Nick Shankar

📢DevPEC 2026 will be held at Stanford on April 9-10! PhD students in development & political economy —apply to present and get feedback from @Stanford and @UCBerkeley faculty and peers. 📷 Submit by Feb 15 at tinyurl.com/devpec2026! #EconTwitter

Estimating the impacts of large-scale unconditional cash transfers on child survival in Kenya, from @mwwalkerecon, @ndylsh, @tedmiguel, @EggerDennis, and Grady Killeen nber.org/papers/w34152

🚨 Evidence alert: RCT from a @UCBerkeley / @UniofOxford team found that uncondit. cash xfers led to 48% ⬇️ infant deaths in Kenya. 🧢 off to team behind this study: Michael Walker, Edward Miguel (find him on Bsky), @EggerDennis, @ndylsh, & Grady Killeen go.cega.org/cashimpacts

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.

📢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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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.

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…

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…

In 2014, >10k households in Kenya received a one-time unconditional cash transfer. How did transfers affect non-recipient households? This @WorldBank paper reviews evidence on economic multiplier effects of cash transfers, citing our work w/@GiveDirectly: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

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-…

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

A packed house here at #AES2023 during @tedmiguel presentation on #KLPS and deworming impacts for Kenya and the world. @CEGA_UC @NIERA_EA @EvidenceAction @poverty_action

As we gear up for the 11th Africa Evidence Summit, we focus on "inclusive and sustainable development," led by African researchers. Our mission, voiced by @dr_njuguna, will shape the conversations at #AES2023. #EvidenceInformedPolicy Find more details👉tinyurl.com/bdc9s4fk

A new episode of Planet Money chronicles the role of Busia, Kenya in the rise of impact evaluations in #devecon — and cites research by @tedmiguel in its discussion of the field’s “credibility revolution.”npr.org/2023/06/09/118…

@alex8chan @HarvardHBS @MurielNiederle @laurencecbaker @MichelleM_Mello @I_Am_NickBloom @SIEPR @Stanford Congrats Alex!!

I will join @HarvardHBS as an Assistant Professor next academic year! 🙏🙏 to the sacrifices my family made for me + their support… #HBS #FirstGen + my advisors who made this dream possible #AlRoth @MurielNiederle @LaurenceCBaker @MichelleM_Mello @I_am_NickBloom @SIEPR @Stanford

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…

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

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

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