The odds are what they are because a lot of people don’t leave their children outside, unattended
Cate Hall@catehall
what??
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Karan Nagpal
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Karan Nagpal
@krnaa
India Regional Director @IDinsight. PhD Economics, Oxford. Previously: Trade Policy Advisor, Vanuatu. Interested in understanding how governments can be better.
New Delhi, India Katılım Mayıs 2009
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@notanastronomer @paulnovosad "improve" could mean make it more accurate (via digital transaction systems or third-party audits), more timely, more granular, easier to match...happy to chat more about all our (and other orgs') efforts in this space in India!
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@notanastronomer @paulnovosad I haven't come across a particular fund... but there are a bunch of funders that support orgs in India to work on improving admin data. The question is, for whom? For citizens, researchers or for governments themselves? And there are also many aspects to the word "improve" (1/2)
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based on a conversation with @paulnovosad: a philanthropic fund I would really like to exist is one that focuses on improved administrative data. (You can't improve state capacity without understanding the state of the world!)
Does this exist anywhere?
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Thank you @paulgp for "porting" #EconTwitter to that other place 🙏🏼🙏🏼 It's starting to feel a lot more like home in the last few days!
If anyone wants an invite code, holler! I've got a couple 😉
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Delhi: Do you know my father?
Naval@naval
NY: What do you have? LA: Who do you know? SF: What do you know?
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So weird to be binging on Narcos Mexico and watching gruesome murders and kidnappings in 1980s Guadalajara... and NYT 2023 is encouraging us to go there to celebrate queer diversity.
New York Times Travel@nytimestravel
21. Guadalajara, Mexico nytimes.com/shared/v2/inte…
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Karan Nagpal retweetledi
Because the best writers aren't providing just knowledge, they are providing wisdom too. That wisdom comes in the form of novelty and asking new questions—two things an AI can't do yet.
Let me show you with an example.
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@SonaldeDesai I have in the past struggled with the colloquial Hindi translation of household, between ghar and parivar, and I think settled on "iss ghar mein" to enable the enumerators and respondents to focus on the physical space...
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5. My latest answer, home is just a place. Family is a matter of love and tradition. “Kutumba” is part of our culture and includes everyone. But survey is about residence or “Nivasa” – certainly lesser than family, but our families are so vast, no? How can we count them all?
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1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.
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Lots of PTSD reading this thread!
A long time ago, when struggling with this topic, @BrownstoneEcon shared this b'ful paper on the intellectual history of household definitions, which reveals the high-modernist instincts lying at the heart of our efforts: journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.117…
Sonalde Desai@SonaldeDesai
1. “What is a household?” A constant debate at each interviewer training. Formal definition of people living under the same roof and eating from the same kitchen for at least 6 of the prior 12 months does not cut it with our interviewers.
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Great thread on why being so deeply embedded in a particular context helps you do development economics better:
Kate Orkin@kateorkin
This thread is for young ‘uns from poor countries who want to do development economics. We got a paper out that we wrote about South Africa, where a couple of the authors are from. Many people tell you writing about your home country is a bad idea
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Karan Nagpal retweetledi
1/4 Happy to report that our paper (@jo_ruchika, @krnaa, @therealfraker) on using voter rolls for household sample surveys in India is out in Field Methods! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…
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@albrgr should not fund the Jesuits. Clearly their efforts weren’t sustainable.
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Hive mind I need your help! Need to finally learn R to teach an intro metrics course in it in the fall. What're the best materials to help a Stata user like me (and for my students who will be learning from scratch)? @paulgp @KhoaVuUmn @SeanKHiggins
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A major challenge with all of India’s Covid systems - from Air Suvidha to the beautiful ICMR & NIC portals - is that they assume all of India lives in villages, and everyone knows their GP, tehsil, block, and district. So these systems fail for Mumbai, Delhi etc.
menaka doshi@menakadoshi
The Air Suvidha form was designed to make you regret coming/returning to India. So much information asked for including which 'tehsil' I'm going to. I have no idea how secure the info is. And what tehsil is Mumbai in yaar?
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How can Delhi reduce male street harassment & violence?
So that women are safe from male street violence, and their families do not restrict their movements?
What do we know?
What has been tried & evaluated?
And what research is being done on this question?
Replies welcome!
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@buzzindelhi Haha, not your tweet, but I was talking about the govt's decision
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Now they can walk with or without the dog for kilometres :)
ANI@ANI
Hours after a news report regarding the misuse of facilities at Thyagraj Stadium by Sanjeev Khirwar & his wife Rinku Dugga, MHA has transferred both the AGMUT cadre IAS officers Sanjeev Khirwar & Rinku Dugga to Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh from Delhi respectively: MHA order
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This is an amazing initiative and I love (and have frequently used) @open_phil's Cause Prioritization Framework. It would be great if OP can over-weight submissions from outside the EA community, and find a way to get submissions from non-Twitter-elites.
Chris Smith@Chris_topian
“What new cause area should Open Philanthropy consider funding?” Today we’re launching the Cause Exploration Prizes to gather thoughtful answers to this question and others that help us best use our resources causeexplorationprizes.com
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Karan Nagpal retweetledi
Years in the making @NITIAayog recently launched the National Data & Analytics Platform! Managed by @IDinsight & @devdatalab, we hope the platform will improve access & use of Indian govt data.
Read more about the platform in @bsindia: bit.ly/3wL2Yhj
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