Nick Shankar

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Nick Shankar

Nick Shankar

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PhD student @berkeleyecon

Berkeley, CA Katılım Aralık 2011
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University of Oxford
University of Oxford@UniofOxford·
NEW: A new study by @Oxford_CSAE reveals that giving unconditional cash transfers to pregnant women in rural Kenya significantly reduces infant and child mortality.
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Silvia Farina
Silvia Farina@SilviaFarins·
📢Bay Area Economic History Workshop is back at UC Berkeley on April, 25! PhD students working in Economic History in NoCal - apply to present and get feedback from @UCBerkeley, @ucdavis, and @Stanford faculty and peers.  🗓️Submit by March, 25. Link forms.gle/t1sSRYNkAfp4Sf…
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Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
The Kenya Life Panel Survey uses 23 years of data to show not only that deworming treatments are a powerful, low-cost tool for improving lives -- but also that these had intergenerational impact. Evidence shows that under-5 mortality fell by one fifth in children of the dewormed.
VoxDev@vox_dev

🆕 Deworming improves lives across generations. Today on VoxDev, @tedmiguel @berkeleyecon, Eric Ochieng @poverty_action & Michael Walker @CEGA_UC outline key takeaways from data tracking children in Kenya since receiving deworming treatment ~20 years ago: voxdev.org/topic/health-e…

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David McKenzie
David McKenzie@dmckenzie001·
What prevents Indian housewives from local flexible work opportunities? Today's job market post is a nice experiment by @suhani_jalota that randomizes offers to work at home vs work in an office & wage rates. blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…
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Christoph Lakner
Christoph Lakner@ChristophLakner·
We just published #nowcasts of global extreme #poverty to 2023. Globally, we are back to pre-pandemic rates. This means we have lost 3 years in the fight against poverty. Also, poverty in the poorest countries still exceeds pre-pandemic levels. blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/pover…
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Innovations for Poverty Action
Innovations for Poverty Action@poverty_action·
What are the long-run effects of refugee flows? A panel of 2,500 Syrian refugees in Jordan shows that Syrian refugees were more vulnerable than Jordanian hosts in 2020 than in 2016, @svrozo, @AbedFTamim, @tedmiguel, S. Stillman, B. Palmer, E. Smith. #no-access-message" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">academic.oup.com/oxrep/article-…
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Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA)
The Africa Evidence Summit is underway in Nairobi! With over 400 researchers, practitioners, and implementers in attendance, the summit is the largest global development gathering on the African continent. We'll be live-tweeting throughout the day; follow along #AES2023
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AEA Journals
AEA Journals@AEAjournals·
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Non-Experts for Improving Vaccine Demand" by Marcella Alsan and Sarah Eichmeyer. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…
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Silvia Barbareschi
Silvia Barbareschi@SilviaBarbares3·
DevPEC PhD Student Conference will take place on April 25-26, 2023. It's an excellent opportunity to present your work & get feedback from peers & faculty @UCBerkeley & @Stanford. Keynote speaker is Professor Marco Gonzalez Navarro @marcogleznav! Apply by March 10th #EconTwitter
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Susanna Berkouwer
Susanna Berkouwer@BerkouwerS·
New @NBERpubs WP!📢 Multilaterals like @WorldBank @AfDB_Group fund 1000s of contracts each year to procure goods & services for infrastructure—but governments must follow donor contracting procedures. What do these do? Wolfram @TedMiguel @E_o_Hsu & I study Kenya electrification
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World Bank Group
World Bank Group@WorldBankGroup·
By the end of 2022, as many as 685 million people could be living in extreme poverty — making 2022 the second-worst year for poverty reduction in the past two decades (after 2020). Learn more in our #YearInReview: wrld.bg/vtvk50M9zXz
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