Rajdev Brar

If you work with district-level data in India, you expect every cross-section to have new district names. Since Stata's encode resets alphabetically for every file, your numeric codes shift, making merges & appends tricky! As a workaround, I made a package "naam" and it's on SSC!

landlawsofindia.org Fantastic resource by Land Rights Initiative (LRI) -- a database of 1000+ colonial & post-colonial central and state laws in India

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

Rare sighting in the latest JDE #econtwitter #econsky: a paper about Somalia! Brar et al. show that an intervention targeting gender norms shifts support for gender-equitable norms + aspirations; novel lab-in-the-field evidence of enhanced ability to withstand peer pressure

Call for papers: UC Berkeley conference honoring Elisabeth Sadoulet — October 17, 2026. Abstract submission deadline: March 15. Conference papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of the Journal of Development Economics in her honor. are.berkeley.edu/news/announcem…

The February 2026 issue of the #QJE is now online here: academic.oup.com/qje/issue/141/1