Callista Chim

🚨 Just published in @Nature w @gemmadipoppa 🚨 We argue that reducing crop burning in South Asia, responsible for toxic air for 100s of millions, is not completely intractable. We show bureaucrats exert control when incentivized, w large consequences for pub health Details 👇

My favourite R packages. Plus: free high-res satellite images, how to download OSM data without code, the limitations of nightlights data and more. Here's everything I wrote about recently:

Economist: boy, I can’t wait to test out my new dynamic pricing model today Cashier: Sir, this is a Wendy’s Economist: Cashier: Wendy’s:

Inequality has risen sharply in the US since the 1980s. This article shows that about 50% of the observed changes in the wage structure are due to the effects of automation technologies on workers with low levels of schooling econometricsociety.org/publications/e…

I was corresponding with a first-year student interested in game theory about potential summer reads, and thought I would compile my suggestions for any other graduate students looking for the same. 1/6

🧵 Supply-side inflation coming your way. Freight traffic for foreign trade in China is already👇by more than 5% and the lockdowns began in late March. April will be worse. PMI is scary, and delivery times are ⬆️ For ships waiting to be loaded, cargo vessels are in green.

When we said "always plot your data", this wasn't what we meant.

Two history books that blew my mind, mostly because they totally turned upside down my beliefs about regions or periods I didn’t know. But they were also wonderfully written, and shaped how I think about being a better academic.

As I drew this, I thought about how many of these men looked like my own father, my uncles, my friends and even my own partner. How many more Indian men, how many more Malaysians have to die before PDRM + the govmen takes this seriously? #IPCMCnow

Any death in police custody is cause for serious concern, justifying urgent action & change. To have 2 deaths occurring within the span of a few months in the same police station is cause for shame. Establish an IPCMC, an RCI and commit to never letting this happen ever again.

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