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Teju Velayudhan
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Teju Velayudhan
@tejunair
AP Economics at @UCIrvine. Postdoc at @OhioState 2019-2020. @umichECON PhD working on public finance in developing countries. Former @CGDev RA.
Irvine, CA Katılım Şubat 2010
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So much to celebrate at our department @econ_uzh today!
@DinaPomeranz successfully passed our vote for tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. @Todd_A_Hare and @jakub_steiner will be promoted to Full Professor.
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📢 The new @vox_dev lit review on taxation & development is out! Lots of insights from recent research + outline of open questions for future research & policy experimentation.
For recap of key takeaways, tune in for Anders Jensen's presentation this afternoon at 2pm UK time 📅
VoxDev@vox_dev
🆕 Our #VoxDevLit on Taxation is out now! Senior Editor Anders Jensen (@Kennedy_School @The_IGC) summarises findings from research on taxation & development + identifies some feasible policy levers that can help strengthen tax processes. Download here: voxdev.org/voxdevlit/taxa…
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Deep breath. I'm delighted to announce a great honor.
In January I'll start as a full professor with tenure in the Department of Economics at @GeorgeMasonU, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Peterson Institute @PIIE.
I'll remain a fellow of the wonderful @CGDev.
A thread—>
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#1 of 2 Embarrassed by your vaccine privilege ? (cgdev.org/blog/why-im-em…)
Then check out Go Give One (easy to find) and donate. Tell your friends and family: $5 per dose!
Enough donors could matter as a message to rich country govts.
h/t @louis boorstin @glassmanamanda
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Earlier this year I wrote about visa applications getting rejected for having inapplicable blanks on them. Thanks to a newly resolved FOIA suit, we now have a better sense of the scale of this policy and its consequences.
They're enormous. (thread)
Catherine Rampell@crampell
“Middlename” field left blank because you don't have a middlename? No address for your dad b/c he's dead? No siblings listed because you’re an only child? Sorry, your immigration applications have all been rejected USCIS's Kafkaesque "no blanks" policy washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-t…
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@sharanidli Super interesting thread! I especially found the expenditure decentralization to ward members interesting. Curious though why you think this should be unambiguously good especially at this scale? Implementing piped water infrastructure at a scale of 3 streets seems inefficient..
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(5) In 2015, the Nitish Kumar-led government launched the "Saat Nishchay" schemes: 7 development programmes focusing on electricity, piped water, housing, scholarships, women empowerment.
WMs like Mr Manjhi were asked to implement key village lanes + piped water schemes.
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Here's one reading of the development story of Bihar in the recent Nitish years, told through the lens of local government and politics.
We begin (see image) with Mr Kamal Manjhi of Darbhanga, an elected rural ward member: blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluati…
See link for more:
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The voters have spoken, and they have chosen @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris to be our next president and vice president.
It's a history-making ticket, a repudiation of Trump, and a new page for America.
Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen. Onward, together.
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👋! Latina reporter here. I have a thread about how we gave our readers a more nuanced understanding of the vote in Florida. For inquiring minds. 1/x
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@real_eric_ohrn I think what you're looking for are linear regressions without an IV/ exogenous shock? If so, here's one that comes to mind. Liu, Lockwood, Almunia and Tam (2019), ReStat .
mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…
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Something to distract, you #econtwitter: Do you know of any papers that just use really simple cross sectional linear regression?
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💡 Looking for PhD candidates & young scholars w/ ideas to promote private sector dev in low-income countries!
We are organizing a @PEDL_CEPR workshop to match high-/low-income country scholars + develop ideas together. Pls share and reach out with q’s!
pedl.cepr.org/content/young-…
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This story is so shocking and yet unsurprising.
Justin Sandefur@JustinSandefur
What happens when the World Bank assigns a Cameroonian macroeconomist to cover an Eastern European country? Sometimes, the country would rather cut off relations with the Bank. Yikes. brookings.edu/blog/future-de… by @CelestinMonga
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Join this amazing team @CGDev! Interested in emerging markets, financial inclusion and macro-finance?
🚨 🚨 Apply here 🚨 🚨
#EconTwitter @econ_ra
…erforglobaldevelopment.applytojob.com/apply/B9QTCgDL…
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Useful compilation of various immigration policy changes in the US post COVID.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick
We @immcouncil wrote a special report on every major policy change that's happened since the pandemic began, and we'll update it ASAP with this new decision on student visas. Our report reveals extensive changes across the entire immigration system. americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/impac…
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The Americans for Tax Reform Foundation, a conservative-allied group headed by anti-tax activist Grover Norquist, took Covid-19 small business relief funds from the federal government, according to data. btaxgo.com/j8m0YRx
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Piling on the uncertainty...
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick
Second, this is almost certainly going to be challenged in court. I can't give anyone specific legal advice on their cases (especially because I am not an expert on student visas), but I wouldn't encourage anyone to book a flight "home" this exact moment. Lawsuits are inevitable.
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Great new paper showing that consumption taxes may not be as regressive as we think, even on an annual income basis.
NBER@nberpubs
Consumption taxes are redistributive in developing countries, lowering inequality by as much as income taxes, driven primarily by differences in informal consumption along the income distribution, from Bachas, Gadenne, and Jensen nber.org/papers/w27429
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This brings back painful memories of times when I have been the "token" woman.
Jennifer Doleac@jenniferdoleac
New (awesome) working paper! "Strength in Numbers: A Field Experiment in Gender, Influence, and Group Dynamics" by @ProfKarpo, @jrpjrpjrp, & @OlgaStoddard. brightspotcdn.byu.edu/d4/ed/5814f71e…
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@matzatecon @thesamasher @paulnovosad I am pretty sure you can find it on this local government directory site. Use the "download directory" link: lgdirectory.gov.in
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Does anyone know of a crosswalk for gram panchayats and census villages in India?
That would be really helpful! I only found the lists on the district websites so far..
@thesamasher @paulnovosad maybe? Any hint would be highly appreciated!
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