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What does a temporary expansion in food entitlements tell us about urban vulnerability? Our new paper (bit.ly/3RKdYF9) in @epw_in (w/ @bijoyhrid and @guatambhan80) highlights gaps in urban social protection with Delhi Govt's COVID-19 PDS E-coupon data. A 🧵1/n

The single biggest argument about statistics: is probability frequentist or Bayesian? It's neither, and I'll explain why. Deep-dive explanation incoming:

🙌🙌 Data on every district boundary change in India since 1951? Yes please! Link in reply

Already spoken to some v interesting applicants. I'm taking a PhD student this year in political economy & comparative political behavior at @AhdUniv. Top class faculty w good methodological & interdisciplinary training. Deadline: Apr 13 Please reach out & see poster below!

PhD applications at Ashoka Econ are now open. It’s a vibrant department with faculty working across multiple and varied research areas - come join us!

1. Use the available data (no listwise deletion) 2. Do not use single imputation 3. For factor-level missingness exceeding 10%, use FIML, EM, & MI 4. For item-level missingness, one item is enough to represent a factor 5. When response rate < 30% conduct sensitivity analysis

The most important geospatial concept? Spatial Autocorrelation. It can make the difference between spurious and accurate results. Here’s what you need to know about it:

I LOVED learning R. I loved writing in Markdown even more. I now use R for all of my work and only use Stata to look at dta files. I’ve also come to the conclusion that we are doing students a disservice by teaching Stata. I know that’s controversial, but it’s how I feel now.

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

जिस आवाज़ से छठ की शुरूआत हुआ करती थी, वही आवाज़ छठ के शुरू होते ही ख़ामोश हो गई। शारदा सिन्हा जी अब हमारे बीच नहीं हैं। शारदा सिन्हा ने अपनी गायकी से ऐसी सामूहिकता का सृजन किया जिसे पहचानने के लिए ज़ोर-ज़ोर से चिल्लाना नहीं पड़ता है बल्कि चुपचाप अपने भीतर महसूस करना होता है। उनके गीत छठ का हिस्सा हैं। कहते हैं छठ में कुछ भी बाहरी परिवर्तन नहीं हुआ, जो पुराना है वही चला आ रहा है सिवाय शारदा सिन्हा के छठ गीतों के। क्या कोई छठ को शारदा सिन्ही की आवाज़ से अलग कर सकता है? इन्हीं दिनों लाउड स्पीकर बजने लगते हैं। खेत खलिहानों और नदी किनारे बने घाटों से आ रही उनकी आवाज़ गांव-घर बुलाने लग जाती है।शारदा सिन्हा की आवाज़ बिहार जैसे ग़रीब राज्य की सबसे बड़ी समृद्धी थी। आज बिहार थोड़ा ग़रीब हो गया। हम आपको अपनी यादों में रखेंगे। जब रोएँगे अपनों की याद में, आपको भी याद करेंगे। अलविदा शारदा जी।

Few thinkers were as creative as Albert Hirschman, an economist by training who was broadly respected by the social science community. For an introduction to Hirschman, a point of entry are these works and Adelman’s wonderful biography.

@snarkeshwar How a “woke” person uses “liberal” is almost good an indicator of how much of Insta “group-think” the said person has consumed! P.s been a decade since we argued last 😝

Only second to this!

This new article by @sarahsunnbush & @melinaplatas makes a case that 𝘸𝘩𝘰 assigns scores in democracy ratings makes a difference for the way countries are evaluated. This is yet another reason to be very cautious about democracy indices. Free download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Here’s something new by @AdamPrzeworski It addresses different conceptions of democracy, whether there is a crisis of democracy, and how to defend democracy. Free download: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

A vote for democracy In an election in which voters sought out alternate media & the Constitution re-entered mass politics, voters punished BJP for crossing a “red line” Questions for the future of Indian democracy remain Final piece in my series w @AiyarYamini (updated image)

Kahan se ho? Allahabad se! #ProudPoorvachali #electionresults

In what is likely the peak of my scientific career, we created a new variable! If you’ve ever struggled to quantify the different drivers of extreme humid heat, take a look at our new article on “stickiness” in @AMS_atmos 🧵1/9 journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/…

I updated my post on equivalence tests using {marginaleffects} this morning. If you want to make an argument *FOR* no effect, then you should be using an equivalence test. carlislerainey.com/blog/2023-08-1…

The most important geospatial concept? The Modifiable Areal Unit Problem. It can be the difference between reliable and deceptive results. Here’s what you need to know about it:

@IWWAGEIFMR Great job @noturconquest and @TrishaChandra15! Congratulations:)

(1/3)📢 New paper alert: @IWWAGEIFMR's research fellow Bidisha Mondal's latest publication in The Indian Journal of Labour Economics is out. This research, based on an IWWAGE household survey across 5 states in India during November 2021 to January 2022. bit.ly/3PMd8sk