyUS No….

@DevakiGhose @CPVIndia @HMOIndia @MEAIndia @IndianEmbassyUS Any luck? I am in the same boat with my e-visa application stuck in 'Under Process' state since Nov 23. No useful response to several emails. Contact phone number for support takes me to an automated voice system that repeats the status.

My spouse's India e-Visa (ID: I002V0E23325) pending 8 days despite multiple calls/emails and assurances it would be processed within 24–48 hrs. We must travel tomorrow due to a family emergency. Requesting urgent help. Please assist. 🙏 #Emergency @MEAIndia @IndianEmbassyUS

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#IndianEVisa #IndiaVisa #EVisa

We are hiring at @ubcVSE two assistant professors. Focus on international trade/spatial and applied micro (dev, labor, env, etc). Fantastic department, great city, democratic country. Please apply! aeaweb.org/joe/listing.ph…

Policy takeaway: streamlining NTMs could help exporters stay competitive during global disruptions.#TradePoicy #Resilience #Economics You can read the paper here — : lnkd.in/eF-DVD7Y

Using disaggregated non-tariff measure (NTM) data from Indonesia, we show that NTMs on imported inputs act like fixed costs, limiting firms’ ability to adjust when foreign shocks hit. In contrast, tariffs don’t have the same effect.

Our new paper (forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics) studies how a country’s own trade policy affects exporters’ resilience.

US tariffs update: Imported goods cost 5% more, domestic goods 3% more than pre-tariff trends predicted. Data now runs through Aug 8 — and we push the history back to Jan 1, 2024 (Appendix), showing a full year of stability before tariffs broke the trend. pricinglab.org/tariff-tracker