Salauddin Tauseef

New chapter ahead! Joining @GlobalDevInst @UoM as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Development Economics. Deeply grateful for an amazing 3.5 years at @IFPRI - bittersweet goodbye, exciting times ahead.

I’ve reported 18 wars over 35 years. I’ve been shot at, kidnapped, threatened, nearly raped. I’ve lost friends from Sarajevo to Syria. I thought I’d seen the worst of humanity. I was wrong. Nothing compares to Gaza — or the complicity letting it happen. #GazaGenocide #WarCrimes

Can you tell us how he died, where, and why?

How does #CashPLUS work? Find out more about our research on the benefits of linking #CashTransfers to interventions & services transfer.cpc.unc.edu/cash-plus-prog…

And why did you cluster your standard errors that way?

Excited to be traveling to Helsinki to present our paper at the @UNUWIDER Development Conference on “Safeguarding tomorrow”. #WIDERDevConf2025 #socialprotection @IFPRI

We wanted to verify the evidence behind >$1 billion in grants we've made to our top charities — so we asked @I4Replication to see if they could get the data to replicate the underlying RCTs. It didn't go great... 🧵

Excited to share our new paper on food avoidance taboos & maternal nutrition in Myanmar! Big declines in dietary diversity postpartum signal an urgent need for action. 📄Link: doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnu… #MaternalHealth #Nutrition #FoodSecurity #GlobalHealth #Myanmar #Breastfeeding

Economics research notoriously takes years to finish. I’m working on an RCT that I started in 2012! Peer review rounds take years. I’m on year 6 for my 2012 RCT. During this I learned a new lesson on the cost of long term projects… Standards for publication keep rising.

Might not feel this way on twitter - but back here on earth, DOGE did not have a great day yesterday on the @USAID front. Elon's attempt to speedrun the destruction of USAID is starting to hit real legal and political bumps. The pushback is starting - and must be sustained. 🧵

How programme design and local context shape the lasting effects of cash and food transfers Last week on VoxDev, new article by Akhter Ahmed @IFPRI, Melissa Hidrobo @IFPRI, @JohnHoddinott6 @Cornell, Bastien Kolt @WHO, Shalini Roy @IFPRI & @staus88 @IFPRI: voxdev.org/topic/health/h…

Thanks to @vox_dev for featuring our recently published research on the sustainability of cash and food transfers to reducing poverty.

4️⃣ Multidimensional poverty improvements (health, education, living standards) significantly raise happiness, especially for indigenous groups. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… #Happiness #Poverty #Inequality

2️⃣ Depth of poverty affects happiness more than poverty incidence (except for indigenous men). 3️⃣ Relative income matters more for general population: poorer people are unhappy if peers earn more, but richer people gain no extra happiness. (2/3)

🚨 New book chapter! 🚨 exploring the differing factors that shape subjective wellbeing (happiness) among indigenous and general populations in Bangladesh. Key findings are: 1️⃣ Income boosts happiness, but less so for indigenous vs. general populations. (1/3)

@mrgunalan @briangknight @atribinu @mercedes_pdl @staus88 @ifpri + Sufian show in Bangladesh that delayed age at marriage (driven by delayed menarche) significantly ⬆️ women's empowerment, with the main channel through better education + labor market outcomes doi.org/10.1093/wber/l…

Excited to be traveling to Manila next week to present my paper, "Poverty and Vulnerability in rural Bangladesh" at the ADBI conference on Inclusive Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific.

Combining cash + complementary programming leads to sustainable poverty ⬇️ four years post-program in 🇧🇩 However - modality + context matters! @IFPRI @IFPRIBangladesh @JohnHoddinott6 @staus88 in @AEAjournals aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Our forthcoming paper in AEJ:Applied. We find combining cash + complementary programming (nutrition BCC) lead to sustainable poverty reduction four years post-program in rural Bangladesh. However, modality and context matters for sustained impacts.