Vrinda Sharma

Hey Everyone! Find my blog published on Development Impact. Exploring a New Semi-Automatic Approach to Map Digitalization blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati… via @worldbank

Thank you @SurveyCTO for the opportunity. We look forward to using this fantastic tool for our research. youtu.be/1HegV9_wQ2M?si… via @YouTube

Starting today my new personality is going to be of a confused interdisciplinary scholar who keeps reading theories from different disciplines and tries very hard to understand overlaps but eventually gets more confused.

@f_meluzzi Congratulations Federica!!

Super excited to start a new chapter at @Unibocconi and IGIER, where I will spend this academic year as a postdoctoral fellow (before moving to LMU Munich as an Assistant Professor)! Feel free to reach out if you are around and want to chat research/other! ☀️

I always underestimate how wrong and biased I can be about the field realities of my own country and it makes me wonder how much I miss elsewhere. Every field visit humbles me, and that’s probably my favorite part of learning to be an economist.

Happy Independence day, everyone. Flashback to the time when national TV used to promote love and harmony in the country. ❤️ 🇮🇳

Investigation: Sanitation workers conduct autopsies, proxies of squeamish physicians reluctant to touch the dead. The system reinforces and strengrhens age-old, stubborn notions of pure & impure; lack of dignity still ascribed to some jobs in modern India theprint.in/ground-reports…

#Short Story/Thread : In 2003, A stream/river (seasonal) was flowing in #Dehradun near Sahastradhara Road.. Satellite Image snapshot from Google Earth 1/4

Excited to share this new blog post on how distance to public administrators affects public service delivery in Uganda 🇺🇬 Huge thanks to @The_IGC for the support throughout this project A working paper version is coming soon!

Dev Patel's interactive site describing how he estimates flooding in Bangladesh using satellites and ML is soooooo cool! Link in thread.

My colleagues @aishani07 & @rhealopez16 published an article with @indiawaterportal, describing the role played by sediments in river hydrology. Read their piece for a primer that will change your imagination of rivers. @indiasandwatch @veditum indiawaterportal.org/environment/ec…

@WorldBank @CGDev @WorldBankAfrica @VitalStrat @MEtiebetMD @DrRanaHajjeh @GIRLCenterPC @kfajayi @KAustrianPC @crifund1 @Purposeful_org @MastercardFdn @EstherMari6410 Very engaging dialogue today! Thanks to everyone for engaging in the discussion, Pathways to Prosperity for Adolescent Girls in Africa. #InvestInGirls @WorldBankAfrica @WorldBank @CGDev @GIRLCenterPC

A must-read report shedding light on the critical challenges faced by adolescent girls in Africa, while offering actionable solutions to support their success. Don't miss the launch of this groundbreaking report today! @kfajayi @KEstellos @learouanet worldbank.org/en/events/2024…

among the challenges of interdisciplinary research is that I don't know their data format types like .npy and .nc

Morgan Kelly's paper on "The Standard Errors of Persistence" (with T. Conley) is now forthcoming in the @JIntlEcon. The paper is relevant to this year's Nobel Prize in Economics on the importance of institutions for prosperity. 1/

To those that I judged for doing the Pomodoro, you can laugh at me now.

An entire village in Lao Cai province was wiped out, with +100 feared dead. Saw a surviving mother in tearful agony over her 2 children: “Heaven, I promise to never ever spank [physically discipline] my children again, why did you take them away from me”💔france24.com/en/live-news/2…

@ArunamAlok I study household impacts of changing water quality because of climate change!

@VSharma2211 It's usually that. What topic are you working on that's relying so heavily on QGIS?

My PhD is me, QGIS, ChatGPT and google fighting against each other until one of us crashes and its usually QGIS.

@Steven_Strauss maybe a good time to confess my coffee addiction

@VSharma2211 I admire your patience, in that scenario I usually quit and get a coffee :-)

@anmol_smnch @EEANews @DaltonPato @JSantoul @anmol_smnch a star in all domains

A teaching award, that too by @EEANews, was not something I had imagined in my wildest dreams! Super grateful to the committee, PSE management, and especially my students who made teaching econometrics a truly enriching experience. Many congrats also to @DaltonPato & @JSantoul!